With its growing number of print and online tabloids, the rising popularity of gossip blogs, and 24-hour cable “news” stations, the ’00s have exposed celebrities — and their scandals — more than ever before. It’s probably no coincidence, either, that our fascination in the imploding private and professional lives of over-paid and over-celebrated superstars comes during our country’s biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. So, thank you, celebrities, for allowing us to escape the sometimes messy realities of our own lives by watching you flounder through yours. After the jump, the 10 biggest celebrity scandals that kept us titillated through the decade
