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Leibovitz Shock: Miley Photog to Shoot One-Year-Old! [Scandal]
Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 4:50pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
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McCain Shock: Has Gay Employee [Scandal]
Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 3:43pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
The Chief of Staff for John McCain's Senate office is a guy named Mark Buse. Mark Buse is gay. Like every congressional chief of staff is gay, but still. Bombshell! Buse first began working for McCain back in 1984, and, except for a brief mysterious stint in the private sector (lobbying McCain, natch), has worked for him ever since. Activists Mike Rogers and Michelangelo Signorile handled the outing, as they so often do to Republicans and people who work for Republicans, all of whom are secret gays (except for the ones, like Buse, who are not really secret gays so much as "gays no one has ever heard of"). Attahced is a video clip of Mark Buse just being unbelievably gay. It's sort of news and it's sort of not!
It's sort of news because McCain has capitulated entirely to the far-right anti-gay fringes of his miserable party and selected an idiot right-winger as his running mate and let his party run on an anti-gay adoption platform and all that, and quite frankly McCain probably says the word "fag" a lot, or maybe something more Navy-ish and old-fashioned like "fairy."
But, you know, the guy just wants his taxes low and all the countries in the world bombed forever, and he doesn't give a shit if he can get married or adopt kids, so whatever. Let him be gay and evil! Of course in that case it shouldn't matter to him if people know he's gay or not, except in that it could damage John McCain's campaign, but will it? Who cares besides gays who already won't vote for John McCain! All the crazy Christians can decide they love a woman who's teenaged daughter had some unsafe sex with a dude who she's not married to so surely they can forgive hiring a gay.
John McCain will probably fire him now, once he is president, and he's done firing everyone else.
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"Don't Touch Me!" Post Film Critic Slugs Ill Ebert [Scandal]
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 11:55am CDT by Sheila
Tags: scandal
If someone at a film screening taps you a couple times on the shoulder asking you to move over so they can see, what do you do? If you're New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick, you haul off and hit them with your binder—and then realize that you just slugged Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, according to Rush & Molloy. Ebert can't speak, as he's been dealing with throat and thyroid cancer for years, so that explains the shoulder-tapping. But there's really no good explanation for Lumenick's hitting:Soon after the lights went down, a source tells us, "a man in the audience started yelling, 'Don't touch me!' People looked around and shrugged. Ten minutes later, the voice yells again, 'I said don't touch me!'"
...But a few minutes later, says our source, "the guy stands up in the darkness and thwacks the guy behind him with a big festival binder. He hit him so hard everybody could hear it. Everyone freaked out and turned around."
...Though Lumenick seemed surprised to see whom he had struck, he offered no apology, according to another source.
Bully!
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Sexy Palin Ethics Investigation Update [Scandal]
Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:28pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
Governor Sarah Palin is, according to the Anchorage Daily News, "stonewalling" the investigation into allegations that she abused her power by firing the Alaska public safety commissioner. They also say Palin's lawyer is threatening to sic the secret service on the Alaska legislature's investigator. ABC reports that Alaska state senator Hollis French is now fast-tracking his investigation into the scandal, dubbed "Troopergate." But in MORE IMPORTANT NEWS: the guy Sarah Palin maybe had an affair with (it seems like she probably didn't?), her husband's former business partner, filed an emergency motion yesterday to have his divorce records sealed. The motion was denied! Hooray! [Alaska Trial Court Cases via Andrew Sullivan, who has become a madman.]
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D-List Sex Scandal In Albany [Scandal]
Posted: August 21st, 2008, 3:21am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
"The writer said he wished he could... 'be modeling my cool penguin boxers' and 'find you a permanent parking space.'" [Times]
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Edwards Mistress On Letting Go [Scandal]
Posted: August 20th, 2008, 9:30pm CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
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TMZ has uncovered brief footage of Rielle Hunter on a game show called Lingo in 2002. Salient details: The show was hosted by Chuck Woolery of Love Connection fame (HA), and also Hunter claims to be practiced at moving on from things, even though she's now living on the dole of a supporter of John Edwards more than a year after the Democratic politician said their affair ended. Maybe she has some other reason for taking the money, other than being clingy, like a scandalous GENUINE love child. This very brief excerpt is pretty convincing/damning/irrefutable.[TMZ]
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'Enquirer' Has More Baby Pictures [Scandal]
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 10:30am CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
Octogenarian Post gossipeuse Cindy Adams reports that the Enquirer tomorrow will run a photo of Rielle Hunter holding the baby John Edwards maybe held in that photo that was maybe him in that hotel room he met Rielle at. They will have "proof" that it is the same baby and "proof" that it is not photoshopped. Cindy Adams also reports this: "ENOUGH already with New York's financial woes. Soon, instead of a torch, the Statue of Liberty will hold up a tin cup and pencils." [NYP]
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John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, the Night Before the End of the Affair [Scandal]
Posted: August 15th, 2008, 9:47am CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
This photo—of John Edwards being filmed by occasional mistress Rielle Hunter—reportedly was taken December 30, 2006. As we all know, Edwards claims he ended his affair and confessed to his wife in 2006. Hunter's contract with the Edwards campaign ended on December 31, at which point there are no more photos of her at campaign events. So. Either Edwards is lying about the date of the end of the affair and his confession, or... this is the night he did it? The campaign stopped paying her too, except for that $14,086 payment they made to Hunter in April of 2007. This story was so much simpler when everyone was just denying everything. See the full, uncropped photo at DBKP.
