Women have been charging Bill Clinton with sexual assault since his days as a
Rhodes Scholar at Oxford 30 years ago.
A continuing investigation into the
President's questionable sexual history reveal incidents that go back as far as
Clinton's college days, with more than a dozen women claiming his sexual
appetites leave little room for the word ''no.''
Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas
nursing home operator, told NBC's Lisa Myers five weeks ago she was raped by
Clinton. NBC shelved the interview, saying they were confirming all parts of
the story, but finally aired it Wednesday night.
Broaddrick finally took her story to The Wall Street Journal, which
published her account of the brutal rape at the hands of the future President,
followed by The Washington Post and
some other publications.
But Capitol Hill Blue has confirmed that Broaddrick's story is
only one account of many attempted and actual sexual assaults by Clinton that
go back 30 years. Among the other incidents:
- Eileen Wellstone,
19-year-old English woman who said Clinton sexually assaulted her after
she met him at a pub near the Oxford where the future President was a
student in 1969. A retired State Department employee, who asked not to be
identified, confirmed that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed
a report with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl,
but claimed it was consensual. The victim's family declined to pursue the
case;
- In 1972, a
22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was
sexually assaulted by Clinton, a law student at the college. No charges
were filed, but retired campus policemen contacted by Capitol Hill Blue confirmed
the incident. The woman, tracked down by Capitol Hill Blue last week, confirmed the incident,
but declined to discuss it further and would not give permission to use
her name;
- In 1974, a
female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law
school instructor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his
office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand
inside her blouse. She complained to her faculty advisor who confronted
Clinton, but Clinton claimed the student ''came on'' to him. The student
left the school shortly after the incident. Reached at her home in Texas,
the former student confirmed the incident, but declined to go on the
record with her account. Several former students at the University have
confirmed the incident in confidential interviews and said there were
other reports of Clinton attempting to force himself on female students;
- Broaddrick,
a volunteer in Clinton's gubernatorial campaign, said he raped her in
1978. Mrs. Broaddrick suffered a bruised and torn lip, which she said she
suffered when Clinton bit her during the rape;
- From 1978-1980,
during Clinton's first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers
assigned to protect the governor were aware of at least seven complaints
from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them
sexually. One retired state trooper said in an interview that the common
joke among those assigned to protect Clinton was "who's next?".
One former state trooper said other troopers would often escort women to
the governor's hotel room after political events, often more than one an
evening;
- Carolyn Moffet, a
legal secretary in Little Rock in 1979, said she met then-governor Clinton
at a political fundraiser and shortly thereafter received an invitation to
meet the governor in his hotel room. "I was escorted there by a state
trooper. When I went in, he was sitting on a couch, wearing only an
undershirt. He pointed at his penis and told me to suck it. I told him I
didn't even do that for my boyfriend and he got mad, grabbed my head and
shoved it into his lap. I pulled away from him and ran out of the
room."
- Elizabeth Ward,
the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she
was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state
crown. Last year, Ward, who is now married with the last name of Gracen
(from her first marriage), told an interviewer she did have sex with
Clinton but said it was consensual. Close friends of Ward, however, say
she still maintains privately that Clinton forced himself on her.
- Paula Corbin, an
Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton
after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room where the then-governor
exposed himself and demanded oral sex. Clinton settled the case with Jones
recently with an $850,000 cash payment.
- Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says
Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room during
a political trip to the nation's capital in 1991, pinned her against the
wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed loud enough
for the Arkansas State Trooper stationed outside the hotel suite to bang
on the door and ask if everything was all right, at which point Clinton
released her and she fled the room. When she reported the incident to her boss,
he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she wanted to keep working. Miss
James has since married and left Washington. Reached at her home last
week, the former Miss James said she later learned that other women
suffered the same fate at Clinton's hands when he was in Washington during
his Presidential run.
- Christy Zercher,
a flight attendant on Clinton's leased campaign plane in 1992, says
Presidential candidate Clinton exposed himself to her, grabbed her breasts
and made explicit remarks about oral sex. A video shot on board the plane
by ABC News shows an obviously inebriated Clinton with his hand between
another young flight attendant's legs. Zercher said later in an interview
that White House attorney Bruce Lindsey tried to pressure her into not going
public about the assault.
- Kathleen Willey,
a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her
breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office
meeting in November, 1993. Willey, who told her story in a 60 Minutes interview,
became a target of a White House-directed smear campaign after she went
public.
In an interview with Capitol Hill Blue, the retired State
Department employee said he believed the story Miss Wellstone, the young
English woman who said Clinton raped her in 1969.
''There was no doubt in my mind that
this young woman had suffered severe emotional trauma,'' he said. ''But we were
under tremendous pressure to avoid the embarrassment of having a Rhodes Scholar
charged with rape. I filed a report with my superiors and that was the last I
heard of it.''
Miss Wellstone, who is now married
and lives near London, confirmed the incident when contacted this week, but
refused to discuss the matter further. She said she would not go public with
further details of the attack. Afterwards, she changed her phone number and
hired a barrister who warned a reporter to stay away from his client.
In his book, Unlimited Access, former FBI agent
Gary Aldrich reported that Clinton left Oxford University for a "European
Tour" in 1969 and was told by University officials that he was no longer
welcome there. Aldrich said Clinton's academic record at Oxford was lackluster.
Clinton later accepted a scholarship for Yale Law School and did not complete
his studies at Oxford.
The State Department official who
investigated the incident said Clinton's interests appeared to be drinking,
drugs and sex, not studies.
"I came away from the incident
with the clear impression that this was a young man who was there to party, not
study," he said.
Oxford officials refused comment.
The State Department also refused to comment on the incident. A Freedom of
Information request filed by Capitol
Hill Blue failed to turn up any records of the incident.
Capitol
Hill Blue also spoke with the former
Miss James, the Washington fundraiser who confirmed the encounter with Clinton
at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, but first said she would not appear
publicly because anyone who does so is destroyed by the Clinton White House.
''My husband and children deserve
better than that,'' she said when first contacted two weeks ago. After reading
the Broaddrick story Friday, however, she called back and gave permission to
use her maiden name, but said she had no intention of pursuing the matter.
"I wasn't raped, but I was
trapped in a hotel room for a brief moment by a boorish man," she said.
"I got away. He tried calling me several times after that, but I didn't
take his phone calls. Then he stopped. I guess he moved on."
But Miss James also retreated from
public view this week after other news organizations contacted her.
The former Miss Moffet, the legal
secretary who says Clinton tried to force her into oral sex in 1979, has since
married and left the state. She says that when she told her boyfriend, who was
a lawyer and supporter of Clinton, about the incident, he told her to keep her
mouth shut.
"He said that people who
crossed the governor usually regretted it and that if I knew what was good for
me I'd forget that it ever happened," she said. "I haven't forgotten
it. You don't forget crude men like that."
Like two other women, the former
Miss Moffet declined further interviews. A neighbor said she had received threatening
phone calls.
The other encounters were confirmed
with more than 30 interviews with retired Arkansas state employees, former
state troopers and former Yale and University of Arkansas students. Like
others, they refused to go public because of fears of retaliation from the
Clinton White House.
Likewise, the mainstream media has
shied away from the Broaddrick story. Initially, only The Drudge Report and other
Internet news sites have actively pursued it. Since initial publication of this
story, a few mainstream media outlets have expressed interest in interviewing
the women.
The White House did not return calls
for comment. White House attorney David Kendall has issued a public denial of
the Broaddrick rape.
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