Scandalous Love: 50 Untold Affairs & Betrayals

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Behind the glitz, power, and fame, love doesn’t always play fair. From secret rendezvous to explosive breakups, history and Hollywood are full of eyebrow-raising affairs and betrayals that shocked the world — and sometimes changed it. In Scandalous Love: 50 Untold Affairs & Betrayals, we dive into the tangled webs of romance gone rogue, featuring royals, rebels, rockstars, and rulers who let passion override consequence. These aren’t your average love stories — they’re juicy, messy, and all too real. Let’s peel back the curtain.

1 Carrie Fisher – Harrison Ford Affair

When Carrie Fisher told Harrison Ford she planned to publish her journals and reveal their affair-despite Ford being married at the time of filming Star Wars (1977)-he simply raised his finger and said, “Lawyer!” Fisher assured him he could review the manuscript and remove anything he didn’t want published. She sent it to him but never heard anything back.

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2. Marie Curie engaged in an affair with a married physicist, and when their private letters leaked, public outrage erupted. Consequently, the Nobel Committee pressured her to skip her second Nobel Prize ceremony. However, Albert Einstein encouraged her to ignore the critics, and she ultimately attended the event to accept her award.

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3. Two women-Marguerite Georges and Giuseppina Grassini-had sexual affairs first with Napoleon and later with the Duke of Wellington. Notably, Georges expressed her preference, stating, “The Duke was by far the strongest.”

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4. Lou Pai, a senior executive at Enron, had an affair with a stripper and, to settle his divorce, cashed out $250 million in Enron stock-just before the company’s value plummeted and it filed for bankruptcy.

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5. Alexander Hamilton became the first major American politician publicly embroiled in a sex scandal. He carried on an affair with 23-year-old Maria Reynolds, whose husband not only knew about it but also likely orchestrated the situation to blackmail Hamilton for money.

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6 Opera Spy’s Gender-Bending Romance

Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese opera singer from Beijing, worked as a spy and extracted secrets from Bernard Boursicot, an employee at the French embassy. Over a 20-year-long sexual affair, Shi convinced Boursicot that he was a woman.

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7. A woman named Nan Britton claimed she had an affair with U.S. President Warren Harding and gave birth to his daughter. Although the court ridiculed her when she sued for child support, DNA testing by Ancestry.com in 2015 confirmed her story.

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8. In 1989, Japanese Prime Minister Sōsuke Uno resigned after a geisha revealed their extramarital affair. Interestingly, the scandal focused less on morality and more on the fact that Uno had failed to support her adequately, earning him the reputation of being a stingy man.

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9. Chris Hansen, host of NBC’s Dateline: To Catch a Predator-a show known for sting operations exposing online sex predators-was ironically caught in a hidden-camera sting cheating on his wife. NBC later laid him off.

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10. After an assassination attempt, King Louis XV-believing he was dying-called for his wife, confessed to numerous affairs, and begged for forgiveness. Fortunately, his thick winter clothes had shielded him, and he survived with only a superficial wound.

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11 Politician Mic’d Up Affair Boast

In 2009, a Californian politician named Michael D. Duvall accidentally left his microphone on during a meeting break and graphically boasted about two ongoing affairs. Less than 15 hours after the story broke, he resigned.

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12. President LBJ was a competitive womanizer, and whenever people mentioned Kennedy’s many affairs, LBJ would bang the table and declare that he had more women by accident than Kennedy ever had on purpose.

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13. In 1990, Marlene Warren opened her Florida home’s front door to a clown and was shot. Decades later, in 2014, investigators discovered a hair in the preserved evidence. A subsequent DNA test led them to Sheila Keen Warren in Tennessee, where they found her-now revealed as the clown-running a restaurant with Marlene’s husband. The pair had been having an affair before the murder and were married at the time of Sheila’s arrest.

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14. William IX, the 11th-century Duke of Aquitaine and one of the earliest troubadours (medieval poet-musicians who composed and performed songs about chivalry and courtly love), famously displayed a portrait of his mistress on his shield. This bold and scandalous affair eventually led to his second excommunication from the Church.

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15. President John F. Kennedy had an affair with a 19-year-old White House intern. In one incident, he even dared her-successfully-to perform oral sex on his special assistant, Dave Powers.

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16 Comedian’s Driver Becomes Lover

Hattie Jacques, a 1950s British comedian known for pioneering self-deprecating “fat humor,” carried on an affair with her driver. With her husband’s consent, she even moved the man into their home. When they eventually divorced, her husband falsely claimed responsibility for the adultery to protect her public image.

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17. In 2009, a 99-year-old Italian man named Antonio C. divorced his 96-year-old wife, Rosa C., after discovering she had an affair in the 1940s-despite their 77 years of marriage. The revelation, uncovered through old love letters, ended one of the world’s longest-known marriages.

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18. In 1999, investigators discovered the mummified remains of a pregnant Hispanic woman inside a drum in the crawl space of a New York home. They identified her as Reyna Marroquín, who had vanished in 1969 after having an affair with her employer. He committed suicide before police could question him.

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19. Zelda Fitzgerald, the popular American novelist and socialite, believed her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was having an affair with Ernest Hemingway. In a desperate attempt to prove he wasn’t gay, Fitzgerald bought condoms and visited a prostitute-an action that only fueled Zelda’s suspicions and pushed her into even deeper rage.

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20. Most English and French kings openly maintained extramarital affairs. Their illegitimate children-often referred to as “Royal Bastards”-frequently received land, wealth, and noble titles.

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21 Elvis, Sinatra Love Triangle

Actress Juliet Prowse, who was once engaged to Frank Sinatra, had an affair with Elvis Presley.

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22. Before he became president, Grover Cleveland had an affair with a woman, which resulted in her becoming pregnant, and in order to cover up the scandal, he had her committed and her child sent to an orphanage.

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23. Babe Ruth frequently cheated on his wives throughout his baseball career. During one trip to Chicago, a detective hired by the New York Yankees reported that Ruth had been with six different women in a single night. As another player once joked, “I don’t room with Babe-I room with his suitcase.”

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24. Albert Einstein cheated on his first wife and once remarked that “most men are not monogamously endowed.”

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25. Dr. Seuss’s first wife tragically committed suicide after discovering he had been cheating on her while she battled cancer.

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