Twice 'unlucky' in love! Andrew Cuomo to run for mayor of New York City

Andrew Cuomo is running for mayor.
The former New York Governor has officially thrown his hat into the ring to join the crowded field of candidates who want to become New York City’s next mayor. This position was held by fellow Democrat Mayor Eric Adams.
Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 due to a series of sexual harassment allegations he denies, enjoys wide name recognition and, like Adams, has strong support from orthodox Jewish, Black, and Latino voters.
With the primary on June 24, Cuomo doesn’t have much time to collect at least 3,750 signatures from registered voters by April 3.
Amidst his yet another professional conquest, let’s take a look at Cuomo’s personal life.

Born in Queens, New York City, Andrew Mark Cuomo is an American politician, lawyer, and former government official who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021. A member of the Democratic Party and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, Cuomo previously served as the attorney general of New York from 2007 to 2010.

Born to lawyer and later governor of New York Mario Cuomo and Matilda (both of Italian descent), Andrew Cuomo’s paternal grandparents were from Nocera Inferiore and Tramonti in the Campania region of southern Italy, while his maternal grandparents were from Sicily (his grandfather from Messina).
Cuomo has four siblings. His younger brother, Chris Cuomo, is a current NewsNation anchor and a former CNN journalist, and his elder sister is noted radiologist Margaret Cuomo.

Kerry Kennedy bears the name of one of America’s most famous and historically significant families - the Kennedy family. The seventh of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy’s 11 children, Kerry was a vigorous athlete like most of her siblings and a graduate of Brown and Boston College Law School.
Kerry was quite smitten by Andrew, as she once admitted, “Look, he was very handsome, very charming, very funny. It was a traditional crush.” So, when Cuomo proposed marriage to her on Valentine’s Day, 1990, they were pretty serious about tying the knot.

The engagement was announced in mid-February 1990, and the New York Times chimed in, saying, “This is a story that has everything.” Kerry, too, had the same giddiness in her voice when she said, “I think this is the happiest day of my life.” As for Andrew, he described himself as “a very lucky man.”
Andrew and Kerry’s wedding took place at St. Matthew’s Cathedral (27 years ago, President John F. Kennedy’s funeral mass was held there) in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 1990. It was as close to a royal affair as American nuptials could get.
The married couple lived in a six-bedroom house in the upscale Queens enclave of Douglas Manor.
Tensions in the marriage deepened through the 1990s, despite Kerry’s insistence that she and Andrew participate in marriage therapy by year two. While Andrew seemed utterly consumed by his work, Kerry felt weighted down by the full load of parenting the couple’s three young daughters.
On September 11, 2002, Kerry demanded a divorce, and that was the end of Kerry and Andrew - Cuomolot.
Andrew and Kerry share three daughters: a pair of twins, Cara Ethel Kennedy-Cuomo and Mariah Matilda Kennedy-Cuomo (born 1995), and Michaela Andrea Kennedy-Cuomo (born 1997).
Andrew and Kerry separated in 2003 and divorced in 2005.

Cuomo began dating Food Network host Sandra Lee in 2005.
Lee first met Cuomo at a summer party in the Hamptons in 2005, introduced there by Alexandra Stanton, one of Lee‘s best friends and a former aide to Cuomo. He was with his daughters, Michaela and twins Cara and Mariah, and she has reportedly described her first impression of him as a “huge, musclebound man.”
Lee’s friend Colleen Schmidt told the Times in 2010, “I remember her being — I don’t want to say infatuated, because it sounds too schoolgirlish — but she was taken with him.”

Lee’s relationship with Cuomo made more headlines in 2010 as he successfully ran for New York’s governor in 2010, even though Lee largely avoided the spotlight of the campaign trail. In 2010, she said, “I do food and home and garden and leave politics to my honey — he’s wonderful at that.”
Although Cuomo and Lee didn’t hide their relationship from the public eye, they chose not to mix the personal and the professional.
Lee had told Harper’s Bazaar in 2011, six years after they started dating, “I have a partner who feels the exact same way as I do about protecting our personal relationship.” While describing her life with Cuomo and his girls, She added, “We just have a good time together. If a song comes on in the grocery store — we love this song called ‘Fireflies’; it’s just an enchanting, sweet song — we dance around with the cart.”
Beginning in 2015, Lee took on the role of cancer detection advocate after she learned she had breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy. This required her to pull back from her career and work obligations to focus on treatment and recovery.
In 2018, she released an intimate documentary about her cancer journey, which played at both the Sundance and Tribeca film festivals.
After 14 years of togetherness, in 2019, Lee and Cuomo split. In a joint statement, the couple said, “Over the recent past, we have realized that our lives have gone in different directions and our romantic relationship has turned into a deep friendship. We will always be family and are fully supportive of each other and dedicated to the girls. Our personal lives remain personal and there will be no further comment.”
The news of their breakup came a few months after the couple listed their six-bedroom estate, nicknamed “Lily Pond.”