Vanity Fair's Bill Clinton Exposé
Clinton aides spent the weekend in a tizzy over Todd Purdham's Vanity Fair article "The Comeback Id," which appears in the July issue and is now online. The former Times reporter—and husband of former Clinton press secretary DeeDee Myers—had a field day with the former president, questioning his ties to rich pervs (Ron Burkle, Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bing), murky financial dealings, health issues, and—best of all—addressing the reports of frequent infidelity in recent years:
"Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton’s episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of Clinton, Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don’t know what the guy was doing, but it was so clear that it was just no good."