It was only a month and a half ago that cocktail party chatter was suddenly dominated by the sodomy and attempted rape accusations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Despite the case's inchoate posture, we quickly knew many of the supposed details. Thanks to a notoriously tabloid-like newspaper we learned that the accuser,...

Women are sometimes the harshest critics of the women who stay. Hillary Clinton? All she cares about is power. Silda Spitzer? Stepford Wife. Elin Nordegren? Hanging in there for the money.

We snarky gawkers have plenty of material to harsh on in the Sandra Bullock - Jesse James saga. The...

If David Letterman had to be blackmailed over past sexual misconduct, he could not have chosen a better time. His on-air disclosure of the "terrible things" he'd done, and the subsequent threats he faced from a would-be extortionist, came four days after Roman Polanski's arrest on a three-decade-old...

Last week in Hempstead, New York, a young woman accused five men of gang rape on the Hofstra campus. In 2006, in Durham, North Carolina, a young woman accused members of the Duke lacrosse team of gang rape.

Both accusations turned out to be false. Both cases...

Last month, crime story watchers like me sat riveted as police announced the eighteen-year-delayed discovery of missing child turned grown woman and mother, Jaycee Dugard. Why the fascination?

Maybe it was the human desire to celebrate something that resembled a happy ending. Even after nearly two decades of...