26 Couple Catfished by Each Other
In 2007, a married Bosnian couple, Sana and Adnan, began having online affairs through anonymous chatrooms-each unaware of the other’s actions. Eventually, they arranged to meet their respective online partners in person, only to discover they had unknowingly been cheating on each other-with each other.
27. The 1990s hit song Macarena is actually about a woman named Macarena who cheats on her boyfriend with two of his friends while he is away being drafted into the army.
28. Canadian singer Shania Twain met her current husband after both of their former spouses had an affair-with one another.
29. In 1314, the Tour de Nesle affair erupted into scandal when the daughters-in-law of King Philip IV were accused of adultery. The women were imprisoned, and their lovers were executed. The emotional toll may have hastened Philip’s death just months later and is believed to have contributed to the events that sparked the Hundred Years’ War.
30. King George IV attempted to divorce his wife, Queen Caroline, through an Act of Parliament. Since neither of them would admit to adultery, the bill specifically accused Caroline of infidelity to justify the divorce attempt.
31 Cheating Wives Once Legal Targets
Until 1975, French law allowed husbands to legally kill their wives if caught cheating. Similarly, honor killings for adultery remained legal in Brazil until 1991 and in Haiti until 2005.
32. Two months after American singer Sam Cooke’s death, Bobby Womack married Cooke’s widow, Barbara. However, five years later, Barbara shot Womack upon discovering he was having an affair with her daughter, 17-year-old Linda Cooke.
33. In 2006, a British man in Yorkshire named Chris Taylor discovered his girlfriend was cheating when his pet parrot, Ziggy Stardust, started mimicking her voice saying, “I love you, Gary.” To make matters worse, Chris later had to give up Ziggy, admitting, “It was torture hearing him repeat that name over and over again.”
34. The first reality TV show, An American Family (1973), aimed to document everyday family life but instead ended up tearing the family apart. Over 10 million viewers watched as Pat Loud openly criticized her husband Bill’s infidelity, lamented their sex life, and-midway through filming-asked him for a divorce on camera.
35. Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, gained notoriety for pursuing romantic affairs with attractive women who attended sobriety meetings. His behavior became so infamous that fellow AA members dubbed it “the thirteenth step.”
36 Ben Franklin’s Affair Advice
After fathering an illegitimate son, Benjamin Franklin openly advocated for having sexual affairs with older women. He argued that “it is less sinful to have sex with an older woman than to debauch a virgin.”
37. In 1990, actress Julia Roberts was set to marry actor Kiefer Sutherland, but days before the wedding, she fled to Europe with his best friend. Humiliated, Kiefer turned to steer roping for comfort. Despite breaking three fingers at his first rodeo, he persisted and eventually became a tournament-winning rider on the circuit.
38. Alla Nazimova, one of the most iconic silent film actresses in early American cinema and originally from Russia, engaged in multiple romantic affairs with other actresses. She also coined the phrase “sewing circle” to discreetly refer to closeted lesbian or bisexual women in Hollywood.
39. In 1986, a waitress sued Robin Williams after he transmitted herpes to her while cheating on his wife.
40. In 2002, Louis Dethy, a retired Belgian engineer, facing eviction after cheating on his wife, attempted a deadly act of revenge by rigging their entire house with over 20 firearm-based traps intended to kill his family. He even left a cryptic riddle behind for future occupants. However, before anyone else could enter, he accidentally triggered one of his own traps and fatally shot himself. A military anti-mining team spent three weeks locating and safely disarming 19 of the remaining devices.
41 Stephen Hawking’s Voicebox Love Triangle
Stephen Hawking’s wife had an affair with a member of her church choir. In response, Hawking left her and began a relationship with his nurse-who happened to be the ex-wife of the engineer who had designed his iconic voice box.
42. After discovering his wife’s affair, the future King George I of England violently beat and choked her before divorcing her and imprisoning her for life. He also ordered the murder of her lover.
43. Pope John XII, infamous for numerous scandals, either died during sex with a married woman or was beaten to death by her enraged husband. His papacy included other shocking actions-such as affairs, blasphemous toasts to the devil, and even appointing a ten-year-old boy as bishop.
44. While married to Pattie Boyd, Eric Clapton physically abused her due to his alcoholism and engaged in multiple affairs. He fathered children with two different women before the couple divorced in 1989.
45. Despite his devout Christian faith, Chuck Norris fathered a daughter during an affair in his first marriage. He didn’t meet her until she was 26 years old.
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46 Patton’s Niece Becomes Mistress
General George S. Patton carried on a years-long affair with his niece, beginning when she was just 17 and continuing throughout World War II.
47. Both before and during his presidency, John F. Kennedy reportedly had affairs with several women-including Marilyn Monroe, Gunilla von Post, Judith Campbell, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Marlene Dietrich, Mimi Alford, and even his wife’s press secretary, Pamela Turnure.
48. Liv Tyler was born as the result of an affair between her mother, Bebe Buell, and Steven Tyler. At the time, Buell was living with musician Todd Rundgren, who was listed as Liv’s father on her birth certificate. Liv didn’t learn that Tyler was her biological father until she was 10 years old.
49. During the infamous Tour de Nesle Affair, two knights-who were also brothers-engaged in affairs with the Queens of France. For their “crimes,” authorities captured and executed them in horrific fashion: they were beaten, skinned alive, emasculated, doused in boiling lead sulfite, decapitated, and hung on public gallows where their bodies decayed for weeks.
50. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was rumored to have had an affair and fathered a daughter with his step-grandmother, Germaine de Foix, when he was around 17 and she was 29. Before that, Germaine had been married to Ferdinand II of Aragon-who was both her husband and her grandmother’s half-brother-making him her half-granduncle. The tangled web of royal bloodlines and alleged scandal was jaw-dropping, even by European aristocracy standards.
RE: Fact #14 (Duke Excommunicated for Affair Art) – Getting kicked out twice should mean you’re back in, right? Seems fair to me.
RE: Fact #33 (Parrot Outs Girlfriend’s Affair) – That’s messed up! He had to ditch his parrot after the parrot ratted out some cheaters? Seriously? WTF
RE: Fact #1 (Carrie Fisher – Harrison Ford Affair) – I just found out they were having an affair.
RE: Fact #3 (Napoleon vs Wellington: Bedroom Battle) – So, between her flings with Napoleon and Wellington, she also had a kid with the Russian Tsar, Alexander I.
RE: Fact #29 (Tour de Nesle Royal Scandal) – That much trouble made the Hundred Years War drag on for 116 years.
RE: Fact #1 (Carrie Fisher – Harrison Ford Affair) – So, she offered Harrison a chance to cut anything he wasn’t happy with, but he just ignored her and let her publish whatever – right?
RE: Fact #8 (Geisha Affair Ends Prime Minister) – Sounds like a different take on right and wrong, huh?
RE: Fact #21 (Elvis, Sinatra Love Triangle) – Prowse was tall and had amazing legs. As a kid, watching those L’eggs ads, I totally wanted legs like that.
RE: Fact #27 (Macarena: Cheating Hidden in Dance) – Saying “don’t worry about my boyfriend” then adding “I can’t stand him, he was gone, and his friends were hot!” was a pretty obvious clue.