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Orchestrating The Edwards Love-Child Alibi [Scandal]
Posted: August 15th, 2008, 7:17am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
The precious Times has finally condescended to do some original reporting the John Edwards scandal, pulling from the tabloidy muck a scoop establishing that Edwards loyalist Fred Baron, who can't quite recall these things clearly, admits he maybe set Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter and Edwards campaign aide Andrew Young up with two separate lawyer buddies of his, and also maybe paid their legal fees?? All this happened right before one of the lawyers announced that his new client Hunter was not carrying Edwards' love child, and then the other lawyer announced that her new client Young was the father of the love child. And you know, funny thing, both of the lawyers forgot to mention their ties to one another via Baron. Here are some great quotes where swaggering genius lawyer Baron (pictured) pretends he's an Alzheimer's patient, to the Times: "I have this recollection of somebody asking me for lawyers in New York, and I remember naming three or four, and he must have been one of them... It was either her who called or somebody on her behalf...
"I remember getting a call from Pam and her telling me that she was representing him... I may have sent him over there, but on the other hand I may not have. I don’t have an accurate recollection...
"I have a brief recollection of giving someone some cash. My assumption is I loaned some small amount of money to the both of them..."Baron had previously admitted to paying for Young and Hunter's posh living arrangements but said he didn't know how they found their lawyers. So the Times here is establishing that he might be a liar and also that he may have helped orchestrate the exoneration of Edwards as father of the love child.
The newspaper is apparently quite proud of its scoop, placing it on A1. Editor Bill Keller appears to be in full retreat from his haughty statement that the Edwards scandal is "a supermarket tabloid's anonymously-sourced story" that he would never "recycle." In today's story, his own newspaper not only mentioned the Enquirer's proven reports that Edwards had an affair but also alluded, in the second paragraph, to the tabloid's stories about Edwards fathering a love child. Neither the Times nor any publication other than the Enquirer claims to have proven that allegation through its own reporting. Sounds like "recycling!"
And presumably the Times' standards editor changed his mind about the scandal being "classically not a Times-like story."
[Times]
(Photo via Wikipedia)
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Love Child Looks Like Edwards [Scandal]
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 6:06am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
"A source who has seen [Rielle] Hunter's baby says, 'She looks like John Edwards in a onesie.'" [Daily News]
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John Edwards Admits to Affair
Posted: August 9th, 2008, 3:14pm CDT
Tags: John edwards Affair scandal Video
There has been widespread speculation about an affair between former Senator John Edwards and 44-year-old Rielle Hunter as of late. And now the former Democratic Presidential Candidate has come out and confirmed that he is guilty.
In a statement released to press, Edwards describes the affair, which took place in 2006, as a serious error in judgment, and says that he’s deeply ashamed of his conduct.
