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TMZ.com: President Bill Clinton is always giving a helping hand to his fellow man -- or woman, as the case may be.While leaving a $200 - $500 a tix speaking engagement in Canada on Friday, the Edmonton Sun caught Slick Willie holding an unidentified younger... Read more
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Prez Election 2008
TMZ.com: Bill Clinton showed off his oral talents when speaking at a rally in Orlando a few weeks ago. Geez - that poor microphone doesn't know what it's in for. Guess no matter how hard he tries, the C-Man just can't get the taste of Hillary out of his... Read more
Vanity Fair's new issue has an article suggesting Clinton has been seeing actress Gina Gershon over the years -- wa wa wa what?!
Why the hell is VF slamming Bill Clinton when Hillary's already down?! Graydon Carter's mag has a piece titled "Bubba Trouble: The Comback Id," in their current issue (on newsstands tomorrow). - Is that what Democrats need to be doing right now? Offering the country more evidence of the Clintons' alleged foibles?
Not to mention, Gina's peeps are all over this, calling it BS ... which it probably is.
Meanwhile, the new issue also features an interview with Angelina Jolie so that she can promote her new film Wanted.
Here's an excerpt:
"When I asked why she made Wanted, the big-budget action movie co-starring James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman, she said, “Because I had just done A Mighty Heart and was scheduled to do Changeling, which is about the kidnapping of a child. And I had lost my mom. And I knew I was in this odd, fuzzy state going from one loss and kidnapping to another loss and kidnapping. Then Wanted came along. It’s about being physical and jumping and running and being violent, and instinctively I knew I needed to do that.”Good thing they didn't challenge her by asking why a UN Goodwill Ambassador would do a film glamorizing unnecessary violence! Only political pieces should be serious ... the rest is just fluff, right?!

Bill Clinton had an affair with Gina Gershon
In their July issue, Vanity Fair hints that the former President Bill Clinton may have had an affair with actress Gina Gershon. An excerpt from the article:
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. (Source)
With his penchant for oral sex, is anyone actually surprised that Bill Clinton would be linked to Gina Gershon? That chick’s mouth has cut down more wood than Paul Bunyan. The only thing that surprises me about this article is that it doesn’t mention the other famous mouths Clinton has lusted after — like Angelina Jolie’s, Scarlett Johansson’s, and Steven Tyler’s.
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Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Prez Election 2008
TMZ.com: TMZ has obtained a copy of a demand letter from Gina Gershon to Vanity Fair. Make no mistake - she's pissssed.Vanity Fair just published a pretty scandalous story about Prez Bill Clinton. The demand letter claims the article "outrageously insinuates... Read more
Billionaire sex-perv Jeffrey Epstein enjoys sex with underage girls, that much we know. But before we all knew this, he was a very popular financier with many important and famous friends. He went to a lot of parties! He flew Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker to Africa for some reason! We can only imagine what the on-flight entertainment was. Now he's apparently getting ready to plea guilty to all sorts of things involving prostitution, and some ladies are suing him for making them his sex slaves when they were underage, so he doesn't quite go out on the town that much. Except sometimes he does! And, to answer our own question, it's because uber-publicist Peggy Siegal is still happy to stand by her 14-year-old raping friend Jeffrey.
New York found Epstein at a Siegal event. She's quoted talking about him more-or-less glowingly in New York's December feature on the disgraced financier. And today Page Six reports on a public sighting that would've really been too terrible to conceive:
May 8, 2008 — JEFFREY Epstein, who made a trip to Israel last month, thought about staying there, as Roman Polanski did in France, rather than face trial and possibly jail on charges of soliciting sex from prostitutes. But the money manager came home. "Would you want to live in Israel?" he asked Vanity Fair's Vicky Ward yesterday. At the screening the night before of HBO's documentary about Polanski, the crowd - including Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Bewkes, Dustin Hoffman, Emmy Rossum , Alec Baldwin and filmmaker Michael Mailer - was buzzing that Epstein had absconded. In fact, he was in his Upper East Side mansion. Ward wrote yesterday on the VF Web site, "He'd even thought about going to the Polanski screening until various friends e-mailed him to say, in so many words, 'Are you in- sane?' "
We'd guess "various friends" means "Peggy Siegal." Or, hell, Howard Rubenstein, Epstein's flack, who also reps the Post, as you may remember. Still, it's a good sign that they're finally advising him not to go out, especially to see movies about famous people who run away to foreign countries to avoid jail time for sex crimes.
