The Nation - News from Dec. 20, 1988

A federal jury in New York ended its first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the alimony-fixing trial of former Miss America Bess Myerson and two others. U.S. District Judge John Keenan said the six men and six women on the panel, who were sequestered, would resume deliberations this morning. The jurors deliberated about 4 1/2 hours. Prosecutors charge that Myerson, 64, as city cultural affairs commissioner, hired the daughter of former state Supreme Court Justice Hortense W. Gabel, 76, in order to influence Gabel’s rulings in the divorce case of Myerson’s boyfriend, millionaire contractor Carl (Andy) Capasso, 43. Gabel lowered Capasso’s alimony payments. Gabel and Capasso are co-defendants in the case.