The powers that be: mistresses of world leaders
The other day Monica Lewinsky gave her first interview in 10 years. In it, she said that she regretted her affair with Clinton, that the relationship was consensual, and that she became the first person humiliated using the Internet. I invite you to remember women who are almost always in the shadows, but one way or another have enormous influence on prominent politicians. Confirmed Relationships
1. Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy
Bruni and Sarkozy met in 2007, almost immediately Sarkozy divorced his wife, and a few months later he married Bruni. The wedding took place on February 2, 2008 at the Elysee Palace. This was the first wedding of the head of France during his presidential term. On October 19, 2011, Carla Bruni gave birth to a daughter, Julia.
2. Julie Gayet and Francois Hollande
On February 10 of this year, the tabloid Closer published an article about Francois Hollande’s affair with actress Julie Gayet. The article was accompanied by compromising photographs that proved the fact that the president was dating the actress. Hollande did not deny the affair, limiting himself to the statement that his marriage to his common-law wife, First Lady of France Valerie Trierweiler, was going through hard times. Thanks to this article, the rating of the most unpopular president of France over the past 70 years even increased. Hollande did not sue the tabloid, but Julie Gayet did, demanding 50 thousand euros from Closer.
3. Anne Penjo and Francois Mitterrand
Anne Penjot was almost the official mistress of former French President Francois Mitterrand. Journalists and the public were calm about this, except for the case when the president, secretly from the press, provided her with a free apartment in his residence. The public learned about this in 1995, when Jacques Chirac came to power. One of the first orders of the new president was the decision to evict Penjo and her daughter from the Elysee Palace. Prior to this, Pengeau's postal address did not mention the Elysee Palace, but only the Quai-Branly street, onto which the residence faces with one wall. After Mitterrand's death, the family of the former president forbade Anne Penjot to attend the funeral, but under public pressure was forced to allow it. Anne Penjo and her daughter were present at all official mourning ceremonies and funerals of the ex-president, which took place in a narrow family circle far from Paris. After the funeral, Anne Pengeau worked in one of the Parisian museums, living in a small apartment.
4. Graça Simbine and Nelson Mandela
Graça Simbine is the only woman in the world who managed to be the first lady of two different states. Simbine married her first husband, Samora Machel, the president of Mozambique, in 1975, and their marriage lasted until 1986, when Machel died in a plane crash. And on August 31, 1996, South African President Nelson Mandela admitted that Graça Machel had been his mistress for a long time. In 1998, 52-year-old Simbine married 80-year-old Mandela.
5. Edwina Currie and John Major
In 1993, British Prime Minister John Major and unknown Claire Latimer sued several tabloid publications that called them lovers. But the publications had no evidence, and the prime minister, who claimed to be an exemplary family man, won the lawsuit. However, a few months later it turned out that the journalists were right about something: he did have a mistress, but not Miss Latimer, but the Minister of Health Edwina Currie. Their relationship lasted more than four years, although in public he confronted her. For example, during the 1997 election, which the Conservatives lost, Major even gave a standing ovation when the news reported that Currie had failed to enter parliament in her constituency. According to those close to him, Major was very burdened by this relationship. Curry did not remain in debt: she published a book of memoirs in which Major is described as a man wandering around her apartment in only blue shorts and demanding to take a bath exclusively together.
6. Blanche Dapulger and Bob Hawke
The romance between Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke and writer Blanche Dapulger began after Dapulger met the politician to write his biography. The whole country knew about this relationship, which also knew that Hawk had not lived with his wife for a long time. Among the outstanding mistresses, Dapulzhe stands apart because the couple observed all formal decency. Dapulzhe took over the functions of the mistress of the house at all official and informal receptions, but they lived strictly separately. Hawk went on official international trips alone, and if the couple went on vacation, Dapulzhe paid for her travel and accommodation herself. During his political career, Hawke believed that he should not be distracted by personal matters, so the couple married only after Hawke resigned.
7. Terry Keane and Charles Haughey
One of the leaders of the Irish Soldiers of Fortune party, former Prime Minister of the country Charles Haughey, had an affair with journalist Terry Keane for 27 years. Both had families and children, but this did not bother them. They didn’t advertise the affair, but they didn’t try to hide it either. Due to the fact that Terry Keene was respected among her colleagues, no one dared to write about their romance. Information in the press appeared only after the couple broke up, and Keene herself wrote about it. She called Haughey "fucking sexy" but said she would never be his wife. Conservative Irish reacted calmly to the adventures of the former prime minister.
8. Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy
The history of the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy is one of the most favorite topics of conspiracy theorists. It is known that Marilyn Monroe met the Democratic presidential candidate in mid-1960 while on vacation in Lake Tahoe. At that time, according to the testimony of people close to the family, Marilyn liked not John more, but his younger brother Robert. Their relationship with John began only in October 1961, when he had already become president. This outraged many, including the intelligence services, who believed that a relationship with an “alcoholic” could threaten the security of the state. This romance was one of the shortest in the life of the film actress. Many believe that he was the real cause of her death. Monroe was found dead in her apartment on August 4, 1962.