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John Edwards' Innocent Cover Up [Scandal]
Posted: August 9th, 2008, 3:18am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
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Here is an excerpt of John Edwards on Nightline, where the Democratic politician spent most of the time trying to explain the limited nature of his bad behavior. His affair was a brief fling he quickly told his family about, driven by "a narcissism that leads you to believe you can do whatever you want, you're invincible, and there will be no consequences." He didn't have a love child with his mistress, Rielle Hunter, and didn't know anything about any hush money she may have received. He'll take a paternity test and release the results to the news media, if someone can get Hunter to participate. And, Edwards said, he only visited Hunter again recently in a Los Angeles hotel at the insistence of a mutual friend, who promised to be present, to hear a story of Hunter's "struggles." Edwards gave the careful, plausible admission of a skilled lawyer. Whether he is believed will hinge on how people react to his most vulnerable moments. Click the video icon to watch two of them. [ABC News]
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Next For Edwards: Hell [Scandal]
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 3:23pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
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Just asking... if, as Edwards says, the affair with Rielle Hunter both began and ended in 2006, when he also told his wife about it, and Hunter's child isn't his, as he insists, then why, exactly, did he go visit Rielle and her baby last month? Catching up with an old friend? Does he honestly think he'll salvage a shred of his reputation with this shit? Also is that lie more or less believable than insisting that "friends or supporters" of his are sending Ms. Hunter thousands of dollars a month without his knowledge? Also, what the hell is wrong with him? Sigh. The early indications are that no one buys his bullshit. So. What next?The press will be furious and unforgiving. The distraction of the Olympics aside, now they have Edwards lying directly to them—insisting there was no story there to anyone who inquired, and abusing their love of Elizabeth to get them to back off. Now the press will turn on him, probably using his betrayal of his beloved wife as their excuse for endless castigation. Rielle will finally get her morning show booking.
The devoted liberals will throw him under the bus for betraying the party. (Though some will continue to blame the media.)
Now the race is on to somehow prove the paternity of the baby or—more likely—track down those payments. The Enquirer should already be on the money trail, so let's see what happens!
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Cuckold's Internet Revenge Against Top Banker [Scandal]
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 5:59am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
If you've visited sites like those run by New York magazine and the Observer over the past couple of months, you may have noticed, in the comments section, repeated instances of a message that begins, "Steve Ratner [sic]... has paid my wife $500,000.00 to leave me." If you saw these comments, you probably wondered what the hell was going on. Well, the Times this morning sheds precious little light on the situation because, get this, there is a Steven Rattner, he did sleep with that guy's wife and now, as a result of the angry ex-husband's smear campaign, he has vacated his job atop the private equity division of Credit Suisse. The lesson, as relayed by the Times' hotshot finance writer Andrew Ross Sorkin, is that the internet renders "helpless" ordinary plutocrats who just want to hush up stories about how they allegedly taunted and harassed the husbands of the high-class escorts they procured on trips abroad. Wait, what? You wouldn't know it from reading Sorkin's column, which coddles Rattner while filleting his nemesis, but the cuckolded husband, Tommi Cosgrove, alleges much more than a simple affair on the part of Rattner and his wife
Sorkin omits most of Cosgrove's allegations from his column even though the banker himself told the Times, "everyone has heard... the damage is done." It's worth noting that Rattner tells Sorkin "most everything Mr. Cosgrove claims is either untrue or a gross exaggeration," but no details are provided.
Here's the smear "everyone has heard:"
Steve Ratner, of 11 Madison Avenue New York, and business partner of Donald Trump, friend of Bloomberg and rich kid has paid my wife $500,000.00 to leave me.
He further promised a Ferrari, house and more cash.
He met my wife when she was working as a high class escort in London through Bella's escort services, where he finds all his girlfriends and where all his rich mates shop.
He has had me followed, investigated and threatened and continues to send text messages bragging about his victory.
This guy couldn’t get laid if he was good looking, but uses his money to get what he wants
There are photos, emails, letters and even photos taken in Kirsty Alley's house in LA.
Rich People, they think they can buy anything. This guy’s favourite movies are "Pretty Woman" and "Indecent Proposal", jeez what an idiot.
I warned you MR. RATNER, I would not let this rest. I am coming for you big time.
To be featured on FACEBOOK & MYSPACE very soon
Also featured in the book, "the coffin maker", a true story.
Mr. Ratner keeps getting my posts removed as he is very embarrassed to have to admit to buying his girlfriends and having to pay for sex, but if you met him, you would understand why.............
Mr. Ratner - the story doesn’t end until i say so. have a nice life. Everyone will know Steve Ratner pays for sex and stole my wife with $500,000.00 and a car.Even as his column bemoans the negative impact of these allegations on Rattner, Sorkin omits them in their particulars. He mentions only a nebulous "affair," doesn't press Rattner for a detailed denial of the other allegations and paints Rattner as a repentant, reformed husband and father. "This ought to be a story that, while painful, remained private," Sorkin scolds.
Cosgrove, meanwhile, is repeatedly implied, without any real evidence, to be mentally imbalanced, a liar or both:
To be honest, it’s hard to read Mr. Cosgrove’s florid account without concluding that he has, at a minimum, a vivid imagination. In one of my conversations with him, he alleged that he had “threats on my life by underworld associates;” that he was living in his car for a while; and that Mr. Rattner had been willing to pay him, through his ex-wife, $70,000 to disappear.
