26 celebrities who have been involved in cheating scandals

Shakira and Piqué, a professional soccer player, were together from 2011 to 2022 and have two kids, though they never married.

In her first interview about the breakup in September 2022, Shakira told Elle, “Sometimes I just feel like this is all a bad dream and that I’m going to wake up at some point. But no, it’s real.”

She continued, “And what’s also real is the disappointment to see something as sacred and as special as I thought was the relationship I had with my kids’ father and see that turned into something vulgarized and cheapened by the media.”

But by January 2023, the gloves were off. Shakira broke records when she dropped “BZRP Music Session #53,” which is apparently about Piqué, his new 23-year-old girlfriend, and how Shakira is worth “two 22-year-olds,” Business Insider’s Alan Dawson previously reported.

It then led to a popular internet meme involving a jar of jam.

As People wrote, many Shakira fans on the internet claimed Shakira did an interview with a Spanish TV show, in which she said she figured out her partner was cheating on her because someone had opened a jar of jam that Shakira knew Piqué and her kids didn’t like.

While there’s no actual proof of this interview ever taking place, it hasn’t stopped the tabloids.

In March 2024, Shakira told The Sunday Times that she had no idea what the jam rumor was, and denied that it was true.

Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes were co-hosts of “GMA3: What You Need to Know,” and they had worked together since Holmes joined the show in 2020.

In November 2022, photos of the two in various locations surfaced on The Daily Mail, including photos showing Holmes patting Robach’s behind.

However, Holmes and Robach were married to other people at the time — Holmes married Marilee Fiebig in 2010, according to a Facebook post he wrote for their 10th anniversary, and Robach married actor Andrew Shue in 2010.

According to a source who spoke to People, Robach and Holmes had been quietly separated from their spouses since August.”This was two consenting adults who were each separated. They both broke up with their spouses in August within weeks of each other,” said the source.

They were both removed from the show in January 2023 and have each since divorced their spouses. Now, they host a podcast together, “Amy & TJ.”

Interestingly enough, their exes, Fiebig and Shue, were spotted together in late 2023. As of an August 2024 E! News interview with Shue’s sister, Elisabeth, the two were still dating.

The story of Kevin Hart’s infidelity is confusing, to say the least.

He first denied any cheating in July 2017, then posted a video on Instagram apologizing with the caption, “Sending so many apologies to my wife & kids. I gotta do better and I will. I’m not perfect and have never claimed to be …I love you all.”

It was revealed later that Hart was in the center of an alleged extortion attempt. Someone allegedly was in possession of a video of Hart and a woman engaging in sexual activity, and was trying to expose Hart and receive money. During an interview with “The Breakfast Club,” Hart admitted to his cheating.

Hart spoke about the scandal in 2020 on a podcast. He said that when Eniko Parrish found out, it “wasn’t a walk in the park,” but she “came to an amazing conclusion of, ‘I like the fact that we have a family, that we have a household, and I like the fact that we now got a job to do to get better,'” Hart said. “‘That’s what you owe me. You owe me [to] get better.'”

Though the Smiths themselves wouldn’t call it a scandal, the rest of the world was shocked when August Alsina spoke about a relationship he had with Jada Pinkett Smith during an interview in June 2020.

“I totally gave myself to that relationship for years of my life, and I truly and really, really deeply love and have a ton of love for her,” Alsina said. He went on to claim that Will Smith knew about the relationship, and gave Alsina and Pinkett Smith his “blessing.”

Naturally, people were shocked, as the Smiths were believed to be one of the longest-lasting Hollywood couples in recent history. First, the couple issued a quick statement denying the relationship, but Pinkett Smith announced on her Twitter (now X) that she was “taking [herself] to the Red Table.”

In July 2020, the Smiths sat down at the red table, and discussed their relationship. They spoke about a dark period in their marriage, when they thought they were going to separate and “never speak again.”

That’s when Pinkett Smith and Alsina began their relationship — or, what Pinkett Smith originally called “an entanglement.” Smith denied giving Alsina “permission” (although Alsina didn’t call it that), but did know that the two were seeing each other.

However, Alsina and Pinkett Smith’s relationship ended once she and her husband decided to try to work things out — although, in 2023, Pinkett Smith said they’d actually been separated since 2016, but did not want to get divorced.

On Thanksgiving in 2009, Tiger Woods’ life was forever changed when news of his serial cheating became public. Woods was married to model Elin Nordegren at the time — they have two children together.

