McGreevey, with Matos at his side, revealed at an August 2004 press conference that he had had an affair with a man and was resigning from office.
They moved to the United States from Portugal when she was still young and settled in the heavily Portuguese Ironbound section of Newark.
[2] After graduating from East Side High School, she enrolled at the Newark campus of Rutgers University in 1984.
Matos met McGreevey in 1996, while he was mayor of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, and they began dating the following year, shortly after he lost his first bid for governor to Christine Todd Whitman.
[2] Matos announced in January 2007 that she was writing a book, "Silent Partner", to end media speculation on her life.
His entire life had been choreographed, and even as his world was falling apart, he was still trying to script everything and making sure that day went as he wanted it.
[9]Gayle King interviewed Matos in the June 2007 edition of O, The Oprah Magazine.