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Woman denies affair with Kerry
Polier's parents now vow to vote for senator they called 'sleazeball'
Posted: February 16, 2004
3:00 p.m. Eastern
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The woman with whom Sen. John Kerry is alleged to have had an affair broke four days of silence today, saying the rumors are false.

In a statement released to the Associated Press, Alex Polier said, "I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false."


Alex Polier (photo: London Telegraph)

In another statement, released by her parents, Terry and Donna Polier of Malvern, Pa., the Poliers portray a starkly different attitude from earlier reports in which they called Kerry a "sleazeball."

Mr. Polier told the London Sun last week: "He's not the sort of guy I would choose to be with my daughter."

Not referring to the Sun quotes, today's statement struck an entirely different tone.

"We love and support [Alex] 100 percent and these unfounded rumors are hurtful to our entire family," the statement said. "We appreciate the way Senator Kerry has handled the situation and intend on voting for him for president of the United States."

In her statement, Polier denies ever being one of Kerry's interns, asking that the media respect her privacy. A former AP reporter, the 27-year-old Polier is staying in Kenya with the parents of her fiancé, Yaron Schwartzman, an Israeli.

On Friday, Kerry told reporters: "I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue. And that's the last time I intend" to respond to questions about it. His campaign confirmed today he would no longer address the issue, AP reports.

Regarding her silence until now, Polier said, "Because these stories were false, I assumed the media would ignore them. It seems that efforts to peddle these lies continue, so I feel compelled to address them."

The Sun also reported Polier has recorded a "bombshell tell-all interview" with an unnamed American TV network about her alleged affair with the presidential candidate.

According to the report, a source at the network stated, "She wants to tell her story. She has talked at length about her relationship with Kerry. But no one is believing her."

AP reports Polier graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in 1999. She received her master's in journalism from Columbia in 2003.
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Kerry lover holed up in city house
East African Standard, Kenya - 5 minutes ago
... The gate to the house where twenty four-year old Alexandra Polier, who allegedly
had a ... origin and a director of H and Young Company who is the father to Alex's ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004


Kerry lover holed up in city house
By Nixon Ng’ang’a

The woman who could end Senator John Kerry’s chances of becoming president of the United States remained holed up in a Lavington house in Nairobi amid claims that she had confessed her affair to a US TV station.

The gate to the house where twenty four-year old Alexandra Polier, who allegedly had a two-year affair with the Senator favoured to clinch the Democratic Party nomination stays, was closed yesterday.

Local and international journalists camped at the gate for hours but were denied access to house no 909 on James Gichuru Road, next to the Spring Garden Chinese Restaurant.

A guard at the gate said he had firm instructions not to open the gate to journalists " or any strange people."

Two cars, a Range Rover and white Toyota , stood next to a solitary basketball rim in the compound tucked under a canopy of giant blue gums and fenced in by a 12-feet stone wall.

The house belongs to Mr Joseph Scwartzman, a wealthy businessman of Jewish origin and a director of H and Young Company who is the father to Alex's fiancee, Yaron.

Neighbours described Alex, a former intern in the House of Parliament in London and a journalist with the Associated Press, as "an extremely good-looking but aloof slim lady with long hair."

"I have seen her a couple of times driving with the young Scwartzman, " said a guard who did not want to be named. "They rarely socialise with their immediate neighbours but they are normally seen driving out on weekends."

Neighbours claimed to have been seeing Alex and her boyfriend from the beginning of this year.

The claim seems to reinforce US-sourced accounts that Alex "ran" to Kenya last December on prompting from Kerry ostensibly to put a distance between her and investigators probing his past sex life.

But at Film Studios, where Yaron was reported to be working, the managing director, Mr Charles Simpson denied any knowledge of the man.

Said Simpson: "I would not want to be so categorical that he has never been here... we continuously give short-time jobs to several people. But again, we are a close-knit community. If he ever worked here, we would know him."

At H and Young Company on Funzi Road in Nairobi’s Industrial Area, journalists were restricted to talking through the intercom to a man who curtly said the senior Schwartzman never worked from the premises.

Yesterday, US newspapers reported that the brunette described as having "the perkiness of a cheerleader and the ambition of a Hollywood starlet" had given a kiss-and-tell story to a TV station in December.

The station has however been reluctant to air the story apparently because it was not credible.

The TV executive was quoted as saying: "She wants to tell her story. She is claiming this is a two-year affair. The problem is that no one is believing her."

Kerry, 60, who is twice-married is said to have asked Alex to join his campaign team but she declined.

He has dismissed the allegations first floated by private web page owner Matt Drudge as a smear campaign orchestrated by his Republican opponents and vowed to fight on.

"I promise you that when the Republican smear machine trots out the same old attacks in this election, this is one Democrat who will fight back. I've fought for my country my entire life, and I'm not about to back down now, he said."

If proved, the sex scandal could put paid to the Massachusetts senator's dream to replace incumbent George Bush in the November elections.

Family "correctness" and moral probity play a crucial role in US presidential elections. Bill Clinton's indiscretion with White House intern Monica Lewinsky is believed to have cost last election's Democratic candidate Al Gore—Clinton's Vice President- the presidency.

Currently, Kerry is leading Bush with nearly ten percent in opinion polls but the Republicans will likely pick on his sex scandal hoping to roll back his advantage.