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Berlusconi Blocks Release
of Topless Photos

Images from New Year's party violate privacy, PM says

May 30, 09 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi can rest easy: Racy photos allegedly showing young, bikini-clad and topless women frolicking at his villa will be sealed, BBC reports. The Italian prime minister said the 700 images, furtively snapped by a photographer on the island of Sardinia, violated his guests’ privacy. Meanwhile pressure is mounting on... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • affair • Silvio Berlusconi • Noemi Letizia

 Berlusconi Denies 
 Affair With Teen 

Italian PM says he will resign if caught lying about relationship with model

May 29, 09 1:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi has fiercely denied having sex with a teenage girl and says he will resign if caught lying, the BBC reports. The 72-year-old Italian prime minister's alleged relationship with model Noemi Letizia, now 18, was cited by his wife as her reason for divorcing him and the issue has... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • Noemi Letizia

Priest Suspects Cuban Spies Snapped Him With Lover

Cutié says girlfriend is the love of his life

May 14, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A celebrity priest photographed cavorting with his girlfriend on a beach has hinted Cuban spies might have been tailing him, the Miami Herald reports. "I knew that during some time I was being followed," Father Alberto Cutié told a Spanish-language TV station. "Being Cuban-American, we have that... More »

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Florida • Catholic Church • sex scandal • Cuba • Miami • Catholic • spies • Catholic priest • Alberto Cutié • celibacy

 Miami Priest 
 Admits 2-Year Affair 

Photo scandal may lead him to marry woman he says he loves

May 12, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The celebrity priest whose racy photos sparked a Catholic scandal broke his silence yesterday on The Early Show, admitting he’s in a 2-year sexual relationship with the woman in the pictures. Father Alberto Cutié said he’s in love with her and has never had sex with anyone else... More »

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sex scandal • priest • Catholic • Roman Catholic Church • Catholic priest • Alberto Cutié • celibacy

(Newser) - A scandal involving a hunky and popular Catholic priest caught cavorting on a Florida beach with an attractive woman is renewing a debate over celibacy and the priesthood, the Miami Herald reports. After the Rev. Alberto Cutié—no sniggering, it's pronounced koo-tee-AY—was photographed kissing and fondling a woman,... More »

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sex scandal • priest • Catholic • Roman Catholic Church • Catholic priest • Alberto Cutié

 Edwards Mistress 
 Wants DNA Test 

Love child could be exposed as John's

May 7, 09 7:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards’ trash talking of Rielle Hunter is backfiring—Hunter now wants a DNA test to prove John Edwards is the father of her baby, the National Enquirer reports. “Rielle is so infuriated by his and Elizabeth’s actions that she’s throwing her loyalty to him out the... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • sex scandal • affair • infidelity • paternity test • love child • illegitimate child • Rielle Hunter

 Spitzer Walks 
 Long Road 
 to Redemption 

Ex-guv working on normal life; his future is unclear

Apr 19, 09 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - As he returns to the public eye, Eliot Spitzer is working on being a normal person—a daunting task for a man long accustomed to power, Jonathan Darman writes in a Newsweek cover story. He’s grown less image-conscious, often spotted jogging around New York in sweatpants. And he makes... More »

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New York • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • governor • political scandal • interview

analysis

Spitzer Executes a Textbook Comeback

He's made all the right moves—with an assist  from the financial crisis

Apr 17, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six months ago—to say nothing of a year—predicting an Eliot Spitzer comeback would’ve been laughable. But the financial crisis has speeded up rehab for the disgraced former governor, giving him a chance to use his expertise as “the Sheriff of Wall Street,” writes Politico. Apologizing... More »

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sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • comeback • New York state • Slate

(Newser) - Is Client No. 9 getting back into politics? Eliot Spitzer is considering a 2010 bid for his old job as New York’s attorney general, sources tell the New York Post—assuming Andrew Cuomo vacates the post to run for governor. “My record as governor was disappointing,”... More »

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New York • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • Andrew Cuomo • governor • New York Attorney General

(Newser) - The president of Paraguay admitted today to fathering a child with a 26-year-old woman while he was still a Roman Catholic bishop, the Daily Telegraph reports. Fernando Lugo, 57, left the church to pursue political office in December 2006; a son was born five months later, according to the paternity... More »

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sex scandal • Paraguay • bishop • Fernando Lugo • illegitimate child

Key Brown Aide Quits Amid 'Sex Smear Scandal'

Adviser planned to slander top rivals'
wives on gossip site

Apr 11, 09 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - A senior adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has resigned after word leaked of a plan to smear opponents with sex rumors on a gossip website, the Guardian reports. In email exchanges with a blogger, Damian McBride discussed targets for the project, including the wives of top Conservatives. One... More »

