NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Huffington, a former Republican congressman from California who spent $28 million in a failed bid for the Senate in 1994, discloses in the January issue of Esquire magazine that he is gay.
The oil and banking heir made the disclosure during interviews with the article's author, David Brock.
``I know now that my sexuality is part of who I am,'' Huffington said. ``I've been through a long process of finding out the truth about me.''
Huffington, 51, unseated a veteran Republican congressman from California in 1992. Two years later, he lost a race for the seat held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Huffington's former wife, Arianna, a prominent Republican commentator, issued a statement Saturday saying, ``I wish Michael well, and all that matters to me is that he's a good father to our children.'' The couple, who have two daughters, divorced in 1997 after 11 years of marriage.
