The mayor said in a statement to The Dallas Morning News on Thursday that he had intended to keep the divorce private until it was finalized for the sake of...
Dallas mayor Eric Johnson speaks during an event at the University of North Texas at Dallas on Feb. 8, 2024.on Thursday that he had intended to keep the divorce private until it was finalized for the sake of his three young children.
He said he regrets that the case has pulled other people “into a private family dispute over the division of assets.”The Johnsons married in September 2007. Because the divorce case file is sealed, no records of the case appear publicly online in Dallas County.after the outlet was alerted to the proceedings when Editor Tim Rogers was subpoenaed to testify at the Johnsons’ divorce trial the day before. Rogers wrotewhere he described the mayor giving the vibe of a “divorced dad” at a City Council meeting. He wrote in the same post that it was a joke and that the mayor was still married.The magazine reported that Nakita Johnson alleged her husband had an affair with a city employee, who has since left her job. Ike Vanden Eykel, the mayor’s attorney, said in a text message to areporter that assertions of infidelity were “completely groundless accusations without any merit.”“As many who have been through the end of a marriage can understand, this has been an especially painful and messy process — and it is even more challenging to have this process play out publicly,” Eric Johnson said in the statement. “I also find it unfortunate and deeply regret that this process has come to a point at which others have been dragged into a private family dispute over the division of assets.” “Beyond this difficult moment, Nikki will always be the mother of our children, whom I love very much,” Johnson continued. “They will continue to be my focus, and for their sake, I am asking for prayers and requesting privacy.”reported that the now former city employee denied having an affair with the mayor. The outlet said the mayor testified in court this week that he and the woman shared a Ritz Carlton hotel room in Montreal during a two-week vacation last summer during the City Council’s annual recess and while she no longer worked for Dallas. The mayor paid about $110,000 to her firm last year, according to the magazine, which cited campaign finance records.Nakita Johnson said her husband informed her he was ending their marriage while she was washing dishes after dinner, the magazine said. It was sometime after he publicly declared he would beafter being the sole person who qualified for the ballot. Records show of the 48,265 ballots cast from voters in Dallas, Collin and Denton counties, Johnson, 1% went to write-in candidate Kendal Richardson, and another 6% of voters wrote in some other name. This is Johnson’s final term as Dallas mayor, which ends in 2027.after being a longtime Democrat. He served five terms as a state representative starting in 2010 before first getting elected as Dallas mayor in 2019. He is. Everton covers Dallas city government. He joined The Dallas Morning News in November 2020 after previously working for The Oregonian and The Associated Press in Hartford, Conn.
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