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Gennifer Flowers
Born (1950-01-24) January 24, 1950 (age 74)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
NationalityAmerican
Websitehttp://www.genniferflowers.com

Gertrude Gennifer Flowers (born January 24, 1950) is a model and actress who had a sexual relationship with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Prior to Bill Clinton's presidency, she also posed nude for Penthouse magazine and was an actress in two films and one TV show. After becoming a celebrity, she acted as herself in two films and guest starred as herself in various TV shows.

The Bill Clinton controversy

Gennifer Flowers came forward during Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign, alleging that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him.[1] Flowers at first denied that she had an affair with Clinton, but later changed her story.[2]

After Bill Clinton denied having a relationship with Flowers on 60 Minutes, she held a press conference in which she played tape recordings she claimed were of secretly recorded intimate phone calls with Bill Clinton.[2] Clinton subsequently apologized publicly to Mario Cuomo for remarks he made about the former governor on the tapes. However, news reports at the time speculated that the taped phone conversations between Flowers and Clinton could have been doctored.[2]

In December 1996, Gennifer Flowers admitted to her sexual relationship with Bill Clinton on The Richard Bey Show. The show was canceled the following day. Richard Bey later attributed a direct connection between the two consecutive events (see TV appearances).

In his presidential deposition in January 1998, while denying Kathleen Willey's sexual accusations against him, Bill Clinton changed his prior statements and admitted that he had a sexual encounter with Flowers.[3] In 1998, Flowers admitted that she had made a total net profit of $500,000.00 by publicizing her alleged affair with Clinton to Penthouse Magazine, Star Magazine and other news sources.[4] In his 2004 autobiography My Life, Clinton acknowledged testifying under oath that he had an encounter with Flowers. He stated it was only on one occasion in 1977.[3][4][5] However, it has not been proven exactly what type of sexual advances Clinton made during this 1977 encounter.[5]

Flowers sued George Stephanopoulos, James Carville and others in 1999 for defamation (later amending the suit in 2000 to include Hillary Rodham Clinton as a defendant), claiming that they orchestrated a campaign to discredit her. Judicial Watch represented her in her defamation lawsuit against Hillary's former aides, Stephanopoulos and Carville.[6] In 2003, a federal judge further approved appeal.[7] The appeal was revived in 2002, but rejected by the Ninth Circuit in 2004.[8]

Post controversy years

Gennifer Flowers published her memoir Gennifer Flowers: Passion and Betrayal ISBN 978-0964047938 in 1995. In it, she claimed she had experienced a sexual naïveté at the time of her alleged relationship with Clinton ("The first time he [ejaculated during oral sex], I was taken aback. I was saving that for my husband, if ever. But Bill was gentle and held me after.").

She posed nude for Penthouse magazine during this period and was featured in the December 1992 issue along with her story "Gennifer Flowers Tells All, Shows All". After already being an actress in an Australian film in 1987, she played in another independent Australian film in 1992 and in the same year guest starred in the adult themed television comedy Dream On.

After becoming a celebrity, she acted as herself in two films: Play It to the Bone and The War Room. She also guest starred as herself in various TV shows.

Until Hurricane Katrina, she ran a cabaret called the Kelsto Club in a former bordello in New Orleans's French Quarter. As of 2007, she lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she occasionally writes a column.[9]

In 2008 she put the answering machine tapes of her conversations with Bill Clinton up for auction.[10]

Filmography

TV appearances

References

  1. ^ "Declaration of Gennifer G. Flowers". The Washington Post. 1998-03-13. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  2. ^ a b c "Gennifer Flowers may proceed with defamation suit". Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. 2002-11-19. Retrieved 2008-03-20. At the press conference, Flowers — who initially denied allegations that she had an affair with then Arkansas governor Bill Clinton but then changed her story — played tapes of conversations she had secretly recorded between herself and Clinton
  3. ^ a b Clines, Francis X. (1998-03-14). "TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: THE ACCUSER; JONES LAWYERS ISSUE FILES ALLEGING CLINTON PATTERN OF HARASSMENT OF WOMEN". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-20. In his January deposition, the President, though finally confirming a sexual encounter with Ms. Flowers, was precise in denying Ms. Willey's report that he had sought to kiss her and feel her breasts
  4. ^ a b Stout, David (1998-03-21). "TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: THE OTHER WOMAN; Flowers Acknowledges Earning $500,000 From Scandal". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  5. ^ a b http://www.comedyontap.com/presgirls/flowers.html
  6. ^ Liptak, Adam (2002-11-13). "West: California: Libel Suit From Clinton Era". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-20. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, revived a 1999 libel suit filed by Gennifer Flowers against two former aides to Bill Clinton.
  7. ^ "Flowers' Suit Vs. Clinton Proceeds". CBS News. 2003-07-24. Retrieved 2008-03-20. Now a federal judge has ruled that Flowers can move ahead with a lawsuit that accuses Hillary Rodham Clinton and others of trying to discredit her during the 1992 presidential campaign.
  8. ^ "GENNIFER FLOWERS: Judge rejects lawsuit against Clinton aides". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2004-03-17. Retrieved 2008-03-20. Ruling dismisses defamation claim by woman who said she, ex-president had affair
  9. ^ "Ask Gennifer with a G. - Gennifer will answer questions on Love & Life". vegascommunityonline.com. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  10. ^ Malcolm, Andrew (2008-02-26). "Gennifer Flowers to auction off The Tapes with Bill". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
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