Top 20 love and sex scandals

Democrat NC Sen - Extramarital affair with staff member, while wife was critically ill with breast cancer.

Barney Frank - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman's Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.

he put a cigar in her private area.

Gerald Ackerman - Democrat MI May - In May 2000, convicted on 10 felony counts of criminal sexual conduct; sentenced to 18 to 38 years imprisonment, also 1 year for indecent exposure to a minor

Brock Adams - Democrat WA Sen - Arrested for drugging, assault, and rape of a woman. (While married)

The Hole front woman did her very best to stay in the headlines this year, reportedly dating Uma Thurman's ex, hotelier Andre Balasz; perhaps dabbling in lesbianism with Kate Moss; and then telling Howard Stern that she used to sleep with Gavin Rossdale, possibly making Gwen Stefani rip her platinum hair out by its precarious roots.

Sam Adams - Democrat OR May - Lied, but proven guilty to an affair with an 18-year old male intern.

Diminutive former TV star Gary Coleman was hospitalized in May after a head injury, slipped into a coma and then died when his estranged wife, Shannon Price, decided to remove life support. Questions abounded about the Coleman-Price marriage, their secret divorce and what the truth was about those allegations of domestic abuse. In the end, though, the situation was just too sad for words.

In November, Miley Cyrus's parents announced that they were divorcing after 17 years of marriage, just as Us Weekly squealed that the reason for the split was Tish Cyrus spending some time on the Rock of Love Bus. We have no idea if that's the real reason they broke up, but it makes us laugh because Tish and Bret are a couple made

The highest-paid soccer player in the world didn't have the best World Cup this year, with his Portugal team exiting in the Round of 16 (meaning they did just as well as the U.S. squad!), but he had another reason to celebrate: the 25-year-old unexpectedly became a (single) father. On July 3, he announced the birth of his son, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. The tot's mother, according to some none-too-reputable sources, is an American waitress whose one-night stand with C-Ron earned her 10 million pounds (and a lifetime of regrets?) for handing over her baby to the ball player. And here we are, five months later, and still not a single picture of Cris holding that baby! The paparazzi in Spain are seriously siesta-ing on the job.

Because the 15-year age difference was old news, this year Ashton and Demi gave the tabloids fresh dirt to dish. In September, Star alleged that Ashton had been making out with a young blond woman at a restaurant. A couple weeks later the same magazine published a tell-all from a young lady who said Ashton gave her his number while out bowling with Demi, and later had sex with her at his house while Demi was away. The Kutchmoores countered the rumors by Tweeting obsessively about one another.