The Nation - News from June 11, 1987

Former New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson gave a job to a judge’s daughter in order to influence the judge in a divorce case in which she was named co-respondent, a city report said. Former federal Judge Harold Tyler, who investigated for Mayor Edward I. Koch, found that Myerson, a former Miss America, “intended to and did influence” Judge Hortense Gabel, who was handling the divorce case of Carl Capasso, Myerson’s companion. Gabel cut Capasso’s weekly alimony payments from $1,500 to $500. Myerson, who resigned in April when Koch received the report, has denied any impropriety, as has Gabel.