Former New York mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, are planning to separate after about 30 years of marriage. They will not file for divorce, but will start dating new people and continue living together in Brooklyn, McCray told The Post.
“We will live with greater independence from each other,” McCray said. “It’s fair to say the relationship was not fulfilling for us anymore.”
In a three-hour interview with the Times, the couple said their relationship became stale in recent years and they had lost the spark, with both seeking a change. The pandemic didn’t help their relationship, either, they said, nor did de Blasio’s“Even at this moment of change, this is a love story,” de Blasio said in a tweet Wednesday. De Blasio did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
De Blasio, who is White, and McCray, who is Black, first met in the ’90s while working under former New York mayor David Dinkins, who was also the city’s first Black mayor, according to theThe couple rose to fame after de Blasio became the New York mayor in 2013, bringing a fresh face to the city after 12 years under Mike Bloomberg’s administration. The couple often appeared at news conferences together..
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