Tabloid's Deal With Woman Shields Governor

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold12aug12,0,6815686.story?coll=la-home-headlines

SACRAMENTO — Days after Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the race for governor and girded for questions about his past, a tabloid publisher wooing him for a business deal promised to pay a woman $20,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement about an alleged affair with the candidate.

American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, signed a friend of the woman to a similar contract about the alleged relationship for $1,000.

American Media's contract with Gigi Goyette of Malibu is dated Aug. 8, 2003, two days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy on a late-night talk show. Under the agreement, Goyette must disclose to no one but American Media any information about her "interactions" with Schwarzenegger.

American Media never solicited further information from Goyette or her friend, Judy Mora, also of Malibu, both women said. The Enquirer had published a cover story two years earlier describing an alleged seven-year sexual relationship between Goyette and Schwarzenegger during his marriage to Maria Shriver, California's first lady.

On Aug. 14, 2003, as candidate Schwarzenegger was negotiating a consulting deal with American Media, the company signed its contract with Mora, who said she received $1,000 cash in return. Goyette declined to say whether she received the $20,000 promised in her contract.

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Flem.

There is a strong argument to be made that the contract does not serve a "legal purpose" -- that its only purpose is to impede an investigation. Or, alternately, that it only applies to civil activities, not legal obligations.

Arnold is running out of time. He'd better "come back to Jesus" soon and come clean.

--p!

Christine Craft has talked of this. It would be good if this came out, from the woman herself, when they try to launch a counter-offensive.

Inclues info from a while back, but interesting



British Press Reports Schwarzenegger’s Groping And Affair With Former Little House On The Prairie Actress; When Will U.S. Media Do So?

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by Jackson Thoreau*
ARNOLD'S MISTRESS

HIS SHOCKING 7-YEAR AFFAIR

For seven years, Arnold Schwarzenegger hid a mistress from his loving wife Maria Shriver -- and hours after learning The ENQUIRER discovered his sordid secret, "The Terminator" terminated his run for governor of California. The brazen actor began his affair with former child actress Gigi Goyette when she was only 16 -- and even made love to her in the very same hotel where he was staying with "Dateline" star Maria. A bombshell ENQUIRER investigation -- featured in our issue that hits the stands Friday -- has exposed the whole shocking story, including how the father of four hid the trysts from his family. Several months ago the muscleman-turned-actor emerged as a leading Republican contender for governor of California -- but earlier this week, after we called his representative for comment, the star made a surprise announcement that he won't enter politics until his youngsters, ages 3 to 11, are older.

Published on: April 26, 2001

Source: National Enquirer Online

August 19, 2003 - Say what you want about the British media’s fascination with sexual scandals, but at least the press there is consistent, giving fairly equal coverage to the extramarital affairs by both Republicans and Democrats. Meanwhile, the U.S. media continues to ignore reports of California Gov. Wannabe and Groper Arnold Schwarzenegger’s extramarital affairs and groping sessions. That gives more credence to the notion that the American media reports on such aspects of a politician’s character mostly if they involve Democrats. If Schwarzenegger was a Democrat running for office and not a Republican with the blessing of the White House, CNN and Fox and MSNBC and others would be doing 24-hour coverage on his extracurricular sexual activities. The London Evening Standard laid out Schwarzenegger’s history of groping and sexual harassment against women nicely on Monday . The Standard was one of many newspapers I contacted and sent information after I wrote some columns on that same subject for various Internet sites about a week ago. Has anyone seen any other similar stories in U.S. newspapers? I have not.



The Standard’s story is by Wendy Leigh, author of Arnold: An Unauthorised Biography. It’s important to note that TV cameras actually recorded Robot Man putting his hand on Terminator 3 co-star Kristanna Loken’s butt while they waved to the crowds from a balcony with Maria close by them a mere few weeks ago. Not even Packwood would be that bold. And Republicans and some Democrats still think this “family man” is fit to be governor of California? Leigh says that when Robot Man came to London in 2000, his behavior led insiders to label him “the octopus.” When TV interviewer Anna Richardson interviewed Schwarzenegger about his recent movie, he reportedly asked her pointblank if her breasts were real. “He then pulled her onto his knee, circled her nipple with his finger, squeezed it and announced: ‘Yeah, they are real,’” Leigh reported.



And when Denise Van Outen interviewed him, Robot Man “slapped her bottom, then brushed his arm against her breast. Afterwards, he smirked: ‘It was a handful. I never know if my wife’s watching. I’ll tell her it was a stuntman,’” Leigh reported. There was another interesting bit about Schwarzenegger’s alleged affair with Gigi Goyette, who Leigh says was a former Little House on the Prairie actress . In 2001, the National Enquirer reported on this affair, naming Goyette. That report said the couple met when she was 16 and he was 28 and unmarried, and they had sex. That would be a crime, I believe, to have sex with an under-aged girl, even in California. They separated, only to meet again in 1989 and continue the affair for some seven years. Schwarzenegger and his handlers have denied such affairs and even the on-camera gropings, which are recorded for all to see. To them, the gropings are just friendly banter.


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If we knew something about what Schwarzenegger might do as California governor, I might back off. If Schwarzenegger would – or could – tell us his vision for the state or speak about exactly how he will solve California’s earthquake-sized budget woes, I might stop writing right here. If Bush racketeer Rove hadn’t cynically and secretly engineered this recall after their guy, Richard Riordan, lost in 2002, I might keep my nose in Texas. You really think arch-conservative

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(So, when do you folks in California get to set him packing anyway?)

Firm paid Schwarzenegger accuser for silence-report

Fri Aug 12, 2005 08:30 PM ET

By Adam Tanner

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The publisher of the "National Enquirer" tabloid paid a woman who had once described an extramarital affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger $20,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement about their relationship, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday. A friend of the woman, named by the newspaper as Gigi Goyette, 46, told Reuters on Friday she also was paid $1,000 by the tabloid to keep confidential what she knew, in reported deals that came just days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy for California governor in 2003.

"I kind of felt that they just wanted to not hear more about Arnold and his women or his flirtations," the friend, Judy Mora, said. At the time of the confidentiality agreement, American Media Inc., owner of the National Enquirer, was negotiating to make Schwarzenegger executive editor of two fitness magazines that had helped make him the world's most famous bodybuilder, according to the Los Angeles Times.

No information has come to light suggesting that Schwarzenegger knew American Media paid the two women. The governor's press office declined to comment on Friday, but referred to a spokesman's remarks to the Los Angeles Times saying he believed the governor did not know about the reported deals.

American Media spokesman Stuart Zakim declined to comment on the report. Goyette did not return a call for comment. The report of the American Media deal with the women comes at a time the Republican governor has struggled to regain his political footing with his poll ratings at new lows. The story risks distracting voter attention from a special election that Schwarzenegger has called for November and provided new ammunition for his political opponents.

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office.

You see, arnold could not help himself after he learned Clinton got a hummer in the oval office. He realized that fame and power are aphrodisiacs and women could not help themselves but to throw themselves at arnold. He on the other hand was a victim of his own greatness and the affair just happened to come his way and overwhelmed him.

But we can't blame arnold for setting a bad example because we are not sure if he got a hummer or not from Gigi.