Covering people and events from the 1630s to the present day, this reference offers 455 entries on such topics as dirty politics, white-collar scams, botched cover-ups, tawdry love affairs, and despicable acts of corruption. This new edition features scandalous names and events since the 1990s, including: the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and the O.J. Simpson trial; Heidi Fleiss; Salt Lake City"s Olympic bribery scandal; Bank of Credit and Commerce International; John and Lorena Bobbitt; the Fisher-Buttafuoco affair; Tonya Harding; the Tailhook scandal; Michael Milken; the Erik and Lyle Menendez trial; Aldrich Ames; and the Naval Academy cheating scandal.