DETROIT, April 30, 2008

Detroit Sex Scandal Gets Sexier

Text Messages Between Mayor And His Former Chief Of Staff Released By Court

    • This Monday, March 24, 2008 booking photo released by the Wayne County Sheriff's Deptarment shows Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty Photo

      This Monday, March 24, 2008 booking photo released by the Wayne County Sheriff's Deptarment shows Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty  (AP/Wayne County Sheriffs Dept)

    • Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick steps away from the microphone after addressing the media during a news conference in the mayor's office in Detroit, Monday, March 24, 2008. Photo

      Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick steps away from the microphone after addressing the media during a news conference in the mayor's office in Detroit, Monday, March 24, 2008.  (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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James Thomas, a lawyer for Kilpatrick, questioned the accuracy of the quoted messages and criticized their publication.

"The case is being driven by the salaciousness," Thomas told reporters Tuesday afternoon. "It was improper to print it at this point in time. It's going to affect his ability to have a fair trial. We plan on vigorously challenging those documents, and setting them up to the scrutiny we feel the media should have put it up to."

Mayer Morganroth, who represents Beatty, said he believes the text messages were obtained illegally and the excerpts should not have been released. Stefani was out of state and unavailable for comment, his office said.

The sometimes graphic excerpts include the frequent use of the N-word, or derivatives of it, as a term of endearment.

On Sept. 15, 2002, Beatty described a sex act she wanted to perform on the mayor but said she didn't know how to ask him to let her do it. He replied: "Next time, just tell me to sit down, shut up and do your thing!"

Later that month, the pair appeared to arrange a sexual encounter in Beatty's office. On Sept. 19, 2002, Beatty wrote to Kilpatrick: "I have wanted to hold you so badly all day, but I was trying to stay focused on work. So, I promise, not to keep you longer than 15 minutes."

Kilpatrick replied: "Don't promise (N-word.)"

Beatty said: "I'm in my office. Do you want me to come to yours or you coming to mine?"

Kilpatrick said: "I'm coming down there ... LOL ditto. Freaky Chris!"

Beatty and Kilpatrick have known each other since high school, and in several excerpts, Beatty expressed her insecurity over the relationship and asked Kilpatrick to promise her she'd always be his "woman."

On April 27, 2003, in response to Beatty's query, Kilpatrick said: "You were my girl for as long as I can remember. I was too young and stupid to know. I promise for the rest of my life you will be my girl."

Earlier that month, on April 8, 2003, Beatty wrote: "You told me that you would be my boyfriend everyday until I was your wife. Are you renigging?"

Kilpatrick replied: "Hell no! Don't start none. Won't be none ...! LOL".

Kilpatrick remains married to his wife, Carlita. Beatty left her husband at the end of April 2003, according to the document.

On April 13, 2003, Beatty wrote to Kilpatrick: "It is sometimes so amazing how much I love you. I can't even describe most of the time how I feel inside when I think about you. You are an amazing man. Everything about you makes me love you. Your passion about life, your sense of humor, your presence, and your love of family."

The intimacy and another reference to marriage was part of an April 25, 2003 exchange.

Beatty wrote: "No. I'm not gone from you. I never am. Every second that I was quiet, I thinking about you."

Kilpatrick replied: "Thinking about what?"

Beatty: "Thinking about doing a lot of things! Thinking that how hard you diss me, I still want to be in your arms, kiss you, hug you, love you. Listening to you speak and wishing that you were my husband."

On May 1, 2003, Beatty referenced her separation from her husband: "I can't see living this way with us being a 'secret' forever. I love you so much and I want to tell somebody, someday! (Smile). Secondly, this separation is really real and it kind of slapped 'lonely' in my mind ... when you didn't come on Saturday until 3 hours later, that just kind of topped it off for me. So I'm sorry if I've been trippin. I could only two way this! I couldn't have said it to you personally!"

Kilpatrick responded: "In this important and somewhat confusing time in your life, please know with all our hearts and soul that I love you. And you will never, never be alone."

