Fox News has a breakdown of the ways that celebrity mistresses have cashed in on the recent high profile scandals. It’s mostly information we’ve heard before, but the way they put it all together to spell out what a financial boon this is to the women is very eye opening. Mistresses stand to get paid post-scandal in all sorts of ways: by stripping as “the mistress of…”, selling interviews and details, and hiring Gloria Allred to threaten their former lovers in exchange for a payoff. One of the most lucrative methods is posing for Playboy, an option that is only open to the “classiest” (eyeroll) of prostitute mistresses, like Ashley Dupre and Rachel Uchitel. Here’s more on that, and it includes the detail that the woman managing the stripper tour featuring mistresses of Tiger, Jesse and David Boreanaz is also trying to set up some kind of reality show for her girls. Good luck with that.

With the concept of shame out the window and infamy guaranteed by one phone call to US Weekly, the options for the mistresses of Tiger Woods, Jesse James and other high profile philanderers to make bank these days are many. Some participate in cash prize beauty pageants, some sell their stories, text messages and pictures to magazines and television outlets, and some, like porn stars Holly Sampson and Joslyn James, have used the scandal to reinvent their careers in stripping and porn.

“[A sex] scandal provides a short term spike in interest and these mistresses would have to be crazy not to try to capitalize on it. Their fame and fortune may not be enduring but if they can turn 15 minutes of fame into a year of income, they can walk away with about a million dollars,” explains Nelson Gayton, executive director of the Center for Management of Enterprise in Media, Entertainment & Sports at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. “There is money to be made here so we are certainly not going to see less of this going forward.”

Indeed the growing supply of women telling tales of sleeping with married celebs has yet to outstrip demand.

“America is fascinated with the mistress right now. They have become a commodity. We don’t see them as names, just as juicy stories that can give us some insight into the character of the celebrity they slept with,” explains “Cult of Celebrity” author Cooper Lawrence. “As long as there is an appetite for them and what they represent then we will see more people paying more money for them to do things.”

Sampson and James joined forces this week with Jesse James’ alleged mistress Melissa Smith to make an appearance at the “eXXXtacy 2010” adult film convention in Chicago July 16-18. Joslyn’s manager Gina Rodriguez, herself a self-proclaimed mistress of actor David Boreanaz, is hoping to book the women at various conventions and strip clubs across the country for a kind of traveling mistress minstrel show that could translate into fees of $10,000 per girl per appearance.

Rodriguez told Fox411.com that she’s also in the process of shopping a reality television show for the three girls, herself and January Gessert, the woman who reportedly came between Reggie Bush and his one-time reality television love Kim Kardashian. The reality show would pay the women $3,000 – $5,000 per episode.

While Sampson, James and Smith are collecting smaller payments here and there, some mistresses find it more lucrative to make a large chunk of change all at once by posing for Playboy. This option is available only to the very high profile mistresses, like Ashley Dupre, the call girl who brought down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Dupre posed nude in the May issue of the magazine. Playboy also made an offer to Rachel Uchitel, mistress number one in the Tiger Woods scandal, who will appear in the magazine in an upcoming issue.

There has been speculation that these women were paid up to $1 million to pose. While Playboy never confirms the amount it pays women to pose, it does say that the numbers floated in the media are an exaggeration. Insiders say that Dupre and Uchitel were paid closer to the range of $100,000 to $300,000 to pose nude for the magazine.

[From Fox News]

So if you’re a stripper and/or a hooker and you want to up your fee, just sleep with a rich famous married guy and then sell him out to the media. Get a lot of text messages and try to get some photos and videos too. Be a part of a scandal and you too can be rich and famous for being a wh*re.

I also wanted to comment on this super obnoxious statement by the CEO of that site that sets up married guys with opportunistic hookers willing to take advantage of their horniness and lack of morals, “Ashley Madison.” In defending his decision to hire Michelle “white supremacist” McGee as a spokesperson, Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman told Fox News “there were three people involved in this affair, and the one who is least accountable for the demise of Sandra and Jesse’s marriage is Michelle. It’s called accountability, and it is sorely lacking in the coverage of this story to date.” What. An. Asshole! He is saying that it’s more Sandra Bullock’s fault that Jesse “pit bull face” James cheated than it is Michelle’s. Sandra was not “involved in this affair,” she was a victim of it and many others, but of course we can’t expect the CEO of a cheaters’ site to have any sympathy for the wronged wives.