'Wash Post' Picks the Top Ten Political 'Sex Scandals'

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'Wash Post' Picks the Top Ten Political 'Sex Scandals'

By E&P Staff

Published: November 09, 2007 11:55 AM ET

NEW YORK It was bound to raise discussion -- and it has -- so www.washingtonpost.com now is touting on its home page a new list at its The List that nominates the The Top Ten Sexual Politician Scandals. It's a little heavy on recent years (no Warren G. Harding or Grove Cleveland) and has provoked a lot of comments to that site.

And loyal E&P reader/critic David Horchak asks: No JFK and Marilyn Monroe?

Here's the list (comments from the site, below).
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10. “Gropergate.” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Cali.) admitted groping women early in career (2003).

9. Gary Hart's affair with model Donna Rice, ruining his very promising run for the Democratic nomination for president (1988).

8. Alexander Hamilton-Maria Reynolds affair (1797).

7. The Petticoat Affair or Eaton Affair involving a sex scandal and the resignation of much of Andrew Jackson's cabinet (1831).

6. Rep. Mark Foley; (R-Fla.) accusations of sexual harassment of underage congressional page (2006).

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John Jenrette from SC! Playboy wife! Then he wanted her to meet him at the swinger's club and she told all during the divorce.

How quickly they forget.

That has to be on the list!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jenrette

Jenrette is most famous for two actions during his days as a Congressman. First, he had sex with his then-wife, Rita Jenrette, behind a pillar on the steps of the Capitol Building. The comedy group "Capitol Steps" take their name from this escapade. Second, he was charged with and convicted for accepting a $50,000 bribe in the Abscam sting operation conducted by the FBI in 1980. Jenrette was sentenced to two years in prison, of which he served 13 months. He had not been videotaped taking bribes, as some of his colleagues had, but he was recorded saying he'd been given cash by an associate. His wife, Rita, separated with him in January of 1981 and the two divorced later the same year...

Jenrette was defeated for reelection in 1980 and resigned from Congress on December 10, just days before the end of his term.





Rita Jenrette:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Jenrette

Rita Jenrette (born November 25, 1949) first came to the public eye as the wife of John Jenrette, congressman from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. John Jenrette was implicated in taking a bribe during the Abscam investigation and his wife testified at the hearings, describing how she found $25,000 in one of his shoes.

She appeared on the Phil Donahue show while he was in jail, and he called in live to join. She gave an interview to Playboy magazine in 1981, and appeared naked in their pages and on the cover in May 1984. The first of these interviews caused a scandal, as she told Playboy that she and her husband had had sex on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during a break in an all-night House session...

...She separated from her husband in January 1981 and divorced him shortly after her first Playboy appearance.


Rita Jenrette on the cover of Playboy in May 1984


Art Buchwald, Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_08/011856.php