New Photos Show Chelsea in Drunken Stupor - Again
Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:25 p.m. EDT
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Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton was photographed being carried out of a London nightclub in a drunken stupor last week - and the pictures have been published in one of Britain's most widely read tabloids, the Daily Mail.
Photos taken outside the Embassy nightclub in London's fashionable Mayfair district show a "bleary-eyed" Clinton collapsing into the arms of her boyfriend, Ian Klaus, as he sat in the back of their car.
She had to be carried to the curb by three male companions, according to an account based on the Daily Mail report in the German wire service Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
"They had to pull her legs into the car to get her in," one eyewitness told the Mail. "She nearly fell down and didn't seem to have a clue what was going on."
Another witness explained, "She looked very drunk and her friends rang for the car to get her."
Others on the scene told the London tabloid that Clinton had to dash to the cloakroom on a couple of times before feeling brave enough to face the cool night air at around 3 a.m.
The former first daughter's partying has become notorious, and rumors continue to swirl that Oxford University, where she attended graduate school since last year, is so distressed it's considering expulsion.
In January, the American supermarket tabloid the Globe published photos of young Clinton staggering out of another London nightclub. A year before, the same tabloid carried accounts of Clinton getting "sloppy drunk" during a spring break weekend in Aspen, Colo.
In contrast to wide coverage given to alcohol-related incidents involving President Bush's twin daughters, the American mainstream press has hushed up Ms. Clinton's drinking problem |
