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extramarital affair stories: 64 news summaries

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Blackmail Triggered Senator's Affair Confession: Aides

Cuckolded husband demanded money from Ensign after tryst, according to sources

Jun 17, 09 2:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. John Ensign went public with the news of his extramarital affair after the woman's husband tried to blackmail him, insiders tell Politico. The Nevada Republican had the affair with a staffer while he was separated from his wife, according to current and former aides. He gave her a severance... More »

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(Newser) - John Ensign, a Republican senator from Nevada said to be considering a presidential run in 2012, admitted today that he had an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer, reports Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post. "It's absolutely the worst thing I've ever done in my life," he said... More »

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Republican • Senate • GOP • Nevada • Senate GOP • John Ensign • scandal • senator • US Senate • extramarital affair

(Newser) - Fans may be enthralled with Jon and Kate Gosselin's marital trouble, but they appear to be rapidly growing bored with their TV series, reports Radar. Audience figures for Jon & Kate Plus 8 plunged by more than half this week from an all-time high of 10 million for the season... More »

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entertainment • television • TV ratings • fans • extramarital affair • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • Kate Gosselin

Stolen RAF Files on Drug Use, Sex Spark Blackmail Fears

Data bares UK
officers' foibles

May 25, 09 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Top British military officials are at risk of blackmail after three Royal Air Force hard drives containing revealing vetting details were stolen, the Daily Mail reports. Files on the drives told of “criminal investigations, drug abuse, use of prostitutes, and extra-marital affairs,” said a Ministry of Defense memo.... More »

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blackmail • drug abuse • officer • Royal Air Force • Britain • prostitute • vetting • extramarital affair

(Newser) - The former lover of John F. Kennedy exposed in 2003 has a deal with Random House to write a memoir, the New York Times reports. Mimi Beardsley worked as a White House intern and had an 18-month affair with the president from 1962 to 1963, starting when she was... More »

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John F. Kennedy • president • memoir • Random House • extramarital affair • JFK • Mimi Beardsley • lover

Interview

 Edwards 
 Responds 
 to Critics 

She agreed to book before affair surfaced

May 11, 09 10:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards responded today to the critics who’ve been lambasting her for releasing her tell-all book, telling Matt Lauer she’d agreed to write the book before John’s affair surfaced, and hadn’t intended to write about it. She said that during John’s presidential run she’d... More »

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(Newser) - Questioning Elizabeth Edwards’ motives may be a “modern sacrilege,” but Kathleen Parker is doing it anyway. Yes, she’s endured a lot, but she’s the one who dragged herself back into the public spotlight with her book. “Victimhood is a reliable insulator against criticism, but something... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • Kathleen Parker • book promotion

OPINION

Edwardses
Can't Get Out of Their Own Way

With book, betrayed Elizabeth trades
privacy for payback

May 6, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards knew her husband’s run for president could implode the moment his affair with Rielle Hunter came out, but she played the loving wife role anyway. “It was hard to walk away,” writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. “Just as it’s... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • Maureen Dowd • infidelity • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • betrayal

BOOK EXCERPT

 Elizabeth Edwards: 
 Road With John 
 Is Clear, But Long 

Memoir excerpt reveals reaction, recovery after John's affair

May 5, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Elizabeth Edwards memoir about coming to terms with her husband's disastrous affair, she tries to understand why he was "targeted” by videographer Rielle Hunter and why he fell for it. "I have come to understand his liaison with this woman, if I have, not as a substitute... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair

Edwards Cost Clinton Dearly: Penn

Ex-senator's fall from grace touches off second-guessing

May 1, 09 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn is kicking himself in the wake of reports that Elizabeth Edwards thinks her husband shouldn't have run for president, ABC News reports. If news of John Edwards' infidelity had forced him to drop out of the race, Penn said, “No question in my mind,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Clinton 2008 • Mark Penn • political strategists • Iowa caucuses • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair

 Taliban Are 
 Filmed Killing 
 Pakistani Lovers 

Film captured on cell phone in mountain village

Apr 26, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Taliban enforcers in Pakistan have been filmed in a chilling video shooting down two lovers charged with committing adultery, reports the BBC. The man and woman are seen talking to members of the Taliban, and then move away as they appear to sense the danger they're in. Both are shot... More »

