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Mother of Mess: The 21st Anniversary of the Julia Roberts Cheating Scandal

Mother of Mess: The 21st Anniversary of the Julia Roberts Cheating Scandal

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March 2001 was a crazy time.

George Bush hadn’t orchestrated September 11th yet, Destiny’s Child’s Survivor, and Crazy Town’s Butterfly were lighting up TRL, and most important of all—Julia Roberts was in love—with someone else’s husband.

If you don’t remember the details surrounding this delicious piece of drama, why don’t you come a little Closer and let me tell you a story about America’s Sweetheart, and the affair that rocked (West) Hollywood with then-married cinematographer, Danny Moder—who is now her husband of twenty-one years.

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