Gennifer Flowers \nWASHINGTON - Gennifer Flowers has hit two former Clinton White House aides, James Carville and George Stephanopolous, with a libel, slander, and defamation suit over remarks they made about her on television in 1998 and in a book published by one of the aides.
"Having been proved correct by the President's and Mrs. Clinton's own belated admissions, the time has now come for justice," says Judicial Watch's general counsel and chairman Larry Klayman, who filed on Flowers's behalf. "If people like
Carville and Stephanopoulos think they can walk away from the wreckage that they have caused in certain peoples' lives, particularly women like Gennifer Flowers, they are sadly mistaken."
Flowers, who has since tried making her way as a singer and entertainer and lives in Nevada, charges Carville and Stephanopolous with making false statements and deliberately trying to destroy her reputation on television appearances and in Stephanopolous's autobiography. The suit is seeking over $75,000 in damages.
The suit charges Carville and Stephanopolous were lying on Larry King Live in 1998 when they said her story about her affair with Clinton, including a tape recorded conversation she sold to a tabloid magazine, was false - even though Clinton subsequently admitted the affair during his deposition in the Paula Jones case. The suit also charges Stephanopolous lied similarly in his book.
"I had to admit ... that I'd actually had sexual relations with Gennifer Flowers," said the President in his grand jury deposition in the Paula Jones case, in a comment posted on Flowers's Web site. "Now, I would rather have taken a whipping than done that, after all the trouble I'd been through with Gennifer Flowers."
Both Flowers and Judicial Watch have published the entire text of the complaint on their Web sites, www.genniferflowers.com and www.judicialwatch.com
