The road to true love is paved with bumps, bruises, and, for Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the occasional naughty video. We turned to the alumni grapevine for the dirt on five ex-couples who left a bit more to the imagination—although our inner voyeur just can’t help imagining the love children.
Eliot Spitzer & Anne-Marie Slaughter
The New York governor-elect has left a long trail of sexy, powerful women in his wake. Among them is Slaughter, now the dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Seth Mnookin & Samantha Power
The heroin addict–turned–bestselling author and the genocide scholar enjoyed a short-lived romance while he was a fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center in 2004. Favorite dinner-table conversation topic? The Boston Red Sox.
James Murdoch & Galt Niederhoffer
Rupert’s son, now CEO of Britain’s BSkyB satellite network, had an on-again-off-again college relationship with alt-movie producer (Prozac Nation, Lonesome Jim) Niederhoffer.
David Ignatius & Lynn Darling
The longtime Washington Post columnist dated Darling, a former reporter for the paper’s Style section (and author of a controversial Esquire essay on marriage), when they were undergrads. Darling’s tell-all memoir of her sexual escapades, Necessary Sins, is due out in March.
Larry Summers & Laura Ingraham
Early in his term as Harvard president, which began in 2001, Summers sparked gossip about his brief relationship with the conservative pundit.
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