Vows at Home, Michael Bloomberg Marries Diana Taylor After 26 Years

Michael Bloomberg, 84, and Diana Taylor, 71, were married on Monday, November 9, in a small private ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side, ending a 26-year courtship that ran through all three of his terms as mayor of New York.

His spokesperson announced the marriage on X the same day. Family attended, including Bloomberg's daughters, Emma and Georgina, according to the statement. A source told People that the couple hosted lunch for about 15 guests afterward, and People's report adds that a Bloomberg representative offered nothing more. Neither the statement nor People named an officiant.

That is a very Bloomberg way to do it. The billionaire who ran the city from January 1, 2002, to December 31, 2013, spent those 4,383 days living in his own house rather than the official residence. The wedding stayed at home too.

How Did They Meet?

The statement says the two first crossed paths when they were seated next to each other at a Citizens Budget Commission meeting, while Bloomberg was making his first run for mayor. The commission is a nonprofit watchdog that studies the city and state budgets, which is about as unromantic a setting as Manhattan offers.

Taylor has told the story a little differently. In a 2020 interview cited by People, she said they first met at a business luncheon in 2000, ran into each other at a restaurant that night, and he asked her for a drink. The two versions do not conflict much. Both put the start in 2000, in a room full of people talking about money.

Bloomberg had been married once before. He and Susan Brown wed in 1975 and divorced in 1993. Taylor and Bloomberg have no children together. She once described her role with his daughters to the Washington Post, as quoted by People, as "sort of a step-whatever."

Both versions put the start in 2000, in a room full of people talking about money.

The Mayor Who Kept Weddings at Arm's Length

What makes Monday's ceremony worth a second look is Bloomberg's record with other people's weddings, and with the official residence that usually hosts them.

He never moved into Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence. In March 2012, more than ten years into his tenure, CBS New York reported that he had not spent a single night there. He argued that a mayor's family would take over too much of it. He called it "a great house for everybody, not for one family."

He also kept a rule about officiating. When Rudolph Giuliani married Judith Nathan at Gracie Mansion on Saturday, May 24, 2003, Bloomberg performed the ceremony, and the Associated Press noted at the time that he was making an exception to his policy of not doing weddings. His spokesman, Ed Skyler, said the mayor was "honored by their request."

Eight years later he made another exception. On July 7, 2011, CBS New York reported that Bloomberg would officiate the wedding of John Feinblatt, his chief policy adviser, and Jonathan Mintz, the city's consumer affairs commissioner, at Gracie Mansion on Sunday, July 24, the day New York's same-sex marriage law took effect. Mintz told the station he was touched that the mayor offered.

So the two best-known weddings of the Bloomberg years both happened at the house he would not live in, with him at the front of the room. His own took place at home, with no announced officiant and no cameras.

A Timeline, by Our Count

Suite 646 put the public record of the relationship in order and counted the days between the dated events, running each one up to Monday's wedding. Where a source gives only a year, we say so and do not count days.

2000. The first meeting, at a Citizens Budget Commission event or a business luncheon, depending on who tells it. No exact date has been published.

January 1, 2002. Bloomberg takes office. The wedding came 9,078 days later.

May 24, 2003. He officiates the Giuliani wedding at Gracie Mansion, 8,570 days before his own.

June 10, 2003, to March 5, 2007. Taylor serves as New York State's superintendent of banks, the state's top bank regulator, for 1,364 days, first under Governor George Pataki. For much of Bloomberg's first term, the mayor's partner held a senior state post of her own.

May 8, 2006. The couple pose together at the Time 100 gala, the night the photograph on this page was taken.

July 24, 2011. The Feinblatt and Mintz wedding at Gracie Mansion, 5,587 days before Monday.

December 31, 2013. Bloomberg leaves office. The wedding came 4,696 days, or nearly 12 years and 10 months, after his last day as mayor.

November 24, 2019, to March 4, 2020. His 101-day run for the Democratic presidential nomination, with Taylor campaigning for him in several primary states.

September 1, 2021. Taylor becomes chair of the New York City Ballet board, 1,895 days before the wedding.

November 9, 2026. Married.

Diana Taylor's Other Address Book

Taylor's own New York runs through boardrooms more than ballrooms. When City Ballet elected her chair in 2021, its announcement said she was the first woman to hold the post. She succeeded Charles W. Scharf, who had chaired the board since 2017.

The same release listed her chair seats. By our count it named six. She led City Ballet, and she was then chair of Accion, the microfinance nonprofit, and of Hot Bread Kitchen. She had previously chaired the New York Women's Foundation, the Hudson River Park Trust and the YMCA of Greater New York.

The Hudson River Park job was the long one. When she stepped down in September 2020, the Trust's president, Madelyn Wils, told The Village Sun that Taylor had been "a steadfast champion of Hudson River Park since its inception." The paper put her tenure as chair at 13 years. Not everyone was sorry to see a change. Tom Fox, a longtime park advocate, told the paper, "It's been too long."

The ballet seat is the one she still holds. City Ballet's board page lists her as chair today, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Alan D. Schnitzer as vice chairs. That puts her at the head of the company behind the Koch Theater's Fall Fashion Gala, one of the season's biggest nights at Lincoln Center. The company's world reaches the screen this month too, in Make Work, a documentary about City Ballet's Choreographic Institute that is competing at DOC NYC.

What Comes Next

Nothing public, so far. The statement gave no word of a party, a honeymoon or a second celebration, and none of the reports we read described one.

After a quarter century of galas and campaign stops in public, the vows were the one thing they kept indoors.