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A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about embarrassing sexual activities, such as adultery, being made public. Sex scandals are often associated with movie stars, politicians, or others in the public eye, and become scandals largely because of the prominence of the person involved.

Sex scandals involving politicians can become political scandals, particularly when there is an attempt at a cover-up, or suspicions of illegality.

Introduction

The sexual relationships of public figures may be titillating without becoming scandalous. The line as to what constitutes scandalous behavior, indeed, varies among regions and backgrounds. Behavior that would be acceptable or even envied among the Hollywood glitterati, or among college students on break, likely would be completely intolerable in a conservative religious community.

As an example, in April 2007, the Hollywood actor Richard Gere caused an unintended row in India when he publicly hugged and kissed Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event in Delhi. An Indian judge issued a warrant for Gere’s arrest[2], and a small number of right-wing demonstrators burned the actor in effigy[3] There was absolutely no sex involved, but such public displays of affection are taboo to conservative Hindus and Muslims, who see them as akin to sexual groping and therefore obscene.

There has been rapid change in the last 50 years in tolerance of sexual relationships and activities, especially since the invention of the birth control pill and the “Sexual Revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s in the industrialized world. Divorce, which used to be taboo in many societies, is now much more widely accepted. Unmarried cohabitation is also widely accepted in the West today, and premarital sexual experience is assumed, and among some people even encouraged to assure compatibility before marriage. Homosexuality is also increasingly accepted in much of the world, with some jurisdictions in Europe and North America, and scattered locations elsewhere, offering legal recognition and protection to same-sex couples.

[edit] Criteria for a Scandal

There are several factors, therefore, in elevating sexual revelations from merely titillating or distasteful (depending on one’s point of view) to being scandalous. The greater the number of these elements that are present, the greater the scandal is likely to be, and the less likely one is to have it forgiven and forgotten without serious personal consequences:

o Arrest: Being taken into police custody for one’s actual, attempted, or proposed sexual conduct.

o Blackmail: Especially for politicians and business leaders, affairs that could leave one open to extortion.

o Cover-ups and abuses of power: Political, religious, and other leaders using their authority to prevent disclosure of misdeeds, intimidate others into silence or into dropping their inquiries, and the like.

o Degrading behavior: Either the act itself (coprophilia, extreme sadomasochism, etc.), or where it takes place (public restrooms and the like).

o Homosexuality or bisexuality: To some people, homosexuality itself is still viewed as an immoral “choice” and/or an undesirable cultural import, despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. To others, it is scandalous only when the homosexuality or bisexuality has been deliberately concealed or denied for reasons unrelated to personal privacy—for instance, when it evidences hypocrisy.

o Hypocrisy: Acting at odds with one’s stated public positions, and/or one’s legal or religious demands of others.

o Infidelity: Cheating on one’s spouse or partner where there is an expectation of monogamy.

o Lying to the public: There is a perceived difference between discretion and telling white lies to protect the feelings of one’s family over an illicit affair, and untenable lies and denial when confronted publicly with hard evidence of one’s conduct.

o Nepotism, or other misuse of one’s position: Use of one’s position to provide unearned jobs, promotions, raises, contracts, favorable regulatory decisions, and the like to one’s romantic or sexual partners.

o Perjury: Lying under oath to avoid legal liability or public embarrassment.

o Promiscuity: Having so many sexual partners, of such indiscrimiate character, as to reflect poorly on one’s judgment and discretion.

o Prostitution: Using or soliciting sex workers, or being a sex worker oneself. Exchanging sex for money, regardless of its prevalence, is still viewed as a social taboo.

o Recklessness: Exposing oneself or others to physical danger or public humiliation, or endangering one’s career, position, financial standing, and important personal relationships.

o Sexual harassment: Use of one’s position of power to obtain sexual favors, or to deny benefits to, or place burdens on, those who refuse sexual favors.

o Sexual violence: Rape and incest are obvious; but this can also include extreme forms of consensual “leather” sex that the public finds disturbing and degrading.

o Underage partners: Sex by adults with minors is almost universally condemned.

o Lack of remorse: Whatever the scandalous behavior may be, those caught in a sex scandal are expected to be contrite and penitent, at least in public. Those who instead are defiant and unremorseful, or who issue “non-apology apologies,” usually are viewed even more harshly than when the scandal broke, and forgiving and forgetting the sex scandal is unlikely to occur.