When all was said and done, Woods admitted to sleeping with multiple women, though it all started with one: Rachel Uchitel.

Woods’ televised statement about the scandal was long. But the confession was relatively succinct: “I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated.” They got divorced in 2010.

Cheating isn’t illegal, but engaging in “lewd conduct in a public place” sure is. Hugh Grant was arrested in 1995 when he was caught with Divine Brown in his car, whom authorities said he had paid $60 to perform oral sex on him. He was fined $1,000 and ordered to attend an AIDS education program as punishment, according to The Guardian.

“Last night I did something completely insane,” he said in a statement at the time, according to The New York Times. “I have hurt people I love and embarrassed people I work with. For both things I am more sorry than I can ever possibly say.”

His girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, told Barbara Walters on “20/20” in August 1995 that she “felt like I’d been shot” when her agent told her what had happened.

She ended up standing by him for another five years, but eventually the couple broke up.

Proving to have a good sense of humor, Hurley referenced the scandal on her show “The Royals.” Her character hired a male escort who called himself “Huge Grant.”

Jude Law and Sienna Miller were a picture-perfect Hollywood couple. According to People, the couple had been engaged for eight months when Law’s kids’ nanny, Daisy Wright, claimed that the two had been involved in an affair while he was filming a movie in New Orleans.

Law then published an apology to Miller in the British Press Association, saying, “There is no defense for my actions which I sincerely regret and I ask that you respect our privacy at this very difficult time.”

Miller and Law were on and off for the next few years, breaking up for good in 2011.

“That was one of the most challenging moments I hope I’ll ever have to experience,” she told The Daily Beast in 2022 of the scandal.

When Beyoncé released “Lemonade,” she put a spotlight onto her marriage with Jay-Z. There was so much speculation about who “Becky with the good hair” was that it became a meme.

The duo was quiet about whether “Lemonade” was based on their marriage until 2017, when Jay-Z released his new album “4:44,” which was full of apologies to Beyoncé and their daughter Blue. He eventually came clean about cheating during a revealing interview with The New York Times Magazine.

“You know, most people walk away, and like divorce rate is like 50% or something ’cause most people can’t see themselves,” he said. “The hardest thing is seeing pain on someone’s face that you caused, and then have to deal with yourself. So, you know, most people don’t want to do that. You don’t want to look inside yourself.”

Since then, the two have been stronger than ever. In 2018, they recorded a joint album as The Carters called “Everything Is Love.”

Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston had a long on-and-off relationship (it lasted for 17 years).

But it abruptly ended when Nicholson told Huston that he was having a baby with another woman: actress Rebecca Broussard. And with that revelation, their relationship was finally finished.

Both Huston and Nicholson have talked about their relationship, with Nicholson saying the two of them were “as good as it gets” and Huston saying they had “hopeless, enduring love.”

When it was uncovered that Jesse James had been cheating on Sandra Bullock for a long time with multiple women, he became — by his own admission — the “most hated man in the world.”

He eventually checked into rehab for sex addiction, and Bullock swiftly filed for divorce. Bullock also chose to continue the adoption process of her son Louis without James.

Seven years later, James spoke to the Daily Mail and said he does not regret how things turned out.

While still in a relationship with Mia Farrow — who had adopted Soon Yi Previn with her ex-husband, Andre Previn — Allen began a relationship with Soon Yi. After that came a lengthy custody battle and eventually marriage for Allen and Previn.

When asked about his affair, Allen told Time in 2001, “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.”

Ronan Farrow said it best when describing his family dynamic in 2011: “He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law.” 

David Boreanaz simply stated, “I haven’t been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible,” during an interview with People in 2010.

He chose to make this admission after he was involved in an alleged extortion attempt.

While Boreanaz has never confirmed the identity of his mistress, Rachel Uchitel — yes, the same Rachel from Tiger Woods’ cheating scandal — did release a statement in which she claimed there was a romantic relationship between the two.

It all began with a prank war. The LA Lakers were all involved in a prank war when a video recorded by fellow player D’Angelo Russell was leaked to the public, in which Nick Young apparently admitted to cheating on rapper Iggy Azalea. Young claimed it was false, Azalea believed him, and their relationship continued.

But then, Azalea suddenly posted that she had dumped Young because she caught him on a security camera bringing girls into their home.

To add insult to injury, it came out that Young was expecting a baby with his ex-girlfriend Keonna Green — the baby was conceived while Azalea and Young were still together.

Young and Green since got back together, and are now engaged.