Chelsea Clinton's weddingThe unfolding story:
Chelsea Clinton to be married
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the sitting secretary of state, is engaged to be married. According to an e-mail that she and longtime boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky, sent to friends this afternoon, the wedding will take place next summer. A spokesman for the Clinton family has confirmed it.
The lucky manMarc Mezvinsky will be the groom
Her boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky, is the son of Democratic congressman Ed Mezvinsky and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. Both served in the United States congress representing Iowa and Pennsylvania respectively. Marjorie was a force to be reckoned with in Pennsylvania politics, running as the Democrat candidate for Lt. Governor in 1998 until her husband’s financial problems forced her to withdraw. Ed Mezvinsky reportedly served a prison sentence for fraud but was released in April, 2008.
The Romance
They met in Washington DC
Chelsea and Marc met in Washington, DC and both attended Stanford University. Several major news agencies have staked out the couple off and on for years. During President Clinton’s ongoing Monica Lewinsky scandal one major television network was going to break a story about the couple’s romance but backed off out of respect for their privacy. At the time I was working on the book, All the Presidents’ Children, and a person representing himself as an associate producer offered me his notes. I declined.
Chelsea and Marc live in New York where she attends school and he works for Goldman Sachs.News about the wedding has been a story in itself, with speculation that the public, media savvy Clintons have purposely dropped disinformation to help shroud the event in privacy. Hints about the wedding last summer embarrassed news agencies when it didn’t happen. It is now set for July 31, 2010. Published accounts were also wrong and then right about the dress. It will be a Vera Wang creation, some said, not Oscar de la Renta as widely reported. Now the New York Times is certain it will be de la Renta. And the location will not be at Martha’s’ Vineyard but deep on the grounds of the Astor estate in Rhinebeck, N.Y., just a few hours north of New York City. The estate is now owned by a Clinton supporter.