Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: adultery

adultery stories: 41 news summaries

1 - 20 of 41 Stories | 1 2 3 Next >>

Switch to grid view »


 ESPN to 
 Steve Phillips: 
 You're Out! 

Network fires philandering baseball analyst

Oct 25, 09 9:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Less than a week after the revelation of his affair with a production assistant, ESPN has fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. "His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably damaged, and it became evident it was time to part ways," the network... More »

MORE ABOUT:
television • ESPN • New York Mets • affair • infidelity • adultery • baseball • television personality • general manager • marital infidelity • Steve Phillips • Brooke Hundley

(Newser) - An irate Elizabeth Edwards is taking borderline-anonymous shots at her husband's former mistress in blog comments. The disgraced ex-senator's wife lambastes Rielle Hunder using the pseudonym "Cherubim"—which makes it easy for insiders to guess her identity. "It's Elizabeth," a source tells Rush & Molloy... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • North Carolina • infidelity • adultery • Andrew Young • Election 2008 • senator • vice presidential candidate • Rielle Hunter • marital infidelity

 Ellen Pompeo's Hubby 
 Stepping Out: Tab 

19-year-old hostess says they had affair

Sep 10, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pregnant Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has a cheating husband, Star reports. The tab says Chris Ivery, 41, had an affair with a 19-year-old Boston restaurant  hostess—and she confirms it. "We were intimate several times," Rachel Artz said. The two met up in Boston, Miami, and Martha's... More »

MORE ABOUT:
entertainment • Grey's Anatomy • affair • infidelity • adultery • celebrity baby • Ellen Pompeo • Chris Ivery • marital infidelity • Rachel Artz

TRAVEL

 Top NYC Hotels 
 for Cheaters 

Five sites of well-known sex scandals

Aug 19, 09 2:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York has housed many a famous cheater in its fancy hotels—the Daily News lists the top five:
  • Four Seasons: Alex Rodriguez courted prostitutes here while still married to Cynthia, alleges Manhattan madam Kristin Davis.
  • Days Inn: Gov. David Paterson went the budget route
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John Edwards • New York City • John F. Kennedy • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • Kathie Lee Gifford • hotel • Marilyn Monroe • adultery • Kristin Davis • cheating • David Paterson • hotels • Rielle Hunter • Bernard Madoff • Sheryl Weinstein

 Jenny Sanford, Kids Move Out 


Aug 7, 09 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The wife of South Carolina's philandering governor is moving out and taking the kids, the State reports. “I have decided to move back to our home in Charleston with our sons for the upcoming school year,” Mark Sanford's wife, Jenny, said in a statement released today. The... More »

MORE ABOUT:
parenting • South Carolina • children • Charleston • infidelity • adultery • governor • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • Columbia, SC • Jenny Sanford • Republican governor • moving

(Newser) - A trove of emails from Mark Sanford's office contains no discussion of his recent disappearance or the resulting scandal, the State reports. Critics suspect the South Carolina governor is holding something back. “It’s a very legitimate suspicion,” a professor says. “Complex organizations in the 21st century... More »

MORE ABOUT:
email • South Carolina • Argentina • infidelity • adultery • governor • political scandal • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair • Maria Belen Shapur • Republican governor

Sanford Disappeared Last Year, Too, Emails Show

Commerce secretary didn't know where to reach guv

Jul 16, 09 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford’s recent Argentine excursion wasn’t the first time he had gone missing: His commerce secretary didn’t know where to reach him in June 2008, either, emails reveal. “Need contact number for (Sanford) ASAP,” the secretary wrote to a Sanford staffer on the 28th—a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
taxes • email • South Carolina • affair • infidelity • adultery • governor • economic stimulus package • political scandal • Mark Sanford • Maria Belen Shapur • Republican governor

(Newser) - Troubled diva Amy Winehouse and her even more troubled husband officially divorced today after months of not speaking, reports the Daily Mail. It's believed that Blake Fielder-Civil cited adultery when filing for divorce, which he began while serving time for assault, and will seek part of her $15 million fortune.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
divorce • adultery • Amy Winehouse • singer • Blake Fielder Civil • celebrity divorces

OPINION

 How Sanford Can 
 Get His Groove Back   

Four tricks up his sleeve to win back the public

Jun 30, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford has fallen from grace, but he possesses the know-how to make his way back, writes Roger Simon of Politico. What the philandering governor has going for him:
  • "He knows how to use people." Just look at his marriage: His wife ran his campaign in 1994,
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
South Carolina • infidelity • adultery • governor • political scandal • Lindsay Graham • Mark Sanford • Election 2010 • Jenny Sanford • Maria Belen Shapur • Republican governor