Ugh.
"Some of the most celebrity-centric, entertainment-obsessed news media outlets have added a heavy dose of political news to their lineups, taking space normally devoted to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ... The gossip-magazine editors appear to hold the cards most of the time. When President Bill Clinton submitted an essay for publication in Us, it did not pass muster with [Us editor Janice] Min. 'It was the magazine equivalent of watching C-Span,' she recalled, a slight shudder in her voice. 'I was a little mortified to do it, but we kicked it back to the president for a revise.'" [Times]
So—the years of tax returns the Clintons just released? They'll be feeding crazy news stories throughout the weekend. (Friday afternoon news dump! Good work, Clintons!) We'll try to limit ourselves to this: Bill Clinton has made millions of dollars just for being friends with Ron Burkle. Back in 2001, Burkle, the supermarket magnate who secretly owns Radar, asked his good friend Bill to do some nonsense advisory work for Burkle's private equity firm, Yucaipa Companies. How has that worked out? Well! Bill reported $12,674,668 in income from Yucaipa between 2001 and 2006. All for flying around on Burkle's private jet with cute girls. Anyway this could be a bit of trouble for Bill because of the sleazy rumors and whatnot.
Dear Silda Wall Spitzer,
So. Today was awkward, huh? Your husband of 20 years cheated on you with a prostitute. A high class prostitute, sure, but still someone he paid money to for sex. And for a woman like you, a Harvard trained lawyer who never wanted to be a political wife anyway, standing silently by while your husband sort of apologized for cheating must have taken everything you had. We want you to know, it's okay to be mad.
In this age when everyone, or at least half of everyone, is divorced, we accept that marriages are complex institutions that no one knows how to operate. We're used to political marriages falling apart. But what we're sick of is political wives pretending everything is okay.
Remember how Dina McGreevey seemed not to mind that her husband was a philanderer fag at the first press conference? That strategy didn't really work, because it turns out, she really did care quite a bit. And back in the Gennifer Flowers era, Hillary Clinton also did the stand-by-your man routine, and defended Bill on 60 Minutes. It was the first of many lies the Clintons would tell us about their marriage. Suzanne Thompson, Larry Craig's wife, is still playing make-believe, but we know the tell-all book will be out by the time Larry Craig leaves the Senate. The thing is, holding your husband's hand and embracing him after the press conference is sort of like popping a pimple. It might give off short term satisfaction, but ultimately, it will create a scar.
In our own way, we're sort of pissed at Eliot Spitzer, too. We thought he was better than the rest of New York politicians. Like, you, we may be able to forgive him over time. But for our sake, don't act like everything is all right, because between you and him, and the State of New York and him, it's just not.
XOXO,
Gawker
Kudos to the AP for turning this traditional "odd news" staple story of a couple receiving a crude message on their restaurant bill into a trenchant bit of political commentary (with a dash of cigar-joke), thanks to the hilariously crude algorithms that apparently decide which contextual news videos to cycle through. Click to figure out what the hell we're actually talking about.
Bill Clinton (and his posse) showed up at Conde Nast HQ yesterday afternoon. No one knows why! Except maybe one of you guys—so theories and speculation welcome. Hey, maybe it has something to do with September's Vanity Fair conspiracy that no one has mentioned again, once, since then? Or maybe not! But: "a good many top-level Condé Nasters had left for the annual publishers' meeting Monday and Tuesday in Florida." So maybe he was just there to criticize Joanne Lipman. [WWD]
"Saw Bill Clinton at 2:30 this afternoon leaving Nobu 57. He shook hands, posed for pictures and kissed babies. He was in good spirits and even listened to this woman droll on and on about being from Arkansas."
Hey, the New York primary is right around the corner! Expect to see a lot more of our favorite New Yorkers the Clintons around town! Your Bed-Stuy correspondent can report that there is a shitload of Obama signage around the neighborhood, but Hillary's still relying on a major delegate pick-up in her adopted home state. If she can keep Bill quiet. Or maybe not keep him quiet? Who the hell knows! Thank god we're getting Sharpton involved, though. That's great news for everyone.
