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Susan Boyle tells of torrid romance with Tiger Woods Amid the stampede of women who have claimed to have had liasons with Tiger Woods, singer Susan Boyle has come forth with her own tale of romancing the golfer. Friends close to Boyle say that she is devastated to learn the she is merely one woman among a virtual harem of partners. "Susan has been very down about realizing she is not the only one, because she felt she really had a connection to Tiger," said an unnamed friend. But Boyle, a singer who attained world prominence with her performance on...

US golfer gave exclusive interview to sister paper of National Enquirer in return for tabloid's silenceRepresentatives acting on behalf of Tiger Woods brokered a deal two years ago to bury a tabloid story of an extramarital affair, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. It said representatives for the golfer acted after the National Enquirer threatened to publish pictures of Woods taken in a parked car with Mindy Lawton, a Florida waitress. The alleged deal, which the Wall Street Journal claims was made in August 2007, saw Woods give an exclusive cover interview and photo spread to a sister magazine of...

Elin Nordegren may soon be getting something from her husband's scandal. Tiger Woods' wife is reportedly "very close" to signing a deal of her own with athletics shoes and sportswear company Puma, the competitor of the golfer's sponsor Nike.

Tiger Woods has been voted Athlete of the Decade by members of The Associated Press, his 10 years of incomparable golf outweighing nearly three weeks of a salacious sex scandal. Just like so many of his 64 victories worldwide and 12 majors dating to 2000, it wasn't much of a contest. Woods received 56 of the 142 votes cast by AP member editors. More than half of the ballots were returned after his Nov. 27 car accident which set off the sensational tales of infidelity that have tarnished Woods' image. Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor who won the Tour de...

December 11, 2009 Team Tiger: The Men Who Failed To Spot Trouble Coming John Hopkins, Golf Correspondent In establishing “Team Tiger”, Tiger Woods has followed principles taught to him by Earl Woods, his late father, a US Marines officer who fought in Vietnam. Mr Woods Sr taught him to look after himself and to trust only a few people. Team Tiger consists of Mark Steinberg, his manager, Hank Haney, his swing coach, Steve Williams, his caddie, and Bryon Bell, president of Tiger Woods Design. They have to be discreet about their work with Woods, be loyal to him, do their...

Sanford’s Wife Files for Divorce ROBBIE BROWN December 11, 2009 Jenny Sanford on Friday filed for divorce from her husband, Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, who confessed in June to an affair with a woman in Argentina. “As so many of us know, the dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process,” Ms. Sanford said in a statement. “Because Mark and I are public figures, we have naturally had less privacy with which to deal with our difficulties than do other couples. Indeed, I know it will soon become known, so I choose to release this brief...

TIGER Woods was rated as "horrible in bed" by one of his lovers, it was revealed yesterday. The damning verdict came from Las Vegas cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs, who says she had a 31-month fling with the married golf superstar. The 24-year-old mistress told fellow contestants on US TV reality show Tool Academy she had also "hooked up" with George Clooney. But while she was full of praise for the movie heartthrob, she mauled Tiger. Telly pal Krista Grubb, 27, told The Sun: "She was showing all these texts from Tiger and George. One she said was from George said,...

Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren -- according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident. Tiger has yet to be formally interviewed by the Florida Highway Patrol -- that should happen this afternoon. But we're told Tiger had a conversation Friday -- with a non-law enforcement type -- detailing what went down before his Escalade hit a fire hydrant. We're told he said his wife had confronted him about reports that he was seeing another woman. The argument got heated and, according to our source,...

(CNN) -- If you were to judge the success rate of monogamy by the sex lives of public figures, perhaps couples should change their marriage vows to say, "Till a tempting new partner do us part." Talk-show host David Letterman recently joined former presidential candidate John Edwards, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on a long list of politicians and entertainers (think Jude Law) who have admitted having sex outside their marriage or committed relationship. But do they just illustrate the realities of modern life? In the age of hookups, friends with benefits and...

Reality-show star Jon Gosselin did it. Country singer Shania Twain, whose “One” has become a wedding standard, wound up a victim of it. An endless parade of politicians have been caught doing it. And those are just the ones we know about. Adultery does happen. It always has and it always will. But I think we may have crossed a threshold. While watching the president of the United States declare that we can legislate away hardship during his health-care address to a joint session of Congress, I was lured away from my hyper-blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking analysis by a commercial for...

