Rush Limbaugh has a loyal audience of staunch conservatives — but the filthy-rich radio host has prospered while covering up decades of bad behavior! The National ENQUIRER rushed to expose Rush’s kinky relationship with his wife Kathryn as he faces a looming $470 million divorce — but her cavorting with hunky young athletes is just another twist to a career that’s been full of bizarre twists…
Rush Limbaugh — Secrets & Scandals Of The Radio Legend
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From the start of his career, Rush faced troubling charges — with one reporter discovering that the political firebrand had never even bothered to vote for Ronald Reagan. Rush sat out his hero's presidential elections, with Paul Colford discovering that "Rush didn't even register to vote until 1986, when he was 35 years old!"
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Rush was also hit with charges of being a hypocrite after blasting Bill Clinton as a pot-smoking draft dodger. Rush says he became nauseous after two tries at smoking marijuana — but disc jockey Randy Raley recalled seeing Rush toking up a storm in 1978. "If that was sick," scoffed Raley, "give me some of that!"
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That early claim foreshadowed Rush's biggest scandal as his career entered the 21st century — as he went into rehab in 2004 for being a drug addict. Rush went public just as his housekeeper, Wilma Cline, claimed she illegally supplied him with thousands of painkillers over four years. Rush responded by accusing Wilma of blackmail.
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“Blackmail never crossed our minds," an outraged Wilma told The ENQUIRER. "We went to the authorities because we finally decided it was the right thing to do!” Her attorney Ed Shohat added that Wilma "turned over hundreds of e-mails and phone recordings to the prosecutors in which Rush Limbaugh never once referred to being blackmailed."
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Rush managed to avoid a prison sentence, but was soon caught in a different kind of drug scandal in 2006. Customs officials at Palm Beach's airport caught him with Viagra pills on another man's prescription — as he returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, a country notorious for providing visitors with sex from male and female prostitutes!
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"What was Rush doing with [erectile dysfunction pills] in the Dominican Republic?" wondered one Internet poster. The embarrassing bust prompted yet more speculation about Rush's sexuality — going back to Sept. 1977, when Rush's first marriage ended after 18 months amid his wife's charge of "incompatibility."
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Rush went on to a series of more short-lived marriages until wedding socialite Kathryn Rogers in 2010 — and her wedding gift was her own condo where she reportedly spends "quality time," according to a source. Their nuptials provoked another gay scandal, with Elton John blasted as "hypocritical" and "a pathetic excuse for a human being" for playing at their wedding!
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Rush has indulged his own celebrity feuds, even blasting his biggest conservative rival by declaring: "Someone's got to say it — Bill O'Reilly is Ted Baxter!" Beloved star Michael J. Fox also got into it with Rush after the radio host accused him of exaggerating symptoms of Parkinson's for the sake of a political ad.
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Amazingly, Rush once again survived the angry backlash — and has continued to prospered while being routinely profiled as "the most dangerous man in America!"
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From the start of his career, Rush faced troubling charges — with one reporter discovering that the political firebrand had never even bothered to vote for Ronald Reagan. Rush sat out his hero's presidential elections, with Paul Colford discovering that "Rush didn't even register to vote until 1986, when he was 35 years old!"
Photo credit: Getty Images
Rush was also hit with charges of being a hypocrite after blasting Bill Clinton as a pot-smoking draft dodger. Rush says he became nauseous after two tries at smoking marijuana — but disc jockey Randy Raley recalled seeing Rush toking up a storm in 1978. "If that was sick," scoffed Raley, "give me some of that!"
Photo credit: Getty Images
That early claim foreshadowed Rush's biggest scandal as his career entered the 21st century — as he went into rehab in 2004 for being a drug addict. Rush went public just as his housekeeper, Wilma Cline, claimed she illegally supplied him with thousands of painkillers over four years. Rush responded by accusing Wilma of blackmail.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“Blackmail never crossed our minds," an outraged Wilma told The ENQUIRER. "We went to the authorities because we finally decided it was the right thing to do!” Her attorney Ed Shohat added that Wilma "turned over hundreds of e-mails and phone recordings to the prosecutors in which Rush Limbaugh never once referred to being blackmailed."
Photo credit: Getty Images
Rush managed to avoid a prison sentence, but was soon caught in a different kind of drug scandal in 2006. Customs officials at Palm Beach's airport caught him with Viagra pills on another man's prescription — as he returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, a country notorious for providing visitors with sex from male and female prostitutes!
Photo credit: Getty Images
"What was Rush doing with [erectile dysfunction pills] in the Dominican Republic?" wondered one Internet poster. The embarrassing bust prompted yet more speculation about Rush's sexuality — going back to Sept. 1977, when Rush's first marriage ended after 18 months amid his wife's charge of "incompatibility."
Photo credit: Getty Images
Rush went on to a series of more short-lived marriages until wedding socialite Kathryn Rogers in 2010 — and her wedding gift was her own condo where she reportedly spends "quality time," according to a source. Their nuptials provoked another gay scandal, with Elton John blasted as "hypocritical" and "a pathetic excuse for a human being" for playing at their wedding!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Rush has indulged his own celebrity feuds, even blasting his biggest conservative rival by declaring: "Someone's got to say it — Bill O'Reilly is Ted Baxter!" Beloved star Michael J. Fox also got into it with Rush after the radio host accused him of exaggerating symptoms of Parkinson's for the sake of a political ad.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Amazingly, Rush once again survived the angry backlash — and has continued to prospered while being routinely profiled as "the most dangerous man in America!"
Photo credit: Getty Images
