NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY BARBARA ROSS and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
The leggy church lady mired in a St. Patrick's Cathedral sex scandal was granted permission yesterday to visit her children, but she and her estranged husband must first undergo alcohol and drug testing.
Laura and Philip DeFilippo sat 6 feet apart and never looked at each other during yesterday's hearing in Westchester Family Court.
It was the first time the couple had been in the same room since he had her barred from their Eastchester home for threatening to stab him when he confronted her about an alleged affair with St. Patrick's rector Msgr. Eugene Clark.
Laura DeFilippo worked as Clark's secretary, reportedly earning as much as $100,000 a year.
Philip DeFilippo served his 46-year-old wife with divorce papers earlier this month after he had a private eye videotape her and the 79-year-old priest entering and leaving a Hamptons motel.