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Camp of Minneapolis-Saint Paul has made himself a wonderful career as a novelist under the pseudonym John Sandford. His best-selling Prey series features Minneapolis supercop Lucas Davenport. In one recent volume a character asks Davenport: "Why is it that Democrats are always having money scandals and Republicans are always caught in sex scandals?" Lucas replies: "My theory is that Democrats are guys who know how to get girls but not how to make money. Republicans are guys who know how to make money but not how to get girls. When they each encounter both readily...

This is not the Athenian age for U.S. governors. Just in the past five years we’ve seen Jim McGreevey of New Jersey resign because he put his Israeli boyfriend on the state payroll as a homeland security adviser; Eliot Spitzer of New York resign because he had hired a prostitute, had her travel across state lines to entertain him, and attempted to contravene banking regulations; and Rod Blagojevich of Illinois bounced from office on charges that he had sought to sell a Senate seat. What all these cases have in common is that there were real acts of criminality and...

In her new memoir, Resilience, John Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, said she was sick to her stomach when her husband confessed his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter. She writes, "I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up." Which is probably the same way her husband reacted when the National Enquirer broke the story of his affair and chased him through a parking garage at the Beverly Hilton. Elizabeth, who has an incurable cancer, said Hunter seduced her husband by telling him he was "so hot" and that though John confessed the affair to her in 2006, he...

Unsettled closure: Judge scolds jury on reduced verdict for Jeffrey Scott; victim's family not satisfiedSecond-degree murder conviction, 25-year sentence draw emotional reactionsIt was a case that can -- and did -- make a grown man cry. Jimmy Wayne Pittman wanted a life sentence for Jeffrey Scott, the man who beat to death the daughter he adopted as a small child in Bossier City, La. "This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me, physically and mentally," said Pittman as tears rolled down his cheeks and into his white beard. "This is always going to be hard. I loved...

Accepting a friend's challenge to prove that Barack Obama was a college acquaintance has forever changed a suburban St. Paul woman's life. Lisa Jack dug out negatives of a photo shoot she did in 1980 with the future president, and several of the black and white images were published by Time magazine in its "Person of the Year" issue last month. They include him in various "thoughtful, cool and fun" poses, taken while Obama and Jack were students at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Jack said Monday. "I have a photo agent for this now" to handle the flood of...

Between 1991 and 2006, the numbers of unfaithful wives under 30 increased by 20% and husbands by a whopping 45%. These numbers come from a study conducted by David Atkins of the University of Washington Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors. ... Since 1950, the age of first marriage has risen to 25 from 20 for women and to 27 from 22 for men. "It's more common for people to be hooking up or having relationships with multiple partners" before marriage, says Prof. Laumann. Even young people who engage in monogamous relationships before marriage may be hurting...

The most consistent data on infidelity come from the General Social Survey, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and based at the University of Chicago, which has used a national representative sample to track the opinions and social behaviors of Americans since 1972. The survey data show that in any given year, about 10 percent of married people — 12 percent of men and 7 percent of women — say they have had sex outside their marriage. But detailed analysis of the data from 1991 to 2006, to be presented next month by Dr. Atkins at the Association for Behavioral...

America is disgusted by the behavior of John Edwards — but the jury is still out on his wife................ ----------------------------------------------------------- We seem to be developing two distinct schools of thought: Elizabeth as tragic/heroic victim and Elizabeth as down-in-the-mud-with-her-husband villainess. Bluebeard’s wife versus Lady Macbeth, as it were. Predictably, People has taken the lead on Elizabeth as tragic heroine. In a fairly skimpy article, various friends and relatives are quoted on her anguish and her dedication to her children. She’s being strong in the face of hardship, the argument goes, because she’s that kind of gal.........

A little infidelity never hurt U.S. Margery Eagan By Margery Eagan Sunday, August 17, 2008 - When John F. Kennedy was president, he slept with, among many others, a big-time Chicago mobster’s moll. Talk about blackmail opportunities. But barring some police action that made such indiscretions public, the press then did not report on adulterous politicians, even presidents. What they knew, they ignored. The personal was not political, and was deemed unfit to print. We were all better off. In the week since John Edwards confessed his affair with a woman once notorious as a cocaine-addled sex machine, the so-called...

Huffington Post's female pundits enraged over cheating John EdwardsBy David Paulin Over at the lefty Huffington Post, John Edwards' confession of being a cheat has, interestingly, provoked fury among some of the gal pundits. They're mercilessly trashing the pretty boy populist -- spitting a toxic venom that even their like-minded male counterparts cannot match. Some, incredibly, are even digging their nails into Edwards' wife Elizabeth (who is battling cancer) for having aided and abetted her husband's public lies. What's going on? Could these ladies be writing with some deeper understanding of the issues at play, perhaps having suffered, like so...

