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'Kerry scandal woman reveals all to TV station'
By James Langton, Evening Standard, in New York Last updated at 00:00am on 16.02.04The young woman at the centre of the sex scandal allegations against presidential hopeful John Kerry has recorded a tell-all interview for an American TV station.
Reporter Alexandra