Rudy Giuliani and wife Judi Nathan were enjoying the holiday weekend in the Hamptons yesterday when a publishing executive got in the face of the former mayor and gave him a little more than a piece of his mind. After stepping out of a Presbyterian church where he was attending an art fair, 69-year-old John McCluskey confronted the Giulianis on a Bridgehampton street, poked his finger in Rudy's chest and uttered a sentiment more than a few New Yorkers share, "You're the worst person in the world and I'm going to punch you out!"
Giuliani, not one to back down from a fight, stepped up to McCluskey "told him to bring it." The mayor, who will turn 65 this Thursday, fired back at his aggressor, "Alright, do it then!". While he was ready to go, his wife Judith repeatedly yelled at McCluskey, "I want him in jail!"
Police arrived quickly and did just that, charging him with second-degree harassment before he was released on bail soon after. McCluskey is also a documentary filmmaker, tarot card reader and author, who has written books such as "The Complete Book of Wedding Toasts" and "Amazing Mystic Tarot." He told Newsday, "I am not a respecter of him, and I told him essentially that he would prosecute and persecute a cheese sandwich if he got the opportunity."
The News calls McCluskey "an angry lunatic" and seems surprised when a witness describes him by saying, "He did not appear to be disheveled. [McCluskey] was dressed normally." The Giulianis have been vacationing together in the Hamptons for some time now, including before Giuliani had ended his previous marriage and possibly at one time on the dime of NYC taxpayers.
