3 Newsworthy Cases of Well-Known Cheating Husbands Who Committed Financial Infidelity
Ruth Houston
August 24, 2008
A few years ago I wrote a brief article calling attention to the link between financial infidelity and sexual infidelity. Two landmark studies were done that year, but neither study mentioned the connection between the two.
Financial Infidelity Accompanies Sexual Infidelity
My early research indicated that financial infidelity often accompanies sexual infidelity. A cheating husband must resort to some type of financial deception to cover up the expenditures associated with his extramarital affair.
3 Cheaters Who Committed Financial Infidelity
To drive home the connection between financial and sexual infidelity, lets look at three high-profile cheating husbands who recently made national news when their extramarital affairs were exposed. They are prime examples of financial infidelity associated with sexual infidelity.
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer paid $3000 for the services of a high priced call girl, and was reported to have spent an estimated $80,000 with an elite prostitution ring.
Peter Cook, the now ex-husband of supermodel Christie Brinkley, gave his teenage mistress $15,000 for a down payment on a car, then paid her $300,000 in hush money after their was exposed. He also racked up over $3000 a month on internet porn and adult matchmaker sites.
John Edwards´ mistress, Rielle Hunter is said to be receiving payments of $15,000 a month. Edwards claims someone else is making these payments without his knowledge, on his behalf. Though he insists his affair with Hunter ended in 2006, it appears there´s still some serious financial infidelity going on.
It´s doubtful that Silda Spitzer, Christie Brinkley, or Elizabeth Edwards had any idea their husbands were spending substantial sums of money to initiate and maintain their extramarital affairs.
It Happens Across the Board
These high-profile cheating husbands represent the extreme end of the spectrum, but financial infidelity happens at all income levels. If there´s an affair going on, financial infidelity is being perpetrated somewhere along the line. To keep his affair hidden, a cheating husband has no choice, but to lie about, or conceal the missing funds.
Exposed At Tax Time
A significant amount of financial infidelity is exposed during the tax season, when couples file their joint income tax returns. But an observant wife can find the telltale signs of financial and sexual infidelity all year long. Maintaining a watchful eye on the family finances will keep her from being the last to know.
FREE Tip Sheet on Signs of Financial Infidelity
A wife who knows what to look for can easily find evidence of her husband´s financial infidelity. My book, Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs (Lifestyle Publications, $29.95). lists 52 financially-related signs of infidelity in the chapter on Financial Affairs. For a FREE tip sheet with 9 telltale signs of financial deception taken from that chapter, send an email to InfidelityInfo@gmail.com with "financial - ac" in the subject line.
About Ruth Houston:
Infidelity expert Ruth Houston is the founder of www.InfidelityAdvice.com and the author of Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs, which lists practically every known sign of infidelity, including the subtle signs women usually overlook.
Frequently called on by the media to comment on infidelity issues in the news, Ruth has been quoted in USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Cosmopolitan, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Toronto Sun, Maclean´s, iVillage, MSN Lifestyle, Divorce360.com, FoxNews.com, ABCNews.com, msnbc.com, Reuters, AP, UPI and numerous other print and online media.
Ruth has been a guest on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox & Friends, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, NBC News, BBC, CBC, WCBS, ABC News, Fox News and over 440 other radio and TV talk shows in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean.
To interview infidelity expert Ruth Houston, or have her speak to your organization or conduct an infidelity seminar for your group, call 718 592-6039 or e-mail InfidelityExpert@gmail.com
Financial Infidelity Accompanies Sexual Infidelity
My early research indicated that financial infidelity often accompanies sexual infidelity. A cheating husband must resort to some type of financial deception to cover up the expenditures associated with his extramarital affair.
3 Cheaters Who Committed Financial Infidelity
To drive home the connection between financial and sexual infidelity, lets look at three high-profile cheating husbands who recently made national news when their extramarital affairs were exposed. They are prime examples of financial infidelity associated with sexual infidelity.
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer paid $3000 for the services of a high priced call girl, and was reported to have spent an estimated $80,000 with an elite prostitution ring.
Peter Cook, the now ex-husband of supermodel Christie Brinkley, gave his teenage mistress $15,000 for a down payment on a car, then paid her $300,000 in hush money after their was exposed. He also racked up over $3000 a month on internet porn and adult matchmaker sites.
John Edwards´ mistress, Rielle Hunter is said to be receiving payments of $15,000 a month. Edwards claims someone else is making these payments without his knowledge, on his behalf. Though he insists his affair with Hunter ended in 2006, it appears there´s still some serious financial infidelity going on.
It´s doubtful that Silda Spitzer, Christie Brinkley, or Elizabeth Edwards had any idea their husbands were spending substantial sums of money to initiate and maintain their extramarital affairs.
It Happens Across the Board
These high-profile cheating husbands represent the extreme end of the spectrum, but financial infidelity happens at all income levels. If there´s an affair going on, financial infidelity is being perpetrated somewhere along the line. To keep his affair hidden, a cheating husband has no choice, but to lie about, or conceal the missing funds.
Exposed At Tax Time
A significant amount of financial infidelity is exposed during the tax season, when couples file their joint income tax returns. But an observant wife can find the telltale signs of financial and sexual infidelity all year long. Maintaining a watchful eye on the family finances will keep her from being the last to know.
FREE Tip Sheet on Signs of Financial Infidelity
A wife who knows what to look for can easily find evidence of her husband´s financial infidelity. My book, Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs (Lifestyle Publications, $29.95). lists 52 financially-related signs of infidelity in the chapter on Financial Affairs. For a FREE tip sheet with 9 telltale signs of financial deception taken from that chapter, send an email to InfidelityInfo@gmail.com with "financial - ac" in the subject line.
About Ruth Houston:
Infidelity expert Ruth Houston is the founder of www.InfidelityAdvice.com and the author of Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs, which lists practically every known sign of infidelity, including the subtle signs women usually overlook.
Frequently called on by the media to comment on infidelity issues in the news, Ruth has been quoted in USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Cosmopolitan, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Toronto Sun, Maclean´s, iVillage, MSN Lifestyle, Divorce360.com, FoxNews.com, ABCNews.com, msnbc.com, Reuters, AP, UPI and numerous other print and online media.
Ruth has been a guest on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox & Friends, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, NBC News, BBC, CBC, WCBS, ABC News, Fox News and over 440 other radio and TV talk shows in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean.
To interview infidelity expert Ruth Houston, or have her speak to your organization or conduct an infidelity seminar for your group, call 718 592-6039 or e-mail InfidelityExpert@gmail.com
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