So Patricia Cornwell is a self-loathing, Jodie-stalking lesbian Bushbot?

[Sapphocrat]

I have absolutely no idea if this is just a smear piece by a bitter author who claims Patricia Cornwell stole one of his books and then tried to extort him into silence... or what. The bottom line for me is, if she's gay and a close, personal friend of the BFEE (and a criminal -- but that's redudant if she's a *bot), that's the end of my reading her. (Too bad, too, as I really enjoyed her massive Jack the Ripper tome, Portrait of a Killer.)

The Patricia Cornwell Biography - Crime, Bribery, Scandal and Mental Illness

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The troubled and unhappy Patricia Cornwell has influenced other people into an amazing list of situations: divorce, theft, kidnapping, bribery, fraud, extortion, threats of murder, a gunfight, the destruction of careers, lawsuits, prison sentences, attacks on free speech and freedom of the press, the funding of terror, and a right-wing criminal attempt to undermine the U.S. Constitution, to name some well-documented events in which Cornwell has been involved over the years.

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On one occasion alone in 2001, Cornwell gave Barbara Bush $1 million USD for one of her pet projects. The Bushes invite Cornwell to bring her lesbian lovers and enjoy themselves on the Bushes' family estate in Kennebunkport, Maine. President Bush manages to put aside his usual anti-gay and anti-lesbian political stance, while making way for the bags of money brought by Patricia Cornwell.

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Despite the fact Cornwell had an adulterous lesbian affair with one agent, and demolished the reputations or careers of several FBI employees, and despite the fact Cornwell was named by the FBI itself as a recipient of stolen FBI documents, despite the fact Cornwell admits to giving money, gifts and favors to FBI agents to acquire influence, Cornwell was nonetheless able to maintain highly privileged access to FBI employees, facilities and personnel.

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And Cornwell knows too, that she cannot be fully a part of America's largely progressive lesbian community, because she is funding and backing and befriending all these anti-gay goons of the Bush Republican party. Cornwell knows that most other lesbians despise her for this, and despise her even more, for the long series of wrongs Cornwell has committed, for all Cornwell's hatreds and deviousness.

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The most bizarre episode from Cornwell's California jaunts, was her emotional crush upon actress Jodie Foster, who was also considered as a potential lead actress in a Cornwell movie script. Cornwell had a crush on Foster, and pursued her obsessively in a weird, stalking way that must have been very disturbing to Foster. This is described in a January 1997 Esquire article by Jeanette Wells, "Jodie, Jodie, Jodie".

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More:
http://cornwell-scandal.tripod.com/pcbio.html

[melody]

1. This brings one word to mind -- sociopath

No wonder she writes about psycho killers.

[Brian_Expat]

2. The text reads to me like a deranged rant

And such a rant could land the author in serious trouble in terms of libel laws.

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. And since Jodie has apparently been successful in brushing her off...

Patricia may have to "pull a Hinckley".

[joeybee12]

4. Tried to read some of her carp--couldn't. Why? because they're

crap!

Seen her on some ABC news program a couple times--she comes across as full of shit--seriously--I don't buy into any of her theories.

[Lex]

5. Cornwell is definitely a lesbian.

She dated an acquaintance of mine and she dedicated one of her books to her.

They've been broken up a while.

Anyway, I got the sense that Cornwell is kind of a distubed person. But this is "friend of a frend" hearsay.