Ex-Lover Sues Washingtonienne — for Getting the Details Wrong

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The Washingtonenne politico-sex-blog scandal happened so long ago, we’re surprised it hasn’t been turned into a VH1 special yet. (Maybe it has — we don’t watch VH1 all that much anymore.)

But it’s been resurrected, most recently in the pages of Legal Times, of all places. Why? One of her sex partners says he was inaccurately portrayed. So he’s suing.

A quick refresher: in 2004, a twentysomething Hill staffer had been keeping a “secret” online diary of her sexual exploits with various Hill figures. Someone emailed the URL to Wonkette, who wrote about it ad nauseum. Washingtonienne was unmasked as Jessica Cutler, a staffer for Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH). She lost her job, found a book deal. Then, except for occasional stories about how she gets sexually entangled with her lawyers, she disappeared.

But one of the men Cutler wrote about, Robert Steinbuch, wants justice. And he’s willing to have even more details of his private life entered into the public record in order to get it.

Steinbuch, a senior DeWine adviser (or, as Cutler described him, “this crazy hair-pulling, ass-smacking dude who wants to use handcuffs on me”) is suing Cutler, not for violating his privacy, but to correct what he says are falsehoods in what she blogged.

As the paper reports:

It’s hard to know why anyone would care to set the record straight about whether he is able to ejaculate with or without a condom or whether he likes to spank or be spanked. But [Steinbuch’s lawyer, Jonathan] Rosen says that’s exactly what Steinbuch intends to do.

“There are graphic and intimate details which are not true,” Steinbuch told Legal Times. “Those are facts that are going to be litigated.”

Now that’s a trial I wouldn’t mind sitting through.

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