Hamilton and Jefferson Sexual Affairs, Scandalmonger James T Callender. The Founding Fathers’ first scandals of blackmail, sex, and betrayal involving George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson were all published by a Philadelphia journalist whose body washed up in the James River amidst the scandals he created. Grim Investigates. This is the story of Hamilton’s marital infidelities with Maria Reynolds. Of Jefferson’s children with his slave Sally Hemmings. And, of the scandalmonger: James T. Callander, who uncovered and published it. The Reynolds Affair. The Hemmings Affair.