What little doubt remained that John Edwards is the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby evaporated Saturday when a lawyer for the former senator’s paramour issued a statement declaring that there would be no DNA test to determine paternity. Little doubt remained because of a dog that has stubbornly refused to bark since the National Enquirer first reported in December that Edwards had impregnated the divorcee he hired as his campaign videographer. That silent dog is libel law. Edwards is a famously successful trial lawyer. If the Enquirer’s accusation had been false, the former Democratic presidential candidate would have sued, and...

The outrage over John Edward's admitted affair with a filmmaker transcends what we have seen with most recent sex scandals. This partly results from his repeated denials of the affair. Much more important, of course, is the fact that it took place while his wife was battling cancer. The two of them had already dealt with the tragedy of losing a teenage son, and the public is furious that Edwards caused his wife, who agreed to campaign for him even after being diagnosed with incurable bone cancer, more pain. Why, people want to know, do men who have it all...

The full version of Bob Woodruff's interview with John Edwards just aired on ABC, figuring Edwards alternately penitent, defensive, and dismissive of the tabloid reports that unearthed his affair. He also, in explaining his view that his dalliance could remain private, cited Republican John McCain's reported affair at the end of his first marriage almost three decades ago. "What I was thinking was this was something that was personal to my own family," Edwards said, citing other public figures having survived extramarital affairs. He recalled, he said, having heard "John Mccain talk about the mistakes that he’s made in his...

Having an affair can help to save a struggling marriage, according to a new, controversial self-help book. Mira Kirshenbaum, who has over 30 years' experience as a marriage therapist, says the 'right kind' of affair can be a positive thing, acting to "jolt people from their inertia". The author of When Good People Have Affairs, published this week, argues that because society has so far failed to have a sympathetic discussion of infidelity, the positive sides of cheating have been ignored. However, she insists that most cheating spouses should never own up, because revealing the infidelity is more damaging than...

HUMILIATED Bill Clinton has ordered Hillary to ditch the beautiful campaign aide who dragged her into a lesbian love scandal, sources say. In this shocking world exclusive, political insiders tell GLOBE a berserk Bill told his wife she must choose between him or Huma Abedin, the sultry brunette whose presence at her side - day and night - sparked an explosion of gay rumors. (MORE)

Politicians appear to be on a whistle-stop tour of infidelity. It's the McGreevey-Dann-Spitzer show — and then some. Infidelity is big theater these days, providing both spectacle and cautionary tale to eager onlookers and press alike. Adultery and its attendant behaviors have created a popular culture and cottage industry all their own, driving political strategy, press coverage and — on rare occasions — a few positive outcomes. America is along for the ride — and ready to hear more about the greater implications of infidelity. "We love it. It confirms our worst fears about politicians and confirms our suspicions," talk...

In the digital age, having an affair has never been easier. Author Angela Levin spent five months interviewing middle-class professionals for an extensive study that charts the rise of the no-strings-attached* relationship. In the first of a three-part investigation, she reveals why the UK is in the grip of an infidelity epidemic. 'Been left parked in the garage of marriage too long, battery getting flat and needs somebody to give it a spark of life, full tank and ready to go. "Present owner does not like going for a ride any more but am not up for sale. Seeking discreet...

We really haven’t come a long way baby, have we? Certainly not in the case of women married to elected officials. For the past few days since the Spitzer scandal broke, all anyone has been talking about is why? Why would a guy....risk losing everything for a couple of evenings with a hooker... I’m asking why, too. Why would a beautiful and brainy wife with three wonderful children allow herself to be put in this hideous situation for even 49 seconds -- the time it took to apologize. Much less do it all over again two days later when her...

We've seen it before when the walls come crashing down on public figures because of extramarital affairs – women who remain committed to their relationship. Experts say there are many reasons wives don't leave. In Old School America, an affair often meant the end of a relationship. While they romped around, politicians' infidelities usually remained behind closed doors. And yet with so much publicity, most wives in recent scandals have decided not to end the relationship. Pamela Druckerman is author of Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee. "The reason why political spouses stand by their men, for the...

LONDON (Reuters) - When Richard Martinez goes to a nightclub or bar, he often goes alone. But the 38-year-old former RAF officer wastes no time in heading for a target -- a woman -- to flirt with and flatter. Martinez will not try too hard, but will allow himself to be drawn into conversation and, if asked, will give out his phone number for a potential future date. Martinez is a "honey trapper" -- or as he likes to call himself, an "integrity tester" -- one of a growing team of private detectives who are hired by wives, husbands or...

