Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former mayor of New York City, married his longtime partner Diana Taylor in a private ceremony at their townhome on the Upper East Side.
“Twenty-six years after a chance seating assignment, Mike Bloomberg and Diana Taylor have married,” a spokesman said in a statement. “The longtime couple exchanged vows today in a small, private ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side, joined by family, including his daughters, Emma and Georgina. The two first crossed paths when they sat next to each other at a Citizens Budget Commission meeting while he was first running for Mayor.”
Around a dozen close friends and relatives attended a celebratory lunch after the ceremony.
Taylor is a former Wall Street executive and former New York State Superintendent of Banks. She served as unofficial first lady of New York City while Bloomberg was mayor, and is now chair of the New York City Ballet board of directors, among other philanthropic roles.
No reason was shared why Bloomberg, 84, and Taylor, 71, chose to get married now, after more than two decades together. When Bloomberg ran for president in 2020, he declined to share why they didn’t want to get married, only telling Gayle King, “neither of us have any plans to change.”
This is a second marriage for both of them. Bloomberg was previously married to Susan Brown-Meyer; they divorced in 1993 and have two daughters, Emma and Georgina.
