Newt’s Ex, Marianne Gingrich, Says He Wanted an ‘Open Marriage’

And the big bombshell is … Newt Gingrich’s ex wife Marianne Gingrich says that he wanted an “open marriage”.    Hmm, with as bitter a divorce as this one was, one might have thought this would have come out in the wash when they split.

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in 1999 asked his second wife for an “open marriage” or a divorce at the same time he was giving speeches around the country on family and religious values, his former wife, Marianne, said Thursday.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Marianne Gingrich said her former husband called her on May 10, 1999, as she was having dinner with her 84-year-old mother and said, “I want a divorce.”

Newt denies.