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One web source gives an address for Valerie Plame (presumably before she married Wilson) as living at 2700 Virginia Avenue NW in Washington, DC. This is the Watergate West apartment complex. I don't know what apartments sold for in the late 1990s, but they can be expensive now. For example, a recent sale of a 1300 sq. foot apartment indicated a sale price of $379,000. Ownership also involves a monthly fee of $912. which covers taxes, insurance, etc. Don't know where Wilson lived before. They might have raised down payments by sales of former residences.

The same link also mentions a jacqueline C. Wilson, 55, with the address 4612 Charleston Ter NW, which is where Joseph C. and Valerie now live. I don't understand this hit. If it's accurate, who is this 55 year old Jacqueline C. Wilson?

Here is another interesting tidbit I found in case anyone thinks Wilson is making tons of money off book sales. It's from an article titled "Quest for Best Seller means Lots of Returned Books", June 3, 2005. (I'm sorry, I meant to write down the name of the author but I forgot. He's from the Wall Street Journal.)

"Even mid-size publishers sometimes reach for the brass ring.In April 2004, Avalon publishing Group Inc. issued "The Politics of Truth:Inside the Lies that led to War and Betrayed my Wife's CIA Identity," by former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson. At the time books about politics were selling well, and Avalon, eager to deliver as many copies as quickly as possible, printed a 100,000. Shortly before the publication date, April 30, it went back to the presses for an additional 25,000.
Just as the book was hitting the best-seller lists, public attention switched to allegations of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Although "The Politics of Truth" enjoyed good sales, Charles Winton, Avalon's CEO, says he's now sitting on 60,000 copies, including many that have been returned. The second printing cost at least $60,000, he says, none of which has yet recouped. Mr. Winton says he had to gamble: "You sell a lot of books, but there's also a lot of waste."

www.postgazette.com/pg/05154/515469.stm

This afternoon I have been trying very hard but unsuccessfully to track down a transcript for The Chris Matthew Show for July 17, 2005. My husband was sure Wilson was on that morning (or maybe July 24) and Matthews asked him how his book was doing. The response was something like "very well and it's going to get better." However according to the above only slightly more than half of those printed, 65,000 were sold--probably a lot of them to libraries. That dosn't sound very "good' to me. A big grocery chain I shop at put out a pile of them last summer before the election and a couple of months ago the amount did not look much different and now they are gone--not sold, just cleeared out and maybe sent back to Mr. Winton.

The Watergate is now being turned completely into condos and they are very expensive. I was trying to get some idea of how much rent would be for an apartment suite but I couldn't find anything to reference to the apartment complex before some company took over renovating the hotel last year I think. The hotel suites ran $6000-over $7000 a month according to the hotel's website--I can't imagine Valerie paying that kind of rent.

Isn't Jacqueline C. Wilson his second wife's name? The age seems about right. Why in the world would she be listed? Did she buy the house for them? That is very weird!

Jacqueline was Wilson's second wife, before Valerie, who is his third (the first was Susan Otchis). During the tail end of their marriage Jacqueline was a registered foreign lobbyist for the Presidency of Gabon, where Wilson had a good relationship with President Omar Bongo. The Vanity Fair article mentions Wilson and Plame were renting an apartment in the Watergate before moving into their Palisades home, which is the 4612 Charleston adress. Records filed with the DOJ to comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act list Jacqueline living at 6104 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Glen Echo, MD 20812 as of June 17, 1998 and 6120 Shady Oak Lane, Bethesda, MD 20817 in 2002. Now there was a period from 1997 to 1998 when Wilson was still married to Jacqueline but seeing Valerie, which may explain why Jacqueline is also listed at that address: apparently Jacqueline was living there while Wilson had moved in with Valerie. However, here's what's odd about that: a Washington Post article from October 8, 1998 lists this among home sales recorded recently by the District Department of Finance and Revenue, Recorder of Deeds Division, and supplied to the Post by the real estate information service First American Real Estate Solutions (formerly Experian):

"CHARLESTON TER., 4612-Barry Zuckerman Properties to Joseph C. IV and Valerie E. Wilson, $735,000."

So the house was bought in Wilson and Valerie's name, but Jacqueline was living there?

BTW, Jacqueline's 1998 foreign lobbyist registration form mentions this:

$100,000.00 received prior to registration on June 17, 1998

Maybe that's part of how Wilson augmented his income to pay for the home--in which case, though, it seems odd he and Valerie ended up with the home instead of Jacqueline.