Unconfirmed relationships 9. Alana Gagloeva and Mikheil Saakashvili
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was rumored to have had an affair with his former press secretary Alana Gagloeva. As evil tongues say, she became pregnant at the same time as Saakashvili’s wife, Sandra Rullovs. In order to hide his illegitimate child, Saakashvili tried to pass off his pregnant girlfriend as the governor of Shido Kartli, Mikheil Kareli, but she refused and was eventually sent to live in a small town. After the birth of Saakashvili's son, talk about his novels ended.
10. Vera Baker and Barack Obama
Barack Obama's former driver said that the US president cheated on his wife at least once. According to him, in 2004, the then-candidate for the post of senator from the state of Illinois met with his 29-year-old assistant Vera Baker, who helped him raise money for the election campaign. The driver also said that when Michelle Obama found out about this, she made every effort to separate the couple. Now Vera Baker works on a television channel in Martinique.
11. Galina Kolonitskaya and Muammar Gaddafi
WikiLeaks once wrote that Muammar Gaddafi had an affair with 38-year-old nurse Galina Kolonitskaya. According to the site, she was the main mistress of the Libyan dictator; Gaddafi could not do without her on any trip. Kolonitskaya’s family denies intimate intimacy in every possible way, saying that the woman and the dictator simply had a very trusting relationship.
12. Irina Abelskaya and Alexander Lukashenko
The attending physician of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Irina Abelskaya, is considered one of the most influential women in Belarusian politics. In 2001, she became the chief physician of the hospital under the Presidential Administration, and her mother, Lyudmila Postoyalko, became the Minister of Health. Lukashenko even publicly insulted his favorite, but among officials she is considered one of the few women capable of influencing the president. In 2004, Abelskaya gave birth to a son; paternity is attributed to Alexander Lukashenko.
13. Alina Kabaeva and Vladimir Putin
A number of media outlets, including foreign ones, wrote that Vladimir Putin had (or is) having an affair with Russian gymnast and State Duma deputy Alina Kabaeva. They are even credited with having children together: Kabaeva allegedly gave birth to two and lives in the Sochi residence Bocharov Ruchei. However, these rumors are not confirmed.
14. Viktor Yanukovych and women
Viktor Yanukovych is credited with having affairs with at least two women. The first, 25-year-old journalist Alena Berezovskaya (pictured on the right), got from an online publication into the presidential pool and accompanied Yanukovych on trips to Russia and the European Union. The second is Elena Lukash, who, working as an ordinary lawyer, was able to become a deputy minister overnight.
Star mistresses who broke families.....
Albina Dzhanabaeva
Age: 30 years old Turned my head: singer and producer Valery Meladze.
Last summer, one of the strongest (at least it seemed from the outside) Russian couples broke up. The father of three children separated from his wife Irina, with whom he had been married for about twenty years. Various reasons were given for the separation, but the main reason was... an office romance with the lead singer of the VIA Gra group. How the novel ended
: Valery admitted publicly that his son Kostya was growing up with Albina.
At the end of March, the lovers, who had never been seen together before, flew to Kyiv and stayed in the same room at the Premier Palace Hotel. Now that the singer is divorced, he can finally openly build his relationship with the VIA Gra star. Angelina Jolie
Age: 34 years old Turned her head: “the most handsome man on the planet” Brad Pitt.
It’s not for nothing that Vanessa Paradis jealously watches the filming of “The Tourist,” where Johnny Depp plays with Angelina. After the release of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the Hollywood diva gained the reputation of a “homewrecker” forever. Angelina and Brad denied their office romance on the set until the end, until in 2005 (after filming ended) the actor filed for divorce from Jennifer Aniston. How the romance ended
: getting ready for the next red carpet, Angelina checks to see if ... her husband’s ex-wife is on the guest list.
Year after year, the press never tires of throwing coals into the confrontation between “Pitt’s two most beloved women.” As for the “unfaithful husband” himself, he is in no hurry to tie himself into marriage again. Over the course of five years of civil marriage, the couple managed to acquire a crowd of children and never tire of fighting off attacks from the tabloids trying to separate them. Elizaveta Boyarskaya
Age: 24 years old Turned her head: the young actor Maxim Matveev.
The couple’s romance began in August last year, during the filming of the film “I Won’t Tell” in Kyiv, and already at the October premiere of the series “Admiral” the lovers appeared together for the first time. Lisa proudly introduced 27-year-old Maxim to everyone as her new young man, and, it seems, did not pay any attention to the fact that everyone knew that he was married to theater actress Yana Sexta. How the romance ended
: for several weeks in a row the couple appeared together at all film premieres, and then, unexpectedly, they broke up.
“Which Maxim?! Lizonka’s friend is a businessman,” Larisa Luppian’s mother defended her daughter. – I am very proud of Lisa. The main thing for me is that her fate works out.” We never learned the name of the businessman, but we know for sure that the most enviable bride in the country, Liza Boyarskaya, got married in the strictest secrecy in St. Petersburg. The legal husband of the 24-year-old artist was actor Maxim Matveev, known for the film “Hipsters.” Anastasia Zavorotnyuk
Age: 38 years old Turned her head: actor Sergei Zhigunov.
