Sarah Palin’s political future was thrown into jeopardy last night by claims that she had a one-night stand with a basketball star shortly before her marriage and snorted cocaine with her husband while on a snowmobiling trip.
Reports based on a new book about her by Joe McGinniss allege that she also smoked marijuana with one of her college professors and had a six-month affair with Brad Hanson, one of her husband’s former business associates.
Mrs Palin, the former Governor of Alaska, has not ruled out a White House campaign next year but the new allegations, based on interviews with about 200 of her present and former associates, could be devastating for her political ambitions, given her carefully constructed image as a model working mother