Nov 13, 1998 · Conclusion of case On November 13, 1998, Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000, the entire amount of her claim, sans apology, in exchange for …
Sep 22, 2021 · In the end, Jones settled the case with Clinton on November 13, 1998, receiving $850,000 and no apology. The Washington Post reports Clinton's lawyer Robert S. Bennett as stating the $850,000...
Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin; September 17, 1966) is an American civil servant.A former Arkansas state employee, Jones sued U.S. President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment.The Paula Jones case provided the impetus for Independent Counsel Ken Starr to broaden his ongoing investigation into Clinton's pre-presidency financial dealings with the …
Nov 14, 1998 · President Clinton reached an out-of-court settlement with Paula Jones yesterday, agreeing to pay her $850,000 to drop the sexual harassment …
Nov 23, 2021 · The President eventually settled for $850,000 but didn’t apologize or admit to Jones’ allegations of sexual harassment. Paula Jones works as a real estate agent in Arkansas, where she settled with her husband, Steven Mark McFadden Harry Hamburg/Getty Images Paula ended up with a fraction of the $850,000 paid by Bill Clinton to settle the case.
Jones filed a sexual harassment suit against Clinton on May 6, 1994, two days before the expiration of the three-year statute of limitations, and sought $750,000 in damages.
She ordered Clinton to pay $1,202 to the court and an additional $90,000 to Jones's lawyers for expenses incurred, far less than the $496,000 that the lawyers originally requested.
The case went through the courts, eventually reaching the Supreme Court. On May 27, 1997 , the Court unanimously ruled against Clinton, and allowed the lawsuit to proceed. Clinton dismissed Jones' story and agreed to move on with the lawsuit.
On April 2, 1998, before the case could reach trial, Judge Wright granted Clinton's motion for dismissal, ruling that Jones could not show that she had suffered any damages. Jones soon appealed the dismissal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Jones's suit was dismissed as lacking legal merit prior to Clinton's impeachment and the exposure of the Lewinsky affair. But in August 1998 Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky, and compelling evidence that he had lied about it under oath in the Jones suit, was brought to light.
John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, which financed her lawsuit, called the deal "justice for Paula" and said it would draw attention to "the importance of protecting powerless women from workplace harassment and the role of the rule of law in our highest offices.".
Paula Jones in October. (AP File) President Clinton reached an out-of-court settlement with Paula Jones yesterday, agreeing to pay her $850,000 to drop the sexual harassment lawsuit that led to the worst political crisis of his career and only the third presidential impeachment inquiry in American history.
Just hours before the settlement was inked yesterday, Starr sent new evidence to the House Judiciary Committee stemming from a witness in the Jones case, Kathleen E. Willey, who also accused Clinton of an unwelcome sexual advance.
The trustees might also have to deal with Larry Klayman, an attorney and longtime Clinton foe who has repeatedly tried to block insurance coverage of Clinton's expenses in the Jones case and has threatened to challenge use of defense fund money for any settlement. Jones, too, must figure out money matters.
Yesterday afternoon the agreement was signed by Bennett, McMillan, Jones lawyer Donovan Campbell Jr. and Bill W. Bristow, the lawyer for co-defendant Danny Ferguson, the state trooper who escorted Jones to meet with Clinton.
The Jones camp, which has struggled with bitter internal divisions in recent weeks, has yet to determine how it will divide the money among the many lawyers who have staked a claim on it. Although lawyers involved believe Jones will get a decent share of the settlement, it remains to be determined how much.
A double standard was at play in the FBI's raid of the office of Donald Trump's lawyer but not Bill Clinton's.
On 6 May 1994, Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton just days before the statute of limitations would have expired.
Porn actress Daniels (the stage name of Stephanie Clifford) said she first met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada in July 2006. The two engaged in sex in Trump’s hotel room, she claimed, and continued an “intimate relationship” into the following year.
All in all, events proved the FBI had good reason to raid Cohen’s office, as they gathered evidence of multiple federal crimes (beyond just campaign finance violations) to which Cohen pleaded guilty.
A conservative legal organization said it would sue to prevent Mr. Clinton from using that fund to pay the settlement.
Clinton Administration officials said a check for $850,000, the amount agreed to in November to settle the case, was being sent by overnight mail to Ms. Jones and her lawyers.
A blind trust that is in Mr. Clinton's name was reported in financial disclosure forms last year to have less than $100,000 in assets. A White House official said that although the trusts were in separate names, they were, in effect, joint accounts.
Lewinsky before a grand jury and obstructed justice by trying to conceal that relationship. The lawsuit that led to the impeachment drama was filed by Ms. Jones in 1994.
Jones's lawsuit last April 1, Chubb initially said it would not pay for the remaining sexual harassment counts, but its officials changed their minds after negotiations with Mr. Bennett. Advertisement.
The Post, citing unidentified sources, said the money came from an anonymous donor. Jones, 31, accused Clinton of sexual harassment in her lawsuit, which was dismissed April 1. A federal appeals court has yet to take up Jones' bid to get the lawsuit reinstated.
It's unclear who paid for the $9,000 nose job. Jones, a former Arkansas secretary, is a housewife living in Long Beach, Calif., and her husband, Stephen, recently lost his job as an airline ticket agent. The Post, citing unidentified sources, said the money came from an anonymous donor. Jones, 31, accused Clinton of sexual harassment in her ...
After getting her teeth fixed, wardrobe upgraded and hair straightened, the woman who sued President Clinton decided to get her nose done.The New York Post and Daily News said Jones was seen leaving a New York plastic surgeon's office Saturday morning with her nose heavily bandaged; it should take about three weeks to heal.
Paula Jones’s story was, and is, catnip for conservatives: She has consistently claimed that in 1991, when she was a 24-year-old state employee making $6.35 an hour, Bill Clinton, then Arkansas’s governor, made several unwanted sexual advances and exposed himself to her in a Little Rock hotel room.
Jones declined an interview with The Daily Beast. Her husband, with whom she lives in Arkansas, Steven McFadden, told me that Jones is cautious these days when it comes to the media, but in a brief telephone call, praised his wife for weathering more than most could imagine. “Paula’s definitely a strong lady.
Anti-abortion group Operation Rescue’s leader Patrick Mahoney created a legal defense fund for Jones, because he said, “sexual harassment is wrong.” (Mahoney has not formally endorsed a candidate in 2016, but on Twitter, called Trump’s behavior toward women during the campaign, “troubling and shameful.”.
While other accounts downplay Coulter’s actual contributions, Bob Guccione Jr., the eldest son to Penthouse magazine’s publisher , and one-time boyfriend to Coulter in the ’90s, said the blonde political commentator was clear about her role then, and what she thought of Jones. “ [Coulter] boasted about surreptitiously writing Jones’s legal complaint ...
Through dozens of anecdotes—provided by Jones’s brother-in-law, former boyfriends, neighbors, even a manager at the shoe store where she once worked—writer Rudy Maxa crafted a profile of Jones as a “small-town vamp.”.
In 1997, Jones was being represented by Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata —two moderate Republicans who suggested that Jones accept a settlement offer of $700,000. For her part, Jones later said, “Oh, I instructed them many times to try and get the case settled…”.
These elves included George Conway —husband to Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s third and current campaign manager who has defended Trump’s trotting out of Jones and the other women, telling Anderson Cooper, “I believe that voters should know who Hillary Clinton is.”. George Conway wrote the Supreme Court brief that allowed Jones’s case to continue ...