Do blondes have more fun? Perhaps they do if they are linked with the big boys of politics and religion. A few move quietly on with their lives.
Others, however, capitalize on their fame, claiming more than 15 minutes of it.
One of the most famous seductresses
still talked about is Jessica Hahn, formerly playmate of televangelist Jim Bakker, who followed up that stint with Playmate Magazine after helping bring down Bakker who was sent to prison for “knowledge” of her and other sins. Hahn went on to become a Hugh Hefner frequent visitor, a pal of Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine, and a date of the late Ron Leavitt who co-created “Married with Children. She has been busy since the Bakker scandal of the 1980’s, appearing on television, sometimes with Howard Stern in provocative ways.
Monica Lewinsky is an infamous name, so much so that in Italy this year
it was ruled that comparing a woman to Monica Lewinsky is defamation. . Lewinsky is famous for her particular kind of sexual entertainment with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office when he was President of the United States. According to
current reports, she is occasionally seen in Los Angeles or New York and is trying to “get on with her life” according to her friend, Barbara Hutson, who at one time was Lewinsky’s publicist. Hutson states that Lewinsky recognizes that she made a mistake and did a stupid thing when she was 21 and is trying now to keep a relatively low profile. Still incidents like that in Italy maintains the Lewinsky name as provocative.
Donna Rice was the darling of
the media 20 years ago. She was caught on camera dallying with Senator Gary Hart, considered a likely Democratic favorite for President at the time. She consistently denied her relationship with Hart as sexual and twenty years later continues to assert they were only friends. Today, Rice is married to a technology executive, Jack Hughes. She also serves as the Director of Marketing and Communications at "Enough Is Enough!", a nonprofit organization for stopping illegal pornography, helping victims, and working with the public and officials to make the Internet safe for children
Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the paramour – call girl of Eliot Sptizer fame had the feminine charms to bring down the Governor of New York in 2008. She became a hot ticket for folks like Larry Flynt who has offered her $1m to appear nude in his magazine, but she is hanging out for a big book deal, according to reports.
Dupre's public profile
has skyrocketed since Spitzer resigned over a prostitution scandal. He was accused of spending tens of thousands of dollars, including a lot of money on a girl named "Kristen," later identified as Dupre. Flynt sees big things ahead for this femme fatale saying, "She is no doubt going to do a book. There will probably be a movie. I think she is going to have so many offers coming in."
Jeannette Mailer, The Canal Street Madam, accused David Vitter, Senator from Louisiana, of being a frequent visitor to her brothel. She also told Larry Flynt that she believes the D.C. Madam, another femme fatale that was said to host special sexual occasions for the Senator in the D.C. area, killed herself rather than committing suicide. Mailer continues to make news with
those claims that she made in 2008.
Deborah Jeanne Palfrey (DC Madam)was found by officials to have killed herself in April 2008, rather than being murdered, because she feared a long prison sentence following a federal jury’s conviction of Palfrey for money laundering and racketeering charges linked to a call-girl prostitution ring whose clients were among some of Washington’s top elite. She
was said 2008to have operated her service for 13 years. She consistently denied the allegations made against her saying that if girls performed certain sex acts for money she had no knowledge of it.
Paula Corbin Jones told those investigating Bill Clinton’s extra-marital activities at the time of his impeachment hearings that she had been propositioned by Clinton in a hotel room in 1991 when he was Governor of Arkansas. The American Spectator later wrote an article that implied that Jones was a willing partner in those activities. Jones filed a lawsuit to deny this which was settled with Clinton in 1998 for $850,000. She later claimed that she not only was victimized by Clinton but by his Republican opponents as well. Jones has continued to
make fame points from that initial fifteen minutes by appearing nude in Penthouse and Playboy and with Tonya Harding on Fox TV's Celebrity Boxing.
In 2008 Jones and Gennifer Flowers combined their talents to seek their own type of revenge and profit. Flowers claimed a 12-year-long sexual relationship with Clinton. Both women started a
website called the new Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones , “Two Chicks Chatting,” where they’re selling videos of their talking for $1.99 apiece. Their videos are entitled: “Paula and the President’s Penis,” “Gennifer’s Story and the Presidential Penis,” and, simply, “Paula and Gennifer Chatting.”
These are just a few follow up stories of an interesting past that our politicians like to hide. Many of their "femme fatales," however, continue to pop up with reminders that sin sells indeed.
