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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Achilles who wrote (7617)	10/2/1998 12:04:00 AM
From: Capt	Respond to of 13994

Roseanne Offers Lewinsky Big Money For Interview 11.37 p.m. ET (338 GMT) October 1, 1998 WASHINGTON — Comedienne Roseanne offered Thursday night to pay Monica Lewinsky, the figure at the center of the White House sex-and-perjury scandal, more than $1 million to appear on her new daytime TV talk show. Roseanne made the offer on CNN's "Larry King Live'' two days after top-rated TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey said Tuesday she had refused to pay for an interview with Lewinsky. But Roseanne said money was no problem for her, or King World Productions, which distributes "The Roseanne Show'' to major media markets. "We'll pay her big... cause I think it's really important,'' Roseanne told CNN. "King World is prepared to offer her seven figures to come on my show.... Yeah, I'll pay for her... seven figures, times two or three.'' The actress, whose talk show premiered in September, said she could understand journalists' reluctance to pay for an interview with the former White House intern who had an affair with President Clinton, but said those rules didn't apply to her since she didn't consider herself a journalist. "I don't feel like I'm a journalist. Fortunately for me, I have no integrity,'' Roseanne said. Winfrey issued a statement Tuesday — and made a public announcement on her show —- saying that she was not interested in interviewing Lewinsky for money. "I was told that I did have (the interview) and then the conversation moved in a direction that I did not want to go. I do not pay for interviews, no matter what the payment is called,'' Winfrey said in a statement. Representatives for Lewinsky reportedly asked about future international rights to any videotaped interview, which Winfrey decided was an effort to profit from it. "I have now taken myself officially out of the running and I no longer want the interview,'' Winfrey said. Responding to rumors that ABC News' Barbara Walters was also seeking to land the first interview with Lewinsky, ABC spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the network would not pay money to any interview subject.