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Another May-December fun couple who ran into difficult times — 8 Comments

  1. The first two rang no bells. Looked them up, and Aha!

    Gotta wonder why TIME made up that list. Not that they have anything better to do.

  2. I guess nowadays recognition of the phrase “Argentine Firecracker” marks one as being Of A Certain Age. It always sort of cracked me up, because it was so horribly old-fashioned, even in 1974, just the sort of antiquated term that seemed perfect for the liasons of an antiquated congressman. In the age of Deep Throat it was a little unconvincing that people were genuinely scandalized by an old politician carrying on with a stripper.

  3. Mac:

    It also became clear that Mills had a major drinking problem, and that’s part of what did him in.

    Nowadays he probably just would have apologized, gone to rehab for a while, and soldiered on.

  4. neo: “Nowadays he probably just would have apologized, gone to rehab for a while, and soldiered on.”

    So true. So sad.

  5. Sorry, Neo, but unless you sneaked into Anne’s chambers and found her to be resolutely chaste, I don’t know how you can say she was “falsely” accused of adultery. Anne moved with a fast crowd and apparently let her guard down; unforgivable, really, given all the enemies she had accumulated by the time of the accusation.

    Finally, Katherine of Aragon might have a very different opinion than you about whether she was the King’s mistress or not.

  6. Michael:

    These are not opinions of mine. Almost every historian agrees that she was innocent of the adultery charges, and also that she was not his mistress prior to marriage.

    There is a host of information about all of this, but here’s just one link that deals with some aspects of how poor the evidence for her being an adulterer was.

  7. What a worthless list! Shtupping a celebrity or pol a few times or even pleasuring the President does not make one a member of the Top Ten Mistresses! Where are the “Grand Horizontals?”

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