How I Became the 'Femme Fatale' of New York Gossip

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Three gossip items later - and one horrid though amusing cartoon (by the guy who equated President Obama with a chimpanzee) portraying me as a 13-year-old girl in bed with an 80-year-old - I asked the question any normally insecure person would in such a situation: 'Am I a sleaze?' And, if so - since I was not involved with Alex Rodriguez (the baseball player and exsqueeze of Madonna), nor a public official, billionaire or financial schemer - when had the public sleaze bar been so dramatically lowered? [...] my undisciplined romantic life can be discussed pretty much in the same breath as Bernie Madoff - at least in adjacent newspaper pages.

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How I Became the 'Femme Fatale' of New York Gossip

Several weeks ago I was awakened by a phone call from a man who, speaking in a loud and excited voice, demanded to know the fine details of my personal life. Was I in a relationship with the Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff - and under what circumstances? Who had introduced us? Who had I seen in the past? Where did I work? How much was I paid? He was, I gathered before I hung up, a man wit...

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