Paula Jones wants to go to a library -
but she isn't looking for a book.
The woman who claimed that former President
Bill Clinton exposed himself to her thinks it's time she
visited the $165 million study center dedicated to his administration.
"My house is about 17 miles from it," says Jones,
who lives just north of Little Rock, Ark. "I pass by [the Clinton
Presidential Center] all the time. I kept saying, 'I ought to go in
there.' My friends and I talked about putting on wigs - just in case
they won't let me in - and making a day of it."
Jones mentioned her plan to David
Hans Schmidt, the Phoenix-based agent who brokered her nude
spread in
Penthouse, and he suggested they turn the outing
into a media event and maybe make a few bucks in the process.
"Paula will wear a T-shirt with the sponsor's
name," says Schmidt.
Jones says she can use the money because lawyers
who brought her sexual harassment suit against Clinton took most of her
$850,000 settlement.
"I got $151,000," says Jones. "That's gone. I was
going through a divorce.
I had to get a home for my two boys. I never made
bunches of money. Mary Kay LeTourneau can
molest a child, then turn around and marry him, and make $1 million off
their TV wedding!"
Still, she insists, "It doesn't matter if I get
any money. I was going to do it anyway."
She already knows she's not mentioned anywhere in
the exhibits.
"How could they wipe away those years of his
life?" she grumbles.
Jones and Clinton agree on one thing: "A lot of
people used me for their agendas. But I got the blame. They called me
'trailer trash.' I've never been in a trailer."
Clinton spokesmen declined to comment on Jones'
latest bid to embarrass the former President.
Ma's available for NA
It seems club kid Noel Ashman is
something of a mama's boy. Ashman has been battling investors in his
Meatpacking District club, NA, for control over the venue and
reportedly changed the office locks to keep his partners away.
But according to court papers, it was his mother,
Robin Ashman, doing all the dirty work at 244 W.
14th St.
"Robin, with the assistance of two private
security guards, has changed the locks on the doors at 244, and she has
barricaded herself in the offices of 244... she has refused to leave
the premises," the suit by Ashman's partners alleges.
The club's other investors, Thomas
Frayne, Eugene Boissiere and Jayson Krystal want to
oust Ashman as the president of their corporation for overspending
their weekly budget of $8,650 by more than $14,000.
Trouble in Mellon-ville
Vanity Fair airs Jimmy Choo president
Tamara Mellon's dirty laundry in their
upcoming issue, exposing the gory details about the stiletto princess'
divorce from American banking heir Matthew Mellon.
"He would go out for a carton of milk and not
return for a week - he'd be in one of any number of cities having
hooked up with his local coke fixer," writes the story's author,
Evgenia Peretz.
During one of Mellon's extended disappearances he
allegedly landed in a crack den.
Tamara, a well-heeled London mogul, has
persevered, recently launching a photo book, "Four Inches," featuring
Kate Moss and Sarah Ferguson nude
except for their Jimmy Choos. All of the proceeds go to the Elton
John AIDS foundation.
Atta girl!
To err is Post-like
Could the New York Post have gotten it wrong yet
again?
Last week, The New York Times said the discount
digest had wrongly reported that financier Robert Weil was
buying Adelaide de Menil's 40-acre Amagansett,
L.I., oceanfront estate for $90 million - which would've been the
highest price yet paid for a residential property in the country.
It would have been, that is, had it been true.
A day later, another Postie claimed that Nathan
Lane and Matthew Broderick would switch roles as
Oscar and Felix when "The Odd Couple" hits Broadway in October.
But Broderick told The News' Joe
Dziemianowicz that it wasn't happening.
"No," said the talented-to-his-toes actor, who'll
play the neat Felix. "Only if we get really bored."
How could ennui have set in already, before
they've even rehearsed?
Not that kind of merging...
Wall Street's finest are still buzzing over a
conference call a few weeks back. An up-and-coming Harvard-educated
analyst for one prominent firm was assigned the simple task of
organizing a conference call between the venerable J.P. Morgan and
Credit Suisse First Boston.
But the number the big boys called had nothing to
do with mergers or acquisitions - it was none other than a sassy phone
sex line.
We're curious how the firm's CEO is planning on
expensing that one.
Side dish
FANTASTIC FOUR star Jessica Alba may have
a fallback if this acting thing doesn't work out. She took to the
kitchen of Rosa Mexicano, where she and culinary director Roberto
Santibanez cooked up her famous chicken enchilada...
HEIDI FLEISS is coming to HBO. The former Hollywood
madame just agreed to make a one-hour special about her plan to build a
Nevada brothel modeled after the Beverly Hills Hotel. "I'm going to
invite 12 of the top fashion designers to each create a bungalow," she
tells us. Fleiss is still seeing Dennis Hof, proprietor of the fabled Moonlite
Bunny Ranch bordello, featured in HBO's "Cathouse." But, she says, "He
wants me to give up all my other boyfriends and I'm not ready" ...
CLUB KITTEN Jamie Krauss will
take the heat to Crobar Miami this Saturday night to celebrate her
birthday at the South Beach hot spot, complete with fireworks...
STAFFERS AT the Bryant Park hotel are enjoying
Jess McCartney's leftovers. The pint-size
rocker celebrated his birthday with a huge chocolate cake in the
hotel's cellar bar - so big that employees have been devouring it all
week...
IF YOU'RE looking for love in all the wrong
places, Hamptons magazine's latest issue has rounded up all of the East
End's most eligible singles - including Amanda Hearst, Kim
Cattrall, Gigi Stone and our own Jo Piazza
...
GOOD NEWS for Jay McInerney fans
like us: His new novel "The Good Life" is about to come out. It took
him three years to write and he told us how he coped with the
isolation. "I go out every night - in New York, you always find
someplace to go. I can get very weird and squirrelly otherwise."
With Jo Piazza and Chris Rovzar
Originally published on July 5, 2005