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- holesome, on 07/01/2009, -1/+37Lewinsky was a fling, a hookup - does NOBODY know what a mistress is anymore?
- TylerDuhrdan, on 07/01/2009, -3/+19Because I hate ***** who make 10 page blog posts, I present to you, everything in one spot...
Maria Chapur
Who, exactly, was the Argentine woman about whom South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford waxed so poetically in his e-mail missives? A 41-year-old former TV reporter, Maria Chapur, admitted June 28 to Sanford's object of affection, but details about her remain hazy. A divorcee living in Buenos Aires with her two children, Chapur said someone "hacked" her e-mail last year. Her short statement asked for privacy and offered no further details about her life.
Post-affair: Chapur might be keeping quiet, but Sanford can't seem to shut up. In a June 30 interview with the Associated Press, he called Chapur his "soulmate," although he said he'd "try" to fall back in love with his wife.
Rielle Hunter
Rielle Hunter has been an equestrian, a bit-part actress, a filmmaker and even the inspiration for a novel. But history will know her as John Edwards' "other" woman. After Edwards hired Hunter to produce a series of documentaries on his 2008 campaign for president, the two began a romantic affair that continued until the National Enquirer revealed the couple's liaison at a Los Angeles hotel. More salacious still: Hunter had a child, with no father listed on the birth certificate.
Post-affair: An Edwards aide, Andrew Young, quickly claimed to be the unnamed father of Rielle's baby, and despite an alleged promise to marry Hunter, Edwards quickly distanced himself from his mistress. Now Young says he's disillusioned by his former boss's actions, and he's writing a book claiming that Edwards is the actual father of Hunter's child — and that the couple recorded a sex tape together. For her part, Hunter has declined a paternity test, but she is reportedly angry at how Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, has cast her in the media. The Edwards family has not commented on Young's allegations.
Fanne Fox
Fanne Fox conducted neither the most lurid affair in history, nor the most well-known. But a kiss on the cheek from "The Argentine Firecracker," a stripper at a Boston club, was enough to kill the political career of powerful Congressman Wilbur Mills. When news of the encounter leaked, Mills was viewed as a liability in the upcoming election and stripped of his chairmanship of the Ways and Means committee. He did not seek reelection.
Post-affair: Fox cashed in on her perceived ignominy with a book deal and a new title — "The Tidal Basin Bombshell," a moniker derived from the name of the strip club at which she performed.
Marilyn Monroe
Such is the wattage of both Marylin Monroe and John F. Kennedy that rumors of their affair keep tongues wagging more than 40 years later. Though there has never been official confirmation of any of Kennedy's dalliances, there are indications he was unwilling to cede his playboy lifestyle to the conventions of marriage. Of his supposed conquests, Marilyn Monroe tops the list. A sultry version of "Happy Birthday" sung in 1962 to Kennedy at Madison Square Gardens was supposedly the impetus for their affair:
Post-affair: Monroe died later in 1962 of a drug overdose, but tales about her alleged fling with the president grew increasingly tall. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover tried to prove the man on a secret FBI sex tape of Monroe was Kennedy, but lacked definitive proof. Others claim Kennedy was involved in her death. Needless to say, the rumors are even less substantiated than the affair itself.
Ashley Dupré
Before meeting Eliot Spitzer, Dupré was a struggling singer who worked as a call girl on the side. But when Spitzer's patronage of the Emperors Club VIP attracted federal attention in 2008, Dupré found herself catapulted into the limelight along with her former client. Hers was the first MySpace scandal, and Dupré found pictures of herself taken from her profile and plastered around the Web. Spitzer resigned in disgrace, but Dupré garnered almost equal face time.
Post-affair: For Dupré, taking down the sitting New York governor provided a short-lived career boost. After her illicit assignations with the guv were discovered, her songs were downloaded millions of times. Of course, that didn't mean they were good, and none of the notoriety has translated into any further commercial success.
Anne Boleyn
It's the rare woman so desirable that she ends up cleaving a church. But Anne Boleyn's insistence that she would be a mere mistress to Henry VIII caused a rift that began to split the Anglicans from the Catholics. Though Henry courted Boleyn for years, she refused his advances unless he annulled his marriage to Queen Catherine of Aragon. Pope Clement VII delayed granting the annulment, leading Henry to create the Anglican Church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury finally nixed his first marriage, clearing the way for Boleyn to become queen at last.
Post-affair: Ironically, and unfairly, Boleyn would end up executed after being accused of having affairs with a number of men, including her own brother. Historians generally agree the charges were shams, sparked by rivalries among the court and Boleyn's inability to give Henry a male heir. She was beheaded at the Tower of London in 1536.
Lucy Mercer
Hired as a secretary by Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucy Mercer ended up having an affair with Roosevelt's husband. Eleanor discovered love letters between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mercer in 1918, when the presidency was just a distant ambition for her husband. Fearing for his political life, Franklin convinced Eleanor to stay married, promising he would avoid seeing Mercer again and that the two would sleep in separate beds.
