# Favorite scandal?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 11, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scandal/387569 "2007-01-11T16:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scandal/387569/1 "2007-01-11T16:44:31Z")
I love old (and newer!) scandals. My new favorite is Margaret - Duchess of Argyll - what a swinger! > **[Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Whigham)** > > Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (née Whigham, formerly Sweeny; 1 December 1912 – 25 July 1993) was a Scottish heiress, socialite, and aristocrat who was most famous for her 1951 marriage and much-publicised 1963 divorce from her second husband, Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. > Ethel Margaret Whigham was the only child of Helen Mann Hannay and George Hay Whigham. Her father, the son of Scottish lawyer and cricketer David Dundas Whigham, was chairman of the Celanese Corporation of ... I’m also a fan of the Spade Cooley mellerdrammer: > **[Spade Cooley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade_Cooley)** > > Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969) was an American convicted murderer and former Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality. In 1961 he was arrested and convicted for the April 1961 murder of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans. > Donnell Clyde Cooley was born in Grand, Oklahoma. Being part Cherokee, he was sent to the Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon, in his youth. In 1930, his family moved to California during the Dust Bowl. It ... Any other favorite scandals? VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scandal/387569/2 "2007-01-11T17:11:00Z")
It’s hard to beat the Profumo scandal. Russian spies, sexy girls, Government ministers, sexy girls, resignations, sexy girls in swimming pools… ‘For months, rumours had circulated about the private life of John Dennis Profumo, secretary of state for war. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, he was a quintessential high Tory who had achieved cabinet rank after serving in a number of junior posts.’ ‘Not all the action was centred on Ward’s Wimpole Mews flat, equipped with two-way mirrors and other aids to lubricity. Soon, Keeler and Rice-Davies were circulating in more exalted milieux, including Lord Astor’s country mansion of Cliveden. It was there that John Profumo first laid eyes on her. A brief but passionate affair ensued, and tongues began to wag.’ > **[1963: The Profumo scandal](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/apr/10/past.derekbrown)** > > At the height of the cold war in the early 60s, as the established order was challenged as never before, Britons paid rapt attention to a sordid little affair which involved a cabinet minister, a showgirl and a Soviet naval attache. Derek Brown looks... ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scandal/387569/3 "2007-01-11T17:49:26Z")
I understand that Emma Hamilton is as easy as an unpeeled apple. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scandal/387569/4 "2007-01-11T18:29:39Z")
My fav is the Jim Bakker / Jessica Hahn scandal. TV evangelist (is there a lower lifeform on the planet?) has an affair; the affair-ee blackmails him into giving her a cushy job; everything goes blooey; evangelist goes to jail. The best part was Jerry Falwell, another TV evangelist, calling him a scab on the face of Christianity. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! I also admired Hahn’s nerve in blackmailing him. Good for you, girl! > **[Jim Bakker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker)** > > James Orsen Bakker (/ˈbeɪkər/; born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye. He also developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina. > In the late 1980s, Bakker resigned from the PTL ministry over a cover-up of hush money to church secretary Jessica Hahn for an alleged rape. Subsequen... ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scandal/387569/5 "2007-01-11T19:06:40Z")
Having always hated Woody Allen, I was delighted to have him caught with his pants down.