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As Juanita Broaddrick goes public, three other Clinton victims say they don't want to talk about it any more

By Doug Thompson
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue

Three women who earlier confirmed unwanted sexual encounters with Bill Clinton over the last 30 years are now refusing to discuss the matter further and at least one may have been threatened in an effort to keep her quiet.

"I'm sorry I ever talked to you about this. Please don't call again," a teary Carolyn Moffet told Capitol Hill Blue Tuesday night. An acquaintance said the former Miss Moffet had been threatened by an anonymous caller earlier in the day.

Moffet, a former Little Rock legal secretary who said Clinton tried to force her to perform oral sex on him after a political fundraiser in 1978, was the third woman Tuesday to back away from further public discussion of their experiences with Clinton.

In London, Eileen Wellstone, who said Clinton sexually assaulted her while he was a student at Oxford University 30 years ago, changed her phone number and hired a barrister who warned a reporter to "cease and desist all further efforts" to contact his client.

A third woman, Sandra Allen James, who worked as a Democratic fundraiser in 1991 when she said then-Presidential candidate Bill Clinton accosted her in his hotel room and tried to force her into sex, hung up the phone after saying she had received unwanted phone calls from other news organizations.

Although editors at Capitol Hill Blue have received a number of inquiries from other news organizations involving earlier published interviews with the three, the locations and phone numbers were not revealed by anyone connected with the Internet publication. One news source, however, said privately Tuesday that she had gotten Sandra James' phone number from a source close to the White House.

The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment on the report.

At least one phone call to the home of Carolyn Moffet, who is now married and no longer lives in Arkansas, was an anonymous warning to keep quiet.

"Carolyn said she was threatened by a man who said she and her family could be hurt if they said any more," said Constance Harris, a neighbor. "She's real scared."

(Reporters Dan Harris in Washington and Terry Hampton in London contributed to this report.)