[edit] List of famous sex scandals

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[edit] Entertainers

• Fatty Arbuckle: tried three times for the violent rape and death of Virginia Rappe in 1921. Though acquitted of the charge, Arbuckle's career never revived. This case and several other sex scandals led to a self-imposed production code by the studios and strict contractual demands by the studios on actors' private lives.
• Woody Allen: In 1992 he left his long-term partner Mia Farrow after she discovered his secret affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Farrow accused him of being a pedophile (Previn is 35 years his junior) and of abusing their seven-year-old daughter Dylan.
• Michael Jackson: alleged to have engaged in sexual activities with a teenage boy in 1993 (a civil complaint that was settled out of court), and again with another one in 2003 (a felony complaint); in the latter case Jackson was arrested and released on bail. Jackson claims that there were never sexual activities, and defends nonsexual sleepovers as harmless. Jackson was acquitted of all charges in 2005.
• Ty Herndon: Country music singer arrested in a Fort Worth, Texas park in 1995 for allegedly soliciting an undercover male police officer for sex.
• Hugh Grant: hired a prostitute and was subsequently arrested by Los Angeles police in 1995. This scandal is best known in the US as a turning point in the then flaming Late Night wars when Hugh helped Jay Leno's cause by appearing on the Tonight Show first.
• George Michael: arrested in 1998 for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public restroom in a Beverly Hills city park.
• Paula Abdul: alleged to have engaged in a sexual encounter with American Idol contestant Corey Clark while serving as a judge for the talent competition in 2005. Abdul denied any affair. In August of 2005 Fox announced that a thorough outside investigation had cleared Abdul of all charges levied by Clark. ^[1]

[edit] Television personalities

• Garner Ted Armstrong was the voice and face of The World Tomorrow radio and television programs up until 1978. He continued to make religious programs for television until 1998 when a licensed nurse in Tyler TX accused him of making sexual advances during two massage sessions. She was interviewed by then-CNBC television host Geraldo Rivera, who showed portions of videotapes she had made during the encounters. ^[2] The fallout from the scandal was immediate and dramatic, and Armstrong was asked to step down from his roles with his church.
• Paul Reubens, known as Pee Wee Herman, was arrested for masturbating in an adult theatre in 1991.
• Frank Bough reported in 1993 to have had sex with prostitutes while using cocaine and dressed in female underwear.
• Marv Albert charged with biting a sex partner in 1997.
• John Leslie 2002 rape scandal, despite being cleared to to lack of evidence, his career never recorvered only for it to end with a further sex scandal which killed his career off as a result
• Leslie Grantham (British Actor) Posed for suggestive videos on the internet in 2004.
• Bill O'Reilly In 2004 was accused of sexual harassment, although complaint was withdrawn after an undisclosed settlement.
• Pat O'Brien for leaving sexually explicit telephone messages with a colleague in 2005.

