As 2009 comes to a wrap we look back on the news stories that grabbed the most attention and sold the most newspapers. Specifically, here are the sex scandals that have shocked us all. Here is our editors top ten sex scandals of 2009.

1. Tiger Woods

It seems the saga of Tiger Woods will not end. Was there one mistress, two, four, sixteen, more? Among those who've come forward with a claim to having had sexual liaisons with the golf superstar are a cocktail waitress, two porn stars, a few party girls and a Floridian in her 40's. Eesh. The allegations came out after a "mini" car accident near the superstar athlete's home. Woods, believed to be the world's wealthiest athlete who was estimated to earn about $100 million a year in endorsement deals before his troubles, confessed on December 11, 2009 to his Swedish wife Elin Nordegren that he had gone outside of their marriage. After a blitz from news reports and emergence of women with whom he had his infidelities with, he announced he would take an indefinite break from golf to save his marriage.

2. Roman Polanski

Not so much a new sex scandal as the revival of an oldie but goodie Polanski, who fled the U.S. in 1978, just before he was about to be sentenced for having illegal intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 was arrested on an international warrant in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 26. The filmmaker then spent two months in a Swiss prison and posted bail of $4.5 million, allowing him to move into his luxurious Swiss Alps chalet, albeit tethered to an electronic tagging system to ensure he stays put.

3. Mark Sanford

"Don't cry for me Argentina" now has new meaning as Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina disappeared there to see a mistress this June. Gov.Mark got a little creative, sending the media on a wild goose chase after going MIA for seven days; for two days after reporters started asking questions, Sanford's office said he had gone hiking on the Appalachian Trial. First lady Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press at the time that she did not know where her husband had gone for the Father's Day weekend. When he finally re-emerged, Sanford tearfully admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he'd been having an affair a "dear, dear friend" for about eight years with whom he'd only recently become "romantic." After apologizing to his wife and four sons, he issued a statement promising to reimburse the state for an economic-development trip he took to Argentina last year that included time spent with his mistress (the trip cost $8,000). The State Commerce Department might have forgiven him, but evidently his wife never did in early December, Jenny Sanford filed for divorce.

4. David Letterman
TV host David Letterman loves to poke fun at those celebrities, politicians, and other high-profile figures unlucky enough to be caught in the midst of scandalous affairs. Maybe this was all just a cover up as he was found to be sleeping with Late Show staff, Stephanie Birkitt. But Letterman wouldn't be Letterman if he didn't poke fun at himselfand his extortionisteffectively quelling any major backlash that might have otherwise occurred.

7. Frederic Mitterrand

Frederic Mitterrand, France's culture minister is rumored to have had paid for encounters with "young boys" in Bangkok. These rumors sparked even more controversy when Frederic was first to leap to defend Roman Polanski. He was quoted saying in his book, " I got into the habit of paying for boys...All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excite me enormously, one could judge this abominable spectacle from a moral standpoint but it pleases me beyond the reasonable.

8. Jon Gosselin

So Jon is not a politician or really any one we would feel envious of but his sex scandal raised uber controversy this year. As the father of 8 children with the TLC show Jon and Kate plus 8 he was a public figure for many parents .But as we all discovered the plus 8 were not the only ones calling Jon Daddy.

9. Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer , former Democratic New York Governor, resigned March 17, 2008, in the wake of the exposure of his involvement in a high-priced prostitution ring .
Apparently not all scandals go sour, Spitzer is now talking about a run for state comptroller in 2010 and the now "famous" call girl, Ashley Dupree now has her own advice column , commenting on other sex related scandals

10.Morgan Freeman

As rumors have whirrled, Freeman has been having an alleged affair with his step Granddaughter for the last ten years. This would be putting her age at 17 when this near-incestuous affair started and there are now claims he may marry her. Morgan has been stated to have had a open relationship with wife before there marriage ended in 1997.