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| birth_name = Joy Fererh |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|04|08}} |
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| nationality = American |
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| alma_mater = [[University of Maryland]] |
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| spouse = Richard Simons (divorced)<br> [[David L. Paul]] (divorced)<br> [[Jeffrey Silverman]] (divorced) |
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| parents = Jeanette Rothenberg Fererh<br> Ben Fererh |
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| children = Evan Marc Simons<br> Jessica Silverman |
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| family = [[Bruce Wolosoff]] (brother) |
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'''Joy Silverman''' (born April 8, 1947) is an American socialite and Republican Party operative and fundraiser. |
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==Biography== |
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Silverman was born '''Joy Fererh''' on April 8, 1947,<ref name=StLouis>{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 'Extraordinary Tragedy' Of Judge Sol Wachtler |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]|date=November 18, 1992 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/141658767/ |accessdate=}}</ref> the daughter of Jeanette (née Rothenberg) and Ben Fererh.<ref name=Shattering>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=Z4Q5BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT35&lpg=PT35&dq=bruce+wolosoff+germont#v=onepage&q=bruce%20wolosoff%20germont&f=false|first= Linda|last=Wolfe|title=Double Life: The Shattering Affair between Chief Judge Sol Wachtler and Socialite Joy Silverman|pages=|publisher=Open Road Media|date=August 26, 2014|isbn= 9781497648869}}</ref> In 1951, her parents divorced and in 1955, she moved to [[Great Neck, New York]] with her mother's new husband, Marc Germont.<ref name=StLouis /> She attended elementary school in Great Neck and also took [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] classes at Temple Israel.<ref name=StLouis /> She has one half-brother from her mother's second marriage, composer [[Bruce Wolosoff]].<ref name=Shattering /> Germont died of [[leukimia]] when Silverman was 12<ref name=Franks>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuMCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=J#v=onepage&q=J&f=false|first=Lucinda |last=Franks|authorlink=Lucinda Franks|title=The Judge and I|pages= |magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|date=November 14, 1994}}</ref> and her mother married wealthy Long Island real estate developer Alvin Bibbs Wolosoff who she worked for as a secretary.<ref name=StLouis /><ref name=NYMCrazy>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOMCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Germont#v=onepage&q=Germont&f=false|first=Eric |last=Poley|authorlink=|title=Crazy For You|pages= |magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|date=December 14, 1992}}</ref><ref name=Shattering /> In 1964, she attended the Howard School for Girls in [[Bridgewater, Massachusetts]] and then studied liberal arts at the [[University of Maryland]] from 1965 to 1968 but dropped out.<ref name=NYMCrazy /><ref name=StLouis /> She then went to work as a receptionist at [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] in [[New York City]].<ref name=StLouis /> In 1986, she was named a member of [[New York City]] Mayor's Commission for Protocol under [[Ed Koch]] and also served chairman of the Advisory Council of the New York State Commission on the Bicentenial of the United States Constitution.<ref name=Nomination>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-okbAQAAMAAJ&pg=silverman#v=onepage&q=silverman&f=false|first=|last=|authorlink=|title=George Bush, Volume 1 - |pages=829 |publisher=U.S. Government|date=|ISBN=|quote=Nomination of Joy A. Silverman To Be United States Ambassador to Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines June 29, 1989}}</ref> |
