It’s no secret that Citigroup board Chairman Richard Parsons has been working for months to repair the financial giant.
But, until now, even his closest associates didn’t know he also was wrestling with a personal crisis – how to tell his wife and three children he has fathered a child with another woman.
Parsons and model-philanthropist MacDella Cooper are the parents of a baby girl named Ella.
In this news story we can see hints or suggestions of an early play by the great Wole Soyinka, The Lion and The Jewel. The play’s plot:
Baroka (bah-ROH-kah), the “Bale” of Ilujinle, the “Lion” in the title of the play. This village chief is sixty-two years old, very proud, deceptive, and cunning. His attempt to win the village belle, Sidi, through deception is the central focus of the play. The Bale manipulates the other characters by feigning sexual impotence.
Sidi (SEE-dee), the village belle, about eighteen years old, very pretty and coquettish. She distracts the young schoolteacher, Lakunle, attracts a traveling photographer who wants her picture to be in a magazine, and passively flirts with the Bale, unaware of the Bale’s vast experience in romance. Sidi is tricked into making love with the Bale at the end of the comedy.
Parson is 61; Cooper is 31. The chairman sure is a shumba.
This is really interesting. Hold on let me check something. Oh…
Meh. A friend of mine just left his wife for an actress 20 years younger.
Happens all the time.
OMG! Richard Parsons looks like a homely woman!
You totally fucked up the aspect ratio on that photo.
Charles,
Wow, that Ms. Cooper is a babe. I can appreciate Mr. Parsons’ predicament.
so, men are attracted to young flesh, and women are attracted to money and power? you don’t say.
99% of big corp CEOs rock affairs. nothing new. she’s hot
Open question: Why are Soyinka’s brilliant plays so seldom mounted (at least here on the East Coast)? Is it because most large theater companies tend to be overwhelmingly White in their make-up (and audience demographic)?
Muh dik strikes again
This is news how?
A poor decision made by an elder gentleman who should know better, but now there’s a child in the picture, he needs to solve that matter privately with his family. Neither he nor Ms Cooper have engaged in criminal activity in the financial world, so I don’t see the need for bringing this up other than for stupid reasons that escape me.
Can someone Photoshop a new avatar for LC?
It should picture Mickey giving Goofy a handjob through a hole in a bathroom stall divider. Thank you.