Ben Stein, the economist, former speechwriter and star of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” has denied being involved in a “sexting scandal” after he penned a bizarre essay about attractive women who dazzled him on a speaking tour.
The former New York Times columnist most famous for saying “Bueller . . . Bueller” wrote a creepy column about a series of beautiful women he wanted to sleep with, but who ended up asking him for money. And yes, he’s still wed to his wife of 45 years, entertainment lawyer Alexandra Denman, whom he has married twice.
He wrote in the June issue of American Spectator that he met an “absolute knockout young Eurasian woman” who turned out to be a former hooker, “three adorable coeds” and a “breathtakingly beautiful middle-aged woman . . . with a figure that is close to unbelievable,” whom he considered flying to his hometown LA until she insisted on staying at the pricey Beverly Wilshire.
He admitted in the piece,“My main obsessions in my life are my wife, my dog, my son and his family, my secret GF from Mississippi, and any beautiful girl I meet. I am like a teenager. I get mad crushes.”
In early July, the Enquirer carried a “sexting scandal” story involving Stein, 69, a former speechwriter to presidents Nixon and Ford, which claimed, “He’s texted [the middle-aged woman], e-mailed her and even sent flowers.”
But following the publication of the Enquirer piece, Stein insisted,“I didn’t have sex with her!” He added, “At my age, I don’t even know if that’s possible.” He also told Business Insider that his wife is fine with his flirtations and the “sexting” story emerged because he made “the unfortunate mistake of meeting a very vengeful human being who’s very angry that she did not get to stay at the Beverly Wilshire.”
Stein, who didn’t return our calls, inexplicably ended his essay by ranting about the only two people it appears he doesn’t want to sleep with — President Obama and Hillary Clinton, adding, “By the time Hillary takes over, we will have nothing left in the way of power and prestige.”