Exclusive | Cynthia Nixons wife gets $200k city gig after Sex and the City stars Mamdani endorsement

The Mamdani patronage machine has hired the wife of lefty actress Cynthia Nixon as an educrat making $203,500 a year, The Post has learned.Christine Marinoni is working as the chief of mass engagement at the Family and Community Empowerment (FACE) office at the Department of Education, according to a well-placed DOE source.The DOE source said this was Mamdani’s reward to the former “Sex and the City” star after she endorsed him during the mayoral primary.Nixon held a fundraiser for Mamdani in March 2025 and raised over $200,000 for the socialist mayoral upstart.“So thrilled to host a fundraiser for the incredible Zohran Mamdani whose clear message & ambitious plan for a more affordable NYC is exactly what we need right now,” she posted on Instagram at the time beside a picture of her and Mamdani standing together grinning ear to ear.The hire is already drawing sharp comparisons to New York’s most notorious political machine.“It’s painfully fitting that inside Tweed Courthouse, a DSA machine reminiscent of Tammany Hall is handing taxpayer-funded jobs to the well-connected spouses of multimillionaire celebrities,” another source, a City Hall insider, said.When reached for comment, Nixon denied that her wife was rehired by the DOE for political reasons, and declined to speak further.

Marinoni could not be reached for comment.Marinoni previously worked as special assistant to the chancellor during the de Blasio administration and made $131,708, according to public data.Nixon, who ran for governor in 2018 and was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, is a longtime leftist agitator.“We have two different education systems in our state — one that sends wealthy white children to college, and another that sends poor children of color to prison,” she said during her failed gubernatorial campaign.She has likened ICE to a terrorist organization and called for the agency to be abolished.

Nixon met Marinoni through her work with the Allia...