Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has date in divorce court with first lady

NV governor has date in divorce court

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is scheduled to spend next week in a Reno courtroom for a divorce trial opposite first lady Dawn Gibbons — the woman he evicted from the governor’s mansion.

The trial will have no shortage of sizzle as it divides the spoils of a failed 23-year marriage and resurrects some of the scandals that have hounded Gibbons, including his alleged affairs with a Playboy model and a doctor’s wife.

Some political observers say the proceedings will only cause more damage to a re-election bid that already is being condemned by some as a lost cause.

Unless a settlement is reached beforehand, the intimate details and sum total of the couple’s marriage will be refereed and divvied up by a judge during the public trial.