...Asked whether he was happy that Mr. Rattner resigned from his job, Mr. Cosgrove, reached on his mobile telephone Monday, said, “He should have thought about that before he did what he did to me.” Moments later, Mr. Cosgrove claimed he didn’t even know Mr. Rattner, which didn’t exactly heighten confidence in his accusations.Sure, it's hard to trust a guy who, rather randomly, invokes Kirstie Ally in the sad saga of his wife's cheating, and then spams that story onto news websites, compounding his own humiliation. And it would be prudent to assume most of Cosgrove's wild allegations are false without evidence to the contrary.
But that doesn't mean the Times has license to paint Rattner as an all-but-innocent victim, swallowing his claim that he was literally "helpless against the destruction that can be wrought by aggressive campaigns on the Internet" and asserting in the headline that "On Wall St., Reputation Is Fragile," as though executives in other industries would somehow be left unscathed by tawdry escort-wife-stealing smears spammed to friends and associates via email and blog comments.
As a high-powered Wall Street executive, Rattner surely had the financial resources to mount a libel suit, as complicated as one might be across international lines, against Cosgrove.
But Rattner also could have fought back swiftly online, calling out lies while acknowledging those accusations that were true. A new website can be had for free at blogger.com or wordpress.com. The real cost would have been the pain of admitting to whatever actual, real wrongdoing he committed against his family and possibly others. That must be a brutally painful thing to do, particularly when the private lives of others remain just that. But it is far from a "helpless" situation.
Perhaps Sorkin slanted his story the way he did because he sensed his own role in this drama. His column, in the end, is what made Cosgrove's revenge complete, humiliating Rattner not in the sewers of the internet but from a distinguished platform on his home turf. And no amount of disdain can undo that.
[Times]
(Photo via TheDeal.com)
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Edwards Love Child: No Father On Birth Certificate [Scandal]
Posted: July 31st, 2008, 9:24pm CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
After wisely deciding that the massive John Edwards love child scandal is, in fact, a news story deserving of coverage, the Democratic politician's home-state newspaper the Raleigh News & Observer used basic journalism to uncover some interesting new information. Although Edwards' apparent mistress Rielle Hunter has claimed since even before her child was born that it was fathered by married Edwards aide Andrew Young, and even though Young issued a statement confirming this, the name of the father has been omitted from the child's birth certificate. Any other newspaper like the Times or Washington Post could have obtained this information, since informational copies of birth certificates are public documents in California. But those newspapers are too busy arrogantly destroying their businesses by ignoring the story to bother asking for a simple piece of paper. So they don't have either the birth certificate (PDF) or these fun non-denials:Asked Thursday why no father was listed on the birth certificate, Hunter's attorney, Robert Gordon of New York, said, "A lot of women do that." Reminded that he and Hunter had publicly revealed the father's identity two months earlier to the National Enquirer, Gordon said, "That's a personal matter between them."
... When approached by a Charlotte Observer reporter, Edwards said, "Can't do it now, I'm sorry" and quickly walked past.
Asked about the Beverly Hilton, Edwards said "sorry" and got into a waiting car with the other men. Asked twice more to address the Enquirer story, Edwards was silent until the car doors were closed.To even ask him those questions, the News & Observer had to catch Edwards leaving an AARP event "through a side area used by the kitchen staff" in order to avoid a gaggle of reporters. He's not even bothering to deny anything at this point.
If the big mainstream newspapers avoid doing this story until they're absolutely forced to, they'll get to run their first stories probably right around the time of the Democratic convention. All in the name of not lending undue weight to "irrelevant" sexcapades, yay!
[News & Observer via Wonkette]
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Edwards Mistress' Hush Money: $15,000/Month [Scandal]
Posted: July 30th, 2008, 2:46am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
John Edwards' mistress has been receiving $15,000 a month in hush money via a rich friend of Edwards, the National Enquirer is claiming. The Enquirer, of course, was the only news outlet that bothered to seriously follow up on allegations that the Democratic politician was having affair with former campaign contractor Rielle Hunter, and thus it was the only publication to catch Edwards in a hotel last week visiting Hunter and his alleged love child. There's been no confirmation of any of this yet from reputable newspapers, like the one that told us about the secret scientist who knew where Saddam Hussein hid his chemical and biological weapons, or from the one that said Puff Daddy was in on the plot to gun down Tupac Shakur. So, gosh, who knows if it can be trusted! But if you still want some salacious details on this hush money stuff — or word from Radar on how the mistress is trying to negotiate her share of this feeding frenzy — it's yours after the jump. From the Enquirer, on the hush money:
“A super-rich pal – who was closely involved with the campaign finances – is helping John. It’s likely this man doesn’t know all the dirty details of John’s extramarital affair, but is acting out of loyalty and is not asking a lot of questions – only writing the checks,” revealed a source very close to the situation.
