New York Times chair Arthur Ochs Sulzberger's glamorous Mexican lover has been revealed by the semi-reputable Mexican magazine Quién. She is the jet-setting philanthropist Claudia González, and when the two "met in Mexico and it was love at first sight," the magazine says, according to Capital New York's Joe Pompeo. Quién has photos of Sulzberger and González dining together and hiking on a scenic mountaintop.
But Quién's story is not entirely reliable -- it claimed the they met during a New Year's visit with Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world who bailed out the Times in 2009 and now owns a 7 percent share in the newspaper company. But Pompeo says that timing isn't right, pointing to photos of the Sulzberger and González in the West Bank last fall.
Because it's unclear when they met, it's fun to imagine the power couple got together via a more banal medium like OK Cupid. If González had an online dating profile, it might look like this:
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