The Book of Vice (Peter Sagal)
From page 7….
On Jack Ryan, the perfectly haired onetime Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois:
Mr. Ryan had to drop out of the race in the spring of 2004 when a judge released papers filed in his divorce from Star Trek: Voyager star Jeri Ryan. In her divorce petition, Ms. Ryan accused her then-husband of forcing her to go to sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris, and demanding that she perform obscene acts upon him in public. Ryan denied the allegations, saying instead that on just one occasion, he had escorted her to what he referred to as an “avant-garde nightclub” — so called, we assume, because public fellatio is so much the prochaine big thing. He says they didn’t like it, and left. Nonetheless, his campaign cratered, and with no other viable Republican candidates available to take his place, the Democratic nominee, an obscure state legislator named Barack Obama, all of a sudden seemed as if he might amount to something after all.