Gennifer Flowers, the first of Bill Clinton’s “bimbo eruptions,” is threatening legal action to prevent the sale of documents that question the authenticity of the audio tapes of her phone conversations with the former president.
Paul Barresi, a porn actor-turned-private detective, inherited the documents from his friend Jim Mitteager, a freelance reporter. Mitteager died of cancer in 1997.
The tapes were first heard in 1992 when Clinton was first running for president and denying his affair with Flowers. The blond singer held a press conference and played some snippets.
Barresi was a wingman at the time for Anthony Pellicano, the wire-tapping private eye who allegedly did damage control for the Clintons and many Hollywood stars.
Clinton is heard on the tapes instructing Flowers to keep denying their affair. The future president also says, “I might lose the nomination to Bob Kerrey because he’s, um . . . got all the Gary Hart/Hollywood money and because he’s single, looks like a movie star, won the Medal of Honor and, since he’s single, nobody cares if he’s screwing [laughs].”
Barresi has reports that were prepared in 1994 by audio experts who verified that it was Clinton’s voice in the tapes, but found the audio had been edited. Barresi has offered to sell the reports to the reality show “Pawn Stars” for $15,500.
“These analyses cut to the core of presidential womanizing and infidelity,” Barresi told me.
But Flowers, after being contacted by Barresi, wrote him, “The tapes were made on a cheap $20 tape recorder and not one of them were ever tampered with in any way whatsoever. I am flattered that anyone would think that I am smart enough to do so!”
Flowers, 63, sold copies of the “complete and unedited” tapes for $75 through Penthouse, for which she posed nude at the height of the scandal.
In her last message to Barresi, she wrote, “I will [sue] if need be without hesitation.”
Flowers told me: “The tapes were excerpted by the Star Magazine so that the media could hear a variety of full portions of conversations, but the content was not manipulated or changed. Bill has been the proven liar and manipulator, not me.”