Gina Gershon insists she’s not Bill’s mistress
June 4, 2008
By Nancy Dillon
Actress Gina Gershon insists she is not "that woman."
The "Showgirls" star and her pit bull lawyers are going after Vanity Fair for insinuating she and ex-President Bill Clinton have been carrying on a torrid love affair as part of Clinton's bi-coastal shenanigans with bad-boy bachelors Steve Bing and Ron Burkle.
Vanity Fair scribe Todd Purdum attributed the rumored romance to "high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip" in his story "The Comeback Id."
Still, Gershon, 45, wants the world to know that she has only been in the same room with Clinton on three occasions, and the meetings always took place in the presence of at least a dozen chaperones.
"Rumor mongering was substituted for fact-checking," Gershon's lawyer Lynda Goldman of Lavely & Singer wrote in a letter obtained by the celebrity web site TMZ.com.
"It is apparent that Vanity Fair was intent upon publishing unsubstantiated rumors, and that it avoided learning the true facts so that the truth would not get in the way.
"Such conduct is reckless and malicious, giving rise to substantial liability for defamation," Goldman wrote.
Source: New York Daily News
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