JiDoKwan said:
What was the deal with her and her ex-husband, the politician?
I heard he was into swinging or something and she got dragged into the scandal somehow.
Here is the story:
In 1990, while dealing blackjack at a charity event, Ryan met investment banker and future political candidate Jack Ryan. The couple married in 1991 and had a ***, Alex, in 1994. Throughout their marriage, Ryan and her husband took turns commuting between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers, but finally divorced in 1999. Ryan had mentioned in an interview for Star Trek that the frequent separation between Chicago and Los Angeles had been difficult for their marriage. The reasons behind their divorce were kept sealed at their mutual request.
Five years later, when Ryan's Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have the records released. Both Ryan and her husband agreed to make their divorce records public; but not the custody records, claiming that they could be harmful to their *** if released.
On June 22, 2004, the California judge in the case agreed to release the custody files. The decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request and because it generally reversed the early decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the *****. It was revealed that, six years before, she had accused Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public, and in adult clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling." This information led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois.
From an article in Wikipedia.