[edit] Government

[edit] British government

• David Lloyd George the last UK Liberal Party Prime Minister and leader during the end of World War 1 maintained a mistress while in office. The later revelation of this combined with his offering honours in return for payment contributed to a decline in his historical reputation.
• The 1963 Profumo Affair—British Secretary of State for War John Profumo attempted to cover up his affair with a callgirl.
• Lord Lambton, a minister in the UK government of Edward Heath, was forced to resign in disgrace in 1973 after it was revealed he had used prostitutes and marijuana.
• The scandals that led to the failure of the 1993 get back to basics campaign which included
  • Jonathan Aitken's alleged procurement of prostitutes for Arab businessmen, their payment of his Ritz hotel bill, and his subsequent conviction and prison sentence for perjury after the resulting libel trial in which he unsuccessfully attempted to sue The Guardian over the story.
  • David Ashby discovered to have shared a bed with a man on a trip paid by expenses. Ashby was married at the time.
  • Hartley Booth's amorous, unreciprocated pursuit of his secretary in 1995
  • Michael Brown's involvement with a then-underage man in 1994.
  • Edwina Currie revealed in 2002 that she had had a four-year extramarital affair with John Major who would later become Prime Minister. Commentators were quick to accuse Major of hypocrisy, referring to his previous Back to Basics platform (a form of moral absolutism).
  • David Mellor a Conservative MP and a member of John Major's Cabinet had a relationship with Antonia de Sancha, an 'actress', that was exposed by Max Clifford. Mellor had previously demanded that the British Press needed to improve standards of journalism. After initially denying reports and posing for photographs with his family Mellor resigned from the Cabinet and later lost his seat.
  • Piers Merchant's affairs with a night club hostess, and his researcher in 1997
  • Stephen Milligan's accidental death by auto-erotic asphyxiation on February 7, 1994
  • Tim Yeo's extra-marital affair resulting in him fathering a "love-child" in 1993
• Chris Bryant, a British MP, was revealed in December 2003 to have posted pictures of himself wearing only underpants on the Gaydar gay sex website, and to have sought anonymous gay sexual contacts. The scandal has damaged his subsequent career.
• David Blunkett resigned as UK Home Secretary in 2004 after it was revealed he had an affair with a married woman Kimberley Quinn and was alleged to have used his position to speed up a visa application by her Nanny.
• Mark Oaten, a married Liberal Democratic MP and the party's Home Affairs spokesman, was revealed in January 2006 to have had an affair with a male prostitute, and to have participated in gay threesomes and various extreme sexual acts, including coprophilia. He resigned as a party spokesman almost immediately, and will stand down as an MP at the next UK election.
• John Prescott British Deputy Prime Minister, was revealed in to have had an affair with a female Civil Servant. Further allegations of harassment emerged in April 2006.

• Boris Johnson resigned from Michael Howard's shadow cabinet after it was revealed he had lied about an affair with journalist Petronella Wyatt that resulted in her having an abortion.
• Cecil Parkinson resigned from Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet after it was revealed he had fathered a child with his Secretary Sarah Keays and reneged on a promise to marry her. The revelation destroyed Parkinson's political career.

[edit] Canadian government

• John E. Brownlee, a former Premier of Alberta, was forced to resign in 1934 after allegations that he seduced a young woman. His party was wiped out in the subsequent election.
• The Munsinger Affair, 1960s scandal involving several Canadian cabinet ministers and Gerda Munsinger, a Soviet spy.
• Alexander Wood, a magistrate in Upper Canada who was part of a gay sex scandal in 1810.