.... This same ['super-rich'] man is also shoveling cash to Edwards’ pal and former aide Andrew Young – who tried to take the heat off the ex-Senator by claiming he is the father of Rielle’s baby.Edwards continues to not bother denying or otherwise commenting on any of the allegations, other than through the body language of physically running and hiding from Enquirer reporters (in a bathroom!) when first caught in the hotel.
Curiously, Hunter isn't denying or otherwise commenting on any of this either! But according to Radar she might soon do so:
We've also heard from multiple sources that a major TV network is currently in negotiations with Hunter to secure a primetime interview, which would be the first serious play the mainstream media has given the story. [Enquirer editor] Perel refused to confirm this as well.
Also via Radar (see prior link), the Washington Post and Huffington Post are anxiously awaiting pictures from the Enquirer's reporting, because it's not enough that Edwards isn't denying the affair or love child, Hunter isn't denying the affair or love child, a team of Enquirer reporters saw Edwards go in and out of the hotel to visit the love child and a security guard confirmed to Fox News that Edwards hid from the Enquirer team just like the tabloid said.
The publications are also hungry for photos even though pictures of Edwards in or near a hotel will prove precisely nothing scandalous, in and of themselves. Talk about missing the point.
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Meet the Mistress! (Just Not on Wikipedia) [Scandal]
Posted: July 29th, 2008, 2:13pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
Remember how Wikipedia revealed that there's a character in an old Jay McInerney book based on Rielle Hunter, the woman who allegedly gave birth to John Edwards' love child? Well some enterprising Wikipedia editor erased that nugget of TRUE and NOTABLE information. Thankfully Radar actually picked up the book itself, and they share some words of wisdom from the fictional version of John Edwards' alleged mistress."Men. I've never met any. They're all boys. I wish I didn't want them so much.... I hate being alone, but when I wake up in some guy's bed with dry come on the sheets and he's snoring like a garbage truck, I go—let me out of here."
Wikipedia does now mention that the Alison Poole character—the Rielle Hunter stand-in—ended up a character in Bret EastonEllis' American Psycho. She gets around!
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Edwards Scandal Slinks Into Legitimate Press Late Friday Evening [Scandal]
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 4:10pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
Oh, look, someone's left those floodgates ajar. Fox News "independently verified" the Enquirer story that John Edwards met with Rielle Hunter and her baby at the Beverly Hilton late one night. Their story is written in a lovely tone—equal parts sensationalistic and "reporting on what this nasty tabloid claims" careful prudishness. Now the Enquirer reporters are suing the Beverly Hills Police Department, because hotel security didn't let them have their gotcha moment. Huh. This means, as they note, that "Edwards now could be contacted by police to give an eyewitness account of what occurred." Hah. Have a great weekend!
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How Did Edwards Affair Stay Hidden? [Scandal]
Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 9:15pm CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
The National Enquirer spent months chasing John Edwards and digging into his relationship with Rielle Hunter before busting him spending the night in a hotel with the woman and the former Democratic presidential candidate's alleged love child. It was impressive and quintessential tabloid work. But there's no reason the paper should have had the scandal all to itself. Isn't this the sort of thing traditional newspaper tabs like the Post used to cover? And even starchy broadsheets should have had some interest — it was the Miami Herald that busted Gary Hart in 1988 (when his mistress left his townhouse — shades of the Edwards affair) and the Times that broke the story of Eliot Spitzer's whoring earlier this year. Don't forget, also, that Newsweek's Michael Isikoff had the initial dirt on Monica Lewinsky a decade ago. A reputable magazine could have broken this story, as well!
In fact, the media had a full nine months to get the goods on VP hopeful Edwards following an October Enquirer story and coverage in the Huffington Post and Slate, and even longer if they were paying attention. According to the Enquirer, Edwards met secretly with Hunter "several times" after the fall coverage, so there was dirt there for an enterprising reporter to find.
But now that the meat of the scandal has already been aired, campaign reporters will have to content themselves with after-the-fact analysis, including sad questions like the following:
- Why did the Enquirer move forward with its second story now? Because it finally caught him red-handed or because, unlike in October, there's a love child involved at this point?
