- there was a secret reason for that, which we learned in the course of this campaign, which was that he had yet another new girlfriend. - at the time, he was married to donna hanover. they had two kids. - we alighted over the problem. but you couldn't alight over the problem when he was going out to dinner with her in public and baiting the news media in new york to cover her. - and then, soon thereafter, not too much soon, you know, he got prostate cancer. - good morning. i was diagnosed yesterday with a-- with prostate cancer. - that news rocked him. this may have been the first time he was confronted directly with his own mortality. - the biopsy revealed that several of the samples had implications of cancer. - this was in the midst of his senate race. and there was a lot of speculation about what effect the diagnosis would have. - his wife, donna hanover, rarely seen with the mayor,