[edit] US government

• Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury, had an affair with Maria Reynolds, the wife of con man John Reynolds, in a 1791 set up to blackmail Hamilton.
• In 1831, the Petticoat Affair involving members of the Andrew Jackson cabinet and their wives.
• Grover Cleveland paid child support to a woman with whom he had an affair with in 1874. This became public knowledge in his 1884 presidential campaign, but he went on to win the election anyway.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, while serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, (c. 1916-17), had a sexual affair with his seceretary Lucy Mercer which occurred over a period of several years. After his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, discovered this, she gave him the opportunity to get a divorce so he could marry Mercer, but his mother, Sara Delano, said she would disinherit him if he were to do so, and he broke off the affair.
• Walter Jenkins, an aide to President Johnson was discovered to be a homosexual during the 1964 campaign. Barry Goldwater refused to make an issue of it.
• U.S. Representative Gerry Studds was censured by the House in 1973 for a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old page.
• U.S. Representative Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas was stopped in a car by police in October 1974 and was found drunk with a stripper named Fanne Foxe. Mills resigned as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee as a result of the scandal, but he was re-elected to his seat in the House of Representatives in the 1974 election.
• Wayne Hays, Representative from Ohio, force to resign in 1976 for having his mistress on the payroll.
• Gary Hart, who abandoned his 1988 campaign for U.S. president after details of his alleged affair with Donna Rice became public in 1987.
• Clarence Thomas, a 1991 nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States was accused of sexual harassment by law professor Anita Hill during his confirmation by the Senate. Senate hearings on the subject attacked Hill and confirmed the nomination of Thomas to the Supreme Court by the narrowest margin in more than a century, 52-48.
• Bill Clinton was in the 1995 Lewinsky scandal, in which he engaged in a variety of sexual activities with his intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton's denial under oath made it worse and created, apart from the embarrassment, a legal problem that led to his trial for impeachment, for which he was acquitted, serving the rest of his term duly. This scandal ultimately led to the President's disbarment.
• Newt Gingrich, a Republican former member of the United States Congress and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, confessed in March 2007 on a conservative radio program that allegations that he was having a sexual affair while serving as Speaker were true.
• Drew Nixon, a sitting Texas State Senator, was arrested in 1997 for solicitation of an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute. He was convicted and served his sentence on weekends while continuing to serve in the Texas Senate.
• Bob Livingston resigned as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Congress in December 1998 after it was revealed during the height of the impeachment debate surrounding the Lewinsky scandal, that Hustler Magazine was preparing to publish an article detailing sexual indiscretions by Republican politicians including the married Livingston.
• Gary Condit, a California congressman, was revealed to be having an affair with his intern, Chandra Levy, which was alleged may have also led to her murder in 2001.
• Strom Thurmond, the late US Senator, had an African-American daughter out of wedlock. He fathered the child with Carrie Butler, then a 16-year-old maid in his parents' household. Six months after Thurmond's death on June 26, 2003, a 78-year-old African American woman named Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed that the former senator was her father, a fact that Thurmond's family confirmed. Her mother had been impregnated by the 22-year-old Thurmond at a time when miscegenation was illegal under South Carolina law.
• James McGreevey, former Governor of New Jersey, revealed that he was gay and admitted an extramarital affair with aide Golan Cipel in 2004, making him the first openly gay state governor in American history.
• Dr. Lester Crawford, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, was accused of an extramarital affair with an FDA employee in 2005. An investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general found no evidence of an affair. Source: Senate Panel Approves FDA Chief Nominee, Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition), Jun 16, 2005; Page 1.
• In November 2005 US Representative Jim Kolbe announced he would not seek a sixth term. The next year federal prosecutors opened an investigation of Kolbe's relationship with congressional pages. In June 2007 the Justice Department announced they would not pursue the investigation.
• While mayor of Spokane, Washington, James E. West was found to have offered internships to young men whom he met on Gay.com. West was recalled by Spokane voters in December 2005 and died of colon cancer a few months after leaving office.
• Mark Foley was a Republican member of the United States Congress who sent sexually explicit emails to an underage page and resigned in 2006.
• Larry Craig, a Republican United States Senator from Idaho, announced in September 2007 his intent to resign from the Senate after he had been arrested in June 2007 in a men's public restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and pled guilty in August 2007 to a disorderly conduct charge related to the arrest. Police had been investigating reports of gay sexual activity in the restroom when an undercover, plainclothes police officer arrested Senator Larry Craig. Senator Craig later admitted to reporters that he had "made a poor decision." Despite his claims that he was not gay and that he was entrapped while in a toilet stall, he succumbed to pressure from his own party to resign from the Senate.
• Republican United States Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was found on a list of clients of a Washington escort service run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam," in 2007. He issued a public statement, admitting that his telephone number was included on phone records of the D.C. Madam's prostitution service, confessing that "[T]his was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible." His statement also confirmed that the phone records of the prostitution service were dated from his time serving in the House.

