New York Strip Clubs: American Politicians Narrow the Sex Scandal Gap
Ms. Foreman was fired and Mr. Cianfrani was convicted for racketeering and sent to prison. End of story, except not. When he was released, he married Ms. Foreman and they lived happily for 22 years until he died. They moved to the Washington suburbs, where, Mr. Cianfrani once told me, the neighborhood was full of FBI agents.
3. Wilbur D. Mills. From the late 1950s through the early ’70s, as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he was the most powerful member of Congress; U.S. presidents and corporate chiefs pandered to him. Part of the Mills mystique was that he eschewed the social scene, spending evenings with his wife reading tax laws.
Then in 1974, while secretly sneaking out with a stripper whose stage name was Fanne Foxe, known as the “Argentine Firecracker,” they were caught after a night of drinking. Ms. Foxe jumped into Washington’s Tidal Basin to try to flee the scene, and Mr. Mills soon left Congress. Before he died in 1992, he was an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous.