Al Gore Accused Of 'Unwanted Sexual Contact' In 2006

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland massage therapist accused former Vice President Al Gore of "unwanted sexual contact" at a hotel during an October 2006 visit, but no charges were filed due to lack of evidence, law officials said Wednesday.

An attorney representing the woman contacted police in late 2006, said Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk. Schrunk said the woman – who has not been identified – refused to be interviewed by detectives and did not want the investigation to proceed.

The woman, however, contacted police in January 2009 and gave a statement, saying Gore tried to have sex with her during an appointment at the upscale downtown Hotel Lucia, where Gore was reportedly registered as "Mr. Stone."

The National Enquirer first reported the allegations Wednesday, identifying the accuser as a 54-year-old woman.

Gore family spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said the former vice president has no comment. Gore and his wife announced June 1 they were separating.

A police report prepared in 2007 said the alleged incident occurred Oct. 24, 2006. Gore was in Portland to deliver a speech on climate change.

The woman, according to the report, canceled appointments with detectives on Dec. 21 and 26 of that year. Her attorney canceled another meeting scheduled for Jan. 4 and said the matter would be handled civilly.

"This case is exceptionally cleared as (the woman) refuses to cooperate with the investigation or even report a crime," the report states.

The case reopened in January 2009. Detectives interviewed the woman but determined there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations, Portland police said in a news release.

In a transcript of the interview released by police, the massage therapist said she had an appointment with "Mr. Stone" at 10:30 p.m. but the hotel's front desk told her he wouldn't be available until 11 p.m. When she knocked on the door, Al Gore opened it, and when she asked what she should call him, he replied to "Call me Al," the woman told police.

She said she was doing requested abdominal work on Gore when he started to moan and demanded she go lower.

"I was shocked, and I did not massage beyond what is considered a safe, nonsexual area of the abdomen," she said. "He further insisted and acted angry, becoming verbally sharp and loud.

"I went into much deeper shock as I realized it appeared he was demanding sexual favors or sexual behaviors."

The woman said Gore grabbed her hand and shoved it toward his pubic area. She alleged he later tried to have sex with her and began caressing her before she squirmed out of his grasp.

"I did not immediately call the police as I feared being made into a public spectacle and my reputation being destroyed," she said. "I was not sure what to tell them and was concerned my story would not be believed since there was no DNA evidence from a completed act of rape. I did not even know what to call what had happened to me."

Detective Mary Wheat, a Portland police spokeswoman, said the woman contacted detectives this month and asked for a copy of her statement. The woman, according to Wheat, said she planned to take her case to the media.

Comments

[KayWrites]

04:49 PM on 07/02/2010

"I did not immediately call the police as I feared being made into a public spectacle and my reputation being destroyed," Gore's accuser said 2006/2007.

But now in 2010:
"Detective Mary Wheat, a Portland police spokeswoman, said the woman contacted detectives this month and asked for a copy of her statement. The woman, according to Wheat, said she planned to take her case to the media."

First, she's worried about her reputation. Now she's taking it to the media. Yeah, that adds up.

[OBAMALOVE69]

07:39 AM on 07/02/2010

Al Gore deserves a pass on calling for a midnight masseur about as much Senator Craig and his "wide stance".

As progressives, don't you think we ought not give our icons a free pass when they assault our women folk?

[KayWrites]

04:50 PM on 07/02/2010

I completely agree. Except something is fishy here. See my comment above.

[MorpheusXNYC]

01:39 AM on 06/29/2010

This sounds like pure, unadulterated horseshit.

Wait for more details.

[Daisytoo]

04:56 PM on 06/27/2010

Barbie look at me look at me posted: "Well, a 54 year old woman can dream, can't she? "

Dream about a bloated tub of larda-s-s throwing his undesired sack of blubber on top of her?

Discerning woman call that kind of dream a nightmare, Barbie.

[Daisytoo]

04:52 PM on 06/27/2010

When I first read this story, I thought the woman might be a prostitute (given the fee for the massage). And I didn't think it was okay for him to sexually assault a prostitute.

After listening to the police report and with further consideration -- I don't think she's a prostitute - I do think she's a massage therapist and I do think this bloated bag of lies, Gore, did sexually assault her -and did so with the inflated self-righteous impunity I've come to regard as de riguor from Gore.

