Paula Jones

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Paula Corbin Jones (* 17th September 1966 in Lonoke , Arkansas , USA as Paula Rosalee Corbin ) is a former state employees in Arkansas, the world's attention was when in 1994 the then incumbent President Bill Clinton sued for sexual harassment.

Early life

Paula Jones grew up with her two sisters, Lydia and Charlotte, in Lonoke, a rural community in the Little Rock area . They had a strict, Christian-oriented family, for example the children had to adhere to strict dress codes, they were not allowed to watch television and the whole family gathered daily for prayers. Her parents, Delmar Lee Corbin and Bobby Gene Corbin, were members of the Church of the Nazarene . Bobby Corbin worked in a clothing factory and also worked as a preacher. After being fired from his company, he had to declare himself bankrupt. He died of a heart attack in 1985. The family continued to find itself in difficult financial circumstances. After her house burned down in December 1986, Delmar Lee lived with her two younger daughters Paula and Lydia for a while in the mobile home of their older daughter Charlotte and her husband Mark Brown.

Paula Jones dropped out of local high school without a degree and then attended high school in neighboring Carlisle, which offered a lower level degree. After graduating there in 1985, she studied at Capital City Junior College in Little Rock for 6 months, but without obtaining a degree. In the following years she worked in a number of short-term jobs until she finally became a state employee with the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission in March 1991 . She worked there until 1993. In December 1989 she met Steve Jones, whom she married in December 1991. The connection resulted in two sons (* 1992, * 1996). In 1993 the family moved to California because Steve Jones was looking for an acting career there, but he did not succeed.

Troopergate

Paula Jones was a government employee and employee of Bill Clinton during his tenure as governor of Arkansas . In May 1994, she filed a lawsuit with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, accusing the then-US President of sexual harassment .

At first, like other women, she had publicly claimed that she had an intimate relationship with Clinton. According to her, on May 8, 1991, at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock, he requested Jones to have oral sex with him, which she refused. Three years after the alleged incident, two days before the three-year statute of limitations expired, she sought several million dollars in damages . The legal battle dragged on for years. In April 1998 the court dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that it had not suffered any damage, even if it "may not have been treated properly".

However, the judges did not dispel all doubts about the president's moral conduct. To avoid another lawsuit - and without the apology Jones requested - Clinton paid $ 850,000. Ultimately, this incident could not be proven beyond doubt, and the Lewinsky affair was already being discussed in public at this point . From Clinton's settlement payment, Paula Jones received $ 200,000; their lawyers shared the rest among themselves.

Since the affair started through testimony of two Arkansas State Police officers (called Troopers), the term Troopergate developed in the reporting .

Next life

In June 1999, Jones divorced her husband Steve. In December 2001 she married Steven Mark McFadden. In the meantime, Paula Jones worked as a real estate agent.

In public she remained present even after the conclusion of the "Troopergate", so she posed naked for the men's magazine Penthouse in 2000 and competed in the celebrity boxing of the television station FOX in an exhibition match against Tonya Harding , whom she lost in the second round. In 2005 she appeared as the first guest on the television show Lie Detector (Pax TV) and took a polygraph test there.

In 2008, she and Gennifer Flowers ran the website genniferandpaula.com for a short period of time , where they posted videos of indiscretions, gossip and intimate details about Bill Clinton for sale.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g David Ellis: The Perils of Paula. In: People . May 23, 1994.
  2. ↑ a b What is actually doing ...: Paula Jones. On: stern.de , September 19, 2002. (Interview)
  3. ↑ a b Melinda Henneberger: TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: THE ACCUSER; The World of Paula Jones: A Lonely Place Amid Clamor. In: New York Times . March 12, 1998.
  4. ^ A b Peter B. Levy: Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 0-313-31294-X , pp. 207ff.
  5. ↑ a b c Paula Jones. In: NNDB .
  6. ^ On the 10th anniversary of Bill Clinton's impeachment trial in the Senate, TIME catches up with the main figures in the scandal
  7. ↑ Jay Branegan: Clinton's Tormentor Finally Settles. In: Time . November 23, 1998.
  8. ^ Paula Jones to Get $ 200,000 of Settlement - Baltimore Sun , 1999
  9. ↑ a b Annette Langer : Two girls chatting with each other. on: Spiegel Online . dated June 12, 2008.
  10. ^ Naked in the "penthouse". on: Spiegel Online . October 8, 2000.
  11. ↑ genniferandpaula.com ( Memento from June 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Paula Corbin (full name); Corbin, Paula Rosalee (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US press officer and advisor to Bill Clinton
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lonoke