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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mfgrep who wrote (12553)	3/31/1998 10:47:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

Another woman lied under Oaf. Gracen admits to lying for Clinton in the past: excerpt In an exclusive interview, Gracen told The News: In the aftermath of the Gennifer Flowers scandal, Clinton's campaign asked Gracen to issue a statement in May 1992 denying she had had sex with Clinton. Gracen, who complied, insisted she was not pressured or cajoled into making the statement. She said she began negotiating with Star magazine after being offered $1 million for her story but backed out, saying she wouldn't be able to live with herself. She said old boyfriends - "and there are some real slime buckets" - are peddling stories about her. Gracen, who yesterday closed a deal to star in "Highlander: The Raven," a spin-off of her TV series, scoffed at suggestions she kept quiet in exchange for Clinton's help in getting work in Hollywood. "If the President of the United States was on the phone pulling strings for me, I'd be on 'Seinfeld.' I'm not standing on the front of the Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio, am I?" Gracen said she should not be dragged into the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case. "It insults all women who have been sexually harassed. It's a very serious issue, and I just don't fall into that category," she said. "I was never a government employee, he never acted improperly, he never asked me to lie, he never gave me a job," Gracen said. "The only reason they're going after me is the PR value." A former friend of Gracen's, Judy Stokes, has given a sworn deposition in the Jones case saying Gracen tearfully told her in the mid-1980s that Clinton forced her into sex in the back of a limousine in 1982. "That never happened. It's completely false," Gracen said. "I never told her that Bill Clinton pressured me or harassed me. I don't know why she said that. It baffles me." She added, "It's made me into the smoking gun, and I'm not that." Stokes had no comment last night. But Gracen denied trying to duck the Jones subpoena, noting she had spent a week in Arkansas last month. She said she was "totally prepared" to tell her story under oath. Gracen said the encounter took place in 1983, the year after her reign as Miss America, in an apartment at the Quapaw Tower in Little Rock. She was 22, married and studying acting in New York, but traveled to her home state to attend a benefit and film a public service announcement. She said she ran into Clinton, whom she had previously met socially. He offered her a lift in his limousine, along with at least five other people. Gracen said she and the married governor flirted during the ride. A few days later, she met him at the hotel for an evening rendezvous. "He's a very charming, handsome man," said Gracen. She said the governor phoned her after she had returned to New York, but she told him she could not see him again. "He called, I told him I was very uncomfortable. I never spoke to him about it again," she said. "I made a very bad error in judgment. You think you can get away with these things, but they always come back down the road," she said. A decade later, Gracen's name surfaced in a lawsuit filed against Clinton, just as she was about to pose for Playboy to boost her acting career. The magazine played up the fact that she wouldn't talk about Clinton. Clinton was heading into the New York primary by then, and Gracen said his campaign asked her to issue a statement denying they had sex. "His campaign contacted my manager and asked, 'Would she issue a formal denial?' I saw it as a situation where that made good sense. I wanted it [the publicity] to go away," Gracen said. "They never pushed me into that at all. I'm too independent," she said. nydailynews.com Amazing. Gracen materializes with a new story just one day after getting her own TV series! Gracen lied for Clinton in 1992 - but was "not pressured" by the infamous bimbo eruption squad? Gracen spent months avoiding process - but now she denies she ever did, must have just been part of the negotiations for the tv series. Those developments, along with her new denial of having been assaulted by Clinton are very interesting, to say the least. I guess Gracen lies just for the fun of it - an Arkansas thing? Heck, she learned by the examples of those who told the truth and she got her own tv series in exchange, so I guess it was worth it considering that alternative: telling the truth and being publicly trashed by the Clintonistas like Kathleen Willey and all the others were.