I've stayed in 5 star hotels and have paid over $200 for a massage - but have had to go to the 'trouble' of taking an elevator to the spa. In room, late night VIP service would certainly command more money than $200.

At any rate, she's got what the media coyly refers to as 'the DNA' on her Gore stained slacks. And, if it turns out that she is telling the truth (as I think she is) she deserves all the money she gets as a reward for damages. And I hope it's a Mac truckload that global warming con artist is made to pay.

[whoudi]

02:34 AM on 06/26/2010

huffpo proves me right again

the Cheney story has been up for 3 1/2 hours and is approaching 1000 comments with headlines wherever you turn...

hypocrisy is a stinky cologne

[rshrink]

06:42 PM on 06/25/2010

Interesting how everytime there is a group forming or formed or ideas being discussed such as global warming that would impact on the oil and coal companies, suddenly the person or people (such as Acorn) are somehow involved in a sex scandal. This seems to be the favorite tool of the repubs. Since they can't rely on their intelligence and good ideas, since they don't have any, they rely on creating a sex scandal, a distraction, and people fall for it like a lead kite. Now we don't have to worry about the destruction of the gulf and the beaches and the fish and wildlife now that we have a Gore sex story going on. Thank Goodness. I was getting so tired of thinking about that gushing oil.

[tomterif]

11:11 PM on 06/25/2010

Wow ! What a genius you are !

Are you you in the swiss cheese business, professionally ?

Because your "brainstorm" of a post, here, is so utterly full of holes, that... Wow !

I've counted 5 separate contentions you've made, in this "quite brief !" [7 1/4 lines ! : ) ] post, of your's, and the really AMAZING thing, about this clunker, is that not even ONE of the five contentions, you've blundered most ill-advisedly into making, has any even remotely factual basis to it, whatsoever !

Simply REMARKABLE !

Your 5 contentions are :

1.) ACORN was a group representing "a person or people" [They were a group], whose continued unsullied existence, free from scandal or any suggestion of organizational malfeasance, was, or was some somehow related to, the question of global warming, and the pushing of ideas connected to technologies that would hopefully positively affect the atmospheric condition ["theory", actually] called "man-made global warming" .

Therefore, getting the ACORN group involved in a scandal, was a way to stop the discussion of the man-made global warming theory, and to prevent the proliferation of technologies designed to address the man-made global warming notion. [Continued]

[rshrink]

11:24 PM on 06/25/2010

Clever attempt to obfuscate. Apparently you did not hear about the posers who made the fake video of the supposed assistance for the fake prostitute and pimp for Breitbart, the repub. and this tape was used to eliminate funding for Acorn. Apparently you did not pay enough attention to actual news which would produce the information that repubs set out to get rid of Acorn because they registered voters making it possible for more people to exercise their choice for democrats. You also probably don't know that dems and repubs served on the board of Acorn and that they served the elderly and poor in getting services and that they cooperatively worked with churches. While they were banned from getting government funds, Halliburton, Blackwater and numerous other contractors, already convicted of defrauding taxpayers were allowed to continue getting government funds. Repubs also go after respected scientists to prevent them from influencing changes to slow down global warming, all for the sake of maintaining profits for a few big corporations who ran our government via Cheney during the eight years of Bush/Cheney reign. So, so much for your analysis. You will need to actually get some facts before you can actually analyze.

[rshrink]

11:26 PM on 06/25/2010

Oh thanks for acknowledging that I am a genius. That part was nice, while the rest was just misguided, which is what I expect from repubs. So, thanks for not disappointing me on that.

[tomterif]

11:47 PM on 06/25/2010

It was therefore in the financial interest of oil and coal companies to have the Republican party "create a scandal", to sully the reputation of the [now essentially completely defunct] ACORN organization.

2.) The scandal that brought down ACORN was a "sex scandal", so in 1909, the oil and coal industry.arranged to have the Republican party enlist two very young people, James O'Keefe, age 25, and Hannah Giles, age 20, to perform a video sting operation, uncovering "sexual crimes" within the ACORN organization, in order to bring down the ACORN organization, and thereby stop the ACORN organization from fulfilling their mission, as a vanguard organization at the forefront of promoting new technologies addressing the "man-made global warming" situation, and promoting new energy technologies, to the ongoing financial detriment of the oil and coal industries.

