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Dan Gross today picks up the original report from longtime gossip columnist Janet Charlton’s website — the Internet is where old-time gossips go to pasture! — and runs with it. Charlton’s original report said a call girl had a cocaine overdose at a fundraiser in California for Lynn Swann.
It was blind, though, and that’s where Gross comes in. He reveals the owner of the house where the fundraiser took place was none other than Bradford M. Freeman! Wait, who? Who’s this guy other than another rich Republican? Wasn’t there a Harry Hairston sighting that could have led off the column instead?
Oh, right, the hooker who overdosed on cocaine with Lynn Swann in attendance. Oh, right, that’s it. Anyway, Gross calls up all the right parties and gets the standard (I guess) denials:
On Friday, Freeman told Lucey that his date was not a call girl and that she had a seizure, but it had not been drug-induced.
“That is the most irresponsible thing I’ve heard in my whole life,” he said. “She had a low sodium count and had a seizure.”
Charlton wrote that during the party, at Freeman’s home in the posh Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, his date had been licking his ear at the table, and later had ended up underneath the table “kicking and screaming incoherently having some sort of convulsive drug induced fit.” 911 was called, the Web site said, and by the time paramedics arrived, the troubled woman, who was bruised and foaming at the mouth, had displayed her panty-less ballot box for her dinner companions.
Freeman said he “wasn’t searching for them,” when Lucey asked if his date had worn underwear.
“We have had some very successful fundraising trips to California, but we don’t comment on anything that happens at fund-raisers - in-state or out,” Melissa Walters, a spokeswoman for the Swann campaign told the People Paper’s Bob Warner on Friday.
Y’know what I find funny? Freeman sounds less angry than Joe Banner.
Dan Gross | GOP’er: No drugged hooker [Daily News]
STRUMPET RUNS AMOK [Janet Charlton's Hollywood]
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he’s got my vote ;/
the “ballot box” reference brings a whole new meaning to “getting out the vote.”
For the record, the People Paper’s Catherine Lucey and Bob Warner did most of the reporting on this item. You can give me all the grief, but not all the credit please.