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Valeria Messalina was the (fourth) wife of Claudius when he became emperor - AD 37. Messalina would be accused of using her sexuality and manipulating her husband Claudius and other powerful people into committing many cruel and arbitrary acts for her own political gains.
Whatever the sexual life she allowed herself - it spawned outrageous exaggerations trough the centuries and her name became a synonymous of sexual promiscuity and over indulgence.