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President Bill Clinton, Gina Gershon Deny Affair Rumors

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Jun 032008

Former President Bill Clinton and actress Gina Gershon are slamming a new Vanity Fair article that implies they had an affair.

In a story titled “The Comeback Id,” National editor Todd Purdum — who is wed to former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers — writes that Clinton’s personality has changed since his 2004 heart bypass surgery and that there were reports of President Clinton “seeing a lot of women on the road.”

He writes that, according to “recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip … Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California.”

Gershon’s rep tells Usmagazine.com: “Todd Purdum’s insinuation is a lie, and it is irresponsible journalism. We are demanding a retraction.”

(A rep for Vanity Fair tells Us: “Todd Purdum’s article does not indicate that former president Bill Clinton had an improper relationship with Gina Gershon. The story merely examines the concerns of some of Clinton’s aides about reports of his behavior. We don’t believe that any correction is warranted.”)

President Clinton also denied the claims, calling Purdum “sleazy” and a “scumbag.” (“He’s one of the guys that propagated all those lies about Whitewater for Kenneth Starr,” Clinton said. “He’s just a dishonest guy — can’t help it.”)

He also told the Huffington Post that the article is an attempt to discredit his wife Hillary Clinton.

(A rep for Hillary’s campaign has since apologized, saying that President Clinton used “inappropriate” language.)

Purdum defended himself on CNN , saying he was “very careful to say there is no clear-cut evidence that President Clinton has done anything improper.”

“I reject the notion that I’m making an insinuation,” he added. “But I’m very comfortable quoting the people I quote because I know who they are, and I know that they are very senior people who have known President Clinton for a very long time and work for him at very high levels.”

Bill Clinton Joins Brad Pitt In New Orleans

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Mar 162008

Former President Bill Clinton joined Brad Pitt in New Orleans on Sunday to begin work on the actor’s Make It Right project, which aims to build 150 new affordable homes for Hurricane Katrina victims.

Wearing his signature newsboy cap, Pitt and Clinton toured the Lower 9th Ward where the new homes will be built as hundreds of volunteers helped clean and prepare the land, the Associated Press reports.

“We hope to see a huge change here in the next six months,” Pitt told locals as he signed autographs and posed for photos.

Pitt’s Make It Right project in the Lower 9th Ward was the site for the Clinton Global Initiative University, a three-day program that kicked off Friday.

Through a series of workshops and lectures, CGIU asks college students and universities to develop solutions to global problems.

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Bill Clinton Apologizes To Rosie O’Donnell For “Cheapening” The Oval Office!

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Nov 082007

ROSIE O’Donnell says Bill Clinton had her bawling like a baby during an emotional chat in which the ex-president apologized for cheapening the Oval Office with his Monica Lewinsky sexcapades.

The sapphic supernova, doing stand-up at the New York Comedy Festival Tuesday night, told the audience how Clinton sent her a card after she slammed him during a performance at the Mohegan Sun Casino Hotel five years ago, The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller reports.

“He disgusts me,” O’Donnell recalled saying at the casino show. “And I know I’m not supposed to say this because I’m a good Democrat, but I didn’t want to [talk] to him because he lied to me when he said, ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman,’ and then put the scarlet-letter [bleep]-job on her for the rest of her life . . . I still hate you!”

When the corpulent comic called the phone number Clinton included with his note, Bubba himself picked up, she said.

“My knees got weak. I was like, ‘Can I [bleep] you?’ No, I didn’t say it, but I felt it – I was like, ‘Whoa! Whoa!’ And he said, ‘I was at your show the other night, and I was sorry that you didn’t come over and say hello to me. And I know that you’re still harboring some hard feelings,’ ” O’Donnell related.

“And I said, ‘You know, listen, here’s the deal, dude. I’ve been disappointed by men my whole life. I loved JFK, my mother loved JFK, and you were the JFK to me. And you let me down, man. You killed me and that hurt me a lot, and when you hurt me, I don’t know, I didn’t expect that out of you and I thought you could do better for your wife, for the country and just in general.”

Clinton then worked his charm on O’Donnell. “He goes, ‘I’m sorry for all the men who ever hurt you, I’m sorry that I hurt you. Everything you’ve said to me, I’ve said to myself, and I hope one day you can forgive me, and I hope I can forgive me.’ ”

Clinton’s mea culpa quickly had O’Donnell’s faucets opening up. “I’m hysterical crying,” she recalled.

O’Donnell also joked at the comedy fest about being fascinated with Britney Spears. “I want her to come live with me, but I have to stop saying that. I’m a 45-year-old overweight lesbian. She’s like a 23-year-old hot, skinny sexy girl. I think she’s going to call the police soon, you know. I mean I phone her, I leave her like stalker-like messages at the Four Seasons.”

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Bill Clinton, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa Visit “Late Show with David Letterman”

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Sep 042007

Bill Clinton Loves Chris Tucker’s Impression Of Him

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Jul 052007

Chris Tucker does a dead-on Bill Clinton impression – and the former president can’t get enough of it. The “Rush Hour” comic tells August’s Playboy: “I started imitating him on a trip to Africa. He liked it so much, he made me do it in every country we went to. He was like, ‘Tucker! Tucker! Come over here, Tucker! Do that impression for President Olusegun Obasanjo!’ So here is the president of Nigeria and his delegation – the heads of his army, everybody – watching me [impersonate Clinton], ‘I’m absolutely honored to be here in your country.’ The president of Nigeria is looking at me, and then he smiles. ‘That’s very funny! Very funny! What a funny guy!’ ”

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Clinton and Bono Break Pig Together

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Mar 052007

Bill Clinton created a scene at the Spotted Pig restaurant in the West Village on Thursday. Diners were excited when they saw Bono enter the eatery, but were even more jazzed when they saw that his date was Clinton. The two were joined in the backroom by Clinton’s pal Ron Burkle and Jay-Z. At the end of the dinner, it took Clinton 45 minutes to get out of the restaurant because so many people wanted his autograph. Clinton also took the time to say hello to the kitchen staff and the dishwashers before finally leaving to chants of “Eight more years!”

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Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton at The Rolling Stones in Concert at the Beacon Theatre

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Oct 302006

When Bill Clinton is hungry…watch out!

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Sep 122006

Security and schedule be damned. Bill Clinton’s stomach was calling the shots yesterday. For a half-hour, anxious Secret Service agents and nervous aides trying to maintain a hectic Sept. 11 anniversary schedule were held hostage by a late-arriving special delivery: stir-fry chicken with broccoli from Meihwah, a restaurant in D.C. “It’s very lean white meat. It’s what he sticks with,” Meiwah owner Larry La told The Post’s Geoff Earle. No word on the nutritional value of the other items Bubba ordered: crispy fried shredded beef, wonton soup and dumplings. The ex-prez, fresh off a speech to a Jewish group and scheduled to hop a plane for a 9/11 tribute in Bayonne, didn’t budge from the presidential garage outside the Washington Hilton until La arrived with the takeout. The spot where Clinton was waiting is very close to where Ronald Reagan was shot 25 years ago.