Andrew Cuomo's former aide Melissa DeRosa has confirmed her split from her Uber executive husband as the pair's swanky NYC apartment hits the market for $2.59 million.
DeRosa, 38, and Uber executive Matthew Wing recently split after living apart for a year, blaming COVID for the break down of their marriage, the New York Post reported.
'They simply grew apart, and they have been living apart for a year,' a friend told the Post.
'Their marriage broke down over time, and it was exacerbated during COVID, when they wound up in separate places. … Melissa spent time in Albany, and Matt works for Uber and spent some time in San Francisco,' the source added.
In August DeRosa resigned from her $200,000-plus-a-year post as secretary to the governor, saying 'the past two years have been emotionally and mentally trying.'
DeRosa, who Cuomo once described as a 'mean girl,' was his most powerful aide.
DeRosa, 38, and Uber executive Matthew Wing (pictured together) recently split after living apart for a year
DeRosa was by Cuomo's side at virtually all his daily press conferences on the Covid-19 pandemic that captured the nation's attention
Following their split the pair has put their three-bedroom, two-bathroom Brooklyn Heights duplex on the market for $2.59 million
She was by his side at virtually all his daily press conferences on the Covid-19 pandemic that captured the nation's attention at a time when then-President Donald Trump was downplaying the virus.
DeRosa and Wing confirmed reports of their divorce in a joint statement that read: 'Despite the fact that this chapter in our lives is ending, we are and always will be very close friends.'
Following their split the pair has put their three-bedroom, two-bathroom Brooklyn Heights duplex on the market for $2.59 million.
The couple purchased the home for $2.2 million shortly after marrying in 2016, the Post reported.
'The Brooklyn house was often empty. But they remain friends,' a source told the Post.
The couple began discussing divorce in the late spring after 'they decided that the marriage had run its course,' and they worked out an agreement over the summer, but there are currently no online court records to indicated a divorce filing in New York state, the Post reported.
In the meantime DeRosa has been cooped up at her sister's Cape Cod home is looking to move to the Greenwich Village neighborhood in Manhattan, a source told the Post.
The couple has also lawyered up, with DeRosa being represented by famed lawyer Robert S. Cohen, who has represented Melinda Gates and Wing being represented by lawyer Sheila Riesel, who has appeared before the U.S Supreme Court three times, the Post reported.
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