一段 没有 被 承认 的 绯闻 could someone translate this word for word? a little confused?

一段 没有 被 承认 的 绯闻
could someone translate this word for word? a little confused?

Word for word I’d go with:
一段: a
没有: hasn’t
被: been/gotten (an action done to it)
承认: recognize/admit
的: which (link noun to description)
绯闻: scandal.

一段 i’ve never seen that before do you know example such classifiers, so a classfier for so and so?

so to translate would it be ‘a scandal that hasn’t been recognised’?