Reynolds's retirement was dominated by a long-running libel battle with the Sunday Times, after the paper alleged he misled the Irish parliament over aspects of the child abuse affair that brought him down.
It details psychological abuse (threaten affairs, dictate what clothes she wears), financial abuse (make her beg for money), intimidation (threaten to hurt the children in front of her, destroy possessions she loves) and sexual abuse (force her to have sex with someone else, rape).
Hulk Hogan's 2007 separation from ex-wife Linda Bollea made tabloid headlines with accusations of both physical abuse and affairs by both parties.
Eventually, the nieces and nephews sued their uncle for fraud, pushing all kinds of family business, including drug abuse and extramarital affairs, into the limelight.
His description of his relationship with Ms. Boyd, though, offers few excuses for his emotional swings, substance abuse and extramarital affairs (including one that produced his oldest daughter) that defined much of their decade together.
Economic power, as seen in a partner's alcohol abuse and extramarital affairs, was linked to intimate partner violence, including rape, as demonstrated in other studies in Sub-Saharan Africa [ 47, 48].
Ms Brown says she too had received abuse over the affair.
In 1992 she joined the BBC, reporting initially on human rights abuses and environmental affairs on BBC1's Breakfast News.
