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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speculated about becoming his girlfriend, according to Tripp's FBI interview. The same night she called another friend, Harolyn Cardozo, who told Starr's grand jury that Willey said she was going to be the Judith Exner of the Clinton White House, a reference to John Kennedy's mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starr's Last Gasps | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...Reason to see: The Prez's mistress is considerably cuter than M. Lewinsky; the president's name sounds like chewing gum (Wintergreen), which we find inherently funny at some third-grade level; and the script won a Pulitzer and since when did they give out Pulitzers for musicals? Plus, it's ironic. Not funny, but timely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Groovy Train: Drama Queens | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...appealing human being," says Cohen. "People were outraged by the viciousness of the crime and the underlying relationships" -- which involved not only the three-year adulterous affair that Capano had with the victim, Anne Marie Fahey, but the fact that he tried to pin her murder on yet another mistress. Capano, who steadfastly refused to express any remorse, "systematically and contemptuously degraded" everyone involved in his trial, said Judge William Swain Lee as he handed down the sentence. And as a jury in Jasper, Tex., could have told you a few weeks back, nothing cuts across social lines quicker than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capano Death Sentence a New Chapter in Crime and Punishment | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...often waiting in a downtown hotel. Here was someone relentless enough to penetrate the cocoon surrounding the most protected man on earth, someone who offered a postadolescent escape from the demands of his job and marriage. Monica fit the picture he carries around in his head of the perfect mistress: a piece of brain candy compared with the intellectually demanding Hillary, someone instantly available and experienced in juggling the special needs of a married man. With a rechargeable cell phone, no independent life and a willingness to harass Betty Currie endlessly, Monica could be dressed and over to the White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Within the Story | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

Traditionally, a geisha was "an entertainer,above all" according to Golden. Wealthy maleexecutives paid for the company and entertainmentof geisha (who were extensively trained in teaceremony, dance and traditional instruments) atteahouses, and those who were wealthy enough kepta geisha as a mistress and became theirmaster. (The mizurai, or virginity,of one geisha was sold for $850,000.) Although thegeisha's livelihood depended on the generosity andwhims of their patrons, the geisha district ofKyoto, Gion, was a woman's world. When geishasentered a teahouse, they bowed to the other geishafirst and then their male patrons. Economicallythe geisha controlled Gion as well...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, | Title: THE BOOK: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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