A Minnesota National Guardsman is suing his wife and her boyfriend here, saying they drove him deep into debt while he was deployed in Iraq. Kimberly Scullen, 26, of Swisher, used power of attorney privileges to spend nearly all of Andrew F. Scullen's active duty pay while he was overseas, according to the petition filed on behalf of Scullen, 37, of Hastings, Minn., in Johnson County District Court. Andrew Scullen says in the suit Kimberly Scullen used the money for trips, luxuries and cash payments to her boyfriend, Nicholas Hale. Andrew Kimberly also bought a car and property in his...

KATIE QUERIES CANDIDATES ON INFIDELITY Tue Dec 19 2007 14:49:22 ET This week the CBS EVENING NEWS continues it's series 'Primary Questions' where Katie Couric sits down with the presidential candidates and asks what makes them tick... everything from losing their tempers to the biggest mistake they've ever made. Wednesday night they tackle the issue of infidelity! Senator Hillary Clinton KATIE COURIC: Harry Truman once said, "A man not honorable in his marital relations is not usually honorable in any other." Some voters say they don't feel comfortable supporting someone who's not remained faithful to his or her spouse. Can...

DETROIT (AP) - Detroit's city council has approved $8.4 million to settle lawsuits that included claims of infidelity involving Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. A Wayne County jury had awarded $6.5 million to former deputy police chief Gary Brown and officer Harold Nelthrope for unlawful dismissals in their whistleblower suit. Interest had raised the amount to eight million dollars. The council also has approved $400,000 for former officer Walter Harris who has a pending suit against the city. Harris has claimed harassment because he knew of alleged extramarital affairs involving Kilpatrick.

[blah, blah, blah... at the end he makes his point] Sue has been fairly typical of the women I have encountered on this website. She seemed lonely, bored and dissatisfied with her life. All she could see ahead of her was an endless round of cooking, cleaning, career and children. Of course, there's nothing wrong with wanting to interrupt a destructive, depressing cycle to your life. But what is shocking is the cold and calculating approach of these women, and the assumption that secret meetings with a married man can cure all the ills they see in their own families....

Sexual scandals don't automatically pack a knockout punch for today's politicians, but the circumstances matter to voters. That's the view of political observers as they assess the political fallout from the most recent revelations involving Sen. David Vitter (R) of Louisiana and Antonio Villaraigosa (D), the mayor of Los Angeles.... ...If the Pew poll is correct, Republican Senator Vitter may face a more negative reaction from conservative voters in Louisiana than Democrat Villaraigosa in liberal L.A. However, he also quickly admitted wrongdoing after news leaked out. "Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife...

Marital sex single greatest HIV risk for women around the world. For a growing number of women in rural Mexico – and around the world – marital sex represents their single greatest risk for HIV infection. According to a new Mailman School of Public Health Study, because marital infidelity by men is so deeply ingrained across many cultures, existing HIV prevention programs are putting a growing number of women at risk of developing the HIV virus. The findings, indicating that globally, prevention programs that take a "just say no” approach and encourage men to be monogamous are unlikely to be...

"....Latin Americans aren’t unique in getting worked up about cheating, real or imagined. Everyone does. That mythical country where people fool around and their spouses don’t mind doesn’t exist. Even the French aren’t laissez-faire about affairs. Though they expect their presidents to philander, in their own lives they’re just as faithful as Americans; in both countries, about 4 percent of married men say they’ve had more than one sex partner in the last year. In this era of love matches, monogamy is the preferred arrangement practically everywhere, and cheating is carried out in secret. The big differences are in how...

“I’m not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette, I'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him,” said Hillary Clinton to Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” in 1992. As her Uriah Heepish most ’umble lip-biting husband sat beside her, faking remorse because he was running for the presidency, the two successfully used the leftwing show to help them defuse a firestorm of criticism about the Arkansas governor’s 12-year affair with Gennifer Flowers.

Don't pair up with matching genes 11:30 05 January 2007 NewScientist.com news service Matt Kaplan They say opposites attract – and a couple’s differences may be key to lasting happiness, according to a new genetic study of people in relationships. The findings were so predictive, that a DNA test could one day reveal how likely a woman is to cheat on her partner, the study suggests. Psychologist Christine Garver-Apgar at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, US, and colleagues investigated whether genetic similarities among romantically involved couples predicted how faithful and sexually responsive the partners were to one another....

