‘Pirro Asked Her to Clean Up Dog Feces’: Judge Jeanine’s Ex-Roommate Tells All

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Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host and current U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is now among the leading candidates to succeed Pam Bondi as attorney general. Her ex-roommate has a lot to say about her.

Writer Lisa DePaulo, who profiled Pirro for The New York Times Magazine in 1999, was later asked by Pirro to write a book about Robert Durst, the then-suspected and now-convicted murderer.

In a new interview with New York, DePaulo revealed that she moved into Pirro’s basement work on the project together. That’s where things got interesting:

When she was getting her makeup done, DePaulo says, Pirro would pad around the house wearing nothing but “panties, high heels, and these little stickers that she put on her nipples,” which DePaulo found amusing. But her stay turned out to be a less-than-comfortable experience. DePaulo had to deal with mice in the basement (a problem that, according to DePaulo, Pirro demanded she keep to herself since Pirro was trying to sell the house); seven guns stashed around, which, DePaulo recalls Pirro saying, were all loaded; Pirro barring her from touching the Fiji water in the pantry, saying it was for guests only; and Pirro’s obsession with keeping household expenses down (DePaulo says
Pirro once berated her for leaving a hallway light on overnight).

Worst of all was that DePaulo started to feel like the help. There were numerous times, she says, when Pirro asked her to clean up dog feces deposited by Pirro’s enormous poodles. (“My dogs, when they poop, it’s, like, sick,” Pirro tells me.) According to DePaulo, there was also the time that she was invited to a wedding held at the house and told to clean the windows before the guests arrived. “That was demeaning,” DePaulo says. “I was dressed for the wedding, and she hands me this big thing of Windex and paper towels, pushed them into my hands, and said, ‘Do it!’”

DePaulo later sued Pirro claiming her would-be co-author had “little regard for truth and accuracy” and owed her nearly $30,000. A spokesman for Pirro’s office denied DePaulo’s claims about their time living together.

Before her media career, Pirro served as a Westchester County and then district attorney.

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