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Clad in a dressing gown, and not much else, in the suite of a luxury hotel in West Hollywood, it's clear to see how Karen McDougal might attract the attention of a rich, powerful, older man. A man like former president, Donald Trump, for instance. Karen is an ex-Playboy model who claims she had a ten-month affair with Trump back in 2006. She's one of two women – the other being Stormy Daniels – who allegedly had a relationship with the married multi-millionaire prior to his successful 2016 election campaign. It's these women's allegations that lie at the heart of...

Last month, provoked by the Obama White House's penchant for routinely using top secret information to advance its political fortunes on the backs of US allies, agents and armed forces, Latma produced an English-language song we called Tell on Me, to the tune of the immortal words of Ben E. King's masterpiece Stand By Me. If you missed it then, here it is again. Tell on Me: The ballad of US agents I mention our work because this week a courageous group of former US Special Operations fighters posted a video where they spell out precisely how Obama's leaks imperil...

Women to blame for rise in injunctions, says leading lawyer Baroness Deech, one of Britain's leading lawyers, says she is ashamed of the "kiss and tell women" at the centre of most superinjunctions. By Steven Swinford3:55PM BST 26 Apr 2011 Lady Deech, the head of the Bar Standards Board, said she blamed women who sell their stories for money for increasing use of the orders. She said: "I do blame women. In many of the cases of gagging orders we read about, women have sold their favours to celebrities and then have tried to make even more money out of...

NEW YORK, - U.S. radio star Howard Stern says Jamie Jungers is the winner of his beauty pageant featuring all of golfer Tiger Woods's alleged mistresses. Jungers, a 27-year-old cocktail waitress romantically linked to the professional golfer, expressed joy at being the winning "Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant" contestant on Stern's Sirius XM radio show, The Daily Telegraph (Britain) reported Friday. "I'm so excited. I just feel blessed," said Jungers, who earned a $75,000 prize. The New York Daily New said Jaimee Grubbs, another of Woods's reported mistresses, came in second place in the pageant, earning her a $15,000 prize....

NEW YORK (AP) -- After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press. A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair...

The news came swiftly Thursday afternoon. Now that Robert Novak had finally revealed one last secret in the ever-fraudulent story about Valerie Plame's identity being leaked - we could put it all behind us and promise never to mention it again right?

It is more than 20 years later, and Milo Hamilton hasn't forgotten. Not a single minute. Not a single incident. Not a single insult. Not a single word. And now the words are his -- more than 4,000 of them in an explosive chapter in his new autobiography that savages Harry Caray from beginning to end. ''I just felt nobody really knew him,'' Hamilton, who succeeded Jack Brickhouse as the Cubs broadcaster in 1980, said Wednesday from his home in Houston. ''I think it's time they did.'' IN HIS WORDS ''I see [the statue of Harry Caray] every time the...

Kiss-and-tell is as old as love itself. Fortunately, most indiscreet paramours limit their blabbing to a few confidants. Not Jessica Cutler. In May 2004, she spilled out the graphic details of her sexual exploits on Capitol Hill on a blog accessible to hundreds of millions of Internet users. Now a federal lawsuit by one of her past lovers has set up a potentially high-stakes battle between privacy and speech rights and could give new meaning to the idea of safe sex in a wired world. Cutler's blog, written under the pseudonym Washingtonienne, was a daily diary of her sex life...

When Paul O'Neill was forced out as Secretary of the Treasury in December 2002, everyone knew that it was not the last time he would be heard from. Now, after a year of silence, he is speaking out again in a new book, "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill" by Ron Suskind. A long excerpt appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Monday and O'Neill himself went on "60 Minutes" to promote the book, which is based largely on interviews with O'Neill and documents provided by him. The picture O'Neill...

<p>I once had dinner with Paul O'Neill, the former Treasury secretary who is now making headlines with a scathing portrayal of his days in the Bush administration prior to his firing in December 2002. Bush critics will hail Mr. O'Neill as a truth-teller, White House aides are already calling him a back-stabber. In fact, Mr. O'Neill is a relic. The man I broke bread with was clearly a product of the Nixon and Ford administrations, in which he had served, and simply hadn't adapted to the post-Reagan Republican Party.</p>

Ashton & the Bush Twins Party On! May 06, 2003 Crazy, sexy, cool actor ASHTON KUTCHER sat down with Rolling Stone magazine to talk JENNIFER ANISTON, getting "punk'd" and partying with the BUSH twins -- JENNA and BARBARA! ET has the juicy rundown of Ashton's tales -- don't miss tonight's show for the story! For the May 29th issue of the mag, on stands Friday, May 9th, Ashton shares tidbits from his sometimes loco life -- including an unforgettable party with the Bush gals. He tells Rolling Stone: "So we're hanging out ... The Bushes were underage drinking at my...