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Joe Paterno, former football coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, died this morning shortly after 10 am ET in State College, PA after experiencing serious complications from his lung cancer treatment. Paterno's 46-season, two national championship legacy was tarnished in November with allegations that assistant coach Jerry Sandusky had molested children during Paterno's tenure. Paterno had recently told The Washington Post that he was overwhelmed by the scandal and didn't "want to do something to jeopardize what the university procedure was." One of the most beloved college coaches of all time, Paterno's legacy had been untarnished before the Sandusky scandal, marked not only by a high winning percentage, but a high graduation rate that topped out at 85% in 2009. More »
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Scandal-ridden anti-gay Minnesota politician Amy Koch has had a rough few days. First, news of her extramarital affair with her married staffer broke. Then, she was forced to resign from her position as state Senate Majority Leader. Now, it seems that the gays of the land of 10,000 lakes have seen the error of their marriage ruining ways, and one of them has written an apology letter so cold, it will you give your nipples frostbite. More »
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If you haven't heard the allegations that Minnesota State Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, a faithful proponent of the GOP's crusade to define marriage as a state of tenuous forbearance between a man and a woman, had an "improper relationship" with a male Senate staffer, chances are you've been paying pretty close attention. More »
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The second woman to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment has had her identity revealed. This time, it wasn't in a big fancy press conference with a fancy attorney at her side; it was against her wishes by a media outlet. More »
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The Herman Cain scandal has debaclified. A fourth woman says Herman Cain sexually harassed her in the 1990s, and outrage-monger Gloria Allred is there by her side to represent and pimp her. So what are these new allegations and who is this new harassee? More »
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If we've learned one thing about politicians, it's that they tend to run like well-oiled sexual harassment machines. They're some of the busiest people in America, and yet many find time to subject their aides to bizarre and inappropriate behavior, and some are even sharing troubling semi-nude photographs of themselves online. The 2012 Republican field has some potential for a sex scandal with an unusual twist, from the moralizing Morman frontrunner to the moralizing, lesbian-fearing lady, but instead, this year's harassment allegations will focus on the befuddled pizza man, Herman Cain. More »
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A male escort is claiming that he had a sexual encounter with Chris Myers, the Republican mayor of Medford, New Jersey, and he's offering photos as proof. The mayor vehemently denies the allegations, but can't explain how in tarnation that gay male escort got hold of pictures of a guy who looks kind of exactly like him in his skivvies. Magic, I suppose. Gay magic. More »
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Turns out it wasn't the work of an exceptionally crafty and twisted publicist, after all. Authorities say that they've nabbed the "lone wolf" behind the unauthorized release of nude photos of Scarlett Johansson. And ScarJo's not his only victim; they think that he's behind dozens of other internet nude photo security breaches — including Christina Aguilera and Mila Kunis — as well. More »
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Karl Lagerfeld says he sent flowers to Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife when they returned to France after the Manhattan district attorney dropped the rape charges made against him by a cleaner at a hotel. "Even in America, Clinton survived his blow job," says Lagerfeld. "But there was not a lot of doubt that that was consensual," interjected the interviewer. Lagerfeld replied, "They all do it in the political world. They get horny from politics, from power. And he had unbelievable charms. He is really charming. He's fun, he's great. He's a sweet guy — as long as you're not a woman. That's the problem." As Erin put it this morning, "That's like saying someone is an awesome driver, as long as you're not a pedestrian." [Style.com] More »
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A group of hackers who broke into the website of the Texas Police Chiefs have unearthed a series of emails that sound more like the writings of a "dumb/racist" caricature of a Texas police officer than a real, live person, but sadly, sometimes even caricatures have a grain of truth to them. More »
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The North Korean women's national soccer team has been banned from competition in the 2015 Women's World Cup after five members of the team tested positive for performance enhancing drugs derived from the musk hormones of deer. Musk is a smelly brownish secretion that male deer rub all over trees and other inanimate objects in an attempt to attract a mate. The ladydeer go nuts for it. Think Axe Body Spray commercial, but in the forest. More »
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Tammy Chapman was a Penthouse Pet back in the early nineties; a few years later, while working as a stripper, she says she had this one asshole client who was obsessed with her and was constantly shoving her head in his crotch. Funny thing is, now he's about to run for governor of Missouri as a Tea Partying family values Republican. More »
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A series of pixellated, blurry photos that show a woman in a flight attendant's uniform performing mid-flight oral sex on a pilot have prompted a full investigation by the woman's employer. After that airplane themed verse in N.E.R.D's "Lapdance," it was really only a matter of time. In fact, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. More »
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Over the weekend, Rep. David Wu of Oregon became the latest congressmen to be accused of inappropriate sexual behavior. His fellow Democrats are already demanding that he resign due to fears that they have another Anthony Weiner scandal on their hands — except this time instead of being all fun and dick jokes, the alleged incident involves the sexual assault of a teenage girl. More »
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Another congressman is in hot water for inappropriate sexual behavior around the ladeez. More »