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In 1988, she worked for the New York presidential campaign of then-Vice President [[George H. W. Bush]] raising over $600,000 becoming one of his top fundraisers.<ref name=StLouis /><ref>{{Cite news|first=Catherine S. |last=Manegold |authorlink= |title= Judge and Heiress: The Rise and Fall of a Private Affair |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 15, 1992 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/15/nyregion/judge-and-heiress-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-private-affair.html?pagewanted=all |accessdate=}}</ref> She donated $100,000 to Bush's campaign and additional $300,000 to his various Republican candidates either in her name, her husband's name, or in the name of Ply Gem Building Products where her husband was CEO.<ref name=AP1990>{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= Bush Withdraws Silverman Nomination After Critics Hit No-Job Portfolio |newspaper=[[Associated Press]]|date=February 1, 1990 |url=https://apnews.com/38b24009e179f7a91000a2dcff8b90c4 |accessdate=}}</ref> After Bush's victory, Bush's brother, [[Jonathan Bush]] and Republican Party Chairman [[Richard Bond (RNC)|Richard N. Bond]] recommended her for an ambassadorship and she was nominated on June 29, 1989 as [[United States Ambassador to Barbados]] (which is also responsible for [[Dominica]], [[Saint Lucia]], and [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]])<ref name=StLouis /><ref name=Nomination /><ref name=AP1990 /> despite her desire to be named [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Luxembourg|Ambassador of Luxembourg]].<ref name=Tradition /> The nomination was controversial as she was one of several made by Bush of long-time financial backers and financial supporters rather than career Foreign Service officers including Republican bundler [[Peter F. Secchia]] ([[List of ambassadors of the United States to Italy|Ambassador of Italy]]), [[Walter Curley]] ([[List of ambassadors of the United States to France|Ambassador of France]]), real estate developer [[Joseph Zappala]] ([[List of ambassadors of the United States to Spain|Ambassador of Spain]]), and real estate developer [[Mel Sembler]] ([[List of ambassadors of the United States to Australia|Ambassador of Australia]]).<ref name=Tradition>{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= True to tradition. President Bush is rewarding his long-time financial backers and political supporters with desirable ambassadorships, mostly in Western Europe. |newspaper=[[The Financial Times]]|date= April 2, 1990|url= https://archive.org/stream/FinancialTimes1989UKEnglish/Feb%2016%201989%2C%20Financial%20Times%2C%20%2330771%2C%20UK%20%28en%29_djvu.txt |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first= Ray |last=Moseley |authorlink= |title= Critics Say System Spoils the Role of Ambassadors|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=July 30, 1989 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-07-30-8902210442-story.html |accessdate=}}</ref> [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] Senator [[Paul Sarbanes]] shut down the nomination stating she is "a candidate with no ostensible qualifications for ambassadorship other than her campaign contributions"<ref name=StLouis /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hr8KE1P5ORIC&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=sarbanes+%22joy+silverman%22&source=bl&ots=tV9X_adsDG&sig=ACfU3U0OxXiQT-GihYS_gelSEQ6XGFLw6w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE9ce5lKTmAhUKUa0KHRKtDDkQ6AEwB3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=sarbanes%20%22joy%20silverman%22&f=false|first=Karl A.|last=Lamb|authorlink=|title=Reasonable Disagreement: Two U.S. Senators and the Choices They Make (Politics and Policy in American Institutions)|pages=142 |publisher=[[Routledge]]|date=July 1, 1998|ISBN=978-0815328018}}</ref> despite the rest of the non-career and all-male nominees being approved to more prestigious positions. The Wolosoff family attorney and in-law, [[Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals]] [[Sol Wachtler]] (Wachtler's wife was the niece of Alvin Bibbs Wolosoff) tried to intervene on her behalf with formal documentation of Silverman's campaign contributions but the nomination eventually expired in the [[U.S. Senate]] never coming to a vote.<ref name=StLouis /> President Bush then appointed her as a trustee of the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]].<ref>{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title=Kennedy Center Trustee |newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=February 2, 1990 |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-02-02/news/mn-1238_1_kennedy-center-trustee |quote=President Bush said Thursday that he will appoint Joy Silverman as a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Bush earlier had nominated Silverman to be ambassador to Barbados, but some senators claimed she was not qualified for the diplomatic post.}}</ref> When Alvin Bibbs Wolosoff died in 1984, Wachtler served as executor of his $24 million estate and protected Silverman's $2.4 million inheritance<ref name=NYMCrazy /><ref name=StLouis /> from Wolosoff's son James who had been disinherited. |
