1. Tiger Woods didn't have much time to let the turkey settle after his Thanksgiving 2009 dinner: the iconic golfer had a blow-up with wife Elin Nordegren over his alleged infidelity with Rachel Uchitel, which led to the floodgates of adultery hell subsequently rearing its ugly head on him, as more than a dozen women emerged to tell their tales of trysts with Woods. Elin is reportedly ready to divorce him.

2. Usually above the fray of such tawdry tabloid fare, in the fall of 2009, late night legend David Letterman admitted to cheating on his wife with a staffer as result of a $2 million extortion scheme the woman's boyfriend, a CBS producer, was brewing against him. The gap-toothed funnyman would eventually be overshadowed by out next entrant on our list ...