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Politicians And Their Alleged Affairs: A Slideshow

Huffington Post   First Posted: 06/30/2009 5:12 am Updated: 05/25/2011 1:25 pm

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has found himself under public scrutiny for his alleged affair with 18-year-old model Noemi Letizia. However, he's hardly the first politician to conduct extra business on the side. Here's a collection of other elected officials and their alleged extramarital affairs that once attracted the media's attention.

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11:19 AM on 06/03/2009
My observation is this, though applicability is less than 100% - there are a few exceptions. And strictly non-partisan:

Personal characteristics of a politician:

1. Arrogant
2. Feeling of entitlement
3. Feeling of being above common norms of behavior
4. Need for constant confirmation of power and importance

These characteristics are shared by others, generally type "A" personalities who have found themselves in prominent positions. These are the people most likely to have affairs. And it's much, much more about power than it is about sex.
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Joe Moore
English Teacher in Japan
02:05 AM on 06/03/2009
I have to be honest, if Gavin Newsom or John Edwards made a move on me, I'd have a hard time resisting too....especially Gavin Newsom...he's a cutie! :-)
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blackhole2008
Me Lib
01:08 PM on 06/01/2009
It's not an affair if you're italian.
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ZimboChick
Stanning for Hopey all day, everyday
08:46 AM on 06/01/2009
No wonder Newt id c r a zy...he wakes up to those 3y3s
01:58 AM on 06/01/2009
You know if you only have sex with your wife you can't get caught.
11:08 AM on 06/03/2009
Well, that kinda depends on where you are doing it. If it's in the produce aisle at the grocery store, you might.
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RedStateCenterLeft
12:28 AM on 06/01/2009
Wow, how much plastic surgery has Newt's woman had? Jack Nicholson as the Joker must have been her model.
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liberalbug
do you want fries with that?
01:46 AM on 06/01/2009
Looks like the left eye was bo-toxed right before the photo was taken. Yikes! Eye wide open.
01:40 PM on 06/01/2009
WOW. Good catch. I didn't notice it. But it is very, very strange.
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Gronkie
Radical Independent
10:43 PM on 05/31/2009
What about Geroge Bush? He screwed the entire country!
01:46 PM on 06/01/2009
Good one.lol.
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DalKimball82
03:42 PM on 06/01/2009
Excellent!!
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Goliadkin
Irony: it's not just for smart people anymore.
07:41 PM on 05/31/2009
To Gavin Newsome: I would think twice about doing the nasty with anyone named Ruby Rippey-Tourk. Sounds, and looks, like a recipe for penile fracture! But then again, some like it hot!
07:15 PM on 05/31/2009
No mention of John McCain? He infamously left his wife for the greener grass after coming home from the war.. nothing like a heiress sugar mama to launch your political career, eh Johnny?
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mmaza
07:33 PM on 05/31/2009
I'd like to know if Cindy McCain shared her hair secrets.
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josholland
07:02 PM on 05/31/2009
Villaraigosa wins. Edwards loses.
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mazzetta
05:21 PM on 05/31/2009
Berlusconi's update

Dealing with the pics he tries to hide, it's emerged that he used state's planes to move girls and singers for his happenings
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Goliadkin
Irony: it's not just for smart people anymore.
07:47 PM on 05/31/2009
He's the biggest, crudest pi^^p on the planet. What an embarrassment to the great nation of Italy.
05:05 PM on 05/31/2009
How does one have an affair with his slave? It's not like she could say no.
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montecarlo408
08:00 PM on 05/31/2009
I was thinking the same thing. There is a mindset that somehow black female slaves were hot in the pants and just wanted to bed the men who enslaved them. That mindset still permeates through segments of society (the right-wing nuttery variety).
11:44 PM on 05/31/2009
I agree. That should not be called an affair.
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WhatDaBleep
Right is Wrong and Left is Correct
05:04 PM on 05/31/2009
Who Cares - Clinton had Monica and Bush had Condi. Who Cares!
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feliznavidad
Fierce liberal
09:19 AM on 06/01/2009
It is the hypocracy that reeks -- ever heard News ahd the republicrabs rant about so-called "family values." They never mention that for them, "family" doesn't count until the third wife or so.
05:01 PM on 05/31/2009
I am much more concerned about the policies of our leaders-not how often they open their zipper. Such investigations satisfy the voyeuers but waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars while giving the hypocrtical right-wingers another platform to rally their followers. If you want to spent millions on investigayions, let's find out what the W. Whitehouse, regarding the Iraqi war, knew and when it knew it. How much did Cheney/W benefit from having KBR electocute our soldiers?
02:32 PM on 05/31/2009
The upshot? We guys love to bang and have a good time.