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by blackyowe April 29, 2008 10:03 PM PDT
I read something very funny in the Times back when this story broke and the one with Spitzer and it was called Governors gone wild. Ain''t it the truth!
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by tgf33663 April 29, 2008 10:11 PM PDT
What do you know more bad news for Detroit and Michigan. The mayor should focus on what important like getting jobs to this city and our state. Instead of worring about his trampy aid. He needs to help his people and not help himself.
MAYOR GET BACK TO WORK FOR DETROIT AND MICHIGAN
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by tbweb April 29, 2008 10:21 PM PDT
The Mayor is a Player, so what else is new? This is SOP in the corporate world, something the have nots don''t know anything about! Having a day toy is part of the benefits package in many places and if you can travel away on business with your day toy on the corporate dime all the better! What could be better than attending that all important business meeting in Hawaii with your day toy? lol Oh, you didn''t know? lol This is not news, nothing new to report here, move along!
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by sistatee-2009 April 29, 2008 10:57 PM PDT
Other than gangs, government corruption and Muslims, there''s not much left in Detroit.
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by colonieny April 29, 2008 11:07 PM PDT


Isn''t this just private...
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by justinlz April 29, 2008 11:40 PM PDT
it let me think of Bill.:) haha

Anyway, this mayer should compromise to work for the super rich and then be acquited.
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by wlmrtpatriot April 29, 2008 11:46 PM PDT
What''s up in Mo-town? Go away mayor, just go away. You are not funny. Take Beaty with you and pay back the 8.7 mil. to the taxpayers of Det.
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by iamauto April 30, 2008 12:25 AM PDT
What an evil country!
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by jjarden April 30, 2008 12:27 AM PDT
They should tell all the nice, innocent people to move out of Detroit, but don''t tell all the Thugs, Gang-Bangers, and other Criminals, and then Drop an Atom Bomb on the place and start over. Same with South-Central LA.
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by wrightsdeman April 30, 2008 12:33 AM PDT
Take these two, add that moronic bunny from New Orleans, you know, the Chocolate Dude who allowed all of those people to drown and die, add Obama and Wright - and couple of White Bigots like Senator Byrd and Jimmy Carter - and dump the whole lot of them on the nuke-tipped cruise missile that we will be firing at Tehran in a year or so.

None of these Victicrats or their Massas will ever be missed.
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by edward1975-2009 April 30, 2008 12:33 AM PDT
You gotta love American politicians, would be nice if we could go a month without hearing of some raunchy sexual scandal involving a politician. They should offer a line on this in Vegas.
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by republic1776 April 30, 2008 12:37 AM PDT
Add S*E*X and IT"S News.
Boobus America accepts this as News....
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by brianbwb-2009 April 30, 2008 12:44 AM PDT
Posted by tbweb

You are correct, it would be interesting if all the "married" politicians and CEOs with "playthings" on the side were "outed".
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by ranger1948 April 30, 2008 4:50 AM PDT
brianbwb
If we removed all of them who would we have left in office ?
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by ranger1948 April 30, 2008 4:51 AM PDT
He was just doing what politicians do, *** somebody all the time.
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by stupidrules3 April 30, 2008 6:37 AM PDT
Hopefully the people of Detroit will throw this bum out and let the next mayor know that he works for the people and is NOT the boss.
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by claytonantho April 30, 2008 7:17 AM PDT
I''m waiting for so-called black leaders to declare that Kilpatrick is a VICTIM of a government conspiracy. I guess they are too busy in other places crying racism where there is none. I know that Sharpton and Jesse don''t actually believe this idiot brought this on himself. Naw, Sharpton and Jesse can''t think that reasonable.
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by johngoodnews April 30, 2008 8:36 AM PDT
People who are under high levels of stress, and who are thrown into close personal contact where they depend on each other and trust each other, literally, with their lives in some cases, can easily become fast friends or lovers for life. It is almost impossible to describe how deeply personal and self-defining such relationships can become. The problem is that those who are going to be doing the judging don''t have a clue, and most likely never will, as to the bond between such people. That these deep and binding friendships and love may end up destroying those whom the gods have blessed in letting taste the depths of binding friendship and love is a fact of life that Greek authors understood so well in writing their plays.

