Joan Fleischman

In divorce court: Ana Menendez, 35, a South Florida author and journalist, and Dexter Filkins, 43, a New York Times foreign correspondent based in Baghdad. Both are former Herald reporters who wed in '95.

According to The New York Daily News, Menendez got an anonymous letter saying Filkins played around. A fellow correspondent's wife got a similar message about her hubby.

Accused sender: Susan Sachs, 53, former Times Baghdad bureau chief. The Times "linked postmarks on the envelopes to Sachs' purported whereabouts on the dates the letters were apparently sent," the Daily News says.

Sachs, also a Herald alum, denied it. The Times sacked Sachs, anyway. "She was accused of not telling the truth based on electronic information involving at least one follow-up e-mail she is said to have written," a Times source told The Washington Post.

Sachs told Editor & Publisher magazine that she is innocent and that she passed a polygraph. Aided by the Newspaper Guild, she's fighting to get her job back.

Menendez, who wrote the novel Loving Che, filed the divorce petition on Valentine's Day, before the rumoring hit the press. She wants their South Beach condo and some alimony. But not quite yet. She asked Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Eugene Fierro to put the case on hold for 90 days - for the "opportunity to effectuate a reconciliation."