The woman who accused President Clinton of dropping his pants and asking for sex when he was still governor of Arkansas is said to be talking with a major men's magazine about a nude pictorial. Paula Jones's publicist David Hans Schmidt told the New York Post no details and named no magazine, but the paper says Penthouse confirmed it was talking to Jones. It wouldn't be the first time Jones has appeared in the magazine, but it might be the first time she's been there of her own free will: a former boyfriend's bedroom photographs of Jones appeared in a 1994 issue. Jones took Clinton to court for sexual harassment in a lawsuit that ended up exposing the President's affair with Monica Lewinsky and getting him impeached before the suit was dismissed. The President settled with Jones in due course for $850,000 - most of which went to attorneys in the case.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A broadcasting company here says it didn't mistreat a teen boy who went to the station in his mother's lingerie to win concert tickets last year. Dick Broadcasting Company was responding to the teen's $3 million lawsuit, which claims radio host Sarah "Ripley" McClune wouldn't give him the tickets until he did other things - including being fitted with a dog collar and chained to a parking lot fence in panties and a bra while viewers were urged to come see him. The suit also alleges the boy was brought to a bar and video store where he was subjected to ridicule and even a table dance offer. These experiences, the suit claims, left him humiliated and under psychological care. The station and the performer replied formally they were unaware the boy was only 14 years-old and was a willing participant in the pranks. The entire thing began when the station ran a promotion offering concert tickets to the first adult showing up in the opposite sex's underwear. The station claims the boy showed up, said he was of age, and read and signed a release - but also asked what else he could do outrageous on the radio, according to the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives has passed a bill to crack down on those forcing thousands of foreign women and children into the American sex business. Chief sponsor Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican, claimed over fifty thousand women and young children are forced or lured fraudulently into the sex trade. "This legislation will put these offenders behind bars while protecting the victim,'' Smith said. It doubles the maximum penalty to twenty years with a possible life sentence when violations result in death, or involve kidnapping or sex abuse. The bill also makes victims eligible for the federal Witness Protection Program and makes a new visa status for up to 5,000 victims per year who cooperate with law enforcement authorities, with eligibility for permanent American residence after three years. And, beginning in 2002, the President would have the power to block non-humanitarian foreign aid to countries failing to meet certain minimum guidelines involving the sex trade, a provision the Clinton Administration opposes. Smith's co-sponsor, Connecticut Democrat Sam Gejdenson, said current laws only punish the victims, as women often end up arrested or deported while those who forced them into the sex business go free. The Senate is considering a similar bill.
--- Compiled By Humphrey Pennyworth
