Gennifer Flowers
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Gennifer Flowers (born January 24, 1950) is one of three women who have claimed to have had affairs with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
She came forward during Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign claiming that she had had a twelve-year affair with him. When Clinton denied having an affair with Flowers, she held a press conference in which she played tape recordings she claimed were of secretly recorded intimate phone calls with Clinton. Hillary Clinton, for the first time, made the media rounds to refute sexual allegations against her husband. When asked why Clinton and Flowers called each other "honey" in the tapes, Hillary explained that this was how people talked in Arkansas. At least two Arkansas state police officers who had formerly guarded Clinton when he was Governor backed up Flowers' story.
In his autobiography My Life, Clinton acknowledged testifying under oath that he had sexual relations with Flowers on one occasion only. When Flowers learned of it, she went public again to tell her side.
She published her memoir Gennifer Flowers: Passion and Betrayal in 1995. In it she confessed a sexual naïvité at the time of her relationship with Clinton ("The first time he [climaxed during oral sex], I was taken aback. I was saving that for my husband, if ever. But Bill was gentle and held me after."). She posed nude for Penthouse magazine during this period and was featured in the December 1992 issue.
Flowers sued Hillary Rodham Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, James Carville, and others for defamation, claiming that they orchestrated a campaign to discredit her. A judge dismissed the case.
She currently runs a cabaret called the Kelsto Club in a former bordello in New Orleans's French Quarter.
