PHILADELPHIA – Myra Belle “Sally” Miller has sued the Philadelphia Daily News in state court, claiming it libeled her in a story about an alleged 1983 affair with Bill Clinton, by stating she had posed nude as a centerfold in Playboy magazine. The headline on the story was, “Clinton Affair Cost Me My Quaker Job.” Miller says she never posed nude for Playboy, and that the Daily News and co-defendant Knight-Ridder did not correct the slur, or corrected it insufficiently, by striking through the offending phrase on the stories posted on Web sites, but not removing them. A CNS search of Web sites today found the words struck through plus corrections in stories that stated Miller sued the Quaker church a year ago, claiming it harassed, shunned and fired her from her PR job because of the alleged affair with Clinton. Selections from the original Knight-Ridder story, as still posted on the Internet, contain these sentences: “She hung up before the reporter could ask if she was the Sally Miller Perdue, Miss Arkansas 1958, who has claimed to have had a three-month affair with Clinton in 1983 … Perdue later appeared as a Playboy centerfold.” Perdue’s alleged affair was not a factor in Clinton’s first election because she did not come forward with it until after he had won the White House. The Boston Globe, which Miller cites in her lawsuit, stated in a correction it ran shortly after it printed the Knight-Ridder story about Miller’s lawsuit against the Quakers, “Miller never posed for Playboy.” Represented by Timothy Kolman & Associates, Miller seeks damages for pain and suffering.
Clinton Sleepee: I Never Posed for Playboy
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