Nobody comes out of the Ashley Madison data leak particularly well, given that the website was created for the sole purpose of cheating on your partner. But reports claim that the first celebrity involved in the scandal has been revealed.
A credit card in the name of a Joshua J Duggar had been used to pay $984 (£628) for two subscriptions on the website, which is particularly ironic, since if this is the conservative reality TV star Josh Duggar, he has previously aired strong views on preserving the sanctity of marriage.
Duggar rose to prominence as the eldest child on the reality show 19 Kids and Counting, which aired between 2008 and 2015 on TLC in the United States. The show provided an insight into the Duggar family’s strict faith-based lifestyle, which included values of purity, modesty and limited access to entertainment such as movies or TV.
In 2013, Duggar was made executive director of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group which aims to ‘champion marriage and family as the foundation of civilisation, the seedbed of virtue and the wellspring of society’.
But Duggar was forced to resign from this position earlier this year after reports surfaced that, as a teenager, he had molested five young girls - four of which were his sisters - beginning in 2002.
The news caused the show to be pulled from TV and the family went into a tailspin trying to manage the backlash.
The data leaked from Ashley Madison’s servers points to someone using a credit card belonging to a ‘Joshua J Duggar’ with a billing address that matches that of Duggar’s grandmother Mary, whose Arkansas home was regularly shown on the show.
That person paid a total of $986 (£628) for two different monthly subscriptions between February 2013 and May 2015.
The user was, according to the data, searching for a partner for acts including 'Conventional Sex', 'Gentleness' and 'Bubble Bath for 2'.
Under another section, where prospective adulterers list what attributes and services they are turned on by, a number of traits are listed including 'Good Personal Hygiene', 'Average Sex Drive', 'Stylish/Classy' and 'Imagination'.
The second account is claimed to also show data that suggests a fee of $250 (£159) was paid as part of an 'affair guarantee', which the site claims will give customers their money back if they don’t have an affair within three months.
Since the leak, claims have emerged on Gawker that an account on OKCupid could also be linked to Duggar.
That account claims to be that of a man looking for both ‘casual sex’ and ‘a strictly monogamous’ type of woman. Baffling.
