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Sunday's NY Post Weddings section has an announcement of the wedding of Alexandra Polier, the reported mistress of John F. Kerry, who fled to Africa during the campaign to avoid the media. Nice pic of the happy couple...

Fall girl It was a dream tabloid story - the frontrunner in the race to become Democratic presidential candidate had been sleeping with a young campaign worker. There was just one problem - it wasn't true. Alexandra Polier traces the origins of the scandal that changed her life Thursday June 3, 2004 The Guardian On the evening of Thursday, February 12, as John Kerry had just chalked up his 12th state-primary win in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, I was at a dinner party in Nairobi. Five months earlier, I had quit my job at the Associated Press...

<p>Unsubstantiated bias against Republicans. Polier repeatedly implies the “Republican Attack Machine” (the same RAM that haunts John Kerry in his dreams) helped fuel the sex scandal’s fire. And yet once the reader digs deeper in the story, it becomes obvious that the real perps were probably Wes Clark staffer (and former Kerry-right hand) Chris Lehane and pro-Clark blogger Cameron Barrett. In fact, nary a Republican name is mentioned in the alleged conspiracy. It seems as though little-miss-clips-the-Economist can’t let go of her own personal hatred for Republicans, even though the Grand Old Party had nothing to do with it.</p>

The Education of Alexandra Polier Falsely accused of having an affair with John Kerry, the “intern” sifts through the mud and the people who threw it. On the evening of Thursday, February 12, as John Kerry had just chalked up his twelfth state-primary win in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, I was at a dinner party in Nairobi, hosted by my friend Matthew Rosenberg, an Associated Press reporter based in East Africa. The male guests were discussing a recent poker game, while the women sat around trading recipes to give to their cooks. It promised to be your...

On Monday, New York mag will publish a long feature by Alexandra Polier. (Earlier this year, various media outlets claimed that Polier had had an affair with Presidential candidate John Kerry.) After the jump: an excerpt from the story in which Polier interviews -- or, tries to interview -- Brian Flynn of the Brit tabloid The Sun, who was the first to name her. Hot: the stalkee becomes the stalker. [UPDATE: And? There's more Polier excerpt on Wonkette.] Though my name wasn't mentioned in the initial Drudge "exclusive," it made its first appearance in the British tabloid The Sun on...

May 29, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — The woman falsely rumored to have had an affair with John Kerry reveals in a bombshell account to be published next week that she was grilled by Kerry aides who were panicking that the story was about to derail his presidential campaign. Former Kerry intern Alexandra Polier writes in New York magazine that she was "peppered with questions" after her name surfaced in news stories linking her to the Massachusetts senator in February. In the article, Polier even wonders whether one of Kerry's closest advisers thought the candidate may have been lying when he...

Three months ago, Columbia Journalism School grad Alexandra Polier was the target of Internet rumors and media speculation about a supposed extramarital affair (denied by all concerned) with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Back then, the 27-year-old Polier's photograph was published in papers from New York to London, and she pleaded publicly "that the press respect our privacy and leave all of us alone." But now she's had enough of privacy. Word from Nairobi, Kenya - where Polier has been living with the family of her Israeli fiancé, Yaron Schwartzman - is that she's toiling on an epic essay about...

By choosing to ignore the giant elephant, er, donkey, that Matt Drudge led into America’s living room, the national press once again showed its true stripes. After all, there is far less proof that Bush was AWOL than there is that Kerry had an affair, Alex Polier’s rote denial notwithstanding. Yet, while America was abuzz with the rumor, not one major cable network was willing to spend a moment even questioning its veracity. Instead, shows like "Hardball with Chris Matthews" spent hours rehashing the tired old charges against George W. Bush's military service. While Kerry’s monosyllabic denial of his affair was...

Did he or didn’t he? Get Kerry-ed away and have it off with an intern. It’s either one or the other, and I guess we have to take Alexandra Polier at her word and believe he didn’t. Kerry is one bad dude, and I don’t mean just because he didn’t do it. I mean his lifelong habit of getting a rich woman to pick up the tab. I know I’m being old-fashioned and all that, but I was taught that one marries for love, not money. Mind you, he’s not unique. In the circles I used to run around in,...

Monica Lewinsky has described her feelings of outrage at the furore that has blown up around a woman accused of having an affair with US presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry. Alex Polier, 27, a journalism graduate, has denied being involved with Mr Kerry, a 60-year-old married father-of-two, but her private life has still been the focus of intense speculation, something that has angered Ms Lewinsky. Earlier this week the graduate broke her silence and said: "I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumours in the press are completely false." She added: "Whoever is spreading these rumours...