The Wall Street Journal, in the newspaper's excellent investigation into the ties between Bill Clinton and Ron Burkle, explains why the former president is disentangling himself from the supermarket billionaire, as Gawker mentioned last month. Clinton will put some distance between his wife, the leading Democratic candidate in 2008, and politically toxic associates of the Yucaipa owner such as the Sheikh of Dubai and the official Chinese news agency. But is that all?
Ron Burkle, seen in the company of models like Gisele Bundchen since he separated from his wife, is a key member of Clinton's billionaire boy's club. (Former member: teen-massage-loving Jeffrey Epstein.) We don't really believe Hollywood's autumn rumor that the former president, notorious for receiving oral sex in the Oval Office, had entertained an actress on Ron Burkle's plane. (That was probably just an amalgam of Clinton's supposed affair with bisexual actress, Gina Gershon, and earlier pictures of the ex-president with girls on the Burklejet.)
Nobody really cares about Burkle's ties to foreign governments, apart from a few right-wing obsessives. It's Burkle's ties to pretty women that represent the real embarrassment, and threat to Bill Clinton's image as a reformed husband, or at least a more discreet reprobate. With Hillary Clinton in a battle for the Democratic nomination, her husband does not need a billionaire modelizer as a friend.
Has it really been a whole decade since a plucky young intern stole the President's—and the nation's—heart with her devil-may-care attitude about workplace sex and that irresistible smile? Thanks, Matt, for reminding us of a simpler time. We appreciate also your placement of the story beneath the Hillary nonsense and above the inexplicable "CHELSEA SPEAKS!" headline. [DRUDGE]
Last week, HuffPo reported that Bill Clinton might allegedly be CUTTING ALL TIES with his good buddy and fellow chaste admirer of the female form, Ron Burkle. Today, Radar, which is secretly owned by supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, ran a hilarious gallery of Bill Clinton's most unattractive friends and acquaintances with no news peg except, you know, "Bill Clinton's sure been in the news a lot lately, you guys noticed?" Weird, wild stuff.
Clinton's Funky All-Stars [Radar]
BREAKING!!!! Bill Clinton has "severed business ties" with his longtime friend, secret Radar owner, supermarket mogul and alleged creep Ron Burkle. Apparently taking money from a dude who has been sued for various shady reasons by his entire family (among others) and who probably spends all his free time flying around on his private jet getting danced-at by models isn't the greatest move if your wife is running for president. This must be hard for Bill, considering the strength of their friendship. By the way, this is all according to "sources who know both men": There are also some denials! But it looks like there'll be an open seat on Air Burkle, hugely influential horndogs of America! [HuffPo]

Bill Clinton has done many an inappropriate thing to a many a lady over the years. But who knew he could work his mojo on a lesbian? Well Bill, apparently. Rosie O’Donnell went off on the former prez/ladies man during a stand up act a few years ago, not knowing that Bill was apparently in the audience. You’d think someone would have mentioned that to her. Or that all the security would be hard to miss. But apparently not, because Rosie told the audience, “He disgusts me,” O’Donnell recalled saying at the casino show. “And I know I’m not supposed to say this because I’m a good Democrat, but I didn’t want to [talk] to him because he lied to me when he said, ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman,’ and then put the scarlet-letter [bleep]-job on her for the rest of her life . . . I still hate you!”
Well Bill, being the guy that he is, actually sent O’Donnell a card apologizing to her, and gave him her phone number.
The sapphic supernova, doing stand-up at the New York Comedy Festival Tuesday night, told the audience how Clinton sent her a card after she slammed him during a performance at the Mohegan Sun Casino Hotel five years ago, The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller reports. When the corpulent comic called the phone number Clinton included with his note, Bubba himself picked up, she said. “My knees got weak. I was like, ‘Can I [bleep] you?’ No, I didn’t say it, but I felt it - I was like, ‘Whoa! Whoa!’ And he said, ‘I was at your show the other night, and I was sorry that you didn’t come over and say hello to me. And I know that you’re still harboring some hard feelings,’ ” O’Donnell related.