[edit] Others

• Chu Mei-feng, a former Taiwanese female politician, could only cut off all relationships with Taiwan after a local magazine published a video CD showing her having sex with married businessman Tseng Chung-ming in 2001.
• Rob Oudkerk, alderman for the Labour Party in Amsterdam lost a vote of confidence in 2004 after it became known that he had sex with illegal prostitutes. Prostitution is legalized in the Netherlands mainly for the protection of prostitutes. Oudkerk is trying to regain a responsible position within the Dutch labour party in 2005 but this was not allowed. Prostitution is hotly debated in the Netherlands since the Oudkerk affair.
• Uno Sosuke, Prime Minister of Japan, resigned in 1989, after less than three months when a geisha revealed that she had an affair with him.

[edit] Religious leaders

Main article: Christian evangelist scandals

• Paul Crouch paid Enoch Lonnie Ford $425,000 in 1998 as a settlement over what Ford argued was an unjust dismissal from working at TBN.^[3] The settlement contained several other points, among them an agreement for Ford to be silent about an alleged homosexual encounter they had had in 1996 at a Trinity Broadcasting Network-owned cabin.^[3]
• Jack Hyles was publicly accused of having an affair with a church member's wife.
• The Roman Catholic sex abuse cases, in which the church came under intense criticism and scrutiny for covering up the sexual abuse of minors by priests.
• Jim Bakker resigned as host of the PTL Club in 1987, amidst a scandal involving former secretary Jessica Hahn.
• Bob Gray, founder of Trinity Baptist College, was in June 2006 accused of molesting more than 20 children.[4]
• Ted Haggard was accused on November 2, 2006, by Mike Jones, a male escort, of paying for sex with him in monthly trysts over the past three years.^[4]
• Jimmy Swaggart was photographed in 1988 in series of meetings with prostitutes. When this was exposed his ministry was destroyed. In 1991 he was in a car with a prostitute when stopped by police officers.
• The wife of the assistant to Henry Ward Beecher, the well known reverend and abolitionist, claimed to have had an affair with Beecher. She then recanted, and still later repudicated her recantation. The assistant Theodore Tilton, filed criminal charges against Beecher for "criminal intimacy" and the case was taken to court, ending in a hung jury.

[edit] Other public figures

• The 2005 Minnesota Vikings boat cruise scandal, in which several players allegedly performed lewd acts on a boat cruise on Lake Minnetonka.
• The scandalous libertine existence of the sadistic Marquis de Sade in the 1700s.
• The Cleveland Street scandal of 1889 in London, in which a homosexual brothel apparently had a clientele of highly-placed personages, including Queen Victoria's grandson, the Duke of Clarence.
• The Margaret, Duchess of Argyll divorce case and the Polaroid photographs of the 'Headless man' from 1963.
• Prominent attorney William N. Reed, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz Partner, acknowledged sleeping with the wife of his client Becky Seay while representing retired insurance agency owner Sam Seay. This wrecked Sam Seay's 21-year marriage. Source: Scorned Spouses Can Wreak Havoc With Mates' Careers, Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition), Jun 14, 2005; Page B.1.
• James J. McDermott, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. CEO was convicted of insider trading. He passed nonpublic information about a potential 1997 merger involving Barnett Banks Inc. to adult film star Marilyn Star (Ms. Gannon), with whom he was having an extramarital affair. Source: Keefe Bruyette Ex-CEO Pleads Guilty on Charge In Insider-Trading Case, Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition), Jul 2, 2001.; Page B.6
• Martin Hanaka , Staples CEO, resigned in 1997 after his subordinate Cheryl Gordon with whom he had had an affair alleged that Mr. Hanaka assaulted her in the course of an argument. Ms. Gordon called the police, who arrested Mr. Hanaka. Source: Many Companies Look the Other Way at Employee Affairs, Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition), Mar 8, 2005; Page B.1.
• Robert J. O'Connell, MassMutual CEO, was terminated on June 2, 2005 because of his extramarital affair with Susan Alfano, a top female lieutenant. Source: Scorned Spouses Can Wreak Havoc With Mates' Careers, Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition), Jun 14, 2005; Page B.1.