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Is ex-Congressman Tim Mahoney still picking up chicks?

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Is former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney’s midlife crisis not over yet?

He reportedly tried to pick up Russian women in a Palm Beach hotspot recently by claiming to be a “retired, respected congressman.”

But while Mahoney acknowledges being at the restaurant, he said he was there for Haiti fundraiser — not to hit on ladies.

A source at the Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County’s beachside wingding the other night told me about Mahoney’s recent foray into the Palm Beach hangout Bice.

Remember Mahoney? The 53-year-old slipped into the U.S. Congress in 2006, when the then-congressman-for-life Mark Foley got caught text-messaging sweet nothings to male pages.

Mahoney, who represented parts of Palm Beach County and most of Martin County, lost reelection to current Congressman Tom Rooney after it was revealed that the then-married Mahoney paid off a former mistress to silence her, and was seeing another paramour, Martin County’s engineering boss Kim Roden.

Word is the divorced Mahoney is now seriously hooked up with Roden — but then this little tale below makes you wonder.

For more details on Mahoney’s pickup lines, and the poll, look below or click (Read more…)

Westgate Tabernacle homeless, the movie

A documentary movie about Palm Beach County’s battle to shut down the homeless shelter at West Palm Beach’s Westgate Tabernacle Church will be previewed in this area twice next week. And if the trailer of filmmaker Mark Crupi’s Avis Vs. Goliath is telling, then our local government stands to be savaged yet again. On background of the Rolling Stones‘ Sympathy for the Devil, the trailer starts with: “It’s the story of a county with a long history of scandals . . . and its fight to close a shelter housing children.”

Crupi, by the way, made news this week when he asked county officials for comment about his taped interview with retired county secretary Cyndy Stephens. Stephens claimed that her ex-husband, Terry Verner, the county’s retired code enforcer, would give the church a hard time by day then drive a relative to its shelter at night. The movie’s title refers to the church’s bishop, Avis Hill. Said Crupi: “It’s a classic story of good versus evil.” Evil, here, being the government.

The film will be shown at 7 p.m. March 12, at the synagogue L’Dor Va-Dor on Lake Worth Road in Lake Worth, and March 13 at the Westgate Tabernacle Church, 1600 Suwanee Drive in West Palm Beach.

Forget the game! Super Bowl fun’s on the beach, in the streets and behind the velvet rope

Patriots Saints FootballIs Super Bowl XLIV really about football?

Is it about the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts?

Nah!

It’s about hotties. And celebs, like Jim Carrey and Rihanna and Kim Kardashian. And free concerts on the beach.

So, you’re a mortal with less disposable cash than you used to, where do you go?

Well, it’s all here in the Page2Live guide to Super Bowl fun.

Believe or not, the frenzy already starts Thursday night, 10 days before the actual game, with a fashion show at the W Hotel in Miami Beach. The threads will be mostly swimwear, and the barely dressed bodies those of NFL cheerleaders. It’s one of the Miami Dolphins‘ contributions, along surrendering the team’s practice facility and stadium locker-room to the Colts.

Also this week, downtown Delray Beach has a three-day NFL sanctioned kick-off, starting Thursday. The highlight? Friday’s beachside meet-and-greet with a dozen NFLers. Organizers are promising to produce Pierre Garcon, the Colts’ breakout receiver and a graduate from John I. Leonard High School in Greenacres.

For more Palm Beach County Super Bowl activities, click here.

Fans, meanwhile, will converge on several other South Florida hot spots during Super Bowl week.

Check them out below, or by clicking (Read more…)

Tomcatting former U.S. Congressman Tim Mahoney divorced; Takes up with ex-mistress

Tim Mahoney and Terry prepare to face the press in October 2008 (Meghan McCarty/The Palm Beach Post)

Tim Mahoney and Terry prepare to face the press in October 2008 (Meghan McCarty/Palm Beach Post) Click on the photo for more pictures of the scandal

Former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, a Democrat whose philandering cost him his re-election in 2008, now is legally free to take on as many girlfriends as he wants.

He was officially divorced last week in Palm Beach County — and quickly hooked with one of his mistresses, former Martin County Engineering Operations Manager Kim Roden.

According to the “Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage” filed in his hometown of Palm Beach Gardens last week, Mahoney will end up paying ex-wife, Terry Mahoney $6,250-a-month for the rest of her life. Once the couple’s barn and five acres in the western confines of the county are sold off, Terry, 58, could receive another $270,000. An equestrian, Terry also gets two horses, Toy and Pacman. And she’s allowed to take the marital bed, her grandpa’s chair, the sewing machine, three tables and her jewelry.

Tim is supposed to give her $14,000 to help her move.

Terry Mahoney, by the way, keeps the Mahoney family name.

In all, the former lovebirds split evenly about $2.8 million in assets.

Court papers indicated Terry’s moving out of the area. She couldn’t be reached for comment.

Tim? He won’t be poor. He keeps the former marital home in PGA National and a ski-slope condo in Canada.

And there are fringe benefits to his divorce. I’m told by a source at Martin County Hall that Tim and Roden, one of two paramours whose names surfaced, no longer need to sneak around.

For more, and the poll, look below or click (Read more…)

EXCLUSIVE: Burt Reynolds in rehab!

