Was the following posted by Marianne Gingrich? [From a search. I don’t like the Daily Kos, of all things.]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/30/1050139/-Marianne-Gingrichs-take
I can only suppose the Emperor Justinian married his mistress Theodora (who may well have been a prostitute earlier in her life) and the gossips tongues clucked!