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In 1988, Silverman and Wachtler began to have an affair but the relationship soured in 1991 as Wachtler refused to leave his wife; Silverman then began dating attorney [[David Samson (lawyer)|David Samson]].<ref name=StLouis /><ref name=NYMCrazy /> Wachtler did not take her leaving him well and soon began harassing Silverman.<ref name=NYMCrazy /> Silverman directly contacted then FBI Director [[William Sessions]] who referred the case to the FBI field office in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]].<ref name=NYMCrazy /> After a call to Silverman was traced to Wachtler,<ref name=NYMCrazy /> he was arrested on 7 November 1992, on charges including [[extortion]], [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|racketeering]], and [[blackmail]].<ref>[http://www.slate.com/id/2976/ Plotz, David. "Judicial Restraint: Sol Wachtler's worthy sentiments on prison." ''[[Slate.com]]'' April 16, 1997]</ref> Prosecutors alleged that he demanded a $20,000 blackmail payment in exchange for turning over compromising photographs and tapes of Silverman with her then-boyfriend, attorney [[David Samson (lawyer)|David Samson]].<ref>{{Cite news|first1=Russ |last1=Buettner |first2= William K. |last2=Rashbaum|authorlink= |title= As Inquiry Widens, Port Authority Chief May Lose His Low Profile |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 15, 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/nyregion/post-scandal-future-unclear-for-port-authoritys-low-profile-leader.html |accessdate=}}</ref> He eventually pleaded guilty to harassing Silverman and threatening to kidnap her daughter.<ref name=NYT20090119>{{cite news |first=Lawrence |last=Van Gelder |title=Ex-Judge Wachtler to Move From Prison to Halfway House |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E1D61139F934A1575BC0A962958260 |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=19 January 2009 |date=27 August 1994}}</ref> Wachtler resigned as a judge and from the bar; and was sentenced to 15 months, but received time off for good behavior.<ref name=NYT20090119/> Silverman was besieged by the press and blamed for her role in the removal of the popular judge and left New York City.<ref name=NYMCrazy /> Silverman later became spokesperson for the [[National Victim Center]].<ref name=Franks /> |
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==Personal life== |
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In January 1969, she married her childhood friend and furniture store heir, Richard "Dick" Simons.<ref name=StLouis /> The couple moved to [[Palm Beach, Florida]] and had one son, Evan Marc Simons (born 1970).<ref name=StLouis /><ref name=Shattering /> In 1972, they divorced.<ref name=StLouis /> She was introduced to her second husband, Florida banker [[David L. Paul]], by real estate developer [[Sol Atlas]]; they divorced 2 months later.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/141658767/ St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "'Extraordinary Tragedy' Of Judge Sol Wachtler"] November 18, 1992 | ''"she married again. This time it was to David Paul, a divorced real estate developer and financial wunderkind who would be indicted years later in the Bush administration savings and loan scandal. They were introduced by her father's friend and sometime partner, mega-developer Sol Atlas. The marriage began in a Las Vegas wedding parlor and ended in annulment in Santo Domingo in less than two months"''</ref> In 1977, she married recently divorced New York financier [[Jeffrey Silverman]].<ref name=StLouis /> Silverman adopted Evan and the couple also adopted a daughter, Jessica.<ref name=Everything>{{cite magazine|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/n_8053/|first=Beth |last=Landman|authorlink=|title=The Man Who Had Everything|pages= |magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|date=December 2, 2002}}</ref><ref name=StLouis /> In 1995, they divorced after Silverman's affair with [[Sol Wachtler]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=juMCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=jeffrey+silverman#v=onepage&q=jeffrey%20silverman&f=false|first=|last=|authorlink=|title=Jeffrey Has More Joy, But No Divorce|pages= |magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|date=June 12, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Salvatore |last=Arena |authorlink= |title=My Affiar with Judege Sol was a Joy, says Ex-Love|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|date=May 19, 1995 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/affair-judge-sol-joy-ex-love-article-1.684764 |accessdate=}}</ref> Jeffrey Silverman remarried but later committed suicide.<ref name=Everything /> |
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[[Category:1947 births]] |
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[[Category:American political fundraisers]] |
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[[Category:University System of Maryland alumni]] |
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