June 26th, 2008 // comments (0)

Lara Logan Sex Scandal Update

Burkett’s wife, Kimberly, also accuses Logan of teaming up with him to take her 3-year-old daughter away, according to the source.

A close pal of Logan, who confirmed the allegations to The Post, said Burkett’s marriage to Kimberly was already finished six months before they sparked up a relationship.

“She is not the cause of their divorce,” the friend told The Post yesterday.

“It was going to happen.”

The pal also said Logan was particularly hurt by the comments because she had met Kimberly Burkett and thought the two were “friendly.”

Kimberly filed for divorce from her husband in January in a court near their hometown of Fredericksburg, Texas.

The husband, 36, and wife, 32, are now battling over custody of toddler Ashley.

Pals of Logan said that the divorce attorney is just grandstanding by dragging the rising television star into the Texas couple’s split.

“Lara is not part of their divorce proceedings,” a friend said.

“The simple truth is that this was a marriage that was breaking up. And that’s the bottom line.”

As for the other claims, pals admitted that Logan had a one-time fling with CNN reporter Ware – but denied that there was any sort of fight between him and Burkett in Baghdad.

“There was no screaming match,” the pal said.

Tale of the love fight first broke on the freerepublic.com in December.

The scandal comes just as the former model’s journalistic career is starting to skyrocket.

It’s a stunning turn of events for the respected journalist, who once told The Washington Post that she “has no social life.”

Yesterday, CBS announced, without a hint of irony, that she was given a new Washington assignment as chief foreign-affairs correspondent. She joined the network in 2002 and became a “60 Minutes” correspondent in 2006.

So CBS News decides to yank her out of Iraq until the smoke clears, huh? I knew she had it in her. Despite her droll appearances on The Daily Show and her monotone delivery – she’s a real fox. So what happens next? Michael Ware must be quite lonely in Iraq without her but I have a feeling he’ll be reluctant to pack his bags and head back to the States. This story was so sexy it enticed the Post to take it’s sights of Olbermann for a day or so. Updates as they come…

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