What do Tiger Woods, Silvio Berlusconi and Oprah Winfrey all have in common?
7. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy In early March, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa suspended seven girls — that’s right — for sexual misconduct and the harassment of other pupils. But wait: The suspensions were the second sex controversy to plague the school, which opened in early 2007. The Afrikaans on Sunday newspaper wrote that one 15-year-old girl “preyed” on a schoolmate and coerced others into lying to officials investigating the alleged incidents, while six other pupils were excluded from the $46 million girls-only boarding school after being alleged to have touched each other intimately, or “intimidating others” into doing so. The prior scandal came just 10 months after the academy opened, when dorm matron Virginia Tiny Makgobo was arrested for “indecent assault and soliciting under-age girls to perform indecent acts.” Here’s Oprah’s take: 8. Mark Sanford At least Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina got a little creative, sending the media (and possibl