I envy the love the two have for each other. And I can say easily, no matter how this all turns out, the two of them will always love each other too deeply to ever forget, no matter where or with whom they end up.
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by lloydbest1 April 30, 2008 9:05 AM PDT
CBS has only touched the surface. Google "detroitYES.com" and if the forum section doesn''t come up right away, search for it and get a real insight to what locals are thinking and saying...As a bonus, the web site also has photos of Detroit, past and present; stories, and links to Detroits two newspapers and several of its radio and TV stations. Even if you don''t care a fig about two adults (who should know better) engaging in bedroom gymnastics, this is a great site and offers all manner of information about Detroit and SE Michigan.
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by libh8er April 30, 2008 9:12 AM PDT
''Detroit *** Scandal Gets Sexier: Text Messages Between Mayor And His Former Chief Of Staff Released By Court''

She was apparently Chief of HIS stalf! :)
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by displeased April 30, 2008 9:13 AM PDT
Another reason you should never send anything you don''t want somebody else to read in electronic format.
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by mbcsmith April 30, 2008 9:19 AM PDT
CBS forgot to tell you he is a DEMOCRAT.
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by honestabe8 April 30, 2008 9:21 AM PDT
"Mommy, what''s ''head'' and why is Uncle Kwame is so much trouble?"
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by honestabe8 April 30, 2008 9:22 AM PDT
Christine Beatty is actually Scotty Pippen in drag
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by xraytwonine April 30, 2008 9:27 AM PDT
*** its just *** and love, let it be
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by xraytwonine April 30, 2008 9:29 AM PDT
I can''t believe CBSnews censors "D-am n" and $ex
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by honestabe8 April 30, 2008 9:30 AM PDT
JohnGoodnews: Have you read the text messages? Christine Beatty was the one in love. Kwame Salami is just a playa who was taking advantage of her. Both lied under oath, though. There is so much more to it, but you would have to have been following it from the beginning. Firing police officers, a hooker being murdered, allegedly being found by Kwame''s wife, Carlita (a woman who is so far in Denial, that she is in the Suez) servicing her husband, and more fun stuff coming out of The D. Also, Magilla Gorilla going to city churches and lying to them, and blaming "the suburbs" (code word for "whitey"). This keeps getting funnier every day. If Kwame had any go-nads, he would resign, or pull a R. Budd Dwyer.
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by parrot123-2009 April 30, 2008 9:52 AM PDT
But for the married mayor and the now-divorced Christine Beatty, the outcome of their secret relationship referred to in the excerpts has been embarrassment, felony charges and possible prison time for both.


**** What kind of society are we that - we''d rather prosecute 2 consenting adults for lying about se*x and intending to Jail them - while nothings being done about an undercover CIA operative being outted for political reasons or the many lies thats still taking the lives of our troops ..... But Repugs really want all the se*x stuff fully prosecuted and don''t give a Fck about the really serious *****. Cheers!
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by mbcsmith April 30, 2008 10:21 AM PDT
**** What kind of society are we that - we''''d rather prosecute 2 consenting adults for lying about se*x and intending to Jail them - while nothings being done about an undercover CIA operative being outted for political reasons or the many lies thats still taking the lives of our troops ..... But Repugs really want all the se*x stuff fully prosecuted and don''''t give a Fck about the really serious *****. Cheers!


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Posted by parrot123 at 09:52 AM : Apr 30, 2008

