Is "blackmail" not in your dictionary?
If the company doesn't have a "no sleeping with underlings" policy, and the CEO and his wife says "we have an open relationship", the CEO sleeping with anyone will gain a "meh". But since this CEO agreed to:
1) sleep only with his wife
2) follow company rules, including about sleeping with colleagues
the public learning that he's been breaking those agreements means he was vulnerable to being blackmailed at any point he was doing so...