In the Wired article:
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It’s important to note that Ashley Madison’s sign-up process does not require verification of an email address to set up an account, so legitimate addresses might have been hijacked and used by some members of the site. One email in the data dump, for example, appears to belong to former UK Prime Minister (Tony Blair).
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Yeah. I expect a lot of the "famous" people were fake names to protect the guilty.