Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: Womanizer

FRIEND: Gigi Goyette signed a confidentiality agreement with the American Media Inc. about an alleged affair she had with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The publisher agreed to pay her $20,000.

The Los Angeles Times has Tabloid’s Deal With Woman Shielded Schwarzenegger.

Days after Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the race for governor and girded for questions about his past, a tabloid publisher wooing him for a business deal promised to pay a woman $20,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement about an alleged affair with the candidate.

American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, signed a friend of the woman to a similar contract about the alleged relationship for $1,000.

American Media’s contract with Gigi Goyette of Malibu is dated Aug. 8, 2003, two days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy on a late-night talk show. Under the agreement, Goyette must disclose to no one but American Media any information about her “interactions” with Schwarzenegger.

American Media never solicited further information from Goyette or her friend, Judy Mora, also of Malibu, both women said. The Enquirer had published a cover story two years earlier describing an alleged seven-year sexual relationship between Goyette and Schwarzenegger during his marriage to Maria Shriver, California’s first lady.

So, Arnold is a womanizer.

The Enquirer had two years earlier published the story.

And the Governor admitted this while sparing his wife and the public the details:

When Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy on “The Tonight Show,” he speculated that he would face accusations of infidelity.

Host Jay Leno asked if he was prepared for a bruising campaign, and Schwarzenegger replied: “I know that they’re going to throw everything at me and they’re going, you know, to say that I have no experience and that I’m a womanizer and that I’m a terrible guy, and all these kinds of things are going to come my way.”

Flap fails to see any relevance to California politics or California public policy here.

If the Los Angeles Times wants to repeat the hatchet job they did on Schwarzenegger before the recall election of Gray Davis, then so be it.

Their circulation is already declining and will only accelerate their ultimate demise.

Has the Los Angeles Times run a piece on the Air America Radio Scandel and the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from poor kids in New York? NO!

But, I suppose gossip about a celebrity California Governor sells papers.

SEX does sell.

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