Famous political love affairs

The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998, from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House Intern, Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.

Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru were deeply in love according to her daughter Pamela Hicks. She said that she realised her mother’s love for Nehru when they went over Nehru's love letters. She also said that Edwina Mountbatten enjoyed a close and warm relationship with Jawaharlal Nehru but it was spiritual and intellectual, not a sexual one.

Monroe's relationships have garnered much press and her affair with John F. Kennedy was much talked about. It was an affair that was immediately suspected by the media and the President's wife, Jackie O. Monroe first met the president in February 1962, when she was invited to a New York dinner party in his honor.


François Hollande’s alleged affair with the actress Julie Gayet is the latest chapter in the story of the French President’s complicated love life. According to a magazine report, Hollande started a relationship with actress Julie Gayet more than two years ago. In latest revelations, the magazine said the French president used a second apartment in the west of Paris to meet the 41-year-old actress.

Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger's real life is way more dramatic than his reel life. The news of his affair with his long time housekeeper, Mildred Patricia 'Patty' Baena, ended the actor's 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver. He told his wife in January 2011, when she confronted him the day after he left office. Maria Shriver, hired a divorce lawyer after husband Arnold Schwarzenegger's admission that he fathered a child with the housekeeper.

Famous political love affairs

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