September 02, 2005

Woman in Msgr. flap has lots a loot

NEW YORK
New York Daily News

By ADAM LISBERG
and TANYANIKA SAMUELS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

The woman at the center of the St. Patrick's sex scandal has a well-endowed bank account, it was revealed yesterday.

At a hearing in Westchester Family Court, attorneys showed that alleged priest paramour Laura DeFilippo has more than $350,000 in one of her accounts alone.

Her estranged husband, Philip DeFilippo, isn't doing badly either - lawyers said the couple are millionaires.

The revelation comes amid bombshell allegations detailed in divorce papers filed last month. Philip DeFilippo accused his soon-to-be ex-wife of having an affair with her boss, Msgr. Eugene Clark, 79, a rector at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Laura DeFilippo, 46, was his secretary.

Both Clark and Laura DeFilippo have denied the affair, despite a videotape showing the two spending 51/2 hours at a Hamptons hotel last month. Clark resigned from St. Pats soon after that video became public.

Posted by kshaw at September 2, 2005 07:57 AM