One-time WABC radio host Maria Ryan, a long-rumored paramour of Rudy Giuliani, is suing radio boss John Catsimatidis, claiming his station fired her and the former mayor for standing up against gender discrimination.
But the supermarket mogul still considers Giuliani, a fellow heavyweight in NYC’s GOP, his friend. “I have always admired Rudy Giuliani,” said Catsimatidis, who called him “one of America’s greatest mayors ever.”
Ryan filed a lawsuit Saturday against WABC and Catsimatidis, even as the businessman is negotiating a new deal with Giuliani’s son Andrew, also a WABC host.
Ryan, a former hospital CEO who worked at the station from 2021 until she was fired in May, said she repeatedly went to WABC President Chad Lopez with her discrimination concerns, only to have him blame Catsimatidis.
Ryan, 60, said she initially worked without pay and then was given a paltry $200 a show for “Uncovering the Truth,” which she and Giuliani hosted on Sundays. The pay rate was below male counterparts, she said in the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
The certified nurse practitioner was also forced to provide “all four of her degrees to Lopez to validate her credentials as a ‘real’ medical provider, an experience that was both humiliating and demoralizing,” she said in the legal papers.
She was also falsely accused of playing unauthorized music on the show and claims bosses threatened to remove her because she mentioned Newsmax on the air — breaking an “unwritten” rule, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court filing.
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