In 2006, Rielle Hunter and John Edwards first met when Rielle gave John the idea of a series of short informal campaign videos after she met him at a bar in New York, where he was attending a business meeting. The Edwards campaign soon hired her to produce a series of promotional videos portraying behind-the-scenes […]
Mary Todd Lincoln – Shopaholic First Lady
Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, enjoyed going shopping in Manhattan. Actually, she enjoyed it so much that reporters started following her around into shops. She was addicted to most modern clothing at the time, such as gloves, lavish gowns, and cashmere shawls, along with some expensive gems like diamonds and pearls. In fact, […]
Deep Throat – The Mysterious Man Who Brought Down a President
Deep Throat was the name used for Mark Felt, who is a former Associate Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who worked with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post in 1972. He supplied them with information on the involvement of Richard Nixon in the Watergate Scandal. The public first had the […]
Whitewater Scandal – The $75 Million Dollar Investigation
What is now known as the Whitewater scandal had a very clear start, which included a land purchase in 1978. Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, helped James B. and Susan McDougal so that they could borrow a total of around $203,000 to buy 220 acres of land in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains. They soon formed […]
Alexander Hamilton and Maria Reynolds – One of the First Political Scandals
Hamilton probably had the first modern political scandal with a woman whose name was Maria Reynolds. This scandal also probably only happened, because Maria and her husband decided that they should use the media to blackmail Hamilton and get some money. Hamilton found Maria while visiting the city of Philadelphia in 1791 when she was […]
JFK and Marilyn Monroe – Did It Really Happen?
Was there actually any relationship between these two people? Was there not? It really hasn’t been proven if it has. People who were more involved in the lives of these two cant even answer this question. However, on a general basis it is believed it did happen. Part of the reason it is believed that […]
Biggest Political Scandals of 2011
Over the course of 2011, there were was plenty of information about political dirt out there. Anywhere from sex scandals, to the Justice Department which allowed guns to illicitly flow into Mexico. However, these our some of these scandals which, to me, stood out the most. John Ensign John Ensign resigned in April after an […]
