Meagan Broussard may be the only woman in Weiner's cache of online paramours to have seen his full package. The 26-year-old single mother from Texas allegedly gave the money shot to Andrew Breitbart, who says he won't publish the pic. She also leaked to Breitbart the shirtless photo that forced Weiner to come clean to the public. Broussard wrote on Breitbart's BigGovernment.com website that her virtual tryst with the congressman began on Facebook, when she "liked" a video of Weiner "addressing a gathering of construction workers in Washington, D.C." Their relationship quickly escalated into an "everyday correspondence," and the two exchanged dozens of erotic photos, emails, and Facebook messages over the course of a month. Broussard sent Weiner some saucy self-shots, but told Fox News she presumed he was having similar interactions with other women.
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Weinergate started with Gennette Cordova. Weiner tagged a photo of an underwear-restrained bulging penis —presumably his—publicly to the 21-year-old Seattle college student on a Saturday night. Weiner's relationship with Cordova is still unclear, as he erased the message immediately and commented "FB hacked"—while Cordova immediately deleted her Twitter account. She released a statement Sunday night saying "the account that these tweets were sent from was familiar to me; this person had harassed me many times after the congressman followed me on Twitter a month or so ago … Annoyed, I responded with something along the lines of 'are you f---ing kidding me?'" Cordova said she blocked this person's account, made her page private and "let the matter drop," but she admitted later that she had "grossly underestimated the severity of the situation that I had somehow become a part of." Even though Cordova has kept a low profile, there are some people who might not be surprised about her involvement in Weinergate: namely, her high-school classmates. Cordova was voted in 2007 by her fellow graduates as the "most likely to be involved in a tabloid scandal."
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Although porn star Ginger Lee's alleged relationship with Weiner appears to involve only sexting, it could the one that gets him in the most trouble—with the law. When Lee began receiving requests by the media, she contacted Weiner, who emailed her that he could "have someone on my team" call her with some "professional PR advice." On June 2, Weiner then allegedly proposed that Lee give this statement to the press: "I have nothing to do with the situation involving Rep Weiner. I follow his Twitter feed. And for a brief time he followed me. Much has been made of the fact that I have posted about my admiration for Rep Weiner and his politics. All I can say about that is that I'm a fan of his. Rep. Weiner sent me one short direct message thanking me for following him. I have never met Rep. Weiner and he has never sent me anything innappopriate [sic] ..." The problem? Who is this professional PR team Weiner is talking about—his government employees? If he was using tax dollars to quiet a porn star virtual mistress, that could create a bit (more) of a mess for Weiner.
It took only a few hours after Weiner confessed all for Lisa Weiss, a former Las Vegas blackjack dealer, to come forward. At least five of Weiss and Weiner's cybersex sessions have been made public, with lots of juicy tidbits such as Weiner telling Weiss he had a "crazy dirty" dream about her. Although those comments were made on Facebook chat, Weiss said she and Weiner also had conversations over the phone—Weiner's government phone, that is. Weiss, who says she was once a Democratic campaign worker, said she contacted Weiner to tell him she wouldn't come forward as the scandal began, but he didn't call her back, leading her to conclude that "Anthony is a bad man … and a liar." Despite this, Weiss said she is a loyal Democrat and she still thinks he is a "wonderful Congressman and I hope this doesn't hurt his career."
Weiner and New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead were linked before he married his wife. In an interesting twist, Mead wrote a profile on Andrew Breitbart in 2010 for The New Yorker in which she mentioned Breitbart's "fictional harassment of Weiner."
In Weiner's playboy days, he dated Bloomberg TV reporter Gigi Stone. Stone, a Manhattan native, mainly covers business news and has worked for New York One and ABC's World News Now and ABC News Now. Obviously not too scarred by her relationship with Weiner, Stone currently is engaged to investment banker Ian Woods.
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In the days when Weiner was an up-and-coming congressman, he dated television producer and "cyber model" Alli Joseph—perhaps foreshadowing his interest in cyberdating. Joseph describes herself as a "multimedia supermom, TV host, Personal/Family historian and Brand Evangelist" and operates the blog, Seventh Generation Stories, and has worked as a consultant for several media outlets and even covered the 1996 Republican National Convention and the 2000 Democratic National Convention. She and Weiner broke up in 2001, but she has been mentioned in connection with their relationship. Joseph tweeted on June 8 that she had "no comment" even though the press found her to be a "person of interest after 11 years."
Weiner and Kirsten Powers, a Daily Beast and Fox News contributor, dated for about three months in 2002. Powers describes Weiner as "very sweet, very funny" and "very charming." "He was self-deprecating about everything," Powers said. Powers and Weiner met at a Manhattan dive bar and he called her the next day, she said. Weiner ended the relationship, according to Powers. "I think he's the only guy who has ever dumped me!" she said. But Powers says she thinks "he probably dumped a lot of girls. I don't think it was that big a deal." Despite the breakup, the two remained friends through the years. Although at first Powers said she still supported the congressman, she wrote exclusively in The Daily Beast that Weiner must resign. "But even if I could see past the lying and extreme narcissism that is noteworthy even by Washington standards, there is the issue of his attitude toward women," she wrote.
