Scaramucci ‘sent wife text to mark birth of their son’
STATES: Anthony Scaramucci’s wife filed for divorce while she was nine months pregnant and when their son arrived last week he congratulated her by text message, according to reports.
The new White House communications director, who in the space of a week has gone from being a little-known financier to a household name - thanks largely to his expletive-laced rants about his new colleagues - is yet to confirm the divorce proceedings.
He tweeted a request for prayers for his family. The New York Post reported that Deidre Scaramucci, 38, filed divorce papers on July 6 at Nassau County Supreme Court, in New York. They were married for three years and she gave birth to their first son, Nicholas, in early 2014.
Their second son, James, arrived last Monday, local time, in New York City, while Scaramucci was at a Boy Scout jamboree with President Donald Trump in West Virginia.
‘‘When James was born, he sent her a text saying: ‘Congratulations, I’ll pray for our child,’’’ a source told the paper. ‘‘She’s mad. They aren’t really speaking right now,’’ the source said. ‘‘The pain runs deep. Anthony tells her she’s not that smart, that he’s out of her league.’’
Reportedly he did not meet his newborn son until Friday evening, at the end of a whirlwind first week in Washington in which he witnessed the ousting from the White House of his bitter rival, Reince Priebus, who had served as chief of staff.
An associate of Scaramucci, 53, defended him, saying that the child arrived early.
‘‘There was discussion between him, her and the divorce attorneys about Anthony going to the hospital, and unfortunately the delivery was sudden,’’ the source told the paper. ‘‘There’s been a lot of lies.’’
Scaramucci’s mother, Marie, who lives close to the marital home on Long Island, told the paper she was yet to meet her new
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"She's mad. They aren't really speaking right now. The pain runs deep. Anthony tells her she's not that smart, that he's out of her league." Source on Anthony Scaramucci
grandson.
‘‘No, I haven’t,’’ she said when reached by phone. ‘‘There’s a reason for it and I don’t want to discuss it.’’
Headlines about the increasingly acrimonious divorce are not what Scaramucci, nicknamed The Mooch, would have wished for his first week in Washington.
‘‘OK, the Mooch showed up a week ago,’’ he said, calling a reporter on Wednesday night. ‘‘This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, OK? Because I nailed these guys.’’ - Telegraph Group