Morris: Illegitimate Daughter From 15-Year Affair

NEW YORK (AllPolitics, Sept. 6) -- Things went from worse to rotten for former presidential adviser Dick Morris, after newspapers reported he has a 6-year-old, illegitimate daughter by an Austin, Texas woman with whom he has had a 15-year affair.

Morris, 48, engaged in an extra-marital affair with Barbara Jean Pfafflin, 40, and the couple had his only child, a daughter, The Star newspaper reported. The Star, a tabloid which also broke the story about Morris' dalliances with Sherry Rowlands, a $200-per-hour, Washington-area prostitute, reported that Morris mentioned Pfafflin by name to Rowlands.

Though Morris' wife, lawyer Eileen McGann, publicly stood by her man following the Rowlands expose, her reaction to the latest revelations were not immediately known. The Associated Press called the Morris home in Connecticut and was told by a woman who wouldn't identify herself that the former Clinton adviser was unavailable.

Records of the hotel where Morris stayed on business trips to Washington listed Pfafflin, a real estate broker, as having visited him there during the last month, the Star reported.

The paper also published excerpts from a diary written by Rowlands which has Morris telling her that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was behind the White House review of Republicans' FBI files, a scandal that rocked Washington in June.

The White House dismissed the account, but temperatures were rising over a separate matter involving Morris. Officials there are angry that he negotiated a book deal with Random House five months ago, while he was still on the campaign's payroll. They say Morris apparently did not inform anyone of his contract and are examining whether he violated any terms of his agreement with the campaign.

One senior official says "private conversations with the president should remain private." He and other White House and campaign aides acknowledge that Morris is now a private citizen and can do what he wants. They are already nervous about what Morris might write in his book, for which he is said to have been given a $2.5 million advance.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer contributed to this report

Morris: Illegitimate Daughter From 15-Year Affair

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