NEW YORK
New York Post
By SELIM ALGAR, JENNIFER FERMINO and DAN MANGAN
August 11, 2005 -- St. Patrick's Cathedral's top priest and his longtime leggy assistant turned a quaint Hamptons hideaway hotel into their personal love nest — keeping their tryst so hush-hush, they didn't even use their own names in the registry, sources told The Post yesterday.
An employee of the White Sands Resort Hotel, a secluded oceanfront inn nestled in the dunes, said neither Monsignor Eugene Clark, 79, nor his married gal pal, Laura DeFilippo, was listed as a guest on July 21.
That's when the two were secretly videotaped entering the hotel to rent a room in the early afternoon. They left about 51/2 hours later with their heads bowed, wearing different clothes — she in sexy short-shorts.
The videotape was shot at the behest of her private-eye husband, Philip, who was collecting evidence for a bitter divorce battle in which he charges his wife had a long-term affair with the respected monsignor.
A clerk at the upscale, 20-room hotel said it's no wonder a couple would choose to canoodle there. Its seclusion and don't-kiss-and-tell policy make it very popular with celebrities.