Personal Life
Sliwa was born into a Catholic family of Polish and Italian descent in Canarsie, Brooklyn. He has two sisters.
Sliwa attended but was expelled from Brooklyn Prep, a Jesuit high school, and graduated from Canarsie High School, a New York City public high school. Prior to founding the Guardian Angels, he was night manager of a McDonald's restaurant on Fordham Road in The Bronx. Sliwa and his second wife, Lisa Evers, married in 1981. At the time, she was National Director of the Guardian Angels; she also co-hosted a WABC radio show called "Angels in the Morning". Lisa, a martial arts expert who briefly trained with the World Wrestling Federation in 1986, is now a television reporter and radio personality. Sliwa and Evers divorced in 1995. In 2000 Sliwa married his third wife, Mary Galda, a former WABC employee who also served as the Guardian Angels' national director; they have one son, Anthony Chester. Now separated, Sliwa announced plans in April 2012 to marry Melinda Katz, a former member of the New York State Assembly and New York City Council. Over the previous five years, Sliwa had fathered three of Katz's children through in vitro fertilization.
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