“The ‘brains’ surrounding Hillary Clinton didn’t make any friends last Friday at Condé Nast when they balked on a firm, long-standing commitment to let the candidate pose for Vogue, while the astute Julia Reed hung ten waiting to write about her and the giant fotog Annie Leibovitz had her cameras at the ready for nothing,” Liz Smith tells us today. “A source inside Hillary’s camp supposedly informed the Vogue contingent they’d decided some time ago not to honor the commitment, but Vogue wasn’t told until the last minute.”

Why the last minute dump? “Handlers for the senator decided Vogue would be ‘too elitist’ and Hillary might come off as ‘too glamorous,’” Smith says.

More strange is that Hillary already appeared in Vogue in 1998. Guess she didn’t mind appearing elite during the White House years? Also, the Hillary camp didn’t have a problem when her top aide Huma Abedin appeared glamorously in the mag earlier this year.

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Big Head DC has received credible evidence that GQ leaked the Hillary Clinton kill story to Ben Smith of the Politico in an attempt to have revenge on the Clinton camp for leveraging its weight against the magazine. Some journalists and/or bloggers have accused the Politico of being conservative, which is why GQ chose to leak to that particular outlet, we’ve been told. Still, pundits have largely agreed today that the move has made Clinton simply look like a stronger force to reckon with.

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From Radar: “Hillary Clinton combats rumors of a negative GQ feature by forcing the men’s monthly to make a choice: either kill the piece or lose access to her beloved husband for their slated George Saunders story. Editor Jim Nelson pulls the plug, claiming, ‘I don’t really get into the inner workings of the magazine…. We kill pieces all the time for a variety of reasons.’”

You gotta give Hil the thumbs up on this one. After all, who reads GQ anymore? 

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At a press conference today where he denounced lies by Sen. David Vitter, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt said that he will be paying Wendy Cortez (aka Wendy Ellis), the woman who claims to have had a several months-long affair with the Senator, to appear in the January issue of his hardcore smut rag. The amount of payment was not disclosed.

“She looks damn fine for her age!” Flynt exclaimed. Read more…

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The publication’s last issue hits August 27; President Bush’s last day in office: January 20, 2009.

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In-the-know Washingtonians may recall a sassy young lass named Julia Baugher, a former Georgetown University sex and dating columnist who disgraced the school’s student newspaper The Hoya because she plagiarized portions of a column from iVillage. But give the go-getter gal a few years in New York and, suddenly, she has a spiffy new name, “Julia Allison” and will now be earning upwards of 100K per year as the editor-at-large of the well-known Star tabloid/magazine.

“Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I remember back when being outed as a plagiarist carried the stigma of getting charged with rape,” a DC journalist familiar with Allison’s past misdeeds told Big Head DC. “It would ruin you. Now you have Baugher a budding celebrity…”

So, did Baugher change her name to avoid being known as a plagarist?

Perhaps fortuitously, there will be little journalistic prowess involved with Allison’s new job: “She won’t be editing or writing, but she will be appearing as a talking expert whenever TV comes calling for someone to go on air to comment on the latest celebrity gossip or scandal,” according to the NY Post.

Allison has said in the past that she much prefers doing TV to writing because it takes less effort.

Unless you just copy and paste, that is!

Bonus fun fact just because it’s Thursday: Back when Allison was still Baugher she had a scandalous relationship with politico Harold Ford, Jr., (and current FOX News talking head), which was first reported in WaPo’s Reliable Source column by the paper’s ex-gossip Lloyd Grove. Later, Allison had a not-so-discreet affair with - you guessed it! - Lloyd Grove.

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Deborah Jeane Palfrey doesn’t smoke, she doesn’t do drugs, and she doesn’t particularly care for Hustler magazine’s brand of explicit pornography. But she does hold the publisher of the publication, the infamous Larry Flynt (whose $1 million dollar bounty in exchange for power player sexploits has made big news on Big Head DC recently), in quite high regard.

“Why shouldn’t Larry take all of his money, his proceeds, and put it to good use?” she told BHDC during an exclusive wide-ranging interview this afternoon (much more to come). “I think that he’s a righteous man.”

Palfrey believes there is so much corruption and sexual two-facedness coming from politicians in DC today that Flynt’s controversial cash reward is well-warranted. “These people are not pure — they’re not clean by any means,” said Palfrey regarding many politicos. “The hypocrisy is impalpable.”

Perhaps, too, the alleged “DC Madam” is admirable of one of Flynt’s other feats: He’s well-known for beating federal prosecutors in court regarding his own alleged sexual-based wrongdoings in pursuit of freedom.

Despite their seemingly common interests, Palfrey said that she hasn’t been in touch with Flynt regarding the $1 million bounty — even though feds have seized all of the assets she attained through running the escort service Pamela Martin & Associates.

Earlier: A Very Sexy Night Out With Larry Flynt

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Earlier: America’s Got Talent! The Search for the Next Monica Lewinsky (Call 1-800-251-2714 With Your Congressional Sperm Sample In Hand)

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The tabloid that was first to bring you Selena’s autopsy photos and printed the transcripted tapes of Frank Gifford’s illicit affair is now covering the possible connection between Deborah Jeane Palfrey and VP Dick Cheney. You read it here first!

Wayne Madsen, you are not alone…

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Looking for a little extra spending cash this summer season (we’re looking right at you, lil’ miss bankrupt Jessica Cutler)? Then get yourself all gussied up; aim for a tawdry sexual relationship with a member of Congress; then get Larry Flynt on the phone.

The Hustler publisher announced yesterday in the pages of the Washington Post that he’s willing to pay $1 million stinky smackeroos for documented evidence of down and dirty sexual relations with a congressman, senator or other prominent officeholder.

All you have to do is collect a sperm sample. Then call 1-800-251-2714 (toll free!), which answers with a recorded male voice saying: “Thank you for calling the Hustler Magazine hotline. Please briefly describe the information you would like us to consider, along with information on how we may contact you. We will get in touch with you if we are interested in your information.” Or just e-mail hustler@lfp.com.

Wham, bam, thank you ma’am. It’s just that simple! 

Flynt ran a similar scheme in 1998, and credits himself for taking down Rep. Bob Livingston (R-La.), who admitted he had extramarital affairs after it was leaked that that Flynt’s Hustler crew was investigating him.

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