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Alexander, author of a 1983 book on Jean Harris and the murder of diet doctor Herman Tarnower, carefully details the lives of the players: Myerson's lover Andy Capasso and his estranged wife Nancy; Judge Hortense Gabel, who presided over the Capasso divorce; and Sukhreet, the judge's troubled daughter. Bess is a towering "glamazon" who dazzled almost everyone she met; Hortense Gabel is a stocky housing lawyer with Coke-bottle glasses and sensible shoes. Yet Alexander pairs them as spiritual twins. Both had climbed out of the Bronx through brains, hard work and chutzpah. And both hated looking back...
Alexander adds many new details to the saga, revealing, for example, that Sukhreet's job at a massage parlor included an extra $15 for going topless. But her gift is to make sense of what is already known: how a daughter came to turn on her devoted mother, why a venerable judge would jeopardize her reputation for a $19,000-a-year job for her child, and how the most famous Miss America of them all turned out to be anything but our ideal...
...Bess Myerson was the embodiment of the woman who loved too much: a New York City official who bribed respected state Supreme Court Justice Hortense Gabel to cut her boyfriend's alimony payments by giving Gabel's troubled daughter a job at the cultural affairs commission. To the daughter, Sukhreet Gabel, Myerson was a manipulative opportunist who banished her when the scam broke in the newspapers. To ex-wife Nancy Capasso, Myerson was a harridan who stole her husband Andy, moved into her house and wore her clothes. But to a federal jury charged with deciding her fate, Myerson...
...week trial ultimately came down to Sukhreet Gabel. She had taped telephone conversations and stolen her mother's files and she seemed to relish testifying that her job and the judge's ruling in Capasso's divorce were no coincidence. Yet the obviously unstable Sukhreet came across like an indulged child desperate for attention. Judge John Keenan twice instructed the jurors on "reasonable doubt," and after four days they returned with a verdict: not guilty. Myerson brushed away tears and kissed Gabel. Then she walked past the cameras, smiling...
...last week, Judge John Keenan continued hearing testimony in the trial of Bess Myerson, 64, her lover Carl Capasso, 43, and former State Judge Hortense Gabel, who once presided over Capasso's divorce case. Myerson, formerly New York City cultural-affairs commissioner, is accused of putting Gabel's daughter Sukhreet on the public payroll in order to get Gabel to lower Capasso's alimony payments. Many New Yorkers seem less offended by Myerson's alleged misdeeds than by the behavior of Sukhreet, 39, who cheerfully testified for eight days against her 75-year-old mother. "This is what she wanted...