Elizabeth Ward Gracen, a former Miss America and Miss Arkansas, says in an interview with the New York Daily News that she had consensual sex with Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas. Gracen, 37, who had previously denied any liaison with Clinton, says his campaign officials had asked her in May 1992 to issue a statement denying she had had sex with Clinton. But she insists she was not pressured or cajoled into making the statement. Gracen told the newspaper she came forward to rebut allegations that he forced himself on her. A former friend of Gracen's, Judy Stokes, has given a sworn deposition in the Jones case saying Gracen tearfully told her in the mid-1980s that Clinton forced her into sex in the back of a limousine in 1982, the Daily News said.
Infighting on Jones legal team Lawyers from the conservative Rutherford Institute, which is underwriting Paula Jones' legal bills, distance themselves from their co-counsels, saying that Jones lawyers did not apprise them of plans to reveal the identify Jane Doe No. 5 in a court filing. The woman was the subject of an uncorroborated rape allegation against Clinton, an attack she testified never occurred. In a statement, Rutherford Institute lawyers say if they had been told, they would have advised against identifying "an alleged victim."
Note: "Jane Doe No. 5",referred to above, is Juanita Broaddrick.