Michael Bloomberg and Diana Taylor Get Married After 26 Years

By Grace Klara Marshall , an intern at The Cut, writing about news and culture. She is an M.F.A. student at NYU, and her writing has previously appeared in The Guardian. Photo: Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images Sometimes it takes a quarter-century, but he will be down to DTR.

A spokesperson for former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Monday that he and his longtime partner, Diana Taylor, have married after 26 years together. It was “a small, private ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side,” and Bloomberg’s daughters from his first marriage, Emma and Georgina, were there alongside other family members.

Bloomberg and Taylor met in 2000, when he was first running for mayor. They were seated next to each other by chance at the notoriously romantic Citizens Budget Commission meeting. Thankfully, fate struck a second time when they were dining at the same restaurant later that night.

In Taylor’s telling , Bloomberg saw her, approached her table, and asked her to have a drink afterward. Bloomberg, who’s 84, served as the city’s mayor for three consecutive terms from 2002 to 2013. During his tenure, Taylor, a 71-year-old business executive who was married once before she met Bloomberg, served as the city’s unofficial First Lady. (She was also the New York superintendent of banks from 2003 to 2007.) Taylor has described herself as a “step-whatever” to Bloomberg’s children.

Why now? In 2020, when Bloomberg was running for president, Gayle King asked about his relationship with Taylor and whether he planned to be the first modern-day unmarried president. “We’ve only been living together for 19 years and, I think it’s fair if I can speak for her as well, neither of us have any plans to change,” he replied coyly.

Their domestic partnership came up a few times during his presidential run — in her own interview with the Washington Post , Taylor said she hates the term girlfriend “because it sounds so temporary” and “junior high” but finds partner too business-y. “Nobody’s come up with language around what we are,” she said.

Well, now we can officially call them man and wife. Could death and taxes have brought them to the altar? Or as one X user theorized , maybe it took two decades to lock in their prenup?

Whatever it is, good for them. It really is never too late to get hitched. Mike Bloomberg and Diana Taylor Get Married After 26 Years Your product is saved!

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