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| Caitlyn Jenner (left), Moira Smith Photo: WireImage (left), Matthew McDermott |
The husband of a cop killed on 9/11 returned
his wife’s posthumous Woman of the Year award to Glamour after the magazine
gave the same honor last week to Caitlyn Jenner.
James Smith told The Post he yanked the award
off the shelf in his Long Island home dedicated to his wife, Moira, and FedExed
it back to the magazine.
Moira, who died at the age of 38 after
rushing into the south tower, was honored by the magazine a month after her
death.
But after Jenner, 66, was anointed last week,
Smith told the magazine’s editor, Cindi Leive, to take the award and shove it.
“I was shocked and saddened to learn that
Glamour has just named Bruce Jenner ‘Woman of the Year,’ ” Smith wrote in his
scathing missive of the former Olympic track star and Kardashian reality-show
patriarch.
“Was there no woman in America, or the rest
of the world, more deserving than this man?” Smith wrote. “At a time when we
have women in the armed forces fighting and dying for our country, heroic
doctors fighting deadly diseases, women police and firefighters putting their
lives on the line for total strangers, brave women overcoming life threatening
diseases . . . the list of
possibilities goes on . . . is this the best you
could do?”
Jenner was among several others feted at
Carnegie Hall last week, including Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon, tennis star
Billie Jean King and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham.
A spokesman for the magazine told The Post
that it received Smith’s letter and that it stands by its honors.
“We were proud to honor his wife . . . in 2001, and we stand
by our decision to honor Caitlyn Jenner,” a Glamour spokeswoman said on
Saturday. “Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards recognize women with a variety of
backgrounds and experiences.”
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