The whole country followed the dizzying romance between “nanny Vika” and “producer Shatalin”. A few months after filming the series, the actor independently filed for divorce with the court. There were “no material claims” in the divorce document; he simply asked to be divorced from his wife Vera Novikova, with whom he had lived for 24 years. How the novel ended
: the couple’s feelings extinguished as quickly as they flared up.
The official reason for the separation was given by the couple as “dissimilarity of characters.” On the set of the project “Dancing on Ice. “Velvet Season” Anastasia began a new, no less passionate affair with figure skater Pyotr Chernyshev, and six months later, in October 2009, she got married in Crimea. Sergei had no choice but to return to his wife Vera Novikova. On October 6 last year, the couple re-signed in one of the registry offices of Kolomna. Oksana Grigorieva
Age: 40 years old Turned her head: director and actor Mel Gibson.
Neither seven children, nor 28 (!) years of marriage, nor the division of a multimillion-dollar fortune prevented the 54-year-old director from plunging headlong into a new romance with a beautiful Ukrainian singer. The owner of the production company Icon Records was ready not only to shoot a video for his beloved and help in recording the debut album Beautiful Heartache, but also... to become a father for the eighth time. How the romance ended
: last November, Oksana gave her beloved daughter Lucy Annette. Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva were not even married, but the hype around their discord can be compared with the loudest and most scandalous divorces in Hollywood.
Now anyone can listen to how Mel called Oksana names, and what she responded to. The scandal between Gibson and Grigorieva became the property of all famous American tabloids. It is reported that Gibson assaulted and even knocked out two of Grigorieva’s teeth on January 8 at his home in Malibu. Sienna Miller
Age: 28 Turned heads: actor Jude Law and billionaire Balthazar Getty.
The blonde's bait catches only large and... "largely populated" fish. She began an office romance with handsome Alfie, Jude Law, right on the set of the comedy of the same name in 2003. At this time, the actor’s wife Sadie Frost was expecting her third (!) baby. Last year, Sienna’s passion was the heir to an oil empire and father of four children, Balthazar Getty, in whose arms the actress continually found herself on the front pages of the tabloids. How the novel ended
: Tired of public condemnation and harassment by the paparazzi, Sienna broke up with Balthazar, but at the beginning of this year she unexpectedly got together for the second time with... the British Doctor Watson.
But the couple’s happiness is hampered by Jude Law’s short affair with model Samantha Berg, namely his illegitimate daughter Sofia, who was born last summer. Sienna gave her beloved an ultimatum - to fully deal with her past. In May 2010, the couple first appeared together in public and confirmed the information about their romance. Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Age: 47 years old Turned her head: director Emir Kusturica.
Rumors about the couple's office romance began last year, when the actress was married to English director Simon Stokes. It all started when four years ago, at one of the film festivals, they unexpectedly... became more than just friends for each other. Since then, the lovers have flown together on tours and vacations, hiding behind an ironclad alibi - “we work together.” Who knows how long this celebration of life would have lasted if the director’s wife, Maya Kusturica, had not found out about the affair. How the romance ended
: after the mother of two children of Emir Kusturica threatened her unfaithful husband with filing for divorce, the couple’s relationship (at least for a while) calmed down.
Although... in March, rumors began to circulate in the press again that Ingeborg (who divorced her husband Simon Stokes) and Emir were preparing for another joint vacation. Victoria Bonya
Age: 30 years old Turned her head: football player Soares Welliton.
Last fall, the TV presenter and the Moscow Spartak striker were first seen in one of the capital's clubs, and later they sat next to each other on the VIP stand during the Spartak match with the Tom team (that day the Brazilian missed the game due to disqualification and I could devote the whole day to my beloved). The lovers' happiness was hampered by only one BUT - the football player's wife and child, who were waiting for him in Brazil. How the affair ended
: the couple dated for only a few weeks.
There were rumors that the football player in love was going to propose his hand and heart to Victoria and take her to Brazil. But then, apparently, he changed his mind and returned to his homeland, to his wife and little son. Tatyana Navka
Age: 34 years old Turned her head: actor Marat Basharov.
The whole country watched with bated breath the scandal erupting over the Ice Age project. The figure skater was married to coach Alexander Zhulin, and the actor... happily married to Lisa Krutsko. When photographs of the hugging couple began to appear in the press and the relationship was already difficult to hide, Marat Basharov’s wife gave a frank interview to Hello! magazine, in which she openly spoke about her husband’s infidelity. How the novel ended
: the vibrant relationship turned out to be... a well-thought-out PR stunt.
Recently, the star couple announced their divorce, and Liza Krutsko this summer is marrying the director of her now ex-husband, Georgy Kazachinsky, whom she met during the stormy glacial romance of her unfaithful husband. Ekaterina Ivanova
Age: 21 Turned her head: rock musician Ronnie Wood.
The 62-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist met a young waitress at a party for the premiere of the film “Let There Be Light.” How the novel ended
: the couple’s relationship turned into heavy drinking and ended in beatings and mutual accusations. In October, rocker Joe's deceived wife, with whom he had been married for more than 23 years and raised two children, filed for divorce.
