Gennifer Flowers
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'''Gennifer Flowers''' (born [[January 24]], [[1950]]) is a woman who claims to have had a [[relationship]] with former [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Bill Clinton]]. Prior to Bill Clinton's presidency, she also posed nude for ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'' magazine and was an actress in two films and one TV show. After becoming a celebrity, she acted as herself in two films and guest starred as herself in various TV shows.
==The Bill Clinton controversy==
Gennifer Flowers came forward during Bill Clinton's [[U.S. presidential election, 1992|1992 Presidential election campaign]] alleging that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/docs/flowers031398.htm| title=Declaration of Gennifer G. Flowers| publisher=[[The Washington Post]]| date=1998-03-13| accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref>
At least two Arkansas state police officers, who had formerly guarded Bill Clinton when he was Governor, backed up Flowers' story.{{Fact|date=March 2008}} But when Bill Clinton denied having a relationship with Flowers, she held a [[press conference]] in which she played tape recordings she claimed were of secretly recorded intimate phone calls with Bill Clinton.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.rcfp.org/news/2002/1119flower.html| title=Gennifer Flowers may proceed with defamation suit| publisher=[[Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press]]| date=2002-11-19| quote=At the press conference, Flowers — who initially denied allegations that she had an affair with then Arkansas governor Bill Clinton but then changed her story — played tapes of conversations she had secretly recorded between herself and Clinton| accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref> Clinton subsequently apologized publicly to Mario Cuomo for remarks he made about the former governor on the tapes.
In December 1996, Gennifer Flowers was invited to talk about her sexual relationship with Bill Clinton on ''[[Richard Bey#The Richard Bey Show|The Richard Bey Show]]''. The show was cancelled the following day. Richard Bey later attributed a direct connection between the two consecutive events ([[#TV appearances|see TV appearances]]).
In his presidential deposition in January, 1998, while denying [[Kathleen Willey]]'s sexual accusations against him, Bill Clinton changed his prior statements and admitted that he had sex with Flowers.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E4D91739F937A25750C0A96E958260| title=TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: THE ACCUSER; JONES LAWYERS ISSUE FILES ALLEGING CLINTON PATTERN OF HARASSMENT OF WOMEN| publisher=[[The New York Times]]| date=1998-03-14| quote=In his January deposition, the President, though finally confirming a sexual encounter with Ms. Flowers, was precise in denying Ms. Willey's report that he had sought to kiss her and feel her breasts| accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref>
In his 2004 autobiography ''[[My Life (Bill Clinton autobiography)|My Life]]'', Clinton acknowledged testifying under oath that he had not had sexual relations with Flowers while he was with Hillary. It was only on one occasion before Hillary and Bill were together.{{Fact|date=March 2008}}
Flowers sued [[George Stephanopoulos]], [[James Carville]], and others in 1999 for [[defamation]] (later amending the suit in 2000 to include [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] as a defendant), claiming that they orchestrated a campaign to discredit her. [[Judicial Watch]] represented her in her defamation lawsuit against Hillary's former aides, Stephanopoulos and Carville.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E7D61E31F930A25752C1A9649C8B63| title=West: California: Libel Suit From Clinton Era| publisher=[[The New York Times]]| date=2002-11-13| quote=The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, revived a 1999 libel suit filed by Gennifer Flowers against two former aides to Bill Clinton.| accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref> In 2003, a federal judge further approved appeal.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/24/politics/main564899.shtml| title=Flowers' Suit Vs. Clinton Proceeds| publisher=[[CBS News]]| date=2003-07-24| quote=Now a federal judge has ruled that Flowers can move ahead with a lawsuit that accuses Hillary Rodham Clinton and others of trying to discredit her during the 1992 presidential campaign.| accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref> The appeal was revived in 2002, but rejected by the Ninth Circuit in 2004.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Mar-17-Wed-2004/news/23451328.html| title=GENNIFER FLOWERS: Judge rejects lawsuit against Clinton aides| publisher=[[Las Vegas Review-Journal]]| date=2004-03-17| quote=Ruling dismisses defamation claim by woman who said she, ex-president had affair| accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref>
===See also===
* [[Arkansas Project]]
* [[Troopergate]]
* [[Juanita Broaddrick]]
* [[Elizabeth Ward Gracen]]
* [[Paula Jones]]
* [[Sally Perdue]]
* [[Kathleen Willey]]
* [[Monica Lewinsky]]
==Post controversy years==
Gennifer Flowers published her memoir ''Gennifer Flowers: Passion and Betrayal'' in [[1995]]. In it she confessed a sexual naïveté at the time of her relationship with Clinton ("The first time he [climaxed during oral sex], I was taken aback. I was saving that for my husband, if ever. But Bill was gentle and held me after.").
She posed nude for [[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]] magazine during this period and was featured in the December 1992 issue along with her story "Gennifer Flowers Tells All, Shows All". After already being an actress in an Australian film in 1987, she played in another [[indy film|independent]] Australian film in 1992 and in the same year guest starred in the erotic television comedy ''[[Dream On (TV series)|Dream On]]''.
After becoming a celebrity, she acted as herself in two films: ''[[Play It to the Bone]]'' and ''[[The War Room]]''. She also guest starred as herself in various TV shows.
Until [[Hurricane Katrina]], she ran a [[cabaret]] called the Kelsto Club in a former bordello in [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]]'s [[French Quarter]]. As of [[2007]], she lives in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] where she occasionally writes a column.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.vegascommunityonline.com/AskGenniferwithaG.htm| title=Ask Gennifer with a G. - Gennifer will answer questions on Love & Life| publisher=vegascommunityonline.com| accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref>
In [[2008]] she put the [[answering machine]] tapes of her conversations with Bill Clinton up for auction.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Gennifer Flowers to auction off The Tapes with Bill
|first=Andrew
|last=Malcolm
|publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]]
|date=2008-02-26
|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/02/helloisthatu.html
||accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref>
==Filmography==
* ''Frenchman's Farm'' (1987), Mrs. Grenville
* ''Redheads'' (aka ''Desperate Prey'') (1992), Carolyn
* ''[[The War Room]]'' (1993), herself
* ''[[Play It to the Bone]]'' (1999), herself
* ''[[Definitely, Maybe]]'' (2008), herself
==TV appearances==
* ''[[The Howard Stern Show#Television shows|The Howard Stern Show]]'', herself - in ''"Episode dated 1 February 1992"'' (1992)
* ''[[Dream On (TV series)]]'' - in the episode ''"And Bimbo Was His Name-O"'' (1992)
* ''[[Richard Bey#The Richard Bey Show|The Richard Bey Show]]'', herself - in the episode ''"Clinton Scandals"'' (1996). The show was cancelled the following day and [[Richard Bey#The Gennifer Flowers' controversy|Richard Bey later attributed a direct connection between the two consecutive events]]
* ''[[WrestleMania XIV]]'' (1998), herself
* ''[[The Frank Skinner Show]]'', herself - in episode #2.7 (1998)
* ''[[Where Are They Now? (VH1 TV series)]]'', herself - in the episode ''"Notorious & Newsworthy"'' (2000)
* ''[[Weakest Link (US)]]'', herself - in the episode ''"Newsmakers Edition"'' (2001)
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.genniferflowers.com Official site]
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* {{cite web| url=http://www.nndb.com/people/035/000024960/| title=Gennifer Flowers| publisher=[[NNDB]]| accessdate=2008-03-20}}
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