Who Got Away With It?
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From Sanford to Sarkozy, Clinton to Kobe, which philanderers weren't destroyed by their scandalous affairs? A how-to guide to confessing with style.
Mark Sanford's bizarre trip to write his memoirs hike the Appalachian trail have an affair in Buenos Aires has all but wrecked his presidential aspirations. But how does Sanford's road trip to nowhere stack up against the most ill-conceived political journeys of all time?
Political Affairs
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Senator John Ensign joins a notable fraternity of men with presidential ambitions who have also had famous indiscretions. From Sally Hemings to Monica Lewinsky, VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous mistresses.
JFK's rumored mistress was the source of most of the chatter surrounding their relationship. Although she maintained that they had a two-year affai...
Why Republicans Are Better at Affairs
Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to Vanity Fair, and can be found at gailsheehy.com
Candidates in both parties cheat on their wives. But, Gail Sheehy notes, it's usually Democrats, like John Edwards, who get caught.
Mike Tyson Lets His Guard Down
Jaime Lowe is the author of Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB (Faber & Faber). Her writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Interview, Radar, Penthouse and Sports Illustrated. She is the tunnels correspondent for infrastructurist.com and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
James Toback, director of the new documentary Tyson, talks about what it takes to extract confessions from the notorious former champ.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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