Post-affair: Franklin didn't keep his promise. With help from the Roosevelts' daughter, Anna, he continued to rendezvous with Mercer, and she was in Warm Springs, Ga., the day Franklin died. (Eleanor was conspicuously absent.) Mercer died in South Carolina in 1948.
Monica Lewinsky
After the White House intern conducted an infamous affair with President Bill Clinton in 1995 and 1996, her name became a punch line. Though Clinton initially denied their relationship, Lewinsky was called to testify before the Starr Commission and contradicted the president, leading to an impeachment trial (and an eventual acquittal) in the U.S. Senate.
Post-affair: Monica summed it up well: "I'm well-known for something that isn't great to be well-known for." Lewinsky remained a minor celebrity, appearing on Saturday Night Live and hosting a short-lived reality TV show. But for the past five years, Lewinsky has kept out of the spotlight. In 2006 she graduated from the London School of Economics with a master's degree in social psychology.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
An on-again, off-again relationship gets a little more attention when it's with Britain's Prince Charles — and especially when one of those "on" periods was during his marriage to Princess Diana. Lurid (and bizarre) conversations between the two were leaked in 1993, which didn't help Camilla's cause. Married at the time as well, she kept a low profile in the press, but eventually divorced her husband and married her suitor after Princess Di perished in a tragic car accident.
Post-affair: The pair had a low-key wedding (by royal standards) in 2005, and the Royal Family has gradually accepted Camilla into their ranks. Though she could have opted for the title "Princess of Wales" like Diana, Camilla chose to become the Duchess of Cornwall instead, and has been lauded for her charity efforts on the Royal Family's behalf.
Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher was a tabloid newspaper's dream. Though neither she nor her paramour — Long Island auto mechanic Joey Buttafuoco — were famous, the bizarre details of their relationship turned Fisher into the nationally-known archetype of a jealous mistress. At just 16, Fisher started a relationship with the much-older Buttafuoco in 1991. The sordid saga culminated in Fisher shooting Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo, in the face after confronting her on the doorstep of the Buttafuoco home. Mary Jo survived, and Fisher earned herself seven years in prison for assault, as well as one of the catchiest tabloid epithets ever: the Long Island Lolita.
After the affair: Fisher managed to stretch her fifteen minutes of infamy into a D-list career as a writer and porn star - xM55, on 10/02/2009, -3/+15WTF? 10 pages of ugly women? This fails hard. (Except for Marilyn Monroe - damn she's fine.)
- krekc, on 07/01/2009, -1/+9So why not this one? Because it ***** sucks.
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(obligatory) - Gloony, on 07/01/2009, -4/+10Buried
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4dugg for ashley dupre
- Gloony, on 07/01/2009, -6/+1010
- Gloony, on 07/01/2009, -6/+10F*cking
- Catchpen, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Dear Time.com, AJAX or jQuery. Look into it.
- Gloony, on 07/01/2009, -6/+10For
- RumpleForeskin3, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Some ugly mistresses there
- drummerguy520, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4*****
- Gloony, on 07/01/2009, -7/+10Pages
- kingnova, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2LMAO at the picture of Maria Chapur. That picture makes her look like a young Neil Diamond.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Damn, thought this was going to be about Female Domination. Oh well.
- drummerguy520, on 07/01/2009, -1/+3for
- drummerguy520, on 07/01/2009, -1/+35
- D3koy, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Look, if you're going to call it a Top 10 list, you should order them.
- drummerguy520, on 07/01/2009, -1/+3comments.
Also for capitalizing each one and having no period. - mu0p, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1mu0p
- mu0p, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1up
- MelissaOfTroy, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Dugg for Anne Boleyn. I thought this would be a list of more recent (and ugly) mistresses, so I'm pleasantly surprised to see some history.
- drummerguy520, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2Buried
- MuffinMan, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1As I read the title of this article, Disturbed - Mistress started playing. Creepy.
- mu0p, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1whats
- AdamsGuitar, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Pants?
- Lionhart, on 07/01/2009, -0/+12.5, yay patterns!
- mu0p, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1i'm
- Ninjapope, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Needs more Mata Hari
- Gloony, on 07/02/2009, -1/+1I'm not proud of the capitalisation; I used it to further illustrate and emphasize the level of disjunction one feels when reading a multi-part story on line.
- gpace1216, on 07/01/2009, -1/+1Am I the only one who didn't know who Lucy Mercer was but now feels like I should have?
- Lixnig, on 07/01/2009, -3/+3Amy Fisher is hott...plus she gets extra points for being bat ***** crazy...
- ghatid, on 07/01/2009, -2/+1Dugg for Joey Buttafuoco (Joey "*****")
- xeonrage, on 07/01/2009, -1/+0buried for internet lists
- ennuisquared, on 07/01/2009, -6/+1Monica Lewinsky? I guess I'll digg it for under-the-table blow-J's while at work.
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