FLOWERS PUTTING CLINTON PHONE CONVERSATIONS UP FOR BID
Gennifer Flowers sings the song, "Why Haven't I Heard From You" while making telephone gestures with her hand back in 1998 at an infomercial awards dinner sponsored by the Electronic Retailing Association in Las Vegas. (Associated Press file)
Gennifer Flowers is putting the tapes of her recorded conversations with Bill Clinton during their 12-year affair on the auction block, Vegas Confidential learned Monday.
Flowers, who came forward during Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign with details of the relationship, said she decided to part with the tapes after renewed interest surfaced. She was offered $5 million by a Japanese collector in the 1990s, she said.
Asked about the timing of her announcement coming out as Hillary Clinton continues to slide in her presidential bid, “I don’t need to hurt Hillary. She is doing a fine job of that herself, along with her idiot husband. Karma is an interesting thing. If these two don’t get elected, and they are a team, it will be karma coming back to visit them. It's about time."
When President Clinton denied the relationship during his presidential campaign, Flowers called a press conference played what she said were secretly recorded phone conversations.
"These are the tapes I brought forth as proof," she said.
Flowers, who lives in Las Vegas, sued Hillary Rodham Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, James Carville and other, accusing them of orchestrating a campaign to discredit her. Carville and Stephanopolous claimed Flowers doctored the tapes.
Flowers, 58, said she has kept the tapes "very safe all these years and I just recently received more interest and I said 'why not?'
"I certainly would enjoy the money for my future security. I don’t have any guarantee what might be coming," she said.
Flowers is also exploring a new book with "explosive story additions to the Clinton affair," her publicist Bruce Merrin said in a release. The book "ill contain a special item which must remain a protected secret until the book is published."
— NORM CLARKE, Vegas Confidential |
