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Is Alan Grayson still married? Depends on if you speak Spanish

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A Spanish-language website page for Alan Grayson’s foray into the U.S. Senate race loses something in translation. Or, more accurately, it gains something: Lolita Grayson, his former (or never was) wife. On the website senatorgrayson.com (more on that in a moment), the Orlando liberal, who entered Democratic primary for Marco Rubio’s open Senate seat, offers Hispanic voters a brief bio in Spanish (“Acerca de Alan Grayson”). Grayson’s bio touts his background, his education at Harvard University, and even membership “de…

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Alan Grayson wants kids to live with him, claims mother is “bizarre”

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U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson wants his four children ages 10 to 16 to live with him, claiming their mother’s behavior has been “bizarre, aggressive and inappropriate,” according to papers filed last week in a Florida divorce court. Grayson said in the court papers that he should be the sole decision-maker for the children’s education, medical issues and activities because Lolita Grayson is unwilling to communicate with him on those matters. He accused Lolita Grayson of being abusive to the children,…

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Round 2 in bigamy hearing for Rep. Alan Grayson

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U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson is trying again to convince a judge that his 24-year marriage to his wife should be voided because she was married to another man when they wed. The outspoken Democratic congressman from Orlando is back in a Florida courtroom Tuesday to continue his bigamy claim against his wife. A hearing on the matter was held last month, but it was continued so lawyers could have more time to prepare. Lolita Grayson says she was divorced from…

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Wife’s attorney accuses Alan Grayson of intimidation

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A divorce lawyer for U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson‘s wife says the congressman is trying to intimidate him. Attorney Mark Longwell said in a court filing Friday that Grayson had written him an email threatening litigation for comments Longwell made about the divorce proceedings earlier in the week. Longwell says the email was an attempt to intimidate him and influence his counsel of Grayson’s wife, Lolita. A trial on whether the Graysons’ marriage was legitimate started earlier this week in an…

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Congressman to argue that estranged wife committed bigamy

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An outspoken liberal congressman from Florida will argue in court Monday that his 24-year marriage should be annulled because his estranged wife committed bigamy, the opening salvo in an acrimonious divorce case a judge likened to an episode of the TV series “House of Cards.” Rep. Alan Grayson says his wife, Lolita, was still married to Robert Carson when she and the multimillionaire congressman married in 1990 in Virginia. Grayson, a Democrat and highly successful trial lawyer, said the marriage…

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