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The ongoing scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. involves a lot of high-profile women. Today we take a look at some of the most famous ones — and a few less well-known women in Murdoch's life. More »
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Philadelphia's Roman Catholic leader, Cardinal Justin Rigali, is expected to retire today roughly five months after the 1.5 million-member archdiocese "was convulsed by evidence that officials had ignored sexual-abuse charges against dozens of currently active priests." More »
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Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar confirmed last night that "a caseworker in a district office" had tendered his resignation: More »
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The News of the World phone hacking scandal spun out of control this week with the revelation that the paper tampered with a murdered girl's voicemail. Today Rupert Murdoch decided the only way to salvage the situation was to shut down the entire paper. More »
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The New York Post, citing unnamed sources, says Huma Abedin, wife of Anthony Weiner, is taking time off from work while her husband seeks unspecified treatment. During which we hope she doesn't get hounded by the Post and sundry paparazzi. More »
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In what may be the very best article the Daily Mail has ever published, Rebecca Evans drops her monocle into her cup of Earl Grey tea as she reports that there was a scuffle at the Royal Ascot — the Queen's favourite racing event, which is celebrating its 300th year. More »
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There were no revelations at Ginger Lee's press conference with Gloria Allred today about her communications with Anthony Weiner — only existential angst. For both the people there and the people watching at home. More »
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Anthony Weiner hasn't really specified what kind of "treatment" he's seeking, and we're a little curious. So we decided to check out what his options are. More »
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Posing on the cover of Hello with her son with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mildred Baena describes being asked by Maria Shriver, point blank, if Joseph was Arnold's son. More »
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Can a congressman survive once people on the Internet have seen his apparently waxed balls? It's a whole new level of exposure, made all the barer by the congressman's grooming habits. More »
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"I just thought at the time...there's way more girls out there, this is not just me," Anthony Weiner Facebook sextee Meagan Broussard told Sean Hannity. More »
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All over the Internet, men are photographing their own bodies and sending the shots to women who are maybe not their wives and girlfriends. It's a risk for most any non-professional, but it's one that predictably costs male politicians like Anthony Weiner — and the men before him — so much more. So why do they do it? More »
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Andrew Breitbart, whose previous "journalistic" exploits include a doctored Shirley Sherrod video and collaborations with fake pimp/sex-boater James O'Keefe says he has new juice on Congressman Anthony Weiner. Spoiler: Weiner keeps his clothes on. Update: Nevermind. Shirtless pics released. More »
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Over the past two weeks, we've heard plenty of rumors about Mildred Patricia Baena, the mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child. Baena has gone into hiding, so all we know is what's been leaked to the likes of TMZ by anonymous sources. However, that hasn't stopped one writer from psychoanalyzing the housekeeper's affair with her employer, in one of the most racist ways imaginable. More »
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It only took about twenty-four hours for the name of the household employee who had a child with Arnold Schwarzenegger to be revealed. More »
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Photos of Kate Middleton's sister, Pippa, wearing little more than a bra and underwear have recently surfaced on the internet and as you can imagine, it isn't great news for anyone involved. More »
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As it's been several weeks since we've had a John Edwards update, The National Enquirer has provided a tale about the disgraced politician telling friends he'd rather commit suicide than face a trial over campaign finance violations connected to his payments to Rielle Hunter. While we usually consider the rag even less credible than OK! (at least they have the dignity to print lies on nicer paper), since they broke the story of Edwards affair we have to at least consider the possibility that they're right again. More »
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Ever wonder exactly who "the friend" is dishing the dirt on celebrities? Well, in the case of the Rielle Hunter-John Edwards scandal, we know exactly who it was: the memorably-named Pigeon O'Brien. And now, she's explaining why, exactly, she went to the Enquirer, broke their affair, and effectively ended his political career. More »
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Teachers these days! From an alleged "vagina dance" sex-ed lesson to classroom sex as "insulin care" to sexist firemen, a run-down of recent classroom dramas. More »
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A piece in the Express reminds us of Hollywood's real age of scandal: the death of Thelma Todd, murder on Hearst's yacht, mysterious disappearances, and the stabbing of Lana Turner's lover by her 14-year-old daughter, to name but a few... More »
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Not literally; she's still divorcing him. But not because she believes he got frisky with a Portland masseuse: More »
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Reuters: "It is a tale of unimaginable wealth, high society glamour, low politics, tax havens and a family feud, with declarations of high moral purpose undermined by mutinous servants." In other words, French politics. More »
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Apparently looking to shorten the arc from scandal to redemption, Sarah Ferguson is taping Oprah tomorrow for a show to be broadcast Tuesday, according to The Sun. She'll apologize for her attempted influence-peddling, which was caught on tape. [The Sun] More »
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