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Palino admits carpark meeting

John Palino has admitted meeting Bevan Chuang in a Mission Bay car park but denied any knowledge of her affair until it appeared in media two days later.

Brownlee: No "peace mission" with Dalziel

Blogger denies plot to unseat Brown

The right-wing blogger who revealed Auckland Mayor Len Brown's extra-marital affair has denied a plot to unseat the left-leaning politician.

John Roughan: Who would have thought ... ?

Campaign sex, they called it in the book Primary Colours, sex supercharged with the adrenaline of public life.

Palino met Brown's lover

John Palino met Len Brown's former mistress for a late-night discussion in a Mission Bay car park the night after the mayoral election and just two days before the affair was made public.

Aucklanders would bring back Brown

Half of Aucklanders think Len Brown should continue as mayor after revelations of a two-year extra-marital affair with Bevan Chuang, according to a Herald DigiPoll

Palino's man cut from global list

The political organiser who asked Len Brown's mistress to reveal the affair has been withdrawn from a global list of influential young people.

Chuang's family ask for privacy

The family of the woman behind the Len Brown sex scandal is asking to be left alone.

John Armstrong: Brown's mea culpa absolutely woeful

If another favour from Len Brown to Bevan Chuang emerges from the woodwork then the Auckland Mayor has to go, John Armstrong writes.

Brown's ex-mistress: I feel used

The former lover of Auckland Mayor Len Brown wants nothing to do with the people who she claimed made her go public about the affair.

Palino and fiancee keep a low profile

John Palino, the mayoral candidate whose camp has been accused of trying to expose the Len Brown sex scandal, has gone to ground.

NBR journalist fired for writing editorial supporting Len Brown

Inquiry into Brown scandal

Auckland Council say an independent review into the Len Brown sex scandal will take place, despite an assurance that no mayoral office funds were used in the relationship.

Mayor was job referee for mistress

Len Brown's office has confirmed he provided a reference for his ex-mistress when she applied for - and got - a job at the council-run art gallery.

Rival drags up Brown credit-card use

Councillors have broken their silence about Auckland Mayor Len Brown's two-year affair with aspiring politician Bevan Chuang.

Revealed: Criminal past

The woman who had an affair with Auckland Mayor Len Brown has a criminal conviction for logging into the email of the former head of the Auckland Museum.

Claire Trevett: Best advice: Keep it in your pants

Everybody has distractions, writes Claire Trevett. In fact, when it comes to time, family and raising children is a far more time-consuming distraction than an affair.

Mayor's infidelity 'a matter for family' as PM focuses on to-do list

Prime Minister John Key has refused to be drawn into the sex scandal surrounding Auckland Mayor Len Brown, saying: "Len's got a job to do."