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Women linked to political scandals

 

 
  • Jill Kelley leaves her home Monday, Nov. 12, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. Kelley is identified as the woman who allegedly received harassing emails from Gen. David Petraeus' paramour, Paula Broadwell. She serves as an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the military's Central Command and Special Operations Command are located. She has reportedly hired Monica Lewinsky’s crisis manager to represent her.
  • This July 13, 2011, photo made available on the International Security Assistance Force's Flickr website shows the former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus, left, shaking hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of
  • Ginger White (right) is the former metro Atlanta resident whose claims of an affair with Herman Cain helped force him from the GOP presidential race. She now plans a book. Above she attends a February gala in Beverly Hills, California, with Lawyer Gloria.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted the fathering the child of a former member of his household staff more than 14 years ago. Mildred Baena worked in the home during her pregnancy and long afterward.
  • Two-time presidential candidate John Edwards admitted having an affair and child with documentary filmmaker Rielle Hunter while his wife, Elizabeth, was battling cancer. In June she published the book
  • South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford publicly confessed in 2009 to having an affair with Argentine reporter Maria Belen Chapur. She is shown in undated video grab from around 2001. Sanford and his wife divorced following reports of the affair. In August, a newspaper in Argentina reported that Sanford and Chapur are engaged.
  • Ashley Alexandra Dupre, a high-priced escort, was the star of the seamy drama that led to the 2008 downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. She's shown above in 2009. An October article on Mail Online showed photos of Dupre, who was pregnant with her first child and living in New Jersey.
  • Christine Beatty (shown in 2008) former Chief of Staff to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was implicated in a text messaging scandal and an alleged affair with Kilpatrick. In March 2010, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution article reported that she was planning a move to Atlanta.
  • Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern, admitted to grand jury an 18-month sexual relationship with President Clinton in 1998. According to the Chicago Sun Times, Lewinsky (shown in a 2006 photo) is said to be shopping around a tell-all memoir for a hefty price – possibly as much as $12 million.
  • After the Lewinsky scandal, Linda Tripp moved to Northern Virginia, married a German architect in 2004 and opened a Christmas shop with her husband. Larry King interviewed Tripp, a central figure in the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton scandal, about her role in the Pentagon's public affairs office, her lawsuit against the government and her battle with breast cancer in 2003.
  • Allegations of an affair between Donna Rice Hughes and Gary Hart in 1987 ended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hughes is now an internet safety advocate and President and Chairman of Enough Is Enough. She is shown in a March 2011 photo.
  • Fawn Hall is sworn in before the Iran-Contra committee on Capitol Hill in this June 8, 1987 file photo. The secretary to former National Security aide Lt. Col. Oliver North testified that both of them shredded confidential documents. According to an April article in the Washington Post, Hall is currently living
 

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