[Shadow_Group] Fw: Former California Congressman Gary Condit

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New York Post Online.

November 8, 2004 -- Former California Congressman Gary Condit is fighting
mightily to keep his sexual secrets and personal wealth from being aired
in his defamation suit against crime author Dominick Dunne, according to
explosive new court records obtained by The Post. 
Condit is trying to clear his name over the mysterious death of
Washington, D.C., intern Chandra Levy. 

But the legal war pitting Condit against Dunne, the 79-year-old Vanity
Fair writer, has gone nuclear. 

Condit, while wanting to keeping a lid on his sex life with Levy and
others, wants to publicly air a potentially embarrassing videotape Dunne
being grilled by his lawyer, Lin Wood. 

Wanting the right to dig up Condit's sexual escapades and finances, Dunne
wants his video deposition sealed. 

"You are just making unnecessary aggravation," Judge Peter Leisure told
both sides, according to a transcript of the Nov. 4 pretrial hearing in
Manhattan federal court. 

Leisure hinted he's likely to rule to allow Dunne's lawyer to ask Condit
about his sex life and finances, albeit with limitations. 

But he's also likely to allow the Dunne tape to be made public. 

Condit's lawyer argued that his sex life is irrelevant to the case. 

Wood suspected Dunne's lawyers would ask his client: "Did you have sexual
intercourse with Chandra Levy? . . . Joleen McKay? . . . Anne Marie
Smith? How often do you have sexual intercourse with your wife? Did you
have sexual relations with a male Caribbean prostitute? Are you
bisexual?" 

  

McKay and Smith have been identified as Condit's mistresses. 

Dunne lawyer Paul LiCalsi shot back: "The point here is that the only
reason Mr. Condit was involved so extensively in the investigation into
the disappearance of Ms. Levy was because he had an affair with her and
he had reason to fear its exposure. Obviously, we should be entitled to
ask that." 

At issue in the case are comments Dunne made during a Dec. 20, 2001,
interview on Westwood One radio's "Laura Ingraham Show" and thereafter.
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