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With the recent rash of male celebrities caught cheating on their wives, you might think that men cheat more frequently than women. Not so, according to statistics. While it’s difficult to gather accurate information on infidelity, most surveys indicate that women cheat as often as men. But if that’s the case, why do the infidelity scandals that hit the news every week always seem to involve a male celebrity cheating?
Phil Klein, the private investigator hired by Dateline NBC to find Olivia Newtown-John’s ex-boyfriend Patrick McDermott, apparently solved the case using a clever, techie ruse.
It’s a classic Dateline story: McDermott’s family reported the long-time boyfriend of Newtown-John missing in 2005, when he didn’t come back from a fishing trip in California. Authorities initially thought that he had fallen overboard and died, but eyewitnesses claimed they saw him get off the boat in port. This sparked the theory that McDermott had faked his own death and disappeared to escape his mounting debt.
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From early 2006 to August 2008, former presidential candidate John Edwards was able to keep secret an intense affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter. Although the scandal eventually became public, Edwards used some key tricks and techniques to hide his affair, detailed in former aide Paul Young’s new book, The Politician.
Have an accomplice. Paul Young helped facilitate and hide the affair in a number of ways. From booking hotel rooms under his name to falsely claiming paternity of Edwards’ and Hunter’s love child, he was the perfect accomplice (until he wrote his tell-all book, that is).
With the rise in popularity of text messaging, it’s no surprise that increasingly more adulterers are being outed by their cell phones.
The most prominent recent example is Tiger Woods: After allegedly carrying on secret affairs with numerous women over several years, he was finally undone by text messages sent to Rachel Uchitel, the first mistress to be unveiled. A friend of hers told the National Enquirer about the affair, claiming she had seen incriminating text messages. The published rumors likely led to Tiger’s fight with his wife, Elin Nordegren, and subsequent car accident. For further embarrassment, another one of Tiger’s mistresses, Jaimee Grubbs, then gave illicit text messages incriminating Tiger to US Weekly, which then published them.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you know that Jon and Kate of TLC’s “Jon & Kate Plus 8” fame are getting a divorce, and it is has been less than amicable.
Under allegations of infidelity on both sides, what was already a contentious divorce proceeding turned uglier when TLC fired Jon from the show, renaming it “Kate Plus 8” last month. Jon retaliated by stopping production on the show, halting the family’s main income stream. Both Jon and Kate have accused each other of taking large sums of money from their joint bank account. Every day brings more bad behavior and headlines.
The recent tragic homocide of bikini model Jasmine Fiore by her reality TV star husband, Ryan Jenkins, is an example of how useless a criminal background check is if your private investigator or background check service doesn’t use good data sources.
In 2007, Jenkins pleaded guilty in Calgary, Canada to assault. He was sentenced to 15 months probation and ordered to undergo counseling for domestic violence and sex addiction and to stay away from the person involved. Subsequently, Jenkins starred in the VH1 reality show Megan Wants a Millionaire. The production company behind the show, 51 Minds, issued a statement saying that they used an outside company to run background checks on its contestants and were not aware of his record.
In the wake of Michael Jackson’s tragic death, a key debate is emerging over who will get custody of his three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II (also known as Blanket), 7. Two people are currently or potentially seeking custody: Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, and, Michael Jackson’s ex-wife and Prince Michael and Paris’s biological mother, Debbie Rowe. In deciding custody, the court looks at what is in the best interests of the child, so let’s look at the candidates through that lens:
Katherine Jackson
Pros: By all accounts, Katherine has a close relationship with her grandchildren and was named their guardian in Michael’s will. She also was awarded temporary guardianship of her grandchildren by a California judge, so the children are currently living with her.
