They probably didn’t want the details of their very active sex lives to be public information nationally either.

Apart from this being an ongoing situation where the court of public opinion already has a conviction while the facts are rolling in, I hate that there's a market force emerging where people's behavior in their own homes, even if they're outwardly positive about it, can still be held against them publicly. Extremely sex positive, open relationship, whatever? Too bad you didn't air it out publicly so you could be vilified ahead of time so it didn't come up at a time of great stress. I wish I could bottle up whatever process celebrities use to get everyone to respect their "keep our private lives, private" position, and give a bottle to everyone on earth.

That goes double for people up to the same shit in their own bedrooms who hold holier-than-thou attitudes publicly.

And, yeah. The guy may be in a no-win situation where he has to pick between taking a hit to the reputation, or suing.