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(Newser) - Mel Gibson's wife filed for divorce when she learned his Russian lover was pregnant, reports the Sun. Robyn Gibson "put up with Mel for years but when she found out" Oksana Grigorieva was telling friends she was expecting, "it was the last straw," said a friend. Gibson... More »

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pregnancy • Catholic • Mel Gibson • celebrity pregnancy • extramarital affair • Robyn Gibson • celebrity breakup • Oksana Gorgieva

Boss, Galpal Switched Gyms to Dodge Racy Rumors

Boss, alleged girlfriend dodge rumors

Apr 13, 09 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bruce Springsteen was born to run…away from the New Jersey gym where he met alleged extramarital squeeze Ann Kelly. The Boss and Kelly switched workout joints last year when racy rumors began circulating about them, the New York Post reports. Kelly’s neighbor reports seeing them “at... More »

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 Madoff 
 'Cheated on 
 Wife, Too' 

Ponzi schemer linked to exec assistant at media firm: insider

Mar 29, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - His investors may not have been the only ones Bernie Madoff cheated: sources tell the New York Daily News that the Ponzi schemer had at least one extramarital affair . He was involved with an executive assistant at a big media firm "eight or nine years ago," one insider... More »

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Haggards Plug Marriage
... on Divorce Court

Couple goes on Divorce Court to talk about lasting marriage

Mar 19, 09 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard and his wife are headed for Divorce Court, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports—but to plug the virtues of marriage and describe how his homosexual affair made theirs stronger. In a taping to air April 1, the New Life Church pastor says he asked Gayle Haggard... More »

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LeAnn Rimes
Cheating With
Her Co-Star

Pair, both married, caught kissing off Lifetime movie set

Mar 18, 09 3:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Country singer LeAnn Rimes is having an affair with co-star Eddie Cibrian, reveals Us Weekly. Security cameras caught the couple holding hands and kissing over dinner last week. They also checked into a hotel for three hours, the magazine reports. Both are married and star together in the Lifetime movie... More »

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celebrity • gossip • cheating • Lifetime • extramarital affair • celebrity marriage • LeAnn Rimes • Eddie Cibrian

GLOSSIES




 Dietrich Was 
 Camelot's 
 Other Woman 

Sex siren enjoyed long-running affair with Kennedys

Feb 18, 09 12:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Marlene Dietrich had a peculiar effect on many of the world’s most accomplished and respected men: She turned them into bumbling adolescents. But the German screen siren, who entranced everyone from Frank Sinatra to Adlai Stevenson, enjoyed a special relationship with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy when their families summered together... More »

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John F. Kennedy • Joe Kennedy • Camelot • extramarital affair • actress

  Edwards Split Reported 

John Edwards no longer living at home, source tells New York Post

Oct 30, 08 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three days after Elizabeth Edwards made a health-care reform speech in DC without her wedding ring on, a source tells the New York Post that her cheating hubby, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, is no longer living with his cancer-stricken wife and that the couple has separated. Elizabeth's reps... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • breakup • extramarital affair

Mistress Got Hush Money From 'More Moral' Fla. Rep.

Foley's successor ponied up $121K

Oct 13, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Maybe it’s Florida? Two years have passed since Mark Foley, Palm Beach’s Republican Congressman, was forced to resign after sending lewd messages to male pages. His successor, Democrat Tim Mahoney, who ran on a ticket of “restoring America’s values,” gave a former mistress $121,000... More »

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Florida • Congress • sex scandal • Mark Foley • Palm Beach • Tim Mahoney • extramarital affair • Patricia Allen

Migraines Can Kill
Adulterers: Study

Italian researchers discover stress of extra-marital affairs can lead to fatal headaches

Oct 1, 08 4:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Deadly migraines can be caused by cheating on one’s spouse, the Telegraph reports. An Italian study found that the devastating headaches can turn fatal when coupled with an extra-marital affair. Migraines “can be exacerbated by a series of factors like aphrodisiac food, performance-enhancing drugs, physical strain and psychological... More »

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migraines • sex • death • affair • headaches • aphrodisiacs • scientific study • extramarital affair

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