If you don’t feel like you know a thing about Cindy McCain, this Newsweek profile by Holly Bailey is worth a look.
The salacious bits in her bio—her 14 year age gap with her husband, the fact that their relationship began while he was married to another woman, and her drug addiction—are all there, although the painkiller thing gets a bit of light touch. Not mentioned is the fact that she stole some of the drugs in question from her own charity, nor that she escaped with relatively light consequences.
For more on that chapter, and how smart alt-weekly investigative reporting brought the story to light, see Pheonix New Times reporter Amy Silverman’s 1999 Salon retelling.





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