Recent attention has focused on a personal dispute involving three well-known legal and media figures: Kathryn Ruemmler, Reid Weingarten, and Cheryl Gould.
The matter became public after documents connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigations were released, revealing private emails that raised questions about a possible past relationship.
Kathryn Ruemmler is a prominent lawyer who served as White House Counsel during the Obama administration and later worked in senior legal roles in the private sector.
On the other hand, Reid Weingarten is a longtime defense attorney known for representing high-profile clients.
Likewise, Cheryl Gould is a journalist and former television news executive.
Weingarten and Gould are married and have a family together. There is no public record showing that they are divorced.
Cheryl Gould sent a scathing message to Kathryn Ruemmler in June 2015 revealing that she knew Ruemmler was sleeping with her husband Reid Weingarten.
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The controversy centers on emails reportedly written by Cheryl Gould and addressed to Kathryn Ruemmler.
In these messages, Gould accuses Ruemmler of having had a romantic or emotional relationship with her husband, Reid Weingarten.
Gould expresses personal pain and anger in the emails and suggests that the situation caused serious distress in her marriage.
According to accounts summarized in media coverage, Gould claims that Weingarten acknowledged having strong feelings for Ruemmler at some point.
Here is Gould’s full email to Ruemmler:
I certainly do hope that this time, yo[u] understand the finality of your “relationship” with my husband. I hope now=you can find true happiness without having a relationship with someone else[‘]s husband. I really hope you do. I’m not a person who likes to see other pe[o]ple suffer, no matter what hurts they may have caused. I am not gleeful abo[u]t your loss. Reid says he always wanted to just be friends with you, but I [th]ink he understands because of your (plural) behavior and the damage you hav[e] both caused to our marriage and family, that can probably never be. l=hear from many people (who don’t know what’s gone on) that you and I would b[e] great friends. I wish I could say I hope that happens someday, but I’m the=kind of woman who loves the sisterhood, not women who sleep with and fall i[n] love with someone else’s husband or significant other, no matter how willi[n]g the man is to have his ego stroked and no matter how swept away you are b[y] feelings of some kind of deformed mutation of love. I just don’t see that k[i]nd of friendship between us in the cards.
However as I told Reid befo[r]e he picked up the phone to call you, if he could urge you to suck up your h[u]rt feelings and send me a sincere apology for participating in an arrangeme[n]t that caused damage to Reid, to yourself, to me, and to our [son] (who h[a]s been fighting tears all weekend because of his mother’s pain and because h[e] sees the father figure he has admired his whole life as a weak man who has=lied and cheated to his mother)….if you can find it in your heart to ask f[o]r my forgiveness, I would want very much to forgive you and see you in a li[g]ht different from the one I have seen you in for years. Perhaps you aren’t a[w]are….Reid has told me about his addiction to you before and has asked for=my help to break it. He finally found the power to do it because of the dep[t]hs of his misery and unwillingness to proceed through life as a dishonorabl[e] man. I hope you can find a similarly true friend who can do the same=for you. I wish you well, believe it or not. Had you not jumped off the pho[n]e as quickly as you did (which I perfectly well understand) he would have t[o]ld you this.
Reid and I have a lot of work=to do together to fix the mess you two have caused, but our love is very st[r]ong and we will get there. I honestly don’t want to add to your hurts by ma[k]ing you think you have destroyed our marriage on top of everything else. I c[a]n’t imagine you would have rejoiced had that been the case. You haven’t des[t]royed our bond so no worries on that front. It must be hard for you t[o] understand how deep our relationship is since he has not acted that way in=his weak behavior with you. In fact, I think he felt he could act out with y[o]u, act as though his relationship with you was intense and real, precisely b[e]cause he knew I would be there for him. He is a great man with great weakne[s]ses. That doesn’t make him a monster and I don’t think you are either.
Best wishes for your future,
Ch[e]ryl Gould
Some reports suggest the connection may have begun earlier in their careers, possibly before Weingarten married Gould.
However, the exact timing, nature, and duration of any relationship have not been clearly established.
It is important to note that these claims come from private emails and represent one person’s account of events.
Neither Kathryn Ruemmler nor Reid Weingarten has publicly confirmed that they had a romantic relationship.
No court filings, sworn testimony, or official findings have verified the allegations.
There is also no public evidence that the situation led to legal action, such as a divorce or lawsuit.
The emails surfaced as part of a larger release of documents related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and individuals connected to him.
While the dispute itself is personal and unrelated to Epstein’s crimes, the document release made the correspondence publicly accessible, drawing media attention.
As of now, Reid Weingarten and Cheryl Gould are still publicly identified as married, and the alleged relationship between Ruemmler and Weingarten remains unconfirmed.
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