The Guessing Game - Updated

What will be on the cover of People this week? My guesses:

Simone Biles: Broke the all-time record, male or female, for medals at the gymnastics World Championships
Anne Sacoolas: The American wife of a diplomat serving in the U.K., Sacoolas is accused of hitting and killing a British teenager while driving on the wrong side of the road. Claiming diplomatic immunity, she returned to the U.S. The dead boy's distraught parents are insisting immunity be waived
Hunter Biden: Still in the news. ABC interviewed him over the week-end, it will air on several ABC shows beginning tomorrow
Peter Weber: The next Bachelor was injured while golfing on an off day in Costa Rica. Question: who carries two cocktail glasses while climbing into a golf cart?
Matt Lauer, Brook Nevils and/or Ronan Farrow: Farrow's new book includes a claim from Nevils that Lauer raped her during the Sochi Olympics. Lauer claims their sexual encounters were consensual
Marie Osmond and the Osmond Brothers: The original 4 will perform for the final time on today's episode of The Talk
Coleen Rooney: A bizarre feud on Twitter, did Rebekah Vardy give false stories to a tabloid. based  on items in Rooney's personal Instagram account? (Who are these people? They're the wives of big-deal soccer players in England.) (Read more here)
Shep Smith: In a surprise on Friday, Smith announced he was leaving Fox News. Was he fired or did he resign?
Carson King: Donated over $3 million dollars to a children's hospital after his "need money for beer" sign went viral
James Middleton: Kate's brother is engaged
Tyler Skaggs: A Los Angeles Angels employee claims to have provided Skaggs with the drugs that killed him
Coco Gauff: The 15-year-old phenom won her first Singles title and is now ranked in the Top 100
Joe Giudice: Released by ICE and now in Italy, Giudice will continue to fight extradition

Sexiest Man: Not for this week, but it's time to start thinking about the 2019 Sexiest Man. People usually announces the newly-crowned winner in early November. Right now I have no guesses for who it might be this year; here are the previous winners:

1985 Mel Gibson
1986 Mark Harmon
1987 Harry Hamlin
1988 John Kennedy, Jr.
1989 Sean Connery
1990 Tom Cruise
1991 Patrick Swayze
1992 Nick Nolte
1993 Sexiest Couple: Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford
1995 Brad Pitt
1996 Denzel Washington
1997 George Clooney
1998 Harrison Ford
1999 Richard Gere
2000 Brad Pitt
2001 Pierce Brosnan
2002 Ben Affleck
2003 Johnny Depp
2004 Jude Law
2005 Matthew McConaughey
2006 George Clooney
2007 Matt Damon
2008 Hugh Jackman
2009 Johnny Depp
2010 Ryan Reynolds
2011 Bradley Cooper
2012 Channing Tatum
2013 Adam Levine
2014 Chris Hemsworth
2015 David Beckham
2016 Dwayne Johnson
2017 Blake Shelton
2018 Idris Elba

Stories that appear on the new cover will be highlighted in green.

Update: William and Kate: A "complex" visit to Pakistan.

And one more thing. Remember this?:



It's from 18 years ago, when Rudy Giuliani was in the process of dumping his second wife and taking up with his third. (Read the cover story, dated May 28, 2001, here.) I don't really think People will put Rudy on the cover this week, but if they want to, all they have to do is swap out the pictures and change a few words because history is repeating itself. (Wow, is it possible that Rudy isn't a very nice man?) Rudy is done with wife number three, as explained by the Washington Post in an article titled "Third time was not the charm: Rudy Giuliani's latest divorce is bitter, expensive and very public"

It starts with this:

In the “What on earth happened to Rudy Giuliani?” sweepstakes, there are plenty of entries but no winners. Everyone wants to know why “America’s Mayor” became President Trump’s favorite consigliere.

Here’s one factor: He’s in the midst of a very bitter, very expensive, very public divorce. (A moment of silence, please, for the death of romance — especially when there’s no prenuptial.) Perhaps the contentious end of his third marriage is a distraction?

... includes this:

Giuliani, 75, is leaving this marriage the same way he entered it: with blaring headlines, tabloid updates and so much drama.

“He digs it,” says Ken Frydman, spokesman for his 1993 mayoral campaign. “He loves the attention. It’s sport for him — and a lack of judgment.”

In May 2000, New York’s two-term mayor called a news conference and announced a separation from his second wife, television anchor Donna Hanover. It was also a public acknowledgment of his year-long relationship with Judith Nathan, whom he praised as a “very, very fine woman.” The separation, however, was allegedly a surprise to his wife, who said she found out her 16-year marriage was ending by watching television.

A surprise, but also not surprising: Hanover started dating Giuliani when he was married to his first wife, Regina Peruggi. An eternal mystery: When the mistress becomes the wife, why is she shocked when another mistress enters the scene? (“Job opening,” goes the old joke.)

... Nathan and Giuliani met in 1999 at Club Macanudo, an East Side cigar bar. Nathan, divorced from her second husband, was a hospital sales rep and a trained nurse. Across the room: Mayor Giuliani. Sparks flew.

“It was the thunderbolt,’’ he told the New York Times. “Our attraction was instantaneous. There was almost something mystical about the feeling.’’

Soon, the two were inseparable, except for the quality time he spent with his wife and two children.

The affair was not, shall we say, discreet. Nathan accompanied the mayor to a number of official functions and stayed at his side during his treatment for prostate cancer, which led to his divorce lawyer’s TMI revelation in 2001 that the cancer had rendered Giuliani impotent and the two had not had sex for a year. They were not ones to let the marriage of true minds admit impediments, so love flourished.

... and ends with this:

Judith Giuliani, 64, receives $42,000 a month in alimony, an amount she claims is peanuts compared with the $230,000 per month they spent as a couple, according to the New York Times. Her lawyer, Bernard Clair, reported that Giuliani earned millions working at the law firm Greenberg Traurig: Almost $8 million in 2016 and $9 million in 2017. He also claims that by working pro bono for Trump, his client’s husband is deliberately concealing income and working with people who will have to “reimburse him” at a later date.

Giuliani, on the other hand, is pleading poverty. Because he is working for free and paying his own expenses, his lawyer says he can’t afford to support his wife in the lifestyle to which she became accustomed and had to borrow money to pay taxes.

“My reason for working for President Trump for free is wholly and entirely patriotic, and also because he is my friend,” he told the New York Post.

Meanwhile, they’re reportedly fighting over everything: money, Christmas decorations, remote controls and who gets to hang out in which of the private clubs to which they belong.

Judge Michael Katz told the couple: “It is beyond me why either party in this case would have an interest in having all of this done publicly.” Settling, he said, “would treat their relationship and marriage with more respect than divulging all our dirty laundry out for public consumption.”

That’s not happening. There is some chatter in New York that Judith Giuliani is writing a book — or it might be a savvy negotiating tactic for someone with no prenuptial and a good memory.

The Giulianis’ next court date is scheduled for January. (Read the entire article here.) 

Update #2. See the new cover, featuring Michael Douglas and his son Cameron, here.