- When is an affair a political career killer? Bill Clinton was able to stump effectively for his wife despite the Monica Lewinsky mess; San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is said to be eyeing a run for California governor despite sleeping with an aide's wife and people have already begun talking about Spitzer's rehabilitation.
- More to the point: When is an affair while your wife is dying of cancer NOT a political career killer? Is there a "he needed to get through the pain" angle? Or is it more "he needs to not show his face around here again, ever" situation?
- Remember when John Edwards was considered a serious contender to become Barack Obama's running mate? Those sure were the days, eh?!
Prediction: Edwards admits to having made a terrible mistake in a moment of weakness last year, but assures everyone he was only visiting Hunter again because of the child, and out of a sense of duty and obligation. His name isn't mentioned in a political context for another eight years, when he launches a third-party presidential campaign with running mate Gary Hart, on the strength of their joint reality show.
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John Edwards In Mistress- and Secret Love Child-Having Scandal [Scandal]
Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:00pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
Oh hey, looks like now that someone knows he'll never be president, he's relaxing a bit. John Edwards, the man who became a fiery populist in 2007 or so but still could not interest voters, is in a spot of trouble! Drudge: "NATIONAL ENQUIRER CATCHES JOHN EDWARDS AT BEVERLY HILTON." Now. Matt won't say what he was "caught" doing, but we hear he was with a lady. Sigh. This is going to make us look quite the fool for being skeptical of those last Edwards rumors. Ha ha oh shit, the Enquirer story is up and it involves a LOVE CHILD.Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer — met with his mistress, blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn't leave until early the next morning.
Then the reporter cornered Edwards and Edwards hid in a bathroom for 15 minutes. Seriously.
Last year, the National Enquirer (with an assist from HuffPo!) revealed this secret torrid affair between John Edwards and this crazy hippie lady who used to kinda do some work for his campaign. We thought the whole thing was patently ridiculous! But now John Edwards is determined to prove us wrong, apparently.
This is a brilliant piece of old-fashioned scandal-mongering from The Enquirer, as it apparently involved months of reporting work and it ended in a perfect, inescapable gotcha moment. It's actually surreal! While we never assume that any politician is faithful, Edwards does have that strong-willed lovable wife. Everyone loves Elizabeth! (Except veterans of her husband's campaign, but that's neither here nor there.) And she's dying of cancer. So basically John Edwards will never work in this nation again.
Our mom will be seriously disappointed.
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Jailed Anne Hathaway Ex Talking Deal [Scandal]
Posted: July 18th, 2008, 5:45am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: scandal
"Assistant US Attorney Reed Brodsky has estimated [Rafaello] Follieri would likely spend up to nine years behind bars if a jury convicts him of wire fraud and money laundering." [Post]
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Vanity Fair Editor Arrested for Infiltrating Elite Private Club [Scandal]
Posted: July 16th, 2008, 10:42am CDT by Sheila
Tags: scandal
Vanity Fair writer Alex Shoumatoff got himself arrested for crashing Bohemian Grove, a private men's club in northern California for the upper echelon of the rich and powerful. He was there to spy on the three-week camp they hold every July, where said rich and powerful relax while living in tents in their private woods. (Nixon was a member, but called it "most faggy goddamn thing that you would ever imagine.") The backstory on the weird club, plus the reason for the trespassing and arrest?Bohemian Grove has been arguing amongst themselves for the last few years about a plan to cut down and harvest some of the trees in their forest, ostensibly to prevent forest fires. Member John Hooper resigned in 2004 because of the plan (even though he owns his own forest, which also harvests trees.) Hooper asked Vanity Fair's Shoumatoff (they are former Harvard classmates) to write about the tree-cutting for Vanity Fair, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The connection between Hooper and Shoumatoff pissed off the pro-harvesting club members. They sent a letter to VF editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, but Shoumatoff didn't quit the story. In fact, he told the club's PR flacks to talk and quit hiding information. (Spy magazine infiltrated Bohemian Grove in 1989, when Carter was editor there.) An excerpt from that article, written by Philip Weiss:
"At this point some hamadryads (tree spirits) and another priest or two appeared at the base of the main owl shrine, a 40-foot-tall, moss-covered statue of stone and steel at the south end of the lake, and sang songs about Care. They told of how a man's heart is divided between "reality" and "fantasy," how it is necessary to escape to another world of fellowship among men. Vaguely homosexual undertones suffused this spectacle, as they do much of ritualized life in the Grove. The main priest wore a pink-and-green satin costume, while a hamadryad appeared before a redwood in a gold spangled bodysuit dripping with rhinestones. They spoke of "fairy unguents" that would free men to pursue warm fellowship, and I was reminded of something Herman Wouk wrote about the Grove: 'Men can decently love each other; they always have, bur women never quite understand.'"
