BARBARA MASON : YES I'M READY

LADY IN A BIG BLACK HAT

ASTRUD GILBERTO and STAN GETZ: THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA - 1964

EXTRA-MATRIMONIAL CHILDREN

EXTRA-MATRIMONIAL CHILDREN is a way of saying that you have children outside of marriage.

KARIN STANFORD SAYS JESSE'S MARRIAGE IS POLITICAL

KARIN STANFORD says they were in love with one another but accepted that their circumstances precluded a conventional relationship.

"He didn't make any promises," she says. "I didn't think we'd have a future together. I just thought it was something we were doing for the moment."

Stanford also says it did not bother her that Jackson was married. "From what I understood about Rev. Jackson's marriage was that it was basically a political marriage," she says.

Link to the ABC news article above.

GEORGE ETHEREGE said

"Next to coming to a good understanding with a new Mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one." - George Etherege

MISTRESS OF THE MONTH KARIN STANFORD : HE WAS MARRIED WITH FIVE CHILDREN, SHE WAS 19 YEARS YOUNGER, HE'S PAYING $4000 a MONTH IN CHILD SUPPORT

MISTRESS OF THE MONTH KARIN STANFORD : HE WAS MARRIED WITH FIVE CHILDREN, SHE WAS 19 YEARS YOUNGER, HE'S PAYING $4000 a MONTH IN CHILD SUPPORT

KARIN STANFORD is Mistress of the Month for May 2011!

She's Jesse Jackson (Sr.)'s ex, with whom he has a daughter, Ashley. Karin has gone after child support and been fairly quoted in the news, though she says it was the FEDS who outed them.

Jesse Jackson is one of those Christian Ministers who has a lifestyle that's barely conservative, a charismatic man, and one who had Presidential ambitions. It was he who counseled then President of the United States, Bill Clinton, when Bill got caught lying about Monica Lewinsky. It just may be that because of his affair with Karin, Jesse had to give up on a White House Future.

Karin says she has "no regrets," and thinks of their daughter as a miracle child, born in 2000. Karin started life over as a professor of Pan-African Studies and Politics - at California State College, Northridge, in Los Angeles California, and is the author of a book titled "Cancer Survivors, Breaking the Silence - Inspirational Stories of Black Cancer Survivors", as well as other books.

Like many modern mistresses, she is an educated woman, who could support herself well, without a man's help. Never the less, love and awe of a man, led her to being a mistress, at least for a time in her life. 

UPDATE AUGUST 2013: Karin, if we count hits only, is probably the most popular mistress I've written about. A recent comment about what would have happened if a CONSERVATIVE Public Figure had been involved with Karin intrigues me. As recent new information comes out about Monica Lewinsky and President William Clinton comes out, I think that in fact there have been many politicians linked with women other than their wives. Some of these mostly men are Republicans, some are Democrats. Some of these men have suffered for it, even if it only appeared they had an affair, or it was discovered they had many affairs, and some have fathered children in long term adultery. Consider Gary Hart. However, defining who is a mistress these days is complicated by the general lack of marriage, couples who lived together, people who have an alternative lifestyle such as living in deliberate polygamy or living with more than one lover all in the same household. I don't dwell on those who have affairs but not RELATIONSHIPS, and where there is a child there is usually a RELATIONSHIP.

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A PAUSE : THE ROYAL WEDDING OF CATHERINE Duchess of Cambridge and CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES WINDSOR

A pause here. Yes - of course I watched The Royal Wedding. And I was impressed. Of course, I really truly hope that Catherine and William will have a wonderful enduring marriage. I hope they will both be faithful and loyal.

But I couldn't help but wonder about CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES WINDSOR, the mistress who finally married her Prince, Charles, years after they met. I saw her image on the television screen once or twice and I wondered what she was thinking! I'm one of those people who wishes that Charles and she had married young and never mind all that Princess Shy Di business.

But here we are, 2011, and of course I wondered if Diana was hovering with pride over William and Catherine.

Is there really a way to mistress-proof a marriage?

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ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART : DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

Read a bio of Dusty a few years ago and she was a lesbian woman who had turbulent relationships. I wonder if she would have had an easier time of it today, when lesbianism is so much more open and acceptable than it was in those days when she was in the limelight.