Michael married Diana Taylor today in a private ceremony at their Upper East Side townhome. The couple had been together for 26 years before formalizing the relationship in front of family members, including Emma and Georgina.
A spokesman said, “Twenty-six years after a chance seating assignment, Mike and Diana Taylor have married.” The same statement said they exchanged vows in “a small, private ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side, joined by family, including his daughters, Emma and Georgina.”
Upper East Side vows
The ceremony took place at home, not at a public venue, and it drew a small circle of relatives and close friends. reported that around a dozen close friends and relatives attended a celebratory lunch after the ceremony.
Taylor is 71. is 84. She is a former Wall Street executive and former New York State Superintendent of Banks, and she served as unofficial first lady of New York City while he was mayor.
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Their relationship began when was first running for Mayor and sat next to Taylor at a Citizens Budget Commission meeting. That chance seating assignment became the start of a relationship that lasted through his time in office and beyond.
Both entered the marriage for a second time. and Susan Brown-Meyer divorced in 1993, and has two daughters, Emma and Georgina.
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The wedding also contrasts with what said in 2020, when asked by Gayle King why they did not want to get married. He said, “neither of us have any plans to change.”
That line is the clearest clue to the timing: the couple had long lived as partners, but they only chose to make the relationship official now. For readers following ’s personal and civic life, the change is simple and immediate and Taylor are now married, after years of publicly keeping things as they were.