“And I said, ‘You know, listen, here’s the deal, dude. I’ve been disappointed by men my whole life. I loved JFK, my mother loved JFK, and you were the JFK to me. And you let me down, man. You killed me and that hurt me a lot, and when you hurt me, I don’t know, I didn’t expect that out of you and I thought you could do better for your wife, for the country and just in general.”
Clinton then worked his charm on O’Donnell. “He goes, ‘I’m sorry for all the men who ever hurt you, I’m sorry that I hurt you. Everything you’ve said to me, I’ve said to myself, and I hope one day you can forgive me, and I hope I can forgive me.’” Clinton’s mea culpa quickly had O’Donnell’s faucets opening up. “I’m hysterical crying,” she recalled.
[From the New York Post]
Man he’s good. Never let it be said that there’s a lady out there that Bill Clinton can’t bed. Seriously. Was that disrespectful to say? I don’t care, it’s true. If all men could harness whatever sexual magnetism it is that Bill Clinton has, women the world over would be rendered powerless. It’s a good thing it seems to be bestowed upon the relative few.

Yesterday was a big day for Angelina Jolie. She spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative organized by former US president Bill Clinton. And the Girl Interrupted actress had plenty of admonishments to hand out to the UN.
At the event, the Lara Croft actress promoted her own brand of foreign relations. She unveiled a 150-million-dollar program to help educate one million children in conflict, refugee and emergency situations.
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TMZ.com: First there was the campaign song thing, and Hillary playing nurse (nurse!), but her latest campaign stunt might be the zaniest yet!Hillary is offering supporters a chance to watch her spar with her upcoming debate foes ... while sittin' on a couch... Read more
The date: August 21st
The place: 1011 3rd Ave.
Sighted: Saw Bill Clinton yesterday at Dylan's Candy Bar. Dylan was also present and looking rather preppy (duh). Bill was rocking a "Hillary in '08" button on his lapel. Very friendly and taking lots of pictures with the ladies.
Even people who despise Hillary Clinton acknowledge that she's one sharp lady. A lady who may soon become our first female President. Unless, of course, Bill's channel surfing, catches one of those amazing Viva Viagra spots, gets to thinking about the good old days and does something that derails the whole damned thing.
For this reason, one might think that a sighting like this, Bill spending a hot summer day in a candy store, the scent of sticky caramel and melting chocolate wafting through the air as hungry women cling to him under the guise of posing for photos, might be something Hillary would frown upon.
But thinking that would be underestimating Hillary. Because she knows better than anyone that Bill's magnetic penis is not a liability; it's just a double-edged sword. Say what you will about the guy, the ladies love him, more than they love her, in fact. So, the most interesting question of the 2008 election becomes; Can Hillary keep Bill Clinton from groping, fondling or oral sexing anyone until after November 4, 2008?
Some will argue here that after the impeachment and humiliation Bill has learned his lesson and would never risk doing something like that with so much on the line. To these people I would say Steve Swindal. Steinbrenner's son-in-law was, at most, five years from taking over the whole Yankees' franchise and he couldn't manage not to cheat on the Boss's daughter. Dumb!
Oh, and also I would say Bill Clinton, who couldn't keep it in his pants for his whole presidency.
But now that he's slimmed down and his wife is getting all the attention there's not a chance he doesn't feel like going on the prowl for someone who will kneel down and reaffirm his man-ness.
Which is why it is probable that our tipster simply failed to notice the tranquilizer-armed guards dressed as homeless people positioned outside the front door of Dylan's in case one of the women dripped some chocolate on Bill's button-down and offered to clean it for him back at her place. And that's why I'm probably voting for Hillary Clinton maybe.
If she can keep Bill Clinton in line for the length of her campaign, then fixing Iraq, protecting us from terrorists, stopping global warming, dealing with North Korea, making it so my health insurance company stops screwing me and rebuilding stuff so pigeon poop-laden bridges don't collapse and streets explode less often shouldn't be anything she can't handle.
Filed under: Star Catcher
TMZ.com: TV legend Dick Van Dyke was spotted heading into Cafe Marmalade in Malibu, and a TMZ camera asked him what Nicole Richie should name her baby: "They'll think of something inappropriate," said -- Dick Van Dyke. The Great Western Forum hosted a... Read more