The Clinton Impeachment, Where Are They Now

Then She's the one who commenced it all. No, she didn't proposition anyone or commit adultery as a political figure, but she directed the 1st finger of blame at the seated President Bill Clinton. With a formal lawsuit in May of 1994, Paula Jones charged the President of making a sexual advance toward her, which she rebuffed, while he was governor of Arkansas and she was a clerical worker in his government. Although Gennifer Flowers had come forward during the 1992 Presidential cause to allege a years-long sexual affair with him while he was governor, Jones' suit was the one that hauled out the President's demons. Clinton undertook to postpone the trial until after he was out of office, but history would not be so kind. Because the Jones case preceded the impeachment trials and included questions into the Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct as President, much of the testimony and evidence became a feeder to Ken Starr's impeachment case against the President. In 1998, Clinton corresponded to settle and pay $700 ,000, but Jones wanted an apology. Eventually she consented an $850,000 settlement, allowing the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal to take center stage.

Now Still living in Arkansas, Jones remarried in 2001, getting Paula Jones McFadden. She currently works as a real estate agent. After legal fees she only saw about $150,000 of the colony cash, so in 2000 she posed nude for Penthouse magazine to "secure" a future for her children. In 2002, she lost a Celebrity Boxing match to Tonya Harding, and in the first place this year she attempted to sell audio recordings of her discussions with Gennifer Flowers about their finds with Clinton over the Internet for $1.99 each. Nowadays, Jones tells TIME, she doesn't "want to make a career out of what encountered with the scandal." Still, she'll be playing herself in a small budget comedy, The Blue Dress, about the Clinton Lewinsky occasion, coming out this fall. While Jones calls the recordings with Flowers "a mistake," she says the other consequences were just for fun. "I mean, why not?" she says. "It wasn't pain me. It wasn't hurting my family. It wasn't something I was ashamed of."

Jones does have 1 regret about her function in the Clinton Impeachment saga, however. She claims she was expended as a political pawn by conservatives out to get Clinton, charging that they pressured her to reject the 1st settlement offer. "I hate the fact that people believed it was political," Jones tells TIME. "It was their agenda to make it [seem] like I was attempting to bring down the President. They let political views bog their mind of what really happened."