The Decade's Top Mistresses

It might usually be the men...but not always

(NEWSER) - Nikki Haley’s rumored affair with a blogger got the Daily Beast thinking about why it is that women get caught up in fewer sex scandals than men. That doesn’t mean, however, they're never tabloid bait. Sixteen of the juiciest:

• Princess Diana: The tabs jumped on all sorts of affair rumors, during her marriage to Prince Charles and after. In one phone call, she called married life “torture.”

He allegedly cheated with her, but was she the blackmailer?

(NEWSER) - David Boreanaz admits he cheated on his wife , but what he didn't confess was that he cheated with none other than the original Tiger Woods mistress, Rachel Uchitel. If you were paying very close attention when the Tiger scandal broke, you might have already guessed—reports noted that Uchitel had been linked to Boreanaz as far back as October. So is she the alleged blackmailer? More»

Edwards exposé a shoo-in for glory—but not for tabloid

(NEWSER) - By any sane measure, the unmasking of John Edwards as a philanderer who knocked up his mistress while his wife battled cancer was one of the all-time great scoops—except in determining the winners of yesterday's Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. "The media elite circled the wagons to exclude the scrappy, self-proclaimed supermarket tabloid," Emily Miller writes for the Washington Times . More»

Did anyone see it coming from Whoopi?

(NEWSER) - Jesse James and Tiger Woods are getting a lot of heat for sleeping around while married, but men aren’t the only ones who cheat. The Frisky rounds up 10 famous female cheaters:

• Whoopi Goldberg: Admitted Wednesday on The View, while discussing James, that she “screwed around” while married “five or six times.”
• Meg Ryan: Lost her status as America’s Sweetheart when she cheated on Dennis Quaid with her Proof Of Life co-star, Russell Crowe.

'Maybe I'll learn a little something here myself,' host jokes

(NEWSER) - If there’s anyone who might have some good advice for Tiger Woods on how to handle his sex scandal, it’s David Letterman—and the talk show host shared just that last night on his Late Show . Among his “Top 10 Ways Tiger Woods Can Improve His Image” were such handy tips as, “Crash a state dinner at the White House” and “Release list of women he did not have sex with.” Watch the clip above. More»