Liz Hurley dismisses Clinton affair claims

British actress Elizabeth Hurley has said she will take legal action after “ludicrously silly stories” alleging an affair with former US president Bill Clinton were published.

The claims emerged online in the US, saying the affair took place as Hillary Clinton slept in an opposite room.

Writing on Twitter, she said: “Ludicrously silly stories about me & Bill Clinton. Totally untrue. In the hands of my lawyers. Yawn.”

US website RadarOnline claims to have an audio recording of actor Tim Sizemore saying he had set Hurley up with the former president when Clinton asked for her phone number at a White House gathering.

The affair started in 1998 when Clinton was still president, said the report.

Saving Private Ryan actor Sizemore, who is Hurley’s ex-boyfriend, was apparently telling friends of the alleged affair in the tape recording.

Sizemore claims that he set up the rendezvous following a private screening of Saving Private Ryan at the White House in 1998, also attended by co-stars Tom Hanks and Matt Damon.

Clinton allegedly pulled Sizemore away from the crowd and asked whether he still had Hurley’s phone number before taking out his phone and saying: “Give it to me?”

Sizemore says he suggested he ask Hurley first but the then-president was not having any of it. “You dumb motherfucker. I’m the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America. The buck stops here. Give me the damn number,” he allegedly said.

The actor described Clinton as “6ft 4 with more charisma than 1,000 Brad Pitts”.

Sizemore said that, on the phone to Hurley, Clinton was less than patient. “Listen Elizabeth, this is the president,” he said. “I don’t have any time for this shit. I’m keeping the world from nuclear war all the time. I’m sending a plane to pick you up.”

It is also claimed Clinton broke off the affair when he feared he was falling in love with Hurley and sent a private jet to fly her to Washington DC.

Clinton’s extramarital exploits are well documented. He almost never became president after one affair came to light and the revelations of an affair with White House worker Monica Lewinsky in 199 almost saw him impeached.