Meet Bill Clinton’s Rumored “Energizer”
The NY Post Reports
Bill Clinton and Julie Taubner McMahon became neighbors a year after they first met. The former first family moved into a $1.7 million Chappaqua mansion less than three miles from Julie’s Colonial Georgian.
Eyebrows soon started raising in the neighborhood.
“Wherever he went, she went. If he went to the Palm, she went to the Palm. If he went out to the Hamptons, she went to the Hamptons,” a neighbor says.
“I think [their relationship] was an open secret. [People] try to kiss her ass because of her connection to [Clinton].”
“In my world, cheating is very common. It’s not so unusual [in Chappaqua] or anywhere,” the local adds. “The only thing that makes [Julie and Bill Clinton’s alleged affair] interesting is that he was the president.
The chatter has even reached Julie’s hometown of West Bloomfield, Mich., a tony suburb of Detroit.
“Gossip about her presidential friendship has fueled Oakland County cocktail parties for well over a decade,” The Detroit News reported this month.
Julie, who graduated from Columbia with a master’s in education, is the eldest of Joel and Shelley Tauber’s five children. Besides being a major Democratic fund-raiser, Joel is a manufacturing exec, while Shelley is a philanthropist involved in Israel-related charities.
“[Joel’s] been a real pillar of the Detroit Jewish community and beyond,” Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg, a West Bloomfield-area rabbi, tells The Post.
“I’m 80 years old. What you learn in those 80 years: This will pass. I taught that to my children their whole lives,” he tells The Post. “Life can be difficult, and life can be wonderful. She’s strong. She’s a fantastic person.”Indeed, Joel has wise words for his scandal-plagued daughter.
“I’m 80 years old. What you learn in those 80 years: This will pass. I taught that to my children their whole lives,” he tells The Post.
“Life can be difficult, and life can be wonderful. She’s strong. She’s a fantastic person.”
Like her mother, Julie is involved in philanthropy. She sits on the advisory counsel of Oceana, an international ocean-conservation group based in DC. Its benefits have drawn such celebs as Jeff Goldblum, Melanie Griffith and January Jones. Julie has also been a fixture on New York City’s party circuit for years, vamping at galas for the New York Academy of Art, among others.
Last month, she was at close friend Fisher’s Four Seasons birthday bash, partying with filmmaker Barry Levinson and Vogue editor-at-large Hamish Bowles.
“She’s not hiding,” Fisher says. “Why would she be in hiding? She didn’t kill anyone. Bill Clinton’s not running [for president] — Hillary Clinton is.”
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Julie Tauber McMahon was dubbed “Energizer” by the Secret Service agents who guarded the Clintons’ Westchester home.
