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In announcing the birth of their son, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his wife asked supporters for donations toward a home in Orlando, Florida.
by Charlie LeDuff
(Photo: Rebecca Cook) It was the social event of the season, Detroit s version of the Hamptons polo party. The second marriage of disgraced former mayor and ex-con Kwame Kilpatrick. It was a ticket every self-respecting fast man would kill for a wedding at the Historic Little Rock Baptist Church and a reception at the Hotel St. Regis on West Grand Boulevard. There was Kilpatrick s contractor pal Bobby Ferguson, recently freed from prison, chatting last weekend near the crudites. And there stood the erstwhile teenage cocaine drug dealer White Boy Rick, aka Richard Wershe Jr. – looking smooth and tan, our little bird tells us, holding court with a group of well-wishers. (How does a guy who s been imprisoned since he was 17 have six grandchildren, anyway?)
Kwame Kilpatrick and Latisha McGee (Photo by Rebecca Cook)
Photos by Rebecca Cook Starting his post-prison life with a new partner, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick married Laticia McGee Saturday afternoon at Historic Little Rock Baptist Church in Detroit. It s one of the two churches where he delivered his first public remarks after being released from prison in January. Bishop J. Drew Sheard officiated. McGee was a receptionist in the mayor s office from 2002-04, while Kipatrick was mayor. They may have spoken once or twice, he said, but had no relationship at the time. But when Kilpatrick was in prison, the two began a correspondence, and love blossomed.