RSS

RIP: Dr. Layne Nisenbaum, ex-U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s Long Time Partner, Dead at 53

Posted by , March 23, 2012 Print

Dr. Layne Nisenbaum, Palm Beach society’s favored dermatologist, has died of liver failure while waiting for a transplant.

layne nisenbaum dead liver palm Beach

Nisenbaum

In his successful Palm Beach practice, Nisenbaum, 53, elevated making 90-year-old women look 60 with little or no surgery into an art form.

But he was also known as the longtime lover of former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley.

Although Nisenbaum and Foley had been partners for 28 years, they kept their relationship a secret from national audiences until Republican stalwart Foley‘s fall from grace in 2006 – when his blue text messages to young pages forced Foley to resign his seat and announce his homosexuality.

“Layne was my most solid supporter through that ordeal,” Foley told Gossip Extra. “He came to see me in Arizona (where Foley was in rehab after the fallout of the text messages) every weekend.

“At one point, he asked me if I was coming home. I told him I would if he’d have me, and he said: ‘Of course.’”

Nisenbaum passed away about 3 p.m. yesterday at Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach.

He’d been suffering from a rare form of cirrhosis of the liver and was on a transplant list. However, Foley said, even if he had received an organ, he may have been too weak to live.

“He’d lost so much weight that it wouldn’t have saved him,” Foley said.

Foley and Nisenbaum lived together in the doctor’s $3 million-home on Cherry Lane. The garden, Foley said, was Nisenbaum’s pride and joy.

“This man had more orchids than anyone I know,” Foley said. “He’d buy 30 or 40 at a time and planted them in the back. He was a true artist in everything he did.”

For more:

– Ex-U.S. Rep. Mark Foley says Ex-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner is creepy!

– Ex-U.S. Rep. Mark Foley jumps into the Bill Maher pressure cooker

Check Out Our Related Gossip:

  1. Ex-U.S. Rep. Mark Foley to Jump in Bill Maher’s Pressure Cooker
  2. Ex-Pol Mark Foley: Anthony Weiner’s Creepy!
  3. LeBron James’ Mother Gets No Jail Time in Valet Slap
  4. Clouds Part on Time For Polo With Pedro Gala at Wellington’s IPC
  5. OPINION: Time to Send Sheriff Ric Bradshaw Packing!
  6. WPLG Reporter Bob Norman in Another Work Incident — But This Time he Was Right!

Broward Miami Palm Beach , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

5 Comments

  1. DLK, 1 year ago Reply

    Much sympathy to Mr. Foley and their family and friends. This is very sad.

  2. Valerie Ross, 1 year ago Reply

    To my cousin Layne, you will be in my heart. Thinking of you.

  3. uncle joe, 1 year ago Reply

    the good die to young…

  4. Mary, 1 year ago Reply

    Layne had a good heart and was a wonderful person to work with… He was a kind person and will be missed by all that knew him… My syphathy to Mark Foley and Layne’s family.

  5. Jack Goloff, 1 year ago Reply

    I met Layne in 1981 when we began medical school in the same class at SECOM (Nova-Southeastern University.) Since he was such a dedicated student it was hard to get to know him. He was always studying. I will miss him, a very sad loss. He was one of the nicest kindest people that I have known.


Post Your Comment

Related Posts