re: #9 Joanne

That was my first thought.

The fatal attraction who was trying to make him unmarried?

I am not blaming her, it is both their faults. No one forced him to All In with his schmendrick.

I haven’t made a study of this, but it seems that the General and his biographer were running around together (literally) and flying around together enough to fuel speculation by lots of people. Wikipedia is a weird place to post such speculation, but people have a hard time keeping these things to themselves.