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Article: Many Women in Marion Barry's Life
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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In all his years in public life, Marion Barry has rarely been
without a woman at his side.
"Womanizing had become an integral part of my lifestyle," he told
a local magazine, Sister 2 Sister, in 1991, acknowledging that he
brazenly flirted with other women in front of his wife. That same
year, he went on the Sally Jessy Raphael TV show and told a
nationwide audience that he was addicted to women and sex. "It got
to be more than casual," he said. "It got to be excessive."
The former D.C. mayor's relationship with Donna Watts-
Brighthaupt, the ex-girlfriend with whom Barry argued just before
his arrest Saturday night on a misdemeanor stalking charge, is the
latest in a long series. Whether ...