Juanita Broaddrick

Juanita Broaddrick
Born
Juanita Smith

(1942-12-13) December 13, 1942 (age 81)
OccupationNursing home administrator
Known forRape allegation against Bill Clinton in 1978
Political partyRepublican[1][2]
Spouse(s)Gary Hickey (divorced 1979)
David Broaddrick
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(m. 1981; div. 2004)​
Children1

Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator. She alleged that she was raped by U.S. President Bill Clinton on April 25, 1978, when he was the Attorney General of Arkansas. Clinton declined to comment on the issue.

Rumors had circulated about such an event for years and it had been recorded in a letter prepared by a Republican rival of Clinton's around 1991, but Broaddrick refused to speak to news media until 1999. In a sworn statement in 1997 with the placeholder name "Jane Doe #5",[3] Broaddrick filed an affidavit with Paula Jones's lawyers stating there were unfounded rumors and stories circulating "that Mr. Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the late seventies. ... These allegations are untrue".[4] She then recanted that statement to investigators of potential misconduct by Clinton led by Kenneth Starr, while insisting at the time that Clinton had not pressured or bribed her in any way. Starr declined to further investigate the issue, and mentioned it only in a footnote of his final report.

Speculation continued that Broaddrick had more to say on the matter, and in an interview with Dateline NBC that aired on February 24, 1999, Broaddrick discussed the matter in public for the first time, this time saying that Clinton had raped her,[5] which a lawyer for Clinton denied to be true.[6]

Broaddrick's claims returned to public attention in relation to the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the 2017 Me Too movement. She wrote a memoir repeating the allegation in 2018.

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  3. ^ Romano, Lois; Baker, Peter (February 20, 1999). "Another Clinton Accuser Goes Public". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ Broaddrick, Juanita (January 2, 1998). "Affidavit From Jane Doe #5". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ Dateline NBC: February 24, 1999. The Washington Post published a story about the interview on February 25, 1999.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference deny was invoked but never defined (see the help page).