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Why is Donna Rice an Infamous Hottie?
From Wikipedia.com: Donna Rice Hughes (born January 7 , 1958 ) was a figure in the 1987 sex scandal that ended the 1988 presidential campaign of Gary Hart . Since the mid-1990s , she has worked as an anti-pornography activist. Soon after meeting Rice, Hart announced his candidacy for President of the United States . Having put up a surprisingly strong fight in 1984 against the eventual nominee, former Vice President Walter Mondale , he was perceived as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 1988 . But rumors quickly began circulating about Hart's infidelity to his wife, leading the candidate to challenge the media to follow him around and saying that anybody who did so would "be very bored." Shortly thereafter, two reporters for the Miami Herald observed Rice coming out of Hart's Washington, DC townhouse and published the story. Hart contended that the reporters had no way of knowing when Rice arrived or what she was doing there, but his popularity still took a major hit, and polls immediately found him 10 points behind Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis . Two days after the story broke, the Herald obtained photographs of Rice sitting in Hart's lap in Bimini aboard a motor yacht called Monkey Business . The National Enquirer published the photographs, and a week later, Hart dropped out of the race. As a result of the scandal, Rice lost her job as a marketing representative for a pharmaceutical company in South Florida. However other offers flowed in; she refused most, including a Playboy appearance, but worked as a national spokesmodel for No Excuses jeans until Hart's unsuccessful re-entry into the presidential race in December 1987. |
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