Private Lives Made Public

A number of women have captured headlines in recent years because of their association with President Clinton.

From the 1992 campaign for president through the Monica Lewinsky allegations, the president has had to dodge questions about his private affairs.

Many of those became public knowledge this year when Paula Jones, in an effort to prove a pattern of sexual harassment in her lawsuit against the president, released court papers alleging that Mr. Clinton had a string of illicit affairs from his days as governor to his days in the Oval Office.

Among the women with whom Mr. Clinton has been linked are:

• Gennifer Flowers. An Arkansas lounge singer, Flowers, pictured above, almost killed Mr. Clinton's first campaign for president with her accusations that she and the then Arkansas governor had maintained a 12-year affair. In an interview on 60 Minutes on CBS, Mr. Clinton, with his wife at his side, denied the allegation.

  In his deposition in the Jones case, Mr. Clinton admitted to having a one-night affair with Flowers. Flowers, meanwhile, sold her story to the tabloids, posed for Penthouse magazine and published her memoirs.

  

• Paula Jones. Jones, pictured right, claims Mr. Clinton propositioned her in 1991 in Little Rock when he was governor and she was an employee of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. After a magazine article linked her with the president in 1994, she filed a sexual harassment suit against the president. The suit was dismissed by a federal judge in Arkansas in April, but Jones is appealing.
• Connie Hamzy. Hamzy was the first woman to admit she had an affair with Clinton while he was Arkansas governor. A rock-band groupie, she went public with her accusations during the 1992 campaign. Like Flowers, Hamzy also posed for Penthouse.

  

• Elizabeth Ward Gracen. Rumors of a liaison between Mr. Clinton and this 1982 Miss America, pictured left, had persisted for years. Reports said that Mr. Clinton, as governor, had made a pass at her, and a friend of hers had circulated rumors about a steamy encounter in the back seat of a limousine.

  A 1993 spread in Playboy magazine boosted her acting career. Now a star of the television series Highlander, Gracen was one of the women linked to Mr. Clinton by the Paula Jones legal team. In January, she admitted to having sex with the president but said it was consensual.

• Dolly Kyle Browning. Mr. Clinton's high-school sweetheart claims to have had a 33-year affair with the president. Now a Texas real-estate lawyer, she wrote a roman a clef, Purposes of the Heart in which she details her long-running affair with the president. She is hawking the book from her own web site but won't say how many copies were sold.

  After the president gave her the cold shoulder at high-school reunion, she described the affair in several TV interviews. She is reportedly at work on a second book.

• Cristy Zercher. This flight attendant on the 1992 campaign plane came forward earlier this year with a confession that during one of the overnight campaign flights aboard Longhorn One, Mr. Clinton fondled her, with his wife sleeping nearby. She sold her story to the tabloids for a reported $50,000.

  

• Monica Lewisnky. A former White House intern and aide in the Office of Legislative Affairs, Lewinsky, pictured right, is the subject of an intense investigation by independent Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr.

  Tape-recorded conversations that Lewinsky allegedly had with Linda Tripp reportedly indicate Lewinsky was having an Oval Office affair and intended to lie about it in an affidavit filed in the Paula Jones case. In his deposition, the president denied having an affair with Lewinsky, who was transferred in April 1997 from the White House to an office at the Pentagon.

  

• Kathleen Willey. A Virginia society matron, Willey, pictured left, worked on both of Mr. Clinton's campaigns and held volunteer and paid positions at the White House. A Newsweek article quoting Tripp, alleged that Willey had once emerged from the Oval office with her makeup smeared and her clothes disheveled.

  After Willey testified before the Washington grand jury, she appeared in an interview on 60 Minutes and described how the president groped at her and made a pass at her in the Oval Office.

  The White House immediately denied the incident and countered by releasing a batch of letters, all of them friendly and admiring, that Willey had sent to the president after the alleged incident took place.

  By MARY JAYNE McKAY