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    NFL Reveals Mike Vrabel’s Fate Amid Dianna Russini Scandal

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    Watch: NFL Reporter Dianna Russini Resigns After Vacation Photos With Patriots’ Mike Vrabel Surface

    There will be no challenge flags thrown against Mike Vrabel.

    After the New England Patriots head coach was photographed on a cozy-looking vacation with sports journalist Dianna Russini,NFL chief spokesperson Brian McCarthy told ESPN that the organization is not reviewing Vrabel’s behavior as part of its personal conduct policy, which requires coaches to avoid “conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the National Football League.”

    E! News has reached out to reps for Vrabel, the Patriots and the NFL for comment but hasn’t heard back.

    Though Vrabel—who’s been married to wife Jen Vrabel since 1999—will not be under investigation by the league, Russini has resigned from her post atThe Athletic, a subscription-based journalism department of the New York Times,amid the scandal.

    “I have covered the NFL with professionalism and dedication throughout my career, and I stand behind every story I have ever published,” she wrote in an April 14 letter to the sports outlet’s executive editor Steven Ginsberg obtained by the Associated Press. “Unfortunately, commentators in various media have engaged in self-feeding speculation that is simply unmoored from the facts.”

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    While Russini—who wed Shake Shack executive Kevin Goldschmidt in 2022—said she’s “grateful” that The Athletic supported her when the vacation photos first surfaced online, she still felt the need to vacate her position due to “media frenzy.”

    “Rather than allowing this to continue, I have decided to step aside now—before my current contract expires on June 30,” she wrote in her resignation letter. “I do so not because I accept the narrative that has been constructed around this episode, but because I refuse to lend it further oxygen or to let it define me or my career.”

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    Indeed, Russini is standing her ground. In an April 8 statement to E! News, she said that the vacation photos “don’t represent the group of six people who were hanging out during the day.”

    “Like most journalists in the NFL,” she continued, “reporters interact with sources away from stadiums and other venues.”

    Vrabel has also defended himself from controversy.

    “These photos show a completely innocent interaction,” he told Page Six in a April 7 statement. “This doesn’t deserve any further response.”

    But Vrabel and Russini are hardly the first public figures to have to block affair rumors. See which other stars had to weave, duck and dodge cheating accusations. 

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    Kristen Stewart & Robert PattinsonMonths after photos caught Stewart in the act with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, the Twilight co-stars called it quits in 2013. Since then, both actors have sunk their teeth into other relationships. Pattinson and singer FKA Twigs dated for three years until 2017 and a year later, he began seeing Suki Waterhouse. The couple welcomed a baby girl in 2024.Meanwhile, Stewart went on to date several women—
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    As for Sanders, he and his then-wife, model Liberty Ross, divorced after 10 years and two kids in the aftermath of the scandal.

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    Jennifer Garner & Ben AffleckThe Elektra actress and the Argo star announced that they were ending their 10-year marriage in June 2015. A month after the news, allegations that Affleck had an affair with their children’s nanny surfaced, prompting the Oscar winner to publicly deny the claims.Garner later clarified that she and Affleck broke up long before the rumors, telling Vanity Fair in 2016, “We had been separated for months before I ever heard about the nanny. She had nothing to do with our decision to divorce.”The Alias alum and the Oscar winner divorced in 2018 and continue to co-parent their three kids: Violet, Seraphina and Samuel.In 2021, Affleck rekindled his ’00s relationship with Jennifer Lopez and the two wed the following year. They split in 2024.Meanwhile, Garner has been dating businessman John Miller on-and-off since 2018.

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    Adam Levine & Behati PrinslooIn September 2022, Instagram model Sumner Stroh went public with claims that she had a year-long affair with the Maroon 5 singer and that he was trying to name his soon-to-arrive third child after her. Levine denied having an affair, but admitted to using “poor judgment” adding that he “crossed the line during a regrettable period of my life.”In the wake of the allegations, Prinsloo stood by her man, with a source close to the couple telling E! News that the Victoria’s Secret Angel is “upset but she does believe him that there was no physical affair.”The couple stayed together and went on to welcome a son, who joined big sisters Dusty Rose and Gio Grace.

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    Nick Young & Iggy AzaleaEven after the couple decided to tough things out amid allegations that the NBA star cheated on the rapper, Azalea eventually called off their engagement in 2016 and admitted to catching Young on security camera footage with other women. Since then, Young moved on, welcoming four kids with fiancée Keonna Green. As for Azalea? She, too, became a parent. The “Fancy” hitmaker gave birth to son Onyx with Playboi Carti in 2020.

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    Fergie & Josh DuhamelOnly nine months into their marriage, the actor faced allegations he had cheated on the Black Eyed Peas singer. Duhamel called the reported one-night stands “absolutely ridiculous” and Fergie admitted to Oprah Winfrey in a 2013 interview that the setback only made their relationship stronger. The Hollywood couple, parents to son Axl, ultimately split in 2017 after 8 years of marriage.Duhamel went on to date actress Eiza González before tying the knot with Audra Mari in 2022. The Safe Haven star and the former Miss World America welcomed son Shepherd two years later. 

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    Brandi Glanville & Eddie CibrianThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star split from her husband of nine years and the father of their two children in 2009, after he had an affair with singer Leann Rimes on the set of the Lifetime movie Northern Lights. Though Glanville spent years feuding with her ex and his now-wife, the drama between them has since seemingly subsided. As Glanville explained in 2021, “I think we both grew up a lot because obviously, it was a decade of fighting.”

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    Ned Fulmer & Ariel FulmerNed, an original member of The Try Guys, parted ways from the popular YouTube comedy group in September 2022 amid rumors that he had cheated on his wife Ariel with someone from his workplace. In a statement released shortly after his departure, the content creator admitted to having a “consensual workplace relationship” and issued an apology “for any pain that my action may have caused to the guys and the fans but most of all to Ariel.”Ariel, who shares two young sons with Ned, shared in a statement of her own, “Nothing is more important to me and Ned than our family and all we request right now is that you respect our privacy for the sake of our kids.”The couple confirmed in 2025 that they had parted ways.

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    Bill Clinton & Hillary ClintonA year-long “improper physical relationship” between the former U.S. President and White House intern Monica Lewinsky nearly cost him his presidency. Hillary remained by her husband’s side throughout the media firestorm that ensued and ran for U.S. President herself in 2016.

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    David Letterman & Regina LaskoIn 2009, the Late Show host revealed someone was threatening to blackmail him with information that would’ve revealed his many extramarital relations with female employees on his show. Letterman confirmed the allegations, and issued an apology to his longtime partner and staff. Letterman and Lasko have remained together, and have one son. 

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    Ramona Singer & Mario SingerAfter 20 years of marriage, the Real Housewives of New York cast member said goodbye when she caught her husband cheating on her. The reality TV star then turned lemons into pinot grigio, launching her own line of wine and getting involved with AOA Restaurant in the Big Apple.

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