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| Wednesday 16 September 2009 2:49 pm Print This Post

Burt at the Maltz in June (Fred Montana/Special to Page2Live)

Burt at the Maltz in June (Fred Montana/Special to Page2Live)

Big screen legend Burt Reynolds is battling an addiction to painkillers and checked himself into rehab at West Palm Beach’s Hanley Center.

He first sought treatment as inpatient but has since been released and continues his recovery at home in Hobe Sound.

“After recent back surgery,” Reynolds spokesman Ken Kaye said, “Mr. Reynolds felt like he was going through hell. After awhile, he realized that he was in the prison of prescription pain pills. He checked himself into rehab in order to regain control of his life. He hopes that his story will help others in a similar situation. He hopes that others won’t try to solve the problem on their own as he tried to do.”

Kaye, the rookie executive director of the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum in Jupiter, added that the star of Smokey and the Bandit and The Longest Yard would be back to teach acting classes at the museum Friday.

“They kept him in for a few days, but he is home as we speak,” Kaye said. “He’s doing very well. He’ll be in top form for the class.”

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Former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney in need of stimulus

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| Friday 3 April 2009 11:25 am Print This Post

 

Like the federal government he once was a member of, former U.S. Congressman Tim Mahoney is running in the deep red.

timmie1Mahoney, 52, can’t cover his daily bills these days, according to a fresh batch of paperwork filed in a Palm Beach County court in connection with his divorce case.

The former Democratic representative, whose district stretched from Palm Beach to St. Lucie counties and across Florida, claims he makes $4,341 a month as a business adviser while his expenses are $10,851. He runs a $6,510 deficit each month.

Almost half of his expenses, his financial statement shows, are for the couple’s Palm Beach Gardens home, a barn and 5 acres on 114th Court in the western confines of Palm Beach Gardens, a condo in Canada and 30 acres in Oklahoma.

Don’t shed a tear for the man with the numerous mistresses, though. Even if he’s worth less than what the popular wisdom would have you believe — he once was a venture capitalist — Mahoney isn’t poor.

The fact that former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney spends more than he makes shows:

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It’s getting crowded in Tim Mahoney’s divorce

Posted by Jose Lambiet | Mahoney Scandal, Politicos, Scandals, Splitsville |
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| Thursday 2 April 2009 12:59 pm Print This Post

And you thought the divorce of former U.S. Congressman Tim Mahoney was bad so far, with payoffs to a former mistress and the suspension of another squeeze from her government job?

Tim Mahoney and Terry, at the October press conference in which he admitted his indiscressions

Tim Mahoney and Terry, at the October press conference in which he admitted his indiscretions

Man, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

The long-suffering, soon-to-be-ex-wife of the scandal-prone Mahoney, Terry, has called on eight people to be deposed in mid-April.

Court papers show they include: Mistress No. 1, former Mahoney aide Tricia Allen, the one he agreed to pay a total of $227,000 to shut her up about their affair; Mistress No. 2, Martin County engineering department employee Kim Roden, whom he took on skiing vacations in the Canadian Rockies; a former Tim Mahoney employee, Alejandro Munoz; Leonard Sokolow, a Broward County lawyer and accountant who was one of Tim Mahoney’s business partners in vFinance, a venture capital company; West Palm Beach lawyer Jack Goldberger, who once repped billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and worked on Mahoney’s secret deal with Allen; Gary Isaacs, another local lawyer who represented Mahoney as the sex scandal broke last year; and forensic accountant Michael Kridel. Tim Mahoney, too, will be grilled. (Read more…)

Former Rep. Tim Mahoney does the inauguration

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| Tuesday 20 January 2009 11:52 am Print This Post

Man, does he sport a pair!

Former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, a Democrat who lost his seat to Republican Tom Rooney after he admitted to routinely stepping out on his wife, is attending the presidential inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C.

“He’s been making the rounds because he now wants to be a lobbyist,” said a Beltway insider. “People are sorta rolling their eyes but, whatever.”

A spywitness at the Florida State Society’s inaugural ball Monday night text-messaged Page2Live that a tuxedo-clad Mahoney had arrived. (Read more…)

Biggest loser of 2008?

For some locals, last year was a very bad year — by their own actions. Who behaved the worst? If you have your own idea, post it as a comment and we’ll add it for others.

Who was the biggest local loser of 2008?

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2008: Year of hookups, mischief and lawsuits

Posted by Jose Lambiet | Busted, Cash, Catfights, Etc., Hookups, Hotties, Island’s Finest, Mahoney Scandal, Parties, Politicos, Splitsville |
| Saturday 3 January 2009 3:10 pm Print This Post

There were three weddings-of-the-year in Palm Beach in 2008 – all with mixed results.

First came the Jan. 5 nuptials of Alexandra Fisher and Joshua Bailer at The Breakers.

They never made it to the $100,000 chuppah. Pre-nupt talks broke down minutes before the ceremony, and they broke up.

But since father-of-the-bride Jeff Fisher, a well-known philanthropist, already paid for the party, he instructed the miffed guests to party on.

The family of the groom-to-be had fun, too. In an adjacent ballroom.

Champagne flowed until past midnight. (Read more…)

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