Sanford Emails Apologies to Constituents

Rambling missive says new 'humility' could make him better gov

Jun 30, 09 10:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an online apology to South Carolinians, Mark Sanford asks for forgiveness and explains his decision to keep his post in an effort to become “a better person,” WLTX reports. “Close friends” suggested he’d be “of more service in whatever doors God opened next in... More »

MORE ABOUT:
email • South Carolina • infidelity • adultery • apology • governor • political scandal • Mark Sanford • Jenny Sanford • Maria Belen Shapur • Republican governor

glossies

Smartphone App Puts Infidelity a Few Clicks Away

Extramarital affair site releases program
to help cheaters

Jun 28, 09 6:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford emulators, take heed: A company that hooks up adulterous sex-seekers has released iPhone and BlackBerry apps to make extramarital flings even easier, Jeremy Caplan writes in Time. Unlike its website, AshleyMadison.com, which leaves an electronic trail spouses can track, the company's apps hide safely on cheaters'... More »

MORE ABOUT:
iPhone • BlackBerry • affair • adultery • cheating • iPhone applications • App Store

Sanford to Wife: Let Me Have This Affair

SC's first lady told him 'in no uncertain terms'
to stop seeing her

Jun 26, 09 8:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gov. Mark Sanford not only had an affair, he asked his wife to condone it, she says. In an interview that ended in tears, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford told the AP that he had asked permission to visit his mistress after Jenny discovered the affair. "I said... More »

MORE ABOUT:
South Carolina • affair • adultery • mistress • first lady • Mark Sanford • Jenny Sanford

(Newser) - Mark Sanford went before the cameras to confess and apologize yesterday, a ritual that is typically “a schtick, a plastic act of absolution performed by men who are just as plastic,” writes Gary Kamiya of Salon. But not this time. Sanford “got all weird and human on... More »

MORE ABOUT:
South Carolina • GOP • Republican Party • affair • adultery • governor • scandal • Mark Sanford

UK Woman Faces Jail for Adultery in UAE

Angry hubby reports illegal affair; wife
might get up to a year

May 26, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British woman's cheating heart might land her in the Dubai clink after her husband told on her, the Times of London reports. Adultery is illegal in the United Arab Emirates, where Sally Antia, 43, and her husband have lived for a decade. Antia confessed in a Dubai court and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Dubai • jail • United Arab Emirates • adultery • cheating • Sally Antia

OPINION

 Stand By Your Man (So You Can Drag Him Through Mud) 

Elizabeth Edwards exacted an 'exquisite' form of revenge against her cheating hubby

May 10, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Veronica Lario, the scorned wife of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, has much to learn from Elizabeth Edwards about revenge American style, Alessandra Stanley writes in the New York Times. When Lario filed for divorce and publicly griped about his caddish ways, Berlusconi just turned the tables by demanding a public... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Italy • adultery • Silvio Berlusconi • political scandal • Veronica Lario

 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 »

MORE ABOUT:
Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • Islamabad • adultery • conservative Islam • extramarital affair

 Beat Goes On for Bruce, Wife 

Duo perform in Denver, shrug off scandal

Apr 12, 09 9:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bruce Springsteen’s wife proved she’s tougher than the rest Friday night, playing alongside him at a concert in Denver and ignoring reports the Boss has been stepping out with a married woman, the New York Post reports. While Patti Scialfa sang back up for the E-Street Band, the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
divorce • Denver • celebrity • adultery • Bruce Springsteen • E Street Band • Patti Scialfa

 NJ Woman Denies 
 Springsteen Affair 

Husband accused of groundlessly dragging Boss into bitter divorce battle

Apr 11, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A New Jersey woman is fiercely denying rumors that she was dancing in the dark with Bruce Springsteen, reports the Star-Ledger. The woman says the affair accusation—made in her husband's divorce filing—is groundless and the two just happen to be members of the same gym. She plans to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
divorce • rock stars • celebrity • adultery • Bruce Springsteen

(Newser) - This must be the week for reports of legendary singers' marriage trouble. A day after BruceSpringsteen is accused of infidelity, Billy Joel is in the spotlight. The National Enquirer has set gossip blogs buzzing with word that the singer's 27-year-old wife has struck up a suspicious relationship with Israeli fashion... More »

MORE ABOUT:
adultery • Bruce Springsteen • singer • Billy Joel • Katie Lee Joel • Yigal Azrouel

 Boss Cheatin' With Another 
 Jersey Girl: Jilted Hubby
 

Divorce papers allege Springsteen is the other man

Apr 9, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bruce Springsteen needs a little of that human touch, according to divorce papers filed in New Jersey last month, the Star Ledger reports. A businessman claims his wife of 17 years “committed adultery with one Bruce Springsteen, who resides in Rumson, NJ, and Colts Neck, NJ, at various times... More »

MORE ABOUT:
divorce • celebrity • affair • adultery • Bruce Springsteen • cheating

1 - 20 of 41 Stories | 1 2 3 Next >>


from our news partners