Anyway, Shoumatoff was captured in the woods by a plumber moonlighting as a security guard on the night of July 13th. Update! We hear that he got into the club briefly before being thrown out, contrary to the SF Chroncle reports that he was caught while sneaking in.
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Prison-Themed Sex Tape, Not Nazi-Themed [Scandal]
Posted: July 8th, 2008, 1:06pm CDT by Sheila
Tags: scandal
Remember FIA and Formula 1 president Max Mosley's sex-video scandal, a five-hour tape enacting an elaborate S&M scenario with several women? Mosley—whose father was Facist leader Sir Oswald Mosley—spoke in German during the scene; however, it was a prison-themed sex orgy video—not a Nazi one, the women involved are telling Britain's High Court. "No Nazi images, uniforms or material were used." Oh, OK! (You could always take another look at Jalopnik's best-of reel in order to discern the particular theme for yourself.) [BBC]
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Love Don't Live Here Anymore [Scandal]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 1:27am CDT by mr.guyball
Tags: scandal
The Daily News is reporting that Alex Rodriguez and his wife, Cynthia, have split after a well publicized rocky patch in their marriage. First A-Rod was linked to Madonna, then Hank Steinbrenner blamed his poor play on "outside distractions", then word came out that Cynthia had her own distractions with Lenny Kravitz. While finger pointing helps no one, it should be noted that A-Rod, Madonna and Lenny Kravitz all have the same manager, Guy Oseary. Take a note, folks, only sign with entertainment representation who have really ugly clients. The couple has separated, but it's unclear whether they intend to divorce. If so, Cynthia will get lots and lots of cash to roll around in: A-Rod makes $28 million a year. Madonna's reps continue to deny any relationship with Rodriguez. [NY Daily News]
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Madonna And Alex Rodriguez [Scandal]
Posted: July 1st, 2008, 7:41am CDT by Nick Denton
Tags: scandal
Having put the Obamas on one of last month's covers in despair at the absence of celebrity gossip, Us Weekly finally has a genuine celebrity scoop. In a new issue on newsstands tomorrow, the magazine reports that New York Yankee baseball player Alex Rodriguez has been making late-night visits to Madonna's apartment on Central Park West. (OK! has much the same basic story but highlights the two supposed lovers' gym trysts.) The singer, 49, is said to have consulted a lawyer about divorce from her husband of seven years, film director Guy Ritchie; Alex Rodriguez, known to sports fans as A-Rod, would have been eight years old when Madonna released her first hit, Lucky Star. 
The story is a little thin: the basis appears to be a source telling Us Weekly that "all the doormen are talking." But it's plausible. It might not be politically correct to say, but Madonna's long displayed a liking for Latin men. And the troubles of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan attract less public attention than they did; and the price of celebrity baby exclusives is beyond the capacity of anybody but OK's Richard Desmond. In that context, Janice Min's team at Us Weekly can hardly be blamed for splashing an affair between two bona fide superstars. Its competitors must be devastated this morning, but not as much as the New York Post, for whom this would have been the most perfect story: a singer who made her name in New York with the city's most hated sports celebrity.
CELEBRITY SMACK!
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R. Kelly Found Not Guilty by Jury
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 2:28pm CDT by Spicy Pants
Tags: Celebrity scandal
A jury has found R. Kelly not guilty of fourteen counts of child pornography.
Kelly - who has long been rumored to be sexually “into” young girls - has denied that it is him in the video with the 13-year-old girl, six years ago. The victim also denied it was her in the film even though numerous witnesses claim that both Kelly and the victim were indeed the ones in the footage.
Unbelievable.
Gawker
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French Newsanchor Scandal Sophisticated, Continental [Scandal]
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 12:05pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: scandal
Leave it to the French to [insert something racy here]. They have their own little scandal with a lady news anchor. It's similar to the issues we've dealt with here in the US—the chauvinist rise and fall of Katie Couric, last seen sympathizing with Hillary Clinton—but so much more French. The respected and beloved 60-year-old male presenter of Europe's most-watched news broadcast was just fired and replaced with a 41-year-old blonde cutie. And it's all the fault of crazy president Sarkozy!The new anchor is Laurence Ferrari, whom the Telegraph describes as "an experienced anchorwoman and recently voted France's most glamorous journalist." Here's the funny thing: the old guy, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, did not make friends with President Sarkozy when he called him a "little boy" a while back. Ferrari, on the other hand, has had to deny rumors of an affair with Sarkozy that supposedly took place before he met his wife Carla Bruni.
