北京看点：日花万金包养情人的中共高官被免职调查

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VOA Chinese, June 21, 2013
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 130621/1686410.html
(范悦 + 纪英男)

My comment:
(a) I have been Americanized. So I see nothing wrong for an official (or any person) to sleep around--at least legally; "morally" is another issue.
(b) New Jersey--the first state to do so--enacted Heart Balm Act to abrogate common law which allowed a jilted lover (married or unmarried) to sue in a civil action. The Act is codified as New Jersey Statutes 2A: 23-1 (read: Title 2A, section 23-1)
http://law.onecle.com/new-jersey ... l-justice/23-1.html
("Rights of action abolished[:] The rights of action formerly existing to recover sums of money as damage for the alienation of affections, criminal conversation [adultery], seduction or breach of contract to marry are abolished from and after June 27, 1935")

Ruth Sarah Lee, A Legal Analysis of Romantic Gifts. University of Miami Law Review, 67: 595, 611 and n 98 (May 2013)
http://lawreview.law.miami.edu/w ... -Romantic-Gifts.pdf
("many states have passed so-called 'heart balm' acts, which abolish the common law right of action for breach of promise to marry. At least twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have passed these acts.[footnote 98]")

This includes promises made during the courtship.