Sending a message?
Sarah Palin was spotted carrying a New York Rangers face mask into a Manhattan courthouse on Thursday, just days after Page Six broke the news that she’s been hooking up with hockey great Ron Duguay.
Photographers snapped the one-time VP hopeful, 57, clutching the mask, her purse and a stack of papers as she made her way into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse.
Palin, who’s in town for trial for the defamation lawsuit she brought against the New York Times, was first spotted dining with the former Rangers star, 64, last week.
The pair made headlines for going out to dinner at Elio’s on the Upper East Side, two days after the unvaccinated politician tested positive for COVID-19.
Sources later told Page Six that Palin and Duguay have actually been romantically involved since late last year.
Palin split from her husband of 31 years, Todd Palin, in 2019, while Duguay was most recently married to Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Kim Alexis from 1993 until 2013.
The Rangers icon previously dated Farrah Fawcett in the early 1980s, and once claimed that the “Charlie’s Angels” star (and Page Six, for that matter) got him traded from the New York team.
“Herb Brooks, the coach, he had this talk with me about ‘staying out of Page Six, being in the sports page,’ and sure enough I was in Page Six once again,” he alleged in February 2020. “It had something to do with me being seen with Farrah … [and] two months after that, I got traded.”
As for Palin’s legal battle, her case against the Times finally went to trial on Thursday after being delayed for over a week due to her COVID-19 diagnosis.
She told reporters she was feeling “really good” before walking into the courtroom, adding, “I’m clear to go and never had any symptoms.”
Palin sued the Times in 2017, claiming she was defamed in an editorial piece headlined “America’s Lethal Politics” about mass shootings in the US.
