Jeri Ryan indirectly, but very clearly, gave us Obama. Her messy divorce ushered in then unknown Obama into the US senate and into national prominence.

His 2004 campaign for the Senate, against Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed custody documents stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The unsealing of those documents, detailing allegations that Ryan had pressured his wife to perform sexual acts in public, led to Ryan's withdrawal from the campaign.[2]