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  • July 2008

    • Wife: A-Rod, Madonna Had 'Affair of the Heart'

      newser  |  People  |  Jul 8, 08 9:19 AM CDT

      Wife: A-Rod, Madonna Had 'Affair of the Heart'

      Alex Rodriguez’s relationship with Madonna amounted to “an affair of the heart,” not physical infidelity, his estranged wife's lawyer tells People . A-Rod had dinners with his sweetie, constantly listened to her music, and dumped his agent for her Kabbalah-loving manager, the New York Post reports. More »

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      celebrity  • New York Yankees  • Alex Rodriguez  • Madonna  • celebrity divorces  • affair  • Cynthia Rodriguez  • infidelity  • Kabbalah

    • A-Rod's Wife Files for Divorce, Citing Infidelity

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 7, 08 10:49 AM CDT

      A-Rod's Wife Files for Divorce, Citing Infidelity

      Alex Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce today, calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children," but naming no names. "The marriage of the parties is irretrievably broken because of the husband's extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct," claimed Cynthia Rodriguez's petition for dissolution of the marriage, filed this morning in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court. More »

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      New York Yankees  • Alex Rodriguez  • celebrity divorces  • Cynthia Rodriguez  • infidelity

  • May 2008

    • Let's Hang Up on the Female Booty Call

      newser  |  Australia's News Network  |  May 24, 08 6:29 PM CDT

      Let's Hang Up on the Female Booty Call

      When her husband got steamy text message from a drunk female colleague, Janine di Giovanni had had enough: "Go back to the male booty call, I say." Marshaling evidence from a big French study and anecdotes from friends, Giovanni writes in Australia's News Network that too many women have become the initiators of bedroom conquests—regardless of whether the man is married. More »

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      women  • sex  • text messaging  • sexuality  • infidelity  • text message

    • Aren't All Men Secret Spitzers?

      newser  |  New York  |  May 19, 08 6:06 PM CDT

      Aren't All Men Secret Spitzers?

      How many husbands reacted to Eliot Spitzer's downfall by pretending to be appalled, hiding their porn, and praying their own similar indiscretions wouldn't come to light? Philip Weiss emailed 50 married men and visited a few experts to confirm his suspicion, based on personal experience, which he shares in New York magazine: Men are dogs. Like the former governor, they want some "strange," to quote Kris Kristofferson, so let's permit prostitution and allow mistresses the way they do in Europe, he argues. More »

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      marriage  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex  • infidelity

  • March 2008

    • New NY Gov Admits Affair

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Mar 18, 08 5:30 AM CDT

      New NY Gov Admits Affair

      David Paterson, who succeeded Eliot Spitzer as governor of New York yesterday, has his own history of extramarital relations. He and his wife Michelle admitted in a joint interview with the New York Daily News that they were unfaithful during a rocky period in their 15-year marriage. But both denied the "sporadic rumor in Albany" that Paterson had fathered a love child. More »

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      marriage  • Eliot Spitzer  • affair  • David Paterson  • Albany  • infidelity  • Michelle Paterson

    • 'It Could Never Happen to Me': NY Wives

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 16, 08 4:12 PM CDT

      'It Could Never Happen to Me': NY Wives

      He may have strayed, but prostitutes? No way, say Manhattan wives who reflected on the Eliot Spitzer scandal this week with the New York Times . But "there is a trememdous tendency toward denial" among unsuspecting women, said Leslie Bennetts, author of The Feminine Mistake . “I’ve heard thousands of stories from women who got blindsided by a version of this." More »

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      Eliot Spitzer  • prostitution  • gender  • infidelity  • Silda Wall Spitzer  • escort

  • September 2007

    • Don't Leave the Blackberry Lying Around

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Sep 15, 07 2:37 PM CDT

      Don't Leave the Blackberry Lying Around

      Governments and corporations aren’t the only ones parsing through private emails, the New York Times reports: The culprit is just as likely to be a spouse hunting for proof of infidelity. One divorce lawyer says that electronic evidence plays a role “in just about every case now.” As long as it’s from a shared computer, or passwords have been exchanged, it can be legal to steal a loved one’s private missives. More »

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      marriage  • divorce  • privacy  • email  • BlackBerry  • infidelity

    • Craig's Kids Say He Was 'Victim of Circumstance'

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Sep 4, 07 5:48 PM CDT

      Craig's Kids Say He Was 'Victim of Circumstance'

      Idaho senator Larry Craig was just in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was arrested in a bathroom sex sting in June, his children told Good Morning America today. “He was a victim of circumstance,” said his son, who, with his sister, believes his father's actions in the bathroom were misinterpreted. More »

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      Senate  • sex scandal  • Larry Craig  • Idaho  • guilty plea  • infidelity

  • August 2007

    • Man Treats Virtual Wife Better Than Real One

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 11, 07 8:49 AM CDT

      Man Treats Virtual Wife Better Than Real One

      A man who spends up to 20 hours a day playing the virtual-reality video game Second Life may be getting more fulfillment from his online wife than his real one—and his non-cyber-spouse isn't feeling fulfilled at all. Ric Hoogestraat, a 53-year-old ex-teacher, says his virtual matrimony is only a game, even as his real wife talks separation. The Wall Street Journal looks at the surprising emotional power of virtual relationships. More »

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      Internet  • marriage  • video game  • affair  • Second Life  • infidelity  • virtual reality

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