It's usually Bauer's pair of tabloids or Wenner Media's Us Weekly making media news for intra-office politics. Thanks to a magical pair of angler pants, People rarely gets wet when it comes to scandal. Until today, when Page Six stoked the fire smoking on the West Coast, where the tabloid's L.A. deputy chief Bryan Alexander is reportedly on extended leave while bosses figure out how to handle his romantic relationship with Mary Margaret Acoymo, who just happens to have been promoted from intern to reporter/writer while under his watch. Except as People staffers tell us, Alexander doesn't just have a fondness for Margaret — but dudes as well.

Submits a People tipster:

• Alexander has, allegedly, sent out emails propositioning men. Several months ago he met with Time Inc. legal to discuss. Meanwhile, there are "gay" crotch shots of men on his office door that staffers must "stomach."

• West Coast chief and Alexander's boss Liz Leonard — who hired Margaret in 2006 from London — has given her deputy all the power "because she does not know how to make the magazine click since Todd Gold left. Todd Gold was very well connected and liked among the celebrity crowd." Then again, Gold who Leonard replaced in August 2005, has been on "permanent book leave" since rumors surfaced about him allegedly touching a female staffer "inappropriately."

• Alexander regularly gives his brother Regan the best assignments for the magazine and dot com. Nevermind that People supposedly has a strict policy barring such nepotism.

• People chief Larry Hackett is aware of the situation, but "turns a blindside" to all of it.

And now, you help us: This is the only photo we could find of a "Bryan Alexander." Is this our guy? Update: Yep, it's our guy.