There has been tons of speculation surrounding which party was responsible for leaking the story of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s secret child. Most had it as Mildred Baena being the responsible party as she was (allegedly) let go after Maria found out about the betrayal. But now TMZ is reporting that Maria Shriver’s people are the ones responsible for the leak:

TMZ has new information from sources connected to Maria. We’re told when Maria found out that Arnold was the father of Mildred Patty Baena’s son, she was “hysterical” and wanted to hold a news conference blowing the lid off the scandal.

We’re told Maria’s friends talked her off a ledge and a plan was eventually hatched to leak the details to the L.A. Times and TMZ.

And we have new information about when Maria found out about the baby. Now we’re told Maria learned about Arnold’s love child in late April or very early May.

The timeline further supports the story TMZ broke earlier — that Maria was miserable in her marriage and wanted out for a long time. As we first reported, Maria was looking at pricey L.A. condos back in January with a Beverly Hillls realtor.

Maria has told friends for nearly two years she wanted a divorce but never pulled the trigger. Maria, we’re told, is now ready to end the marriage.

TMZ goes on to say that Arnold and his people are ticked that Maria leaked the story and they know for sure that the story came form Shriver’s camp. And the plt thickens.

 

So Rogelio Baena, ex-husband to Mildred Baena, spoke to Entertainment Tonight about the entire scandal. The biggest revelation from the interview was that he didn’t find his son wasn’t his son until one week ago. All this time he thought the boy was his biological child:

Rogelio tells ET he thought Arnold’s alleged love child was his biological child all along and that he learned that the boy was not his son only one week ago. He goes on to call the situation a “betrayal” and “Arnold Schwarzenegger for me, [was] my hero… Maria is destroyed.”

Married to Patty for ten years, today Rogelio says he’d like to tell his son, “I am your father. That’s all.”

I find this interesting because when you look at the divorce papers Mildred checked that their were no minor children born in the marriage. So how did he miss that? Has he been paying child support all these years? What?

When asked how he felt about Arnold Schwarznegger he had this to say:

Angry! Very, very angry! Arnold Shwarzenegger, for me, was my hero. Now, I feel betrayed.

 

So it’s blame the woman, or in this case the women time in this election season and the 2012 presidential campaign hasn’t even started yet. Darling of the right and Republican front runner (as much as there is one at this point) ended his presidential run before it begin because his wife and four daughters vetoed it:

But instead of an upbeat notification detailing kick-off plans, close Daniels allies were surprised to wake up Sunday morning to an email from the Indiana governor saying he would forgo a run. The lucky few – like conservative commentator George Will, a Daniels friend – got a personal call the day before.

Daniels’ message by voice and in writing was the same – his wife and their four grown daughters had veto power on a campaign, and they had exercised it. If anyone wondered about the depth of Cheri Daniels’s concerns about the prying eyes of the public, those questions were more than answered in a string of stories and columns focused on her and her husband around the time of her May 12 speech at an Indiana Republican Party dinner.

Earlier reports of their unorthodox relationship – Marriage. Divorce in 1993. Re-married in 1997. With his wife marrying another man in the intervening years and leaving the girls with their father during that – led to many question Cheri Daniels character and her ability as a mother, with many saying she abandoned her daughters. Apparently the scrutiny was too much:

“Now, because of her husband’s prominence in national politics, Cheri Daniels is facing harsh judgments,” wrote “On Parenting” blogger Janice D’Arcy in the Washington Post just last week, adding readers had used the word “abandoned” in the comments section in connection with the split and her kids.

The question, whispered about by Republican elites and fanned by operatives in some rival camps, was gaining such traction that Daniels himself sought to snuff out the whiff of bad parenting in a strong statement to the Indianapolis Star, delivered separately from the one in which he bowed out of the national race.

Those family concerns clearly weighed heavily on the Daniels clan, and ultimately won the day.

“I guess I had always hoped and believed they would find a way, that the governor and his family would find a way to accommodate this run,” close friend Tom Bell told POLITICO. “But I think that was wishful thinking of my part.”

It just shows how in modern day politics any hint of scandal can end a campaign before it begins. And since this is all very public knowledge, there would have been no way to hide this from probing public. Oh well, anther one bites the dust.

 

Contrary to what the French media has been reporting, everyone is not shocked and dismayed with the way the U.S. has handle former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan’s attempted rape case. Many French women are actually appalled with the way their media and government are handling things. This past Sunday these women took to the streets and wrote op-ed pieces to show just how displeased they are:

Three French feminist groups -– Osez Le FéminismeLa Barbe, and Paroles de Femmes -– decided to take action and wrote an op-ed piece that was published in many French newspapers, denouncing such sexist reactions.

Here’s a partial translation by the Sydney Morning Herald:

For a week, we have been stunned by the daily surge of misogynistic remarks by public figures, widely broadcast on our televisions, radios, in the workplace and on social networks. We are angry, disgusted and outraged. We don’t know what happened in New York last Saturday but we know what has been happening in France for the last week.

The piece went on to say that these remarks clearly showed the impunity that reigns in France when it comes to public expressions of sexism.

These words tend to minimize the seriousness of rape, they tend to place it in a gray, more or less acceptable area, a sort of slip. They send a simple message to victims of rape – current and future ones: “Don’t press charges”. We want to remind everyone: rape and attempted rape are crimes.

Amen French women. If I heard one more elite Frenchmen pontificate on the U.S.’ handling of the case or how Strauss Khan would NEVER do such a thing (with all the evidence to the contrary) I’d puke. I get that the elite (particularly) the French elite are practically untouchable, but how many times does a man have to attack women before those around him, at the very least, call him on his incredibly vile and illegal behaviour.

via Jezebel

 

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