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An article in the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair is set to expose former President Bill Clinton’s lurid sexual past – as if we didn’t already know about most of it. The article, written by Todd Purdum, who is married to former Clinton aide Dee Dee Myers – attacks Clinton, saying that his affairs and general Clintonian behavior have wrecked Hillary’s chances at the presidency.
One of the interesting revelations is that Clinton supposedly had an affair with actress Gina Gershon.
Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton’s episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of Clinton, Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don’t know what the guy was doing, but it was so clear that it was just no good.
[From Vanity Fair via Gossip Rocks]
I don’t think it’s any news that Bill’s a player. So much was made of the Clinton’s marriage during the Lewinsky sex scandal that there really isn’t much to say about it anymore. I don’t think many people believe they have a marriage of love, at least in the traditional romantic sense. It seems more that it’s a partnership, and Bill at least gets his love somewhere else. Who knows. But it seems like plenty of people have been able to support the former president politically while decided that his personal proclivities are his own affair. So to speak.
Clinton’s office issued an angry, 2,476 word rebuttal to Vanity Fair’s article, pointing out many of its holes. They also point out that the article fails to mention any of the good Clinton has done since leaving office through the William J. Clinton Foundation – which has been prolific. While they defend nearly every single accusation in Vanity Fair’s article, the only seemingly-important issue they don’t address is that of Clinton’s sexual dalliances. Considering the depth they went into, leaving something like that out says more than anything they could have said.
Clinton called writer Purdum “Sleazy” “Slimy” and a “Scumbag” when asked by Huffington Post reporter Mayhill Fowler if the Vanity Fair article was “weighing on his mind.” He pointed out that Purdum used fifty anonymous sources.
“Anytime you read a story that slimes a public figure with anonymous quotes, it oughta make the bells go off in your head. Because anytime somebody uses those things– he wrote the story in his head in advance, and he just goes around and tries to find some coward to say whatever they want to say, hoping to get some benefit out of it. It didn’t bother me. It shouldn’t bother you.”
[From the Huffington Post]
Clinton’s spokesman had to apologize on his behalf for the sleazy/slimy/scumbag comments. I don’t really blame him - so many anonymous sources is something you’d expect of some magazines, but certainly not Vanity Fair. It will be interesting to see if the article does significant damage to Hillary Clinton’s campaign - though several websites are claiming she’ll be dropping out of the race any day now, regardless of the article.
Header of Gina Gershon at the Icons Of Music II auction in New York City on May 31st and Bill Clinton leaving his hotel the way to a benefit fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in Dublin on November 17th. Images thanks to WENN.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Affairs, Bill Clinton, Gina Gershon, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Sex, Vanity Fair
27 Responses to “Vanity Fair says Bill Clinton had affair with Gina Gershon”
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Wooaaaaahhh! UPGRAAAADDE!! (Over Monica Lewinsky I mean)
Also, I think Bill and Hillary do love each other, but not sexually. It’s a mutual understanding of affection that can only be found in politics. Take Governor Spitzer. Rumors were circulating she was pushing him NOT to resign, that they could get through the hooker storm. To some people, political prominence is more important than having a faithful spouse.
And re: Donya!!! Please leave the “first” stuff on Perez’s site!
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Send this story back to 1994 when it would have mattered.
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I am just shocked that he would have an affair with that hack actress Gershon. He must’ve seen “Showgirls” and wanted to tap some of that!
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I think Bill and Hillary do love each other too, in a more cerebral sense. I was struck when I read his autobiography and he described meeting her and talking together for a long time and then later wanting to see her again because “Hillary and I hadn’t finished our conversation.” That’s kind of cool. Whatever their marriage is, they are making it work for them. And that’s all that matters.
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I thought Gina Gershon was gay???
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I thought she was gay too.
Who cares who Bill has sex with? I don’t!
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who says “First” on Celebitchy? Douche. This isn’t Perez’s site. Show some class when on a gossip site - you hear??
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who says “First” on Celebitchy? Douche. This isn’t Perez’s site. Show some class when on a gossip site - you hear??
AMEN! I almost puked up my lunch when I read that here!
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT, Bill Clinton was caught with a woman, I am in shock!
I always thought he was a nice guy true to his wife. This is going to rock the news world. NOT!
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Go to TMZ.com and see what Gina’s lawyers have to say.
Leave Bill alone !
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Slick Willie and Spitzer are scum, and so are their power- and privilege-addicted wives.
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“Clinton called writer Purdum “Sleazy” “Slimy” and a “Scumbag””
:lol: ROTFL!! He sure knows how to describe himself.
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I second that, donaldo
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Would it surprise anyone if I said there’s more: http://theseedsof9-11.com
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At least it would be a step up from his previous mistress’.
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who gives a shit about who bill did or did not screw? with all that is going wrong in this country why is this news?
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if you had a wife like Hillary, you would cheat too. She is a horse.
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?? His cheating (alleged) doesn’t indicate his sexual relationship with his wife, given his personality. Players cheat on their wives and girlfriends, regardless of hotness. Think how many guys have cheated on Hollywood’s megababes. Didn’t someone cheat on Halle Berry?!?
Spitzer’s wife suggesting they could ride out the hooker storm? She might be mad as hell, but she still loves him and wants the best for him. She might want to stay politically prominent etc. too, but there are other possibilities.
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Anybody that stays with a cheater is lost in a dangerous codependent relationship. Professional marriages included. Halle Berry was smart enough to dump the asshole. Hillarious Clinton was not.
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The country has gone to hell in a hand basket. The current president has lied about weapons of mass destruction and took the country to war based on those lies. He let two landmark buildings go down because his intelligence agencies were not communicating properly. The world hates us because of the crazy policies the present administration supports. Gas is up to $4.00 a gallon. Vanity Fair should get a clue and not recycle old news.
The sad fact is, Mr. Clinton could screw around and still balance the budget, have a booming economy, and still be well respected around the world. Joe and Jane in the streets need to get their priorities straight. These are consenting adults, let them mix and match as they want to!
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amen, t p vero!
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Bill is over 60 and has a bad heart. I doubt if he’s doing much “playing” these days.
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Given the trail of allegations following Clinton during his ENTIRE political career (not just his presidency), and given that he originally claimed he had nothing to do with Lewinsky and was proven wrong - Clinton can pretty much say what he wants about socialising with pretty actresses being purely platonic and innocent. At this point we have no reason to believe him.
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[i]The current president has lied about weapons of mass destruction and took the country to war based on those lies.[/i]
Congress saw the same intelligence reports that Bush did…and voted to invade Iraq, and that includes Hillary too. If the Dems really believe they were “hoodwinked” by the president, what does it say about their own perceptive abilities in the first place??
It’s true the intelligence communities didn’t “talk”…but that is not Bush’s fault. That happened during the Church commission in 1975 and also under CLINTON’S watch, when the FBI and CIA were forbidden to share data for fear they might violate someone’s privacy.
Too bad 3,000 people’s lives were violated on 9/11 because of it!
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Graydon Carter always seems to be trying to do his best to slam the Republicans and help the liberal cause - so why the hell is he publishing this now?
Get a grip, dude! Maybe it is a hoax, because although he is reputed, like a lot of politicans, to have a lot of charisma, I can’t see wanting to get laid by Clinton, much less blow him. If it’s true it goes to show just how desperate the hangers-on are. -
Go, Gina! I love Bill Clinton!
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FIRST!
and is this really that surprising?
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