Yeah, so what if he illegally fired the cops investigating him. Yeah, so what if he committed perjury.
LIBS just don''t get it!
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by honestabe8 April 30, 2008 11:07 AM PDT
mbcsmith: there may be many reasons to disagree and/or take shots at "libs", but this ain''t one of them. the whole city (save for a few people who just hate "whitey") knows that kwame salami and christine (scotty pippen in drag) beatty are guilty. basically, another cheap shot.
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by rwm2_2000 April 30, 2008 11:51 AM PDT
Maybe the Detroit Mayor needs to disassociate himself from her and everything will be ok...AS IN OBAMA''S CASE!
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by honestabe8 April 30, 2008 12:21 PM PDT
dragonwagon: whittaker has way more class
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by investnland April 30, 2008 1:15 PM PDT
They all lied about the affair, so did Clinton, so what!!! Go after him for the REAL crime of firing people that were investigating him. He should have been investigated by another organization besides the police dept. Hello, he is the boss. What would happen if you were investigating your boss? FIRED, you would be.
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by babyj0205 April 30, 2008 1:50 PM PDT
LEAVE HIM ALONE.YEA HE GOT THE BOOTY BUT SOMETIME MAN R WEAK MINDED.IT STARTED WITH ADAM AND IT STILL COMTINUES.
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by harleydave99 April 30, 2008 2:14 PM PDT
Hey drmaqazi ----

It''s not about the consensual ***, it''s about the 8.4 million that the consensual *** cost the taxpayers!!! ***!
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by chatmandu002 April 30, 2008 2:40 PM PDT
Oh no... They said the "N" word.. They gotta go to jail. No wait, only white people go to jail for saying the "N" word. OK then, they can go free.
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by hawksprings April 30, 2008 3:27 PM PDT
k2345,
Everyone is morally weak.
What''s your crutch?
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by ianlou April 30, 2008 4:29 PM PDT
Half the city neighborhoods of Detroit could burn to the ground and a million dollars worth of damages would not be reached.
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by ianlou April 30, 2008 4:36 PM PDT
CBS forgot to tell you he is a DEMOCRAT.
Posted by mbcsmith

Oh course he''s a Democrat; His affair was with a Woman.
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by displeased April 30, 2008 4:51 PM PDT
Everyone is morally weak.
Posted by HawkSprings

Everyone is morally weak? How do you figure?
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by macusweil April 30, 2008 4:55 PM PDT
"And the bible says; "Believe and repent and ye shall be saved." What a wonderful crutch for the morally weak."

also vaguely remember something in the bible that says__ "Judge not lest ye be judged."
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by hawksprings April 30, 2008 5:29 PM PDT
"Everyone is morally weak."
Posted by HawkSprings

"Everyone is morally weak? How do you figure?"
Posted by Displeased

Dis, every one of us has done lots of things that are morally wrong.
And those that deny it are lying, so right there they are morally weak.
The Bible calls it ''sin.''
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by bdrlnt4rl April 30, 2008 7:52 PM PDT
typical.......
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by gce65 April 30, 2008 8:04 PM PDT
CBS: You forgot to tell us all the sordid deTAILS that should go along with your HEADline. Nothing about t''est''icles or her secret code name: Alotta ******! You''re looking lame, CBS! Not shagadelic!
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by gce65 April 30, 2008 8:06 PM PDT
No meth, gay hookers or cruising in bathroom stalls (tap-tap-tap) involved? Then he must be a Democrat!
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by cyberus-2009 April 30, 2008 9:19 PM PDT
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CBS forgot to tell you he is a DEMOCRAT.
Posted by mbcsmith

Oh course he''''s a Democrat; His affair was with a Woman.

Posted by ianlou
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So true! 8-]
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by keithle1 April 30, 2008 10:02 PM PDT
Detroit is a city to get the heck out of as soon as possible. No one is moving to Detroit for a "better life."

This kind of hanky panky doesn''t even make me raise an eyebrow. If it involved farm animals, maybe. Space aliens, YES.
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by apprxam April 30, 2008 10:15 PM PDT
Awwww...aren''t they a cute couple. Now fire his stupid *ss.

What a freakin'' joke of a mayor. Detroit doesn''t need this loser sucking any more of the cities money for his poor execution of an affair.
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by ianlou April 30, 2008 10:51 PM PDT
I Live 20 miles west of Detroit. When people from other states and countries ask me where I live I say a small far flung eastern suburb of Chicago on the other side of Lake Michigan.
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by honestabe8 May 1, 2008 7:54 AM PDT
onlythereal: i agree. kwame and his posse (no, christine, i typed POSSE) are thugs who would be in jail or behind the counter at a fast food outlet if it weren''t for the Kwame gravytrain.
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