XXXX DRUDGE RETORT XXXX 14:26:29 EST FEB 19 2004 XXXX Matt Drudge loses advertiser in wake of Kerry blunder! **DRUDGE RETORT EXCLUSIVE** Sound the siren: Matt Drudge has lost a long-time advertiser in the wake of last week's groundless report alleging that Sen. John Kerry had an extramarital affair with a 27-year-old woman. AT&T Wireless has pulled all advertising from the Drudge Report in response to a complaint about its sponsorship of the site. "We care about the places our on-line ads appear, and that site doesn't reflect the values of AT&T Wireless," e-mailed Jeremy Pemble, the company's vice president...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic front-runner in the race for his party's presidential nomination, spoke to CNN anchor Judy Woodruff about his campaign. Excerpted--click for full article.</p> <p>Kerry and young woman deny it; does that put scandal to bed?</p>

The Web is full of articles from around the globe about presidential hopeful John Kerry's alleged two-year affair with a journalist named Alex Polier (see, e.g., google.com), yet none of America's TV networks (except Fox) or mainstream newspapers are reporting about it (except the Washington Times, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News). She is a journalist who apparently fled to Kenya, and her father has reportedly called Kerry a "sleazeball," but the American media is only reporting about George W. Bush's military record more than 30 years ago! What a double standard and a travesty. I...

<p>Some conservatives are angry, but many media watchdogs are praising the way most American news outlets handled 2004's first titillating allegation about a presidential candidate's personal life.</p> <p>The rumor was that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., might have had an extramarital relationship with a woman. The allegation surfaced Feb. 12 on the Internet and quickly got picked up by some talk radio hosts and foreign news media.</p>

One week ago, Alexandra Polier was just another anonymous 27-year-old New York transplant with a master’s degree in journalism, some Associated Press clips and a network of ambitious friends. But on Feb. 17, when the Daily News and God knows how many other newspapers, television newscasts and Web sites plastered her black-and-white picture, with its knowing, confident gaze, on their covers, b-roll and home pages, Ms. Polier became something else: an instant digital celebrity whom, despite her reluctance to participate in the media circus, she had unwittingly helped create. Forget the speculation about whether Ms. Polier actually had an affair...

Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Kerry should sue the Sun Some of the British media are too happy doing Drudge's dirty work Sidney Blumenthal Thursday February 19, 2004 The Guardian One question remains unanswered about the politically inspired lie that Senator John Kerry had had an affair with an "intern". Which interested source planted it with the rightwing internet hooligan Matt Drudge and with the conservative British newspapers that put it into wide public play? Its timing was fortuitous. Immediately after George Bush went into a tailspin, falling behind the Democratic presidential frontrunner, John Kerry, in the polls, Kerry became the subject...

Columbia grad denies romantic link to Kerry (Skipping the old and cutting straight to the new...) Alexandra Polier's only known ties to Kerry are through a top aide, campaign finance director Peter Maroney. A Columbia University classmate of Polier told The News that Maroney introduced her to Kerry in 2001 at an economic summit in Switzerland. "She met with [Kerry] again when the forum came to New York in 2002," the classmate said. Maroney could not be reached for comment yesterday. A Republican political strategist said Kerry has not been hurt by the fallout. "It looks like it's going away,"...

THE woman linked to married US presidential hopeful John Kerry last night denied they had an affair. Alex Polier, 27, said: "I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry and the rumours are completely false." Freelance journalist Alex said she had never been an intern for him either. She added: "Whoever is spreading these rumours and allegations does not know me." Right wing website The Drudge Report claimed five days ago that Democrat Kerry had told Alex to leave the country. She is in Kenya staying with her fiance's family.

The woman who could end Senator John Kerry’s chances of becoming president of the United States remained holed up in a Lavington house in Nairobi amid claims that she had confessed her affair to a US TV station. The gate to the house where twenty four-year old Alexandra Polier, who allegedly had a two-year affair with the Senator favoured to clinch the Democratic Party nomination stays, was closed yesterday. Local and international journalists camped at the gate for hours but were denied access to house no 909 on James Gichuru Road, next to the Spring Garden Chinese Restaurant. A guard...

Alexandra Polier, the women at the center of questions surrounding her involvement with Senator John Kerry, apparently posted a provocative profile on a dating website.