THIS time it’s not the White House that’s embroiled in a sexual scandal, it’s the Elysée Palace. Location apart, there’s nothing to beat a full-dress political scandal except, that is, a full-undress one.

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford,Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr and Bill Clinton.

Victoria Ward, New York

Late crooner Dean Martin was involved with the mafia and often performed for America's most notorious mob bosses, according to a new biography which exposes files collated by the FBI.