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In 2010, at the age of 60, Coates admitted to his wife that he was having an affair with a 29-year-old married lobbyist, Haley Atwood. Atwood's husband filed for divorce that same year. Coates' wife divorced him the following year. Coates and Atwood married the following year. They married six
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