History's steamiest political sex scandals
POSTED: 07:52 AM PDT Oct 24, 2011
UPDATED: 12:11 PM PST Nov 09, 2012
With CIA Director David Petraeus resigning over an affair, look back at some of the biggest political sex scandals.
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In 1998, Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt said he had evidence that U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston had strayed outside of his marriage and he was preparing to publish the information. Livingston got word that the article was pending, and on Dec. 19, 1998, he stepped down as Speaker-elect and announced he would resign from the House in May 1999. Republican David Vitter was elected to replace him. Flynt claimed July 9, 2007, to have made the link between Vitter and so-called "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
