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Undated photo of Father Gregory Malia
I’d never heard of Gregory Malia until recently, but it turns out the priest’s reputation precedes him. Malia, an ex-priest with the Diocese of Bethlehem Episcopal Church, is facing a fraud investigation surrounding his Pennsylvania pharmacy (currently being sued by Blue Cross for improper billing.) But even before that, Malia was notorious for bar and club hopping throughout New York. The priest was well known for tooling around the city in a $75,000 Jaguar and spending his evenings at nightclubs and bars buying magnums of Dom Perignon at $25,000 each and dropping thousands of dollars in tips each night.
That’s excessive behavior for anybody, but a priest? Isn’t there some kind of non-baller clause in their contract? The Episcopal church thinks so. They gave the reverend six months to clean up his partying ways or risk being defrocked. Church elders already suspended him as vicar of his parish in the hamlet of Carbondale last year after he was busted partying at several New York hot spots.
Not satisfied with being known as the partying priest, Malia, taking a page from the idiot professional athlete files, brought a gun into a nightclub back in July and pulled it on his estranged daughters. Talk about fatherly love. Malia’s daughter Marilyn says that women at the club “beat the living hell out of me and my father just stood there and watched and enjoyed it, and protected the girls who beat me.” Nice dad. Father Malia was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct following the dustup. No word on whether he is either willing or able to give up his current baller status to retain his priestly duties.