And Sarkozy is good buddies with the head of the network, who was a witness at the wedding and is a godfather to Sarkozy's son.
So basically this is like if Barack Obama was good friends with CBS head Sumner Redstone, and had convinced him to replace genial old Bob Sheiffer with Katie Couric, whom he allegedly had had an affair with.
Or like if Bush had gotten rid of Dan Rather. And had had an affair with Bob Sheiffer?
Anyway, scandal!
French TV turmoil as 'Sarkozy's glamorous blonde' takes limelight [Telegraph]
CELEBRITY SMACK!
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Tatum O’Neal: “I’m Still Sober!”
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:09am CDT by Spicy Pants
Tags: Celebrity scandal
Photo: New York Post
Tatum O’Neal is claiming that she is relieved that she was caught by police buying cocaine and crack from a guy on the street.
Tatum called the New York Post to proclaim,
“I’m still sober! . . Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the cops came and saved me! . . . I was saved by the bell, by the guys in the Seventh Precinct.”
The first thing that pops in my head is - that sounds like an addict talking.
Anyhow, she went on, using her dog’s death as an excuse for her attempt at a relapse.
“There’s no excuse for what I did,” Tatum told the Post. “I lost my Scottish terrier, Lena. That seemed to set me off. She got old. She got cancer. She was the fabric of our family. We had to let her go to heaven. My daughter and I had to put her down. It was too horrible for words.
“I couldn’t get out of it. I was going to my psychiatrist. I was doing everything I could do. I have the disease of alcoholism. It’s lifelong. I treat it every day by going to my 12-step program.”
She goes on to explain that the death of her 16 year-old dog brought back memories of losing her mother.
“It triggered that my mother passed away [from addiction] in ‘98. My father [actor Ryan O'Neal] and I are estranged.”
I want to believe Tatum, I really do. But for some reason I don’t. Not that I think she does it all the time anymore - or if she does, she hides it well. That could be the case as there are a lot of ‘functional’ addicts out there. And some are really good at hiding it . . and lying about it.
Regardless, I love Tatum and I hope she has been sober. My gut just tells me otherwise.
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Miley Cyrus Shows Her Bra
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 2:31pm CDT by Spicy Pants
Tags: Celebrity scandal
Sweet little squeaky-clean Miley Cyrus is hitting the internet once again with some slightly suggestive photos.
Cyrus, 15, has leaked a few photos of herself on the internet showing her in underwear recently and it seems they just keep coming.
Hollywood creates another attention whore.
Although considered ‘tame’, remember she is only 15 years old, and consider how many sick f*cks there are on the internet. :shiver:
This time Miley is photographed showing off her bright green bra by pulling her shirt down. She is also shown with some geeky looking guy friend, who she snuggles up next to.
A fun quote from Miss Miley:
“I’ve got to make really good decisions. And that helps me in my real life because it’s that little voice in my head telling me right from wrong. More than just for myself, but for the girls who are watching me.”
And she’ll obviously throw the boys a bone every now and then as well..
Gawker
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"Kristen Got Paid to Be Eliot's Friend": A Toddler's Take [Spitzer Scandal]
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:04pm CDT by Sheila
Tags: Spitzer scandal
It's hard to explain sex scandals to kids, but thank God this isn't like 1994 and we have to start explaining blow jobs and thongs all over again. A young girl in a princess dress explains to SuperDeluxe her understanding of the matter, adding, "everybody at school is talking about it" and that they replaced Eliot with a blind man.I
Glitterati
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That Naked Woman Doesn't Look Very Much Like Meg White To Me
Posted: September 24th, 2007, 4:59pm CDT by Aaron
Tags: scandal
Hot on the heels of the Hannah Montana pregnancy rumor (totally not true, like I said earlier) is the one about Meg White the White Stripes drummer, and a sex tape. NME doesn't believe it and neither do I. Yeah,...
Celebrity-Gossip.net
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Pink’s Husband: “I Didn’t Cheat”
Posted: August 16th, 2007, 3:07pm CDT
Tags: Pink corey hart scandal
No matter how hard you try, some guys are just cheats. Even pop singer Pink is having trouble keeping her man loyal. But he says he’s been nothing but true to the “Family Portrait” singer.
Corey Hart was said to be getting his swerve on with a lady other than his wife last week. Pink’s been out of the country on tour, and witnesses say that he’s taking the opportunity to sow his wild oats.