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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jun 02, 2015
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• Category : General News
• Description : By Michael E. Miller June 1 at 7:01 AM
  
  Photo: Former president Bill Clinton and Petra Nemcova attend the Happy Hearts Fund Gala with Chopard 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami tribute at Cipriani in June 2014 in New York. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for Happy Hearts Fund)
• Location : New York, NY, United States
• Website : http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/01/petra-nemcova-the-supermodel-caught-up-in-latest-clinton-foundatio

Overview

• The headline seemed to belong to another era, its actors seemingly frozen in time. Bill Clinton still looked presidential. Petra Nemcova still looked like a supermodel. But for the small matter of the half million dollars connecting the two celebrities, it could have been 1999 all over again.
  
  The huge sum linking the two, however, speaks to the transformation they have each made since leaving the limelight.
  
  On Friday, the New York Times reported allegations that Nemcova’s charity, Happy Hearts Fund, donated $500,000 to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation in a quid pro quo transaction for the president to appear at a swanky fundraiser. The article, by investigative reporter Deborah Sontag, quoted an expert calling the arrangement “distasteful.”
  
  “The Clinton Foundation had rejected the Happy Hearts Fund invitation more than once, until there was a thinly veiled solicitation and then the offer of an honorarium,” Happy Hearts’ former executive director, Sue Veres Royal, told the Times.
  
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