Cheaters Club

Technique: Merde Happens
Cheater Meter: 5A’s

When one of your predecessors as the president of France was known to have had a secret second wife and an illegitimate daughter, the bar for adulterous sins is pretty high. Beyond that, Nicolas Sarkozy had the added benefit, as it were, of having a wife who cheated on him first but left him for another man. Mrs. Sarkozy moved back just before her husband’s election, but the damage was done—he had already begun a series of affairs, including one with the woman who would become his third wife, Carla Bruni. Divorce your wife to marry a supermodel who’s also an heiress? C’est la vie.