Paula Corbin Jones was born on Paula Rosalee Corbin; September 17,1966 and is an American civil servant.
25 Facts About Paula Jones
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The Paula Jones case provided the impetus for Independent Counsel Ken Starr to broaden his ongoing investigation into Clinton's pre-presidency financial dealings with the Whitewater Land Company, and resulted in Clinton's impeachment in the House of Representatives and subsequent acquittal by the Senate on February 12,1999.
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The Paula Jones lawsuit led to a landmark legal precedent by the US Supreme Court which ruled that a sitting US president is not exempt from civil litigation for acts committed outside of public office.
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Paula Jones's suit was dismissed as lacking legal merit prior to Clinton's impeachment and the exposure of the Lewinsky affair.
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At that point Paula Jones appealed the ruling, and her appeal gained traction following Clinton's admission to having an affair with Lewinsky in August 1998.
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Paula Jones was the daughter of a minister in the Church of the Nazarene and raised within that congregation.
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Paula Jones graduated from a high school in Carlisle, Arkansas, in 1984.
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Paula Jones briefly attended a secretarial school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Paula Jones worked a number of jobs before joining the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission in March 1991.
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Paula Jones alleged she was asked by an Arkansas State Police Trooper to report to Arkansas Governor Clinton's hotel room in the Excelsior Hotel, where Clinton propositioned and exposed himself to her.
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Paula Jones claimed she kept quiet about the incident until 1994, when a David Brock story in The American Spectator magazine printed an account.
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Paula Jones appealed the dismissal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, where, at oral argument, two of the three judges on the panel appeared sympathetic to her arguments.
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Paula Jones had reportedly told her lawyers she wanted an apology from Clinton, in addition to a settlement.
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Paula Jones was then represented by the Rutherford Institute, a conservative legal organization, and by a Dallas law firm.
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In December 1997, Paula Jones reduced the damages sought in her suit against Clinton to $525,000 and agreed to remove Clinton's co-defendant and former bodyguard, Danny Ferguson, from the suit.
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Paula Jones soon appealed the dismissal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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In March 1999, Judge Wright ruled that Paula Jones would get only $200,000 from the settlement and that the rest of the money would pay for her legal expenses.
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Paula Jones appeared in the news media to show the results of a makeover and rhinoplasty paid for by a donor.
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Paula Jones ordered Clinton to pay $1,202 to the court and an additional $90,000 to Jones's lawyers for expenses incurred, far less than the $496,000 that the lawyers originally requested.
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Paula Jones's fine was paid from a fund raised for his legal expenses.
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In December 1994, federal judge Peter K Leisure ordered Penthouse magazine not to distribute semi-nude photographs of Jones that had been taken by her ex-boyfriend Mike Turner.
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Paula Jones later posed for photos illustrating an article, "The Perils of Paula Jones", in the December 2000 issue, citing the pressures of a large tax bill and two young sons to support.
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In February 2016, Paula Jones endorsed Donald Trump for the 2016 United States presidential election.
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In October 2016, Paula Jones joined Trump for a press conference before the second 2016 Presidential Debate to air grievances against Hillary and Bill Clinton.
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Paula Jones was portrayed by Annaleigh Ashford in the third season of the series American Crime Story.