Editing Chuck Robb (section)

===Scandals===
[[File:Charles Robb 1980.jpg|thumb|right|Robb as lieutenant governor.]]
[[File:Chuck Robb (VA).png|thumb|left|Robb as governor.]]

In 1991, former [[Miss Virginia USA]] [[Tai Collins]] claimed to have had an affair with Robb seven years earlier, although her allegations were never corroborated and she offered no proof of the affair to reporters. Robb denied having an affair with her, merely admitting to sharing a bottle of [[Champagne (wine)|champagne]] and receiving a massage from her in his hotel room on one occasion.<ref name="Robb denies sex, admits massage">{{cite news |title=Robb denies sex, admits massage|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19910427&id=J1xPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6848,7497774&hl=en |newspaper=Toledo Blade|date=April 27, 1991 |access-date=2015-11-27 }}</ref> Soon after making the allegations, Collins earned an undisclosed amount for posing nude for ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite news |author=Marylou Tousant |title=Tai Collins, in the Flesh |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 5, 1991 }}</ref>

There were also rumors that during the time he was governor, Robb was present at parties in Virginia Beach where [[cocaine]] was used. These rumors were never proven, despite intense investigation by reporters and political operatives. He strongly denied this when the issue was raised during his 1988 campaign for the U.S. Senate. Robb so vehemently denied the cocaine allegation that he claimed to have never seen cocaine.<ref name="Robb denies sex, admits massage"/><ref name="sabato">{{cite news |last=Sabato |first=Larry J. |title=Senator Charles S. Robb and Tai Collins |newspaper=Washington Post |date=1998-03-27 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/robb2.htm |access-date=2009-01-24}}</ref>

In 1991, three of Robb's aides resigned after pleading guilty to misdemeanors related to an illegally recorded cell phone conversation of Virginia Governor (and possible 1994 Senate primary opponent) [[Doug Wilder]]. The scandal of the phone conversation morphed into a federal grand jury investigation when it was alleged that Robb's staff and Robb himself conspired to distribute the contents of a mobile phone call taped by an "electronics buff." Robb and his staff claimed to be unaware of the fact that conversations on cell phones are protected by the same laws governing landlines. The grand jury concluded its eighteen-month investigation with a vote not to indict Robb. Relations between the Senator and Governor were described in the press as a "feud".<ref>{{cite news |author=B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr. |title=Jury Declines to Indict Robb in Taping |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/13/us/jury-declines-to-indict-robb-in-taping.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 13, 1993|access-date=2015-12-03 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-10-mn-340-story.html|title=Wilder-Robb Feud Heats Up Over Tape|date=June 10, 1991|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2010-07-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-23-mn-224-story.html|title=Robb's Career in Peril as Feud With Wilder Heats Up|date=May 23, 1992|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2010-07-29|first=Michael|last=Ross}}</ref>

In 1994 Robb released a five-and-a-half-page letter admitting to some behavior "not appropriate for a married man".<ref name=Fallout>{{cite news|title=Robb Fallout: Letter Sparks Wrath, Raves|date=March 12, 1994|publisher=Daily Press|url=https://www.dailypress.com/1994/03/12/robb-fallout-letter-sparks-wrath-raves/}}</ref> The letter did not go into details saying they "are purely private" between him and his wife and "not really anybody else's business."<ref name=Fallout/> Robb denied using or witnessing the use of drugs. Robb also expressed regret for not acting quickly enough to end a conflict between his staff and Wilder's, and for not insisting that the tape of Wilder's conversation be destroyed immediately.<ref name=Fallout/>
Republican State Senator Mark L. Earley told reporters he thought Robb's letter was released to get ahead of a [[Washington Post]] story about allegations and memos from former Robb staffers. Bert Rohrer, a Robb spokesman, declared the charge as "nonsense" holding the process of crafting the letter had been months long and that he wanted to settle the issue before launching his re-election campaign.<ref name=Fallout/>