Is Andrew Cuomo Married?

The Short Answer

Is Andrew Cuomo married? — the verified answer, based on reputable media reporting and public records, is covered in detail below. Andrew Cuomo is a public figure whose relationships have been documented by entertainment media over the course of a career in the public eye.

What follows is a fact-checked timeline: who Andrew Cuomo has been linked with, what is confirmed versus rumored, and where things stand now. Every claim is sourced — speculation is labeled as speculation.

Who Is Andrew Cuomo?

Andrew Mark Cuomo ( KWOH-moh; born December 6, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021. A member of the Democratic Party and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, he served in numerous state and federal offices and placed second in the 2025 New York City mayoral election.

Born into the prominent Cuomo family and raised in Queens, Cuomo graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts and earned a Juris Doctor from Albany Law School. He began his career as the campaign manager for his father in the 1982 New York gubernatorial election. Later, Cuomo entered the private practice of law and chaired the New York City Homeless Commission from 1990 to 1993. Cuomo then served in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development as assistant secretary from 1993 to 1997 and as secretary from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Cuomo was elected New York attorney general in 2006 after a failed bid to win the Democratic primary in the 2002 New York gubernatorial election.

Cuomo won the 2010 New York gubernatorial election with over 60 percent of the vote. He was re-elected in 2014 and 2018. During his governorship, Cuomo signed legislation to legalize same-sex marriage and the recreational use of cannabis. His administration oversaw the construction of the Second Avenue Subway, the Moynihan Train Hall, and the reconstruction of the Tappan Zee Bridge and LaGuardia Airport. He also decommissioned the Indian Point nuclear plant, which led to an uptick in greenhouse gas emissions. In response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the 2012 Webster shooting, Cuomo signed the NY SAFE Act of 2013, the strictest gun control law in the United States. He also delivered Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act; a 2011 tax law that raised taxes for the wealthy and lowered taxes for the middle class; a 12-week paid family leave law; and a gradual increase of the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Cuomo was initially praised locally and nationally for his administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, but he faced criticism and a federal investigation for ordering nursing homes to admit patients from hospitals without testing them for COVID-19. The order was blamed for a large number of nursing home deaths, and the administration's subsequent actions were scrutinized in a number of reports and investigations. A January 2021 report by state attorney general Letitia James found that the Cuomo administration had undercounted COVID-19-related deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%. In May 2025 the U.S. Department of Justice opened investigation into Cuomo's testimony on his involvement with a questionable report used to combat criticism of his handling of the pandemic.

Beginning in late 2020, Cuomo faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct. A report from independent investigators commissioned by James found in August 2021 that Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women from 2013 through 2020 and retaliated against victims who made complaints about his conduct. Following the release of James's report, there were widespread calls for Cuomo's resignation, including from President Joe Biden. On August 23, 2021, in the midst of an impeachment investigation against Cuomo, he decided to resign from office. After his resignation, criminal investigations from the district attorney offices for New York County, Nassau County, Westchester County, and Oswego County were closed without charges being filed. A criminal charge in Albany County was dropped in 2022.

In 2025, Cuomo mounted a political comeback bid and ran for mayor of New York City in that year's mayoral election. Despite leading in most Democratic primary polls, he lost to Zohran Mamdani in what was considered a major upset. He continued his run as an independent, then lost again to Mamdani in the general election.

Relationship History

From 1984 to 1985, Cuomo was a Manhattan assistant district attorney and briefly worked at the law firm of Blutrich, Falcone & Miller. He founded Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged (HELP) in 1986 and left to run HELP full time in 1988. From 1990 to 1993, during the administration of New York City mayor David Dinkins, Cuomo was chair of the New York City Homeless Commission, which was responsible for developing policies to address homelessness in the city and providing more housing options.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1997–2001)

Cuomo was appointed Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1993, a member of President Bill Clinton's administration. After the departure of Secretary Henry Cisneros at the end of Clinton's first term under the cloud of an FBI investigation, Cuomo was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to succeed him as Secretary of HUD. Cuomo served as Secretary from January 1997 until the Clinton administration ended in 2001.

Current Relationship Status

As covered by reputable entertainment media, Andrew Cuomo's current relationship status is a matter of public record where confirmed. For the latest verified updates, see the sources section.

Career Context

Early life and education

Andrew Mark Cuomo was born on December 6, 1957, in the New York City borough of Queens to lawyer and later governor of New York Mario Cuomo and Matilda (née Raffa). He grew up in the neighborhood of Holliswood.

Cuomo's parents were both of Italian descent, tracing their ancestry back to Southern Italy. His paternal grandparents were from Nocera Inferiore and Tramonti in the Salerno province of Campania, while his maternal grandparents (Mary and Charles Raffa) were from the Messina province of Sicily. He has four siblings; his younger brother, Chris Cuomo, is a current NewsNation anchor and a former CNN journalist, and his elder sister is noted radiologist Margaret Cuomo.

Cuomo graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School, a private, college prep Catholic school in Briarwood, in 1975. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University in 1979 and a Juris Doctor degree from Albany Law School in 1982. He lived in Sunnyside, Queens for five years after law school graduation.

Early career

During his father's successful 1982 campaign for governor, Cuomo served as campaign manager. He then joined the governor's staff as a policy advisor and sometime Albany roommate, earning $1 a year. As a member of his father's administration, Cuomo was known as the "enforcer" where his father was known as the "nice guy" in a good cop/bad cop dynamic to further advance his father's legislative agenda.

Privacy and Public Image

Like many public figures, Andrew Cuomo has balanced a public career with private life. Reporting here sticks to what has been confirmed on the record by the individual or by reputable outlets — not paparazzi speculation.

That boundary matters because Andrew Cuomo's fan base is large and highly engaged, which means unverified claims can spread quickly. The approach here is conservative by design: confirmed facts from named sources, clear labeling where information is limited, and no reliance on anonymous gossip. When reputable outlets have not confirmed a detail, this article says so rather than filling the gap with speculation.

Why Andrew Cuomo's Love Life Draws Attention

Public interest in Andrew Cuomo's relationships follows a familiar pattern for high-profile figures: a combination of on-screen charisma, selective public appearances, and the natural curiosity fans feel about people they admire. Entertainment media covers these stories because readers consistently search for them — which is exactly why verified, responsibly-reported answers matter more than rumor aggregation.

For Andrew Cuomo specifically, the career trajectory — from early roles to wider recognition — has kept personal life in the spotlight. Each new project tends to renew interest in the off-screen story, and each public appearance gets parsed for clues. The sections above separate what is actually confirmed from what is merely discussed online.

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