Editing Elizabeth Gracen (section)

===Affair with Bill Clinton===
According to Gracen, some time in 1983, she had a [[one-night stand]] with future President [[Bill Clinton]] when he was [[Governor of Arkansas]].<ref name="apol">{{cite news |date=April 26, 1998 |title=Beauty queen apologises for tryst |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_EVWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FOsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4302%2C5792170 |access-date=2025-05-15 |work=[[Gainesville Sun]] |page=8A |via=Google News Archive |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Helen |date=February 8, 2000 |title=She hitched her star to a wagon for the love of Bill, Hillary put her goals on hold and move to Ark. stick |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2000/02/08/she-hitched-her-star-to-a-wagon-for-the-love-of-bill-hillary-put-her-goals-on-hold-and-moved-to-ark-sticks/ |access-date=2025-05-15 |work=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref> She was married at the time,<ref name= apol /> as was he.

In 1992, rumors swirled that Gracen had had an affair with Clinton.<ref name= jl09>{{cite news |date= January 14, 1999 |url= http://home.hiwaay.net/~craigg/g4c/gracen.htm |title=Elizabeth Gracen: the Clinton reign of terror |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204003520/http://home.hiwaay.net/~craigg/g4c/gracen.htm |archive-date=February 4, 2009 }}</ref> At first, Gracen dismissed this claim (as requested by Clinton's campaign manager [[Mickey Kantor]]);<ref name= apol /> however, in spring 1998 Gracen recanted her six-year-old denial and stated she had a one-night stand with Clinton in 1983.<ref name="comgrawc">{{cite web| title= All the President's Women – Elizabeth Ward Gracen |url=http://www.comedyontap.com/presgirls/ward.html |work=Comedy on Tap |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090213170931/http://comedyontap.com/presgirls/ward.html |archive-date=February 13, 2009 }}</ref> Gracen stated that "What I did was wrong, and I feel very, very bad about it now. My behavior was inappropriate -- that's just the bottom line" and publicly apologized to [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/25/clinton.gracen/ |title=Former Miss America Apologizes To First Lady - April 25, 1998 |publisher=CNN |access-date=November 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215100746/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/25/clinton.gracen/ |archive-date=December 15, 2006}}</ref>

After her claim, Independent Counsel [[Kenneth Starr]], who was investigating Clinton in the [[Clinton v. Jones|Paula Jones lawsuit]], issued a subpoena to have her testify to her claim in court.<ref name="Gracen0s">{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/subpoena122498.htm | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=December 24, 1998|title=Big Year for the Bad News Bearers}}</ref> However, Gracen eluded the subpoena<ref name="Gracen0s" />  and was at one point able to avoid it because ''[[Highlander: The Raven]]'' was being filmed outside of the US.<ref name="comgrawc" /> [[Paula Jones]]'s legal team was also unable to track down Gracen because she had made unscheduled trips to [[Las Vegas]] and the Caribbean.<ref name="Gracen0s" />