MICHAEL Wolff, the writer who’s been everywhere lately hawking his latest book, went into hiding last week – and failed to return numerous e-mails and phone calls from Page Six – after a story that accused him of having an affair with a hot blonde intern hit the Internet.
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Cityfile.com reports Wolff, 55, was introduced to Victoria Floethe, 28, in 2006 as someone who could help her career. She was soon working as an intern at Vanity Fair, where Wolff is a columnist. She was later hired as a staffer at Newser.com, the Web site Wolff co-founded.
A study of Wolff’s most recent musings in Vanity Fair and Floethe’s writing on Slate.com reveals they were both in Monte Carlo earlier this winter.
Noting that Wolff likes to pontificate about morals and ethics, Cityfile.com said, “It’s always a bit difficult to take an ethics lesson from a married man who carried on an affair with a woman nearly three decades his junior.”
We wanted to ask Wolff’s wife, Alison Anthoine, a lawyer and principal of Quantum Media, what she knew about her husband’s relationship with a woman just slightly older than their daughter, Elizabeth, 25, but Anthoine also failed to respond to calls and e-mails.
Floethe, who told Cityfile.com she was “great friends” with Wolff, denied any affair to the Web site, as did Wolff. But Melik Kaylan, the journalist who introduced Floethe to Wolff, would neither confirm nor deny the allegation. Reached in Beirut, Kaylan told Page Six: “I refuse to have anything to do with it.”
Wolff is having a bad month. Though he was paid a $1 million advance for “The Man Who Owns the News,” the biography of Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns The Post, has sold just 20,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.