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sex scandal • Gordon Brown • Britain • 10 Downing Street

HK Star's 
Sexcapades
Hit Court 

Computer worker accused of stealing star's serial sex pics

Apr 10, 09 5:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The trial of a computer repairman accused of sparking the biggest sex scandal in Hong Kong's history has begun, the BBC reports. Prosecutors say the worker illegally copied and distributed 1300 photos taken by actor Edison Chen as he engaged in sex acts with a variety of famous young Hong... More »

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China • sex scandal • Hong Kong • Edison Chen

 A Year Later, 
 Spitzer Hooker 
 'Proud' of Herself 

Dupre discusses 'mistakes' in blog

Mar 12, 09 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Wondering how Ashley Dupre is doing, one year after Eliot Spitzer’s downfall? She'll tell you herself, in lengthy detail, through her blog on Global Grind, the New York Daily News reports. Though she’s “made more mistakes than most people make in a lifetime,” the 23-year-old is... More »

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sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • blog • autobiography • Ashley Dupre • call girl

(Newser) - Helg Sgarbi, the man European media nicknamed “the Swiss Gigolo,” was sentenced to 6 years in prison today after pleading guilty in German court to seducing and conning the BMW heiress who is Germany's richest woman, along with several others. Sgarbi apologized to his victims, none of whom... More »

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sex scandal • trial • blackmail • heiress • sex tape • BMW • sentence • Helg Sgarbi • Susanne Klatten

Gigolo Who
Scammed
German Women
Goes on Trial

Swiss seducer accused of blackmail

Mar 7, 09 2:32 PM CST
(Newser) - A smooth-talking Swiss man accused of bilking Germany's richest woman out of millions will go on trial next week, Der Spiegel reports. Prosecutors say Helg Sgarbi seduced billionaire BMW heiress Susanne Klatten, persuaded her to give him $8 million, and then threatened to send sex tapes of the two... More »

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sex scandal • blackmail • heiress • Mafia • BMW

Spitzer Moves Into DC
Real Estate

Disgraced NY gov buys $180M office tower a block from tryst hotel

Mar 6, 09 5:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer is now working in real estate in the city where his downfall began, the Wall Street Journal reports. The ex-governor of New York has worked with his father's real estate company to buy an office block in Washington DC, only a block away from the hotel where he... More »

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real estate • Washington DC • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • governor • Mayflower Hotel • Ashley Dupre

Portland Mayor Cops to Sex With Male Teen Intern

Oregon AG will investigate possible lies, sex-with-minor angle

Jan 21, 09 3:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Oregon’s attorney general today announced the launch of an investigation into the conduct of Portland’s mayor, who Monday copped to having a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old male intern. As more details emerge, the Oregonian also reports that a Portland Mercury writer who confronted Sam Adams last year... More »

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sex scandal • mayor • Portland • Sam Adams • political scandal

glossies

HBO Doc Unveils Down-and-Out Haggard

"Wincingly candid" documentary set to air Jan. 29 on HBO

Jan 11, 09 5:47 PM CST
(Newser) - A new HBO documentary on Ted Haggard catches the disgraced minister at his most candid and vulnerable, Newsweek reports. Emmy-winning director Alexandra Pelosi shot the film impromptu, capturing Haggard the failed insurance salesman as he struggles with gay feelings and looks out the window at his old church. But hasn't... More »

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sex scandal • homosexuality • Christian right • evangelicals • Ted Haggard • New Life Church • pastor controversy • minister • prostitution scandal

House Panel To Investigate Spitzer Probe

Dems wonder if feds' prostitution sting was politically motivated

Nov 25, 08 4:23 PM CST
(Newser) - The House Financial Services Committee is poised to open an inquiry into the investigation that led to Eliot Spitzer’s resignation, the New York Times reports, with Democratic members wondering aloud if the federal probe could have been a politically motivated hit job. The former New York governor was not... More »

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New York • sex scandal • House of Representatives • House Financial Services Committee • Eliot Spitzer • Treasury Department • Barney Frank • inquiry • prostitution ring

Mark Foley Ends Silence, Still Can't Explain Page Scandal

2 years after resignation, Republican tries to put own spin on explicit messages to teens

Nov 12, 08 10:34 AM CST
(AP) - Even today, 2 years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens working as Capitol Hill pages. "There was never anywhere in those conversations where someone said, 'Stop,' or 'I'm not enjoying... More »

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Florida • Congress • sex scandal • pedophile • text message • Mark Foley • congressional pages

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