Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg marries Diana Taylor after 26 years together during intimate home ceremony
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has tied the knot with his longtime partner Diana Taylor after 26 years together.
Bloomberg, 84, and Taylor, 71, wed on Monday during an intimate ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.
They confirmed the news via a statement issued to the New York Times.
’26 years after a chance seating assignment, Mike Bloomberg and Diana Taylor have married,’ a spokesman for the pair said.
‘The longtime couple exchanged vows today in a small, private ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side, joined by family, including his daughters, Emma and Georgina.’
According to the publication, the low-key ceremony was followed by a lunch celebration that was attended by about a dozen of their close friends and family members.
The couple first met when they sat next to each other at a Citizens Budget Commission meeting while he was first running for mayor.
Bloomberg, whose net worth is estimated to be around $94 billion, co-founded Bloomberg LP and was the CEO of the company from 1981 to 2001.
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has tied the knot with his longtime partner Diana Taylor after 26 years together. They’re seen in 2021
Bloomberg, 84, and Taylor, 71, wed on Monday during an intimate ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. They’re seen in 2023
He served as mayor of New York City from 2002 until 2013, and had an unsuccessful run for President in 2020.
He was previously married to Susan Brown-Meyer from 1975 until 1993, and the two welcomed two daughters together, Emma, 47, and Georgina, 43.
As for Taylor, she served as the New York superintendent of banks from 2003 until 2007; in 2021, she became a member of the board of directors for the New York City Ballet.
She also serves on a series of other non-profit and corporate boards including the International Women’s Health Coalition, The New York Women’s Foundation, YMCA of Greater New York, ACCION, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Sotheby’s, Citigroup and Brookfield Properties.
Following his divorce from Brown-Meyer, Bloomberg famously boasted about being a single bachelor.
‘I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan,’ he told the Guardian in 1998. ‘It’s like a wet dream.’
Back in 2019, he was accused of making a series of ‘demeaning comments about women’ over the years in a lengthy expose shared by the New York Times.
‘Mike has come to see that some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong,’ Stu Loeser, who was advising Bloomberg’s potential presidential campaign at the time, said in response.
The couple first met when they sat next to each other at a Citizens Budget Commission meeting while he was first running for mayor. They’re seen in 2018
‘He believes his words have not always aligned with his values and the way he has led his life.’
Taylor has defended Bloomberg over the years.
Back in 2020, she told CBS News: ‘It was 30 years ago. Get over it,’ when asked about his past comments.
‘In none of them was he accused of doing anything other than saying something nasty to a woman. That is not who he is. Life has changed,’ she added.
‘I grew up in that world. It was a bro culture. We have come a very, very long way and Michael Bloomberg has been at the forefront of that change.’
