15 Celebrities Who Had Affairs With The Help

Some stars believe their money should be able to buy them everything…and that means every, um, service their nannies, housekeepers and other help provide. These stars got a little more “help” than is part of the job description from their household staff and employees.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with one of his household staff members—a child whom he hid from wife Maria Shriver for years, for fear the news would get in the way of his campaign for California governor.

Heidi Klum

Before even completing her divorce to singer Seal, Klum was seen vacationing with her hunky bodyguard Martin Kristen who, rumor has it, she was having an affair with for quite some time.

Jude Law

Jude Law’s plans to marry Sienna Miller quickly fell apart when the nanny to his children with his ex-wife sold the story of their affair to a tabloid. In the tell-all, she reports having been intimate with Law in several parts of the home he shared with Miller.

Tiger Woods

We’re not talking about Woods’ obvious indiscretions: we’re going further back in history. Woods met his now-estranged wife, Elin Nordegren, while she was nannying for Woods’ friend and colleague, golf star Jasper Parnevik. So, he did sleep with “the help”—she just wasn’t his help.

Chris de Burgh

Chris de Burgh was a little lonely while his wife was away…not on a vacation, but on a hospital stay after a horse-riding accident. Burgh turned to his children’s 19-year-old nanny for solace.

Michael Kennedy

Before Kennedy’s life came to an abrupt end in a skiing accident, he was almost charged with statutory rape after his wife found him and the 14-year-old babysitter in bed together. The babysitter’s family chose not to file charges.

Strom Thurmond

Thurmond died in 2003, and left not the most flattering of legacies. The senator, who had a history of being pro-segregation, was found to have fathered a child with an African-American 16-year-old maid in his home, when he was 22.

Rob Lowe

Perhaps in anticipation of trouble, Lowe sued one former nanny, Jessica Gibson, for trying to extort money from him and his family. Gibson had reported that Lowe had harassed and sexually assaulted her. It’s hard to turn a blind eye to those reports when yet a second former nanny also accused Lowe of sexually assaulting her.

Ethan Hawke

Hawke’s current wife, Ryan Shawhughes, was the former nanny to the actor’s kids, while he was married to Uma Thurman. Hawke has gone on record as comparing his story to “The Sound of Music.”

Robin Williams

Marsha Garces is today an ex-wife of Williams, but she started as the nanny to his son with his first wife, before moving on to being his secretary, then personal assistant, then finally, something much more personal than that.

Robin Gibb

The Bee Gees singer was in an open marriage with his wife, however, she was not quite prepared for the news that Gibb had been sleeping with the family’s longtime and loyal housekeeper, Claire Yang, whom he ended up fathering a child with.

David Beckham

Beckham’s former assistant Rebecca Loos reported that she and the soccer star had had an affair when Beckham was playing for Real Madrid. Beckham denied the story, Victoria bought Beckham’s denial, and the two swiftly moved to Los Angeles, leaving the European tabloids to work things out amongst themselves.

Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp

You might remember the musical “The Sound of Music” mainly for the World War II backdrop and catchy tunes, but at heart, it was the true story of a naval hero who hired a young woman named Maria Kutschera to be a governess to his daughter, and who he eventually married and had more children with.

John Edwards

The former senator is another man who became so distraught over an absent wife, he looked for comfort in the arms of the help. When Edwards’ wife was battling cancer, which eventually took her life, Edwards had an affair with a former campaign worker.