The people who are running from bed to bed creating disasters for themselves and everyone else don't seem to know what they are doing. They just don't get it. But why should they? There is a mythology about infidelity that shows up in the popular press and even in the mental health literature that is guaranteed to mislead people and make dangerous situations even worse. Some of these myths are: 1. Everybody is unfaithful; it is normal, expectable behavior. Mozart, in his comic opera Cosi Fan Tutti, insisted that women all do it, but a far more common belief is...

The National Enquirer splashes this week with a shocking story about Sen. Ted Kennedy’s secret love child with a Cape Cod woman whom the mag says he dated during his days as a swinging single. According to the tabloid’s source, the boy, named Christopher, just celebrated his 21st birthday and is “mature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father.” A Kennedy family confidante told the Enquirer, “This is one of the biggest secrets in the Kennedy family and known to only a few people including Ted’s ex-wife, Joan.” As for the senator, his spokesgal Melissa...

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s chief legal counsel is asking lawmakers investigating the firing of state employees to also help expose MD4Bush -- the Internet chat-room visitor whose remarks were the catalyst for the probe. Chief Counsel Jervis S. Finney told Sen. Thomas McLain Middleton, a Charles Democrat and co-chairman of the Special Committee on State Employee Rights and Protections, to use subpoenas to "seek the truth as it relates to MD4Bush." MD4Bush prodded longtime Ehrlich aide Joseph F. Steffen Jr. into a chat-room discussion in February about rumored infidelity by Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, a Democratic candidate for governor.

Even though he was the hero of the playoffs and the World Series, Derek Lowe's off-field antics – chiefly his drinking and womanizing – doomed his chances to remain with the Red Sox, sources say. Lowe, who went to the Los Angeles Dodgers this season after the Sox showed no interest in re-signing him, just walked out on his wife of seven years and their three kids to move in with Left Coast TV sports gal Carolyn Hughes. The move shocked his heartbroken bride, Trinka, but according to those who know D. Lo, it wasn't entirely out of character. ``He...

Derek Lowe, the ex-Red Sox hurler who was the hero of last year's ALCS and the World Series, has abandoned his heartbroken wife and kids and moved in with a TV reporter who covers his new team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. That's according to Trinka Lowe, Derek's wife of seven years and the mother of their three kids, who said her husband has left her for Fox Sports Net's Carolyn Hughes. ``This is definitely the worst time of my life,'' Trinka told the Track. ``I don't even know how to describe it. I still love him. He's still the father...

AN IMPOTENT husband who encouraged his wife to sleep with other men stabbed her to death when she told him that she was leaving for a lover 30 years her junior. Christopher Willsher, 53, lost control and attacked his wife, Jeanette, with a kitchen knife, stabbing her 112 times. Willsher was sentenced yesterday to six years imprisonment after a judge at Plymouth Crown Court accepted his plea of guilty to manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. The court was told that Willsher had entered into the unconventional arrangement with his 48-year-old wife after diabetes, chronic alcohol abuse and heart...

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....In the days following Steffen's firing, Ehrlich pledged an internal investigation that would "get to the bottom" of Steffen's activities. More recently, the governor has urged the media to investigate how the story came to light. In particular, Ehrlich has suggested pursuing the identity of MD4BUSH, an Internet user who asked Steffen leading questions about O'Malley on the conservative Web site, http://www.freerepublic.com . Steffen, using the screen name NCPAC, had discussed the rumors before MD4BUSH appeared on the site. WBAL commentators yesterday stressed that Catherine O'Malley had raised the issue publicly long before Steffen had. Paul E. Schurick, Ehrlich's communications...

How America can end its divorce epidemic Posted: April 7, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By David Kupelian © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com When 32-year-old Paul and his 17-year-old fiancee Anna walked into the Norristown, Pa., courthouse to apply for a marriage license, the justice turned them down flat when he learned they had known each other for only one day. Yet after much pleading and persuasion, the judge reluctantly granted them their license, and Anna and Paul were married three days later. The wedding, held at Paul's brother's house, wasn't much – only four people in attendance, no wedding gown, no flowers,...

Last year, Sammie Evans wound up dying from a broken neck as a rookie police officer tried to arrest him for having an open container of beer. His death incited a New Year's Day protest and claims of widespread police brutality from leaders in the black community.

Most men would rather marry or date their secretary than their boss because they instinctively fear that women in positions of authority will cheat on them, American research suggests. Psychologists who carried out tests on 328 volunteers found that male subjects were more likely to be attracted to subordinate colleagues than those of a similar or more senior status. Men are genetically programmed to avoid stronger women as potential mothers to their children because they perceive them to be more likely to be able to attract other sexual partners, the study found. Stephanie Brown, the lead author of the study,...