Elizabeth Ray

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Elizabeth Ray (1943-05-14 ? ) born Betty Lou Ray in Marshall, North Carolina, was the central figure in a scandal in the 1970's that ended the national political career of powerful U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio). The Washington Post reported in 1976 that Miss Ray---blonde, voluptuous, and in her twenties---had been on the office payroll of a congressional committee run by Rep. Hays (almost forty years her senior) for two years as a clerk-secretary. During that time, she declared, her actual job duties were essentially limited to giving Congressman Hays sexual favors. The 33-year-old Miss Ray admitted that "I can't type, I can't file, I can't even answer the phone."

After the scandal broke, a book appeared in her name, entitled “The Washington Fringe Benefit”; she posed for Playboy magazine several times and she also tried acting and stand-up comedy.

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• Washington Post article from May 23, 1976 which broke the scandal.