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[There's an interesting tidbit in the second item.]
Page Six
New York Post
January 25, 2001
EX'S PARDON IRKS FORD HEIRESS
AT least one person isn't happy that Ed Downe obtained a full
pardon from Bill Clinton - his ex-wife Charlotte Ford.
The auto heiress divorced Downe five years ago, shortly after he
copped a plea to insider trading. Most people assumed she was
dumping the mogul over that disgrace.
But Charlotte says the only reason she asked for a divorce was
his philandering - right under her nose in the Sutton Place
apartment below theirs he used for his office.
"A half-hour after I went to bed, the girl, who is now his wife,
would come over in a wig and sunglasses. She'd leave at 5 a.m.,"
Charlotte told one friend. "He'd paid off all the doormen and
elevator men to keep their mouths shut."
Downe married Mary Baker, the ex-wife of prominent plastic
surgeon Dr. Dan Baker, about three years ago. Charlotte had
introduced the divorcee to her husband. So it's painful for her
now to see Downe rehabilitating his image. "It's like a knife
when my name is associated with his," she told her pal.
Downe was championed in his bid for a pardon by his friend Sen.
Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who often went clubbing with Downe at
Gotham's most glittering nightspots.
"Ed would tell Charlotte they were going out to dinner, and then
wouldn't come back until 2 a.m.," a friend of hers said.
Dodd's press secretary, Gabe Lam, provided PAGE SIX with a copy
of the Dec. 27 letter the senator sent to the ex-president urging
a pardon for Downe.
"Ed made a mistake a number of years ago, for which he has
accepted full responsibility," Dodd wrote. "He pled guilty and
was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Over the years,
Ed has expressed to me, his family and friends his deep remorse
for his actions."
Downe, 71, who started out as a reporter, was a director at Bear
Stearns and Kidde Inc. when he was indicted. He also paid an $11
million fine to the SEC to avoid jail.
"Ed Downe is a good person, who is truly sorry for the hurt he
caused others, not to mention himself," Dodd wrote.
Some of his former friends who were innocently caught up in the
mess, such as Revlon founder Martin Revson and financier Steven
Greenberg, weren't quite as forgiving.
Charlotte isn't the only one who wonders why Downe even wanted a
pardon. "Everyone had forgotten about it," she told a friend.
"Now it stirs it up in everyone's mind."
Money talks
IF anyone launches an investigation into how billionaire tax
cheat Marc Rich got himself a presidential pardon, maybe they
should also look into how the fugitive, who fled to Switzerland
in 1983, was able to sneak in and out of the U.S. 10 years later.
Rich's ex-wife, Denise - who has lived lavishly on Fifth Avenue
while Rich was on the lam - has told people that Rich was able to
visit his daughter Gabrielle in 1996 as she lay dying of leukemia
in a California hospital. "I heard it from her own lips," said
our source. The pertinent question is: Did President Clinton
arrange for Rich to make the visit without fear of arrest?
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CHELSEA: connected
WITH dad unemployed - and her taxpayer-provided cell phone
relinquished? - Chelsea Clinton had to get her own phone
yesterday. A blue van pulled up to the AT&T Wireless store on
West 47th Street at lunch time, and Chelsea emerged in a black
overcoat with two Secret Service agents. Chelsea bought a gray
Nokia 8260 and signed up for the plan that gives her 900 minutes
a month for $99. The politely charming young lady - who is said
to look even better in person than in photos - paid with a credit
card.
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