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The book Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage was written by Dina Matos McGreevey and came out on May 1st, 2007. "Silent Partner" is Dina Matos McGreevey's response to her husband Jim McGreevey's autobiography, The Confession, which was published in mid-September 2006. In it, McGreevey described steamy sexual encounters with Golan Cipel — who continues to deny having an affair with the then-governor — and wrote that he married Matos McGreevey for political gain. The couple separated in October 2004, and are currently in the midst of a divorce and custody battle over their daughter Jacqueline, born in December 2001, that has gained much media attention.

In the book James E. McGreevey is described as self-absorbed and controlling, and she says that, among other demands, he insisted she move out of the governor's mansion before his official resignation so she wouldn't "look like white trash." Before that appearance, McGreevey told her, "You have to pull yourself together. You have to be Jackie Kennedy today," and repeatedly told her what to say and how to act in the aftermath of his admission. "As his world was falling apart, he was still choreographing the entire day," Dina Matos McGreevey said.

She wrote that her husband offered only an indifferent apology days after he appeared on national television in Aug. 2004 and announced "I am a gay American" and said he would resign.

Matos McGreevey also wrote that she thought their marriage was solid — "The sex was good," she writes — and had worries only about her husband's secretive calls and visits to his first wife and daughter — until he summoned her to the governor's mansion three days before he told the world he was gay.

Matos McGreevey wrote that her husband said he was being blackmailed by aide Golan Cipel and that he had had a relationship with Cipel that was "not sexual ... but sexual."

When she had to look for another place to live, Matos McGreevey wrote, her husband said he had no savings and refused to give her a down payment unless she agreed to a quick divorce settlement.

According to the Daily News, Matos McGreevey also complains that McGreevey mentioned in his speech his love for his first wife, but not for her, and didn't apologize to her for days — and even then, it was perfunctory.

Matos McGreevey was born in Portugal in 1966 and grew up in the Portuguese section of Newark, N.J. They were married in October 2000. It was his second marriage, her first.