A published report claims
there's
there's a mother-daughter tussle over Chelsea Clinton's latest boy
toy.
The National Enquirer reports that Chelsea, 25, is dating the
son of "disgraced ex-congressman" Ed Mezvinsky, who is currently
serving a nearly seven-year jail stint for fraud.
According to the magazine, Chelsea's beau wanted her to visit his
dad at the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Alabama, but Hillary
was having none of it.
A "source" told National Ledger that "with Hillary's
political ambitions and them only just getting over the Monica
Lewinsky scandal, they can't afford to be associated with a con man
doing time—and they insisted Chelsea has to understand that."
The million dollar question is with US Senator Hillary Rodham
Clinton gearing up for her 2008 presidential run, will she be able
to keep daughter Chelsea under wraps and in control?
May be not. Some say her dash to Rajasthan with Mark, boyfriend, was
a killing-two-birds-with-one-stone "political" strategy. She wanted
to get away from mom Hillary and at the same time look good in front
of Mark and neutralize him for having said NO to meeting his con
Dad in prison. And of course, have fun too. Now isn't that killing more than two birds? So
much for being an offspring of a political parents.
Chelsea and beau were spotted in Rajasthan, India, and
reportedly it turned out to be a cat and mouse game between Chelsea
and the local media.
Chelsea, who arrived in Rajasthan four days ago on a week-long
private visit, avoided media glare to such an extent that not a
single picture of hers and her boyfriend Mark have appeared in local
newspapers despite the fact that they deployed an army of
photographers and reporters in the pursuit.
Preferring to remain incognito, Chelsea arrived in the Lake City of
Udaipur, in Rajasthan, where she spent four days at luxury Udaivilas
hotel of the Oberois.
During her Udaipur visit, Chelsea did boating, shopping and little
sightseeing. The former US president’s daughter also tried some
local delicacies and spent some time in hotel gymnasium and bar.
In the hotel she was served traditional Mewari cuisine, which
included makkai ki roti, bread made of maize flour.
Since it was a private visit, most of the arrangements were
undertaken by the US embassy and involvement of the Rajasthan
government was almost minimal. Although the state government
officials passed on nuggets of information about Chelsea’s
movements, the media was kept out, reported Khaleej Times.
On Monday, the capital city of Jaipur was abuzz with the arrival of
Chelsea but the local media could not have a glimpse of her despite
reports that she was out for some shopping.
When
Chelsea arrived in Jaipur by a domestic airlines, people
at the airport recognized her - she straightaway drove to her hotel.
On Wednesday night, the Press waited for hours outside a jewelry
shop in Jaipur as she was supposed to do shopping there. But the
media personnel had to return empty-handed as Chelsea changed her
plans at the eleventh hour. The shop owner confirmed that they were
informed about her visit but later told that she had done shopping
at the hotel arcade and drove away to the famous tiger reserve
Ranthambore National Park.
This was Chelsea’s second visit to Rajasthan. Last time she was there
with her parents in 2000 and had visited many villages. She even
played Holi with the villagers. At that time, the Clintons were able to see a
tiger, which the then US president had named Boomerang. He derived
this name after being told the name of the tiger in Hindi was Bamboram.
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