Celeb Scandals

From power seats to penthouse suites, these public offenders proved the bigger they were, the harder they fell

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GARY HART & DONNA RICE

Daring the press to "put a tail on me" was Gary Hart's first mistake. Boarding a boat called Monkey Business in 1987 with would-be model-actress Donna Rice was his second – and last. The married Democratic senator, whose career had been dogged with allegations of womanizing, denied any impropriety, telling Nightline's Ted Koppel "the woman in question" had simply "dropped into my lap. I chose not to dump her off."

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