Gina Gershon Demands Vanity Fair Retraction For Implying Sexual Relationship With Bill Clinton

TMZ reports that Hollywood actress Gina Gershon has had her lawyers pen a demand letter to Vanity Fair, and they have a copy:

Vanity Fair just published a pretty scandalous story about Prez Bill Clinton. The demand letter claims the article "outrageously insinuates that Ms. Gershon has had an inappropriate sexual relationship with President Clinton. This is absolutely false."

The letter demands "a retraction and correction."

Gershon's lawyers from the bulldog firm Lavely & Singer noted that "Gershon has only been in the same room as President Clinton on three occasions," all with many others present. The lawyers take a shot at Vanity Fair, claiming, "Rumor-mongering was substituted for fact-checking."

In the July Vanity Fair, Todd Purdum writes of Gershon just once:

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.

As for Gershon's three times, one of them was with Ron Burkle, according to her demand letter:

Ms. Gershon has only been in the same room as President Clinton on three occasions, during which she was always in the presence of anywhere from approximately a dozen people to several hundred or more. Specifically, Ms. Gershon was once one of several hundred or perhaps a thousand guests at a charity event at the White House while President Clinton was in office, which she attended as a guest of the Shrivers. On another occasion, Ms. Gershon attended a dinner in New York honoring Bono, where President Clinton was among the several hundred or more in attendance. On a third occasion, Ms. Gershon was a last-minute addition by one of the other guests who attended a dinner at the California home of Ron Burkle, with 10-15 people in attendance, including President Clinton.

Comments

[seamusnh]

At least Bill's taste in women has improved.... Compare Gina to Monica or Donna or Gennifer....

[DaphnesDad]

Bill Clinton is not a young man anymore and I sorta of doubt that he's exactly a 'babe magnet' these days. He may be as gregarious as he always was, but I kind of doubt that women are all over him to sleep with him. What exactly would they get in return? Not earth-shattering, mind-blowing sex (assuming that he was every capable of providing his partners with those kinds of encounters).

[tinkabell]

There are women who would line up to "sleep" will Billo just so they could say they got banged by the Former President of the United States Bill Clinton. To each his own!

I doubt he is getting any from Hillary!

[hypnotoad72]

Men of power and influence are always deemed "babe magnets" even if they're wrinkled and porky. 9 times out of 10, love (and even sex) has nothing to do with it.

[NTO08]

Retract...

Fire Purdum...

End the garbage from the Obama slime machine...NOW...

[hoodrat]

Are you truly serious? Obama still a Muslim to you too? WOW!

[AngerAndDetermination]

It's got nothing to do with Obama. It's the _Clintons_ and all their _baggage_.

So tell us, NTO08, if Hillary had won the nomination, what would you have said to the Republicans to get them to lay off the Clintons? Hmm? What would you have told the Canadian and British pundits and comedians?

The Clintons make good tabloid targets because they are dishonest, unscrupulous, and shady. No one wants Monica Lewinsky as a presidential candidate. No one wants to hear Hillary make her repetitious, dishonest denials of voting for the war in Iraq. People did not vote for her, because they do not like her, understand?

[jrterrier]

so let me see, should obama drop out because of the untrue and slanderous emails about him being a muslim? i think not. then your shouldn't be claiming that a false piece of trash journalism is grounds for disqualifying hillary.

[08politicaljunkie]

When was the last time Ms. Gershon was in a movie?

Is she really that high profile or that high powered to be included as a guest to the three listed soirees: The Whitehouse, for Bono, and with Burkle and only eleven others? Really? I smell a connection.

[mouselion]

She's a very attractive woman with famous friends. Some would say that's "connections".

[NoSpinTruthZone]

Retraction should only be the beginning. She should sue the pants off of them. Screw 'em, just like they said she did to Clinton.
Let the punishment fit the crime.

[marc1antony]

problem is, if you read the article, it does not imply anything sexual, it said he visited her on several ocassions - whatever the reader implies is in their own mind. I visit my male friend from time to time - is that sexual? she just made a bad situation for him worse, had she left it alone, it would have gone away - now people will continue to visit this, and wonder why she is protesting so much if there is nothing to it.

[ohnoyoudidnot!]

I read the article before all of the fuss started... and I didn't think it implied a sexual connection. Perhaps Clinton wouldn't have minded, but I think young women like Gershon would just say "Eeewwww!!"

[shelobo]

Your'e correct ,the article did not imply a sexual relationship,the TWO partes involved did that for the media.Some people will do anything for a day on the cable news.

[pleeezzze]

As well as the majority of O followers !

[Chavez08]

Bill's standards have come WAAAAYYY up!

I give him an "F" as a husband but he's definitely "A+" as a playa.

[LeawoodKansas]

I may believe this one. She looks too old for him and too good looking.

[Fremon]

What an a..s you are. Gina is one of the sexiest women in hollywood. She could have her pick of any man.

[TXfemmom]

First of all, if Clinton had sex with her, she was of age, he didn't have to pay for it, he probably didn't make her diaper him, and she is a very attractive, intelligent woman.

I would rather have Clinton, who put our economy on very good ground, left office with a budget EXCESS, when he inherited a huge deficit, kept the peace, was admired by the world, and had lifted many out of poverty, than the current drug-addicted, mean-spirited, stubborn, lying maniac who has destroyed us militarily, economically, and left us hated by the world and an asterisk beside former world power.

McCain is just an older, uglier, and meaner version of GW.

[Fremon]

Amen. Or as the fat right wing a..h.. le would say "Ditto".

[samandally]

Isn't Vanity Fair just an upscale Star Magazine anyway that is filled with society gossip?

[Tommygun264]

All together now:

"I never had sexual relations witj that woman, (enter name here)."

All kidding aside, I'm inclined to believe Ms. Gershon - Bill likes the big girls.

[verlaine]

Gina Gershon is just lying to cover up for Bill Clinton.

[CheneysACoward]

and you know this "fact"..... how?

[CountryBeforeParty]

I wish she'd have sexual relations with me! hubba hubba =)

[PuffAndStuff]

Presuming this story is not based on facts, as Ms. Gershon states, then who can blame her for being mad as hell. If that's the case Vanity Fair is dragging her through the mud and she should be furious!

Given Bill Clinton's history with women --lots of them, always-- on the side, I wouldn't doubt he is currently seeing someone in LA and elsewhere, but could Vanity Fair have gotten their facts wrong with the correctly identifying who.

[RFBorjal]

Monica Lewinsky was also seen with Bill clinton in a crowd, but it didn't mean they did not have an affair. Gina and Bill may have been seen with a hundred other people, but it doesn't mean they could not be together, only by themselves, unseen.

[1differentdrummer]

Do you remember why Monica went to DC? Wasn't she hired to do a number on Clinton and set him up for impeachment?

[punkingale]

If memory serves me well, she was.

[sammy333]

Who reads Vanity Fair anyway? Is it a journal from where another sleazy scumbag, mr Chris Hitchens, is spewing his neoconservative poison?

[anythinggoes]

why bill not sue IF NOT TRUE? pervert always be pervert ,slime balls