Notorious Cheaters Who Finally Found Love

You know what they say: once a cheater, always a cheater — and that very well may be the truth. There's actually been scientific evidence to prove that cheaters are more likely to do it again. Who would knowingly sign up for that? Apparently, a lot of people. There's someone for everyone, including the A-listers who have their cheating scandals splashed across TMZ and Page Six. Yes, even the likes of Tiger Woods and Hugh Grant managed to move on, albeit, their egos were probably permanently bruised.

For some reason, widespread cheating allegations don't stop notoriously unfaithful celebrities from finding love. Maybe it's the allure of red carpets and exclusive parties. Maybe it's the money. Maybe the tabloids just get it wrong. Either way, these celebrities have managed to have lasting relationships after some of the most highly publicized cheating scandals in history. Sometimes, all it takes is firing the nanny (why is it always the nanny?).

Ben Affleck's cheating scandal infamously closed the doors on the second coming of Bennifer, lest we forget the original, which is only survived by a smattering of tabloid headlines and the hilariously terrible film Gigli. Bennifer 2.0 rose to fame in the prime era of celebrity portmanteaus, and for a decade, it seemed like the rare celebrity marriage that was meant to last — at least until Affleck hooked up with the nanny.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Jennifer Garner admitted that the so-called "nannygate" was "bad judgment" on Affleck's part, but the pair's relationship was over long before that. Nonetheless, they were still technically married when the Argo actor had an alleged affair with Christine Ouzounian, their children's au pair, during what Us Weekly described as a "secret 10-month trial separation." According to ET, Ouzounian tipped off the paparazzi — and needless to say, that did not help the couple get back together. According to HuffPost, their divorce was finalized in 2018.

Though Affleck told The New York Times that his divorce (and not his bizarre back tattoo) was "the biggest regret of [his] life," he has managed to find love again. According to Harper's Bazaar, the actor has been romantically linked to his Deep Water co-star Ana de Armas, and the pair are regularly papped walking their dogs and looking loved up.

When Hugh Grant burst onto the scene with Four Weddings and a Funeral, he was hailed as a bashful-but-charming heartthrob. The Brit was the ultimate rom-com lead and clearly took his good reputation — and his longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley — for granted. Pardon the pun, but there's not much we can say when you're blatantly caught with a sex worker, and the embarrassing mugshot is immortalized in the tabloids.

In 1995, Grant was in Los Angeles to promote Nine Months. According to The Guardian, who captured a report in a local paper, the star was driving around the Sunset Strip when he picked up a sex worker named Estella Marie Thompson (aka Divine Brown) and paid her to "perform oral sex on him in a nearby street." They both got arrested, but it was Thompson who really made out. She reportedly scored $100,000 from News of the World for the first-hand scoop. Grant, on the other hand, had to pay a $1,000 fine and face the wrath of his now ex.

Though the pair split in 2000 after 13 years, Closer revealed that they're still besties. Grant is the godfather of Hurley's son Damian, who she had with the late businessman Steve Bing. Grant has also managed to finally tie the knot. According to Marie Claire, he married Anna Eberstein in 2018. The pair share three kids.

Ashton Kutcher may be a modern-day superhero, dedicating his life to saving child sex trafficking victims, but there was a point where his actions were less commendable. According to a report in Us Weekly, the actor allegedly cheated on Demi Moore with two girls in a hot tub on their six-year anniversary. Sara Leal, one of the women in question, eventually came forward and spilled the dirty details, claiming that Kutcher told her that he was "separated" from the actress. Moore later told Diane Sawyer on ABC News that she found out about her husband's cheating through a cellphone Google Alert. When questioned, Kutcher reportedly owned up right away.

In the past, Kutcher denied cheating on Moore, but that was before the actress dished the details herself. After the release of her bombshell memoir Inside Out, the actor only cryptically tweeted about resisting his desire to comment. It seemed like a subtweet to Moore, if we ever saw one. As he put it, life has been good ever since he tied the knot with Mila Kunis, whom he dated on-screen during his run with That '70s Show. The pair have since started a family.

Before Donald Trump coined the term "fake news," he was already the king of it. The star has been a tabloid regular for decades, largely because of his relationship drama. Trump is a notorious cheater, at least if you're going by the headlines. Most famously, former adult film actress Stormy Daniels told In Touch that she had an intimate encounter with Teflon Don right after his third wife, Melania Trump, gave birth to Barron (and, apparently, during Shark Week). Former Playboy Model Karen McDougal also told The New Yorker that they had an affair. The magazine went as far as claiming that Trump "used clandestine hotel-room meetings, payoffs, and complex legal agreements to keep affairs — sometimes multiple affairs he carried out simultaneously — out of the press." Beyond that, he's faced numerous accusations of sexual assault and harassment, stemming back to the 1980s.

Melania appears to be the one person who will proudly champion Trump's racist conspiracy theories. They may just be a match made in heaven — or hell — despite their occasionally awkward interactions. In truth, he may have never found her if his alleged cheating didn't crumble his first marriage to Ivana Trump. According to Business Insider, they divorced in 1991 after his affair with Marla Maples, his soon-to-be second wife, hit headlines. Melania only came into the picture in 1998, the year after he and Maples split.

In 2009, Forbes named Woods the first professional athlete to earn a whopping $1 billion. Unfortunately, none of that money stopped The National Enquirer from immortalizing the golfer's cheating scandal on the front page and destroying his marriage in the span of a Thanksgiving weekend. As the New York Post put it, Tiger Woods' legacy "fell apart with the swing of a club" — and it was his wife, Elin Nordegren, who was raising it above her arms while chasing him out of the house.

Per The New York Post, the Enquirer's report detailed Woods' alleged infidelity with an NYC nightclub hostess named Rachel Uchitel, which was actually a lot less interesting than the events that happened after his wife found out. It involved the undercover sting of a lifetime, in which Nordegren pretended to be Woods and texted "I miss you" to the hostess from her husband's phone. Uchitel inadvertently blew up the golf pro's spot, and at some point shortly after, Woods locked himself in a bathroom before his wife chased him out of the house, wielding a golf club. The hubbub ended with Woods unconscious after he peeled out of his driveway and crashed his Escalade into a tree. 

Since then, Woods has physically recovered, but his reputation has not. Nonetheless, his longtime girlfriend, Erica Herman, doesn't seem to mind. According to Express, they've been dating since 2017, and she regularly attends his tournaments.

Woody Allen's cheating scandal is a thing for the history books. If Mia Farrow and the director had ever actually gotten married, he would've ended up in an affair with his stepdaughter. Because they didn't, he's floating in some bizarre grey area that's not exactly legally wrong, but it's downright bizarre.

According to The New York Times, Farrow adopted Soon-Yi Previn in 1977 when she was about seven years old. Allen started dating Farrow a couple of years later, and the pair had their son Ronan. By 1991, the director had adopted Farrow's other children, Dylan and Moses. He didn't file the same paperwork for Previn, who was 21 years old at the time. Instead, they embarked on an affair, which Mia discovered the following year when she found a nude photograph of her daughter in Allen's apartment. Shortly after, Allen and Previn confirmed their relationship, and they've been together ever since.

Though Allen's marriage has been widely criticized, especially in the wake of Dylan's sexual assault allegations, Previn has defended him, telling Newsweek (via Rolling Stone), "I'm not a retarded little underage flower who was raped, molested, and spoiled by some evil stepfather — not by a long shot." Okay, then.