In that context, any Villaraigosa marriage plans are a bit newsy because his love life has been a recurring factor in his political career.

An extra-marital affair early in his political career threatened to scuttle his support among key LA Democrats, but he remained married to Corina Raigosa (his name is a blend of hers and his family last name, Villar) until the news broke in 2007, while he was mayor, about an affair with TV reporter Mirthala Salinas, who had covered Villaraigosa for Telemundo.

6, 2016 photo shows former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa during his wedding to Patricia Govea at a private ceremony and reception in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Villaraigosa, a potential candidate for governor, tied the knot with Govea in a ceremony in central Mexico, with about 100 friends and family in attendance.

; born Antonio Ramón Villar Jr.; January 23, 1953) is an American politician who was the 41st Mayor of Los Angeles, California, from 2005 to 2013.

Before becoming mayor, he was a member of the California State Assembly (1994–2000), where he served as the Democratic leader of the Assembly (1996–98), and the Speaker of the California State Assembly (1998–2000).

THIS column is about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his love life, but give us a minute to get there: When it comes to reporting on politics and elected officials, distinguishing between what is properly private and what is necessarily public becomes more difficult all the time. Who needs telenovelas when you have Los Angeles City Hall? "They'll never vote for him again," Regalado, who runs the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs, said when I asked the...

During his tenure as mayor, he gained national attention for his work and was featured in Time's story on the country's 25 most influential Latinos.

Villarigosa, 63, mentioned the news at a lunch-time appearance at Town Hall Los Angeles in downtown then followed up on Twitter.

Govea attended Thursday's lunch event — a discussion about Los Angeles with former mayor Richard Riordan, moderated by former LA Times publisher Austin Beutner — and can be seen at the end of this KCAL 9 report by Dave Lopez.

The revelation comes a month after he announced he was separating from his wife. Actor Tom Hanks had a great line in the movie "A League of Their Own." Playing the crusty manager of a women's baseball team, he berates one member into tears and shouts: "There's no crying!

There's no crying in baseball." That came to mind when I read last week that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa... on Tuesday, Jaime Regalado was fielding a steady stream of e-mails, almost all of them from women who've had it with the Don Juan who calls himself our mayor.