As it turns out, Bill Clinton likes to hang around with a bunch of questionable characters.
His wealthy friends like to fill their private jets with young women, the big Vanity Fair story that everyone is talking about reveals. He pals around with the guy who knocked-up Elizabeth Hurley and sued Kirk Kerkorian for invasion of privacy. One of the supposed bad boys is grocery store magnate Ron Burkle, who shows up at a wedding in Paris with a woman who others say was "not much older than 19." But one of the most troubling associates is a guy familiar to longtime DealBreaker readers, a guy who has been known to hang around with girls who are much younger than 19.
Here's Todd Purdy, who is married to former Clinton aide Dee Dee Meyers, on Clinton's dirties friend.
Whatever the facts of Clinton's personal life, it is beyond dispute that he has associated with some decidedly unpresidential company. In 2002, Clinton flew to Africa with the New York investor Jeffrey Epstein on his private Boeing 727 on an anti-aids and economic-development mission. (Others on the mission included Kevin Spacey and the comedian Chris Tucker.) In 2006, Epstein was indicted on state charges of soliciting prostitution in Palm Beach, Florida, and he later came under investigation by federal authorities amid allegations that he hired under-age girls for massages and more in a house stocked with sex toys and genitalia-shaped soaps. He remains the subject of at least four pending civil lawsuits from young women and is reportedly expected to accept a plea deal on a state charge that would give him 18 months in prison, followed by house arrest, in lieu of a trial now set to begin this month.
Obviously we're totally shocked that Bill Clinton hangs around with the likes of Kevin Spacey.
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Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2008 2:36PM
Who does Rush Limbaugh hang out with?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2008 2:38PM
One need only to have gone out for sushi once on the UES to hear stories of Bill Clinton partying with the UN types and other really elite, really detestable hedonists and abusers of power and privilige.
And I got the scoop from some really liberal old money New Yorkers.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2008 2:41PM
You are all just jealous.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2008 2:43PM
not quite. not nearly. not even close.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2008 2:44PM
Just how much money is Ms. Hurley getting per month for "child care" after accidentally becoming pregnant after having sex with a wealthy man?
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2008 2:54PM
Wow!! Vanity Fair breaks the news that a former President of the United States hung around with some unsavory people!!!
When will they tell us that Limbergh made it to Paris? When will they test us and ask us who is buried in Grant's Tomb? When will they announce to us in which year the War of 1812 was fought?
Sounds like I could be editor of VF given my DeVry degree in geo-psychology.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2008 3:12PM
Bill Clinton continues to be completely unsavory.
Posted by guest , Jun 02, 2008 3:16PM
Rush Limbaugh is not nor has he ever been the President so comparing him to Clinton is stupid and moot. The President is supposed to be held to a higher standard.
Let's face it, one never really outgrows where one came from. If one i white trash from Arkansas then one will always be white trash from Arkansas no matter how much money or fame one achieves.
Posted by Random Banker , Jun 02, 2008 4:03PM
@ 3:16: Why exactly is it that the president is supposed to be held to a higher standard? I never really understood that.
Posted by miami , Jun 02, 2008 4:10PM
Because he's in charge of the country as opposed to merely being in charge of updating the 'Estimated TPS report flowthru for Project Arcturus v3.1' like random bankers are.
Posted by diablo , Jun 02, 2008 6:42PM
Bush hangs out with Cheney. Enough said!
Posted by mktmkr , Jun 02, 2008 8:57PM
This should come as no shock. Clinton is the John Daly of politicians.