Dirty politics!
Following Stormy Daniels’ bombshell interview in which the porn star spoke about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, we look at other political sex scandals that rocked the world
tEN DAYS before the 2016 US presidential election an adult film actress known professionally as Stormy Daniels was paid £95,000 by Donald Trump’s lawyer to keep quiet about her alleged relationship with the Republican candidate.
But that no longer appears to be a deterrent for porn star Stephanie Clifford, 39, whose bombshell interview at the weekend underlines her determination to create choppy waters for the 45th President of the United States despite the threat of a £700,000 fine every time she speaks out. To celebrate her chutzpah we look at the greatest political sex scandals of all time. When 25-year-old Margaret Owen married 23-year-old David Lloyd George in 1888 she hoped he would be faithful but even his son once described his father as like “a Bengal tiger with a gazelle” when it came to women.
A few months after their marriage he had fathered a child with one Mrs J, who was paid to stay quiet. Soon it was rumoured that an affair with his wife’s cousin Kitty Edwards had led to another birth. Before long he had embarked on two further affairs, one with a friend’s wife.
But the greatest threat to Margaret came when he fell in love with Frances Stevenson, a school friend of his daughter Mair, who had died aged 17. For 30 years Stevenson was his soul mate before becoming his second wife after Margaret’s death.