Is that about right ? How am I doing so far ?

3.) Of the two major U.S. political parties, the one in whose political interest it is to try to "distract" the American populace, from paying close attention to the current oil spill fiasco in the Gulf, is the Republican party.

4.) The way that the Republican party has decided to currently try to "distract" the American populace, from carefully following and examining the governmental handling of the Gulf oil spill fiasco, is "the Al Gore sex scandal".

[Continued]

[rshrink]

12:04 AM on 06/26/2010

Not doing too well. Oil companies give about 80 to 90 percent of their campaign contributions to repubs. These operations were in place long before Obama came into the Whitehouse. The moratorium on drilling is not supported by the "repub" party. Al Gore, you may have heard, has gone all over the world to educate people about the problem of global warming and calls for a expedited reduction of the use of fossil fuels.

If you had grown up in a different time, you would know that there was a time when people just understood that men would be men and their sex lives were not considered worthy of reporting about. Now, it is a favorite topic. Now, we have people going out of their way to find it or create it for the sake of undermining the political and policy advocacies of a politician and to promote their own agendas. Repubs love their dirty tricks and worship the leading dirty tricksters such as Rove, Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Beck, Drudge and many other repub loonies who get on the air and rant and rave.

[Blitzkrieg Barbie]

01:39 PM on 06/25/2010

Well, a 54 year old woman can dream, can't she?

[tomterif]

05:38 PM on 06/25/2010

Dream of what ?, specifically.

Did you write that post with a very clear idea in your head, of exactly what you were saying, about this woman ?

If so, I for one would appreciate your coming back here, and spelling out EXACTLY what you're saying, in clear, sufficiently specific, transparently communicative English, so that I could then understand exactly what it is you're saying, about this woman.

Because I consider myself an intelligent person, and [at present] I don't have the FOGGIEST idea of what exactly it is you're saying, or trying to say, about this woman.

[rshrink]

06:14 PM on 06/25/2010

Sounds like you don't know what Barbie is saying.

[tomterif]

08:00 PM on 06/25/2010

Rshrink: [Am not sure, but] might you be addressing me, in saying :

"Good that you acknowledge your lack of ability to be enlightened due to your present state of massive repub washing of the head organ condition which causes automatic instant Limbahlese tick like comments to jump out. Good that you acknowledge your lack of ability to be enlightened due to your present state of massive repub washing of the head organ condition which causes automatic instant Limbahlese tick like comments to jump out"

If that's addressing me, I can overlook the knee-jerk [emphasis on the "jerk" : )], neither interesting nor clever, mail it in, complulsive anti-Republican [pointless] snarkiness.

What'd be harder to overlook, though, would be your refusal, if claiming you know exactly what B. Barbie's "Well, a 54 year old woman can dream, can't she ?" is supposed to be saying, about this Oregon woman [which I freely admit I have no concise idea of, and have strong doubts whether Barbie has any idea of what she specifically means by that either [aside from perhaps thinking that "It sounds kind of good... and insulting !" : )]

But if YOU'RE claiming YOU "obviously" know precisely what Barbie's saying, and I don't, because "I'm a stupid Republican" [or some such tripe], then why not be compassionate, and deign to explain that line to me, precisely, or, I don't know...

...live out the rest of your life as a total coward ? ! : )

[tomterif]

03:26 AM on 06/26/2010

You know, it's absolutely INCREDIBLE, B. Barbie, to see the extent to which a grown woman will totally jump through hoops, to avoid answering a simple, straightforward question, with a simple straightforward answer.

I'd already hypothesized, addressing someone else here, upon thinking you might not return to this board, that you well might not have any idea yourself what you actually mean by "Well, a 54 year old woman can dream, can't she ?" [other than perhaps you thought it "sounded good... and insulting !"]

But now that I see you have returned, and only managed to provide the RIDICULOUSLY [totally] evasive reply, that you "think it's pretty self-explanatory", I've got to recognize that a very real possibility is you really DON'T have the slightest idea of what you actually meant by making that statement, about the woman in question, and are simply embarrassed to admit such a fact.

Because your entirely enigmatic statement's simply in no way self-explanatory.

It could mean a bunch of things, and I could "guess" what you might've meant [if you knew] in saying this about the woman, but I knew I'd be only guessing, so I treated you like an adult, and asked you to very simply and briefly explain what you were meaning to say about this woman, in your original statement.

The "total non-answer", you've provided, brings up a # of possibilities, here, as to what your evasion's about, and frankly, "none of them look too good" [Continued]

[massjim]

10:38 AM on 06/25/2010

Let's hear it folks .... drag some money through a trailer park and who knows what you'll get. Come on NOW ... make yourself proud like during the Clinton days, and side with the politically powerful and let the woman's reputation get trashed.

[mhazard]

02:12 PM on 06/25/2010

She is trashing her reputation. She's doing this for the money.

[Tena]

10:20 AM on 06/25/2010

I don't believe a word of the allegations. And furthermore, I really despise women who do this because it makes it very difficult for those women who really have been assaulted to get listened to.

Al Gore has never been accused of anything remotely like this before and I feel about this story the way I feel abouty Joran van der Sloot's various stories about Natalee Holloway - the more sexually explicit the stories get, the bigger the lies.

[whoudi]

05:56 PM on 06/25/2010

I despise men who force themselves on women and people who defend confessed murderers

if this were dick Cheney what would your opinion be?

[rshrink]

06:13 PM on 06/25/2010

It would not change my opinion of Dick Cheney.

[rshrink]

06:15 PM on 06/25/2010

This would not change my opinion of Cheney.

[tomterif]

06:13 PM on 06/25/2010

Oh, really ?

You know for certain this woman is "making this all up"...How, exactly ?

The claim someone's "never been accused of anything like this before", as any indication of anything, is, on face value, patently ridiculous.

That's entirely comparable to saying "All females are born virgins. Therefore, no woman has ever had sex".

I can't say conclusively Al Gore did this, but I'm CERTAINLY in no way ruling it out, and everything I've heard, about this woman's story, seems entirely plausible to me, much moreso than the "No comment" from the Gore camp.

If Al Gore did commit this offense, do I feel any certainty he might not've done the same sort of thing, one or more times previously, and gotten away with it ?

Certainly not !, but I've definitely no way of ruling that out ; I've no way of conclusively knowing about that, either way ; NOR DO YOU !

When the John Edwards sexual allegations first came out [that he had the affair with that woman, and fathered her child], did you have a strong opinion, either way, on whether that story was true or not ?

I don't believe anything of that nature had ever publically been stated to have happened, concerning Edwards, previously.

According to you, that would've meant "it never happened", right ?

Edwards swore up and down, for maybe a year, he never fathered that child, until circumstances forced him to admit it.

Your explanations, on "how you know stuff",

[tomterif]

06:59 PM on 06/25/2010

The last few words, of my immediately above post, apparently got cut off, in the posting process. {That's happened to me on a # of occasions, recently, when I knew my post was under the allowable word maximum, and the last word or words, that got cut off, were fairly innocuous stuff, so I'm confident "I'm not being censored" : ) ]

But in this case, the few last words I'd written were "rather pointed", and really said what I wanted to say, so I'll repeat them here.

The last line from above, I'd sent for posting, was [at least something very much along the lines of] :

"Your explanations, on 'how you know stuff'', are essentially total BILGE !"

That pretty much says a lot of what I'd like to say to you, Tena.

[tomterif]

08:28 PM on 06/25/2010

Or are you instead saying, Tena, that because the sexual stories Van Der Sloot told about Natalee Holloway, that he's therefore such a liar, that this proves he WAS involved in her disappearrance, and suspected murder ? !

It beats me !, because NONE of your stuff [your "theories", on how to reliably determine the guilt or innocence of persons, in major crimes, based on essentially no actual evidence at all] makes any sense to me whatsoever.

If you were saying [as I at least first thought], that Van Der Sloot WASN'T involved in Holloway's disappearance / suspected murder, because the sexual stories he told about Holloway branded him a liar, and he was therefore probably lying about being involved directly with her death, also [which he DID claim, on camera, to that Dutch filmmaker, but I think then claimed he was BSing]...

But at this point, I don't know if your claim that Van Der Sloot's "explicit" sexual lying "proves" he's a murderer, or "proves" he's not a murderer, but either way, your theories strike me as so entirely off the wall that I'll just wait to see if you come back here, to say anything further, regarding this nonsense, before deciding if I have any interest in commenting further.

[zapper502]

09:19 AM on 06/25/2010

when the gores announced thier seperation a month or so ago the spin was that they had just grown apart. any couple that has as many kids and grand kids as them knows that family of this size alone is enough reason for a couple to stay together. there are only 3 things that break up a couple of this many years and they are in order of importance, sex, sex and oh yea sex. it was just a matter of time before details came out

[mhazard]

02:13 PM on 06/25/2010

Speculate much?

[CarterR99]

02:58 PM on 06/25/2010

We all "speculate." Is the teenager talking on his cell phone paying attention as he reaches the intersection? I speculate not, and slow down to watch for him. Live as long as I do and you will find "speculation" trumps naivete every time.

A guy calls a masseuese to his room at 11pm and I speculate he is after sex. Gore and Tipper suddenly separate just before a sex scandal hits the tabloids? Hmmm.

[Daisytoo]

05:03 PM on 06/27/2010

It's always either sex or $$$ - and in this case, the Goracle has absconded w/enough of the gullible's money to sink a ship .. so it's sex.

[aero56]

08:28 AM on 06/25/2010

I find it interesting that one month ago Al and Tipper announce their separation, and now this revelation from a woman who claims Gore sexually assaulted her. Conincidence? I wonder if Gore was informed she was going public with the story, he had to tell Tipper, and that was the end. I read the entire police report. If just one fraction of her story is true, the guy is a crazed idiot.

[rshrink]

06:33 PM on 06/25/2010

I wonder if this woman, knowing the story, took advantage of this situation.

[Quasi Libertarian]

08:12 AM on 06/25/2010

Okay, It is 6-25-2010 8:05 EST and the Al Gore Story is at least 3 days old and the HP still has this story buried.

Some of the "Major Stories" that are front page worthy are as follows:

"Jake Threatens To PUNCH Vienna During 'The Bachelor Breakup' Taping"

"Report: Tiger Woods Divorce Papers 'About To Be Signed'"

"Two-Inch Turtle Causes Taxiing Plane To Return To Gate"

"Judge Orders Lindsay Lohan To Answer Drug Questions"

" Obama Takes Russian President Medvedev To Ray's Hell-Burger"

"WATCH: Orangina's Bizarre 'Gay' Cat Ad Stirs Controversy"

"Man Passes Out On Pool Float, Drifts One Mile Into Gulf Of Mexico"

Most of these stories have been on the front page for more than a day. The HP makes it really easy to be heckled when they are so shameless showing how nonobjective they are.....Unless it is a GOP hit piece then they are all over it.

[Moliere]

10:30 AM on 06/25/2010

i see what you're saying... you have a point. and yet

a) this is just allegations at this point, and
b) the guy has done a lot of good in consciousness raising about the melting of polar ice caps, global warming. i honestly can't think of a modern day republican who has done good on a big scale for the sake of the world and its people ( as opposed to specific elites, ceos, etc)

[Quasi Libertarian]

11:38 AM on 06/25/2010

Oh, I agree that they are just allegations, but this is a huge news story that is being hushed. At a minimum, I would expect the left-leaning places like this to al lease show a little support-coverage.

[FTBUTAME]

03:03 AM on 06/25/2010

Tell me it ain't so Al. How "INCONVENIENT"!
giggling, crazed, sex poodle=global warming scaremonger=elitist dork=mendacious politician=divorcee.........................

[rshrink]

07:58 AM on 06/26/2010

It ain't so. Bad mouthing a man of peace while using the peace sign as your personal symbol. How crazy is that? Pretty crazy I would have to say.

[FTBUTAME]

03:59 PM on 06/26/2010

Wow!
Your rapier like comments are quite devastating IF Gore wasn't a mendacious, deceitful, pol, who deserves the peace prize as much as Che Guevara did!
Notice how he won't debate with the likes of Lord Monkton, Bjørn Lomborg, et al.
Me wonders why..................Perhaps the dribbling chin elitists eat up his junk science like its mother's milk!!

[Apeland]

03:01 AM on 06/25/2010

People have been saying for years that he's made of wood.