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NEW YORK, NY - The cigar made famous during Ken Starr's investigation of former President Clinton's relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky was sold on eBay yesterday for $1.2 million. The cigar - rumored to have been lost since 1998 - was posted on eBay by longtime Hillary Clinton supporter Lanny Davis, stirring speculation that the Clinton campaign is quietly raising funds for a comeback at the Democratic Convention...

<p>December 10, 2003 -- HOW is it possible that a president of the United States ends up on E!'s "True Hollywood Story"? Maybe the question really is how in the world did a president's genitals end up as serious discussion within the Justice Department - and how did we the people end up paying $40 million to end up with an impeachment based on a report that reads like a romance novel by Jackie Collins?</p>

Bill Maher has made another stab at career suicide. The Bush-bashing comic stunned some of Hollywood's most powerful liberals by joking about Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions at a benefit honoring Sen. Hillary Clinton. New York's junior Senator was accepting an Oceana Partners award in Los Angeles last Wednesday for her work on environmental issues. Maher emceed the event, which also honored marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, as well as Ron Howard and his Imagine partner, Brian Glazer. Among the unamused in the audience were Oceana board member Ted Danson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kiefer Sutherland, Diane Lane, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal and Kirsten...

<p>Call it an open-and-shut zipper case.</p> <p>An accountant from Staten Island faces up to 15 years in prison on charges of embezzling $170,000 - money investigators say he spent almost entirely to buy oral sex from a woman he worked with.</p>

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is applauding this week's Supreme Court ruling that decriminalizes the kind of sex act popularized by her husband, which became known as a "Lewinsky" after Mr. Clinton confessed to having an inappropriate relationship with a White House intern by the same name. "This is an especially historic moment for those Americans whose right to privacy has been under siege," Mrs. Clinton said in a statement posted to her official Senate Web site. "And I am pleased the Court has confirmed a value important to us all." In her recent book, "Living History," Senator Clinton condemned...