But Liza Had Herpes (Or, Liza with an "H")



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The "revelation" that Liza Minelli caught a social disease -- didn't she spend the entire 70s in a Studio 54 coke haze, cocktail glass half-empty on the arm of Halston? -- is not much of a revelation. Considering she once fooled around with the smoulderingly filthy Geraldo Rivera (Averted Gaze; Eeew), she's lucky that's the only bug she caught in that freewheeling decade of smarm. Anyhoo (The Corsair sips Chateaux D'Yquem), according to ThisisLondon:

"Liza Minnelli had herpes and did not tell her husband about it until after they were married, it was claimed yesterday.

"The 60-year-old actress caught the sexually transmitted disease before meeting David Gest but kept it quiet at first, his lawyers alleged.

"It is the latest twist in their bitter divorce battle which has been raging since they split in July 2003.

"'David was devastated when he found this out a year after they had been together and six months after they were married,' an insider told the New York Post.

"The Hollywood producer never contracted the disease but his lawyers said they intend to make Minnelli's medical condition a major issue in the divorce.'"

Please. The medical condition that cooled Gest off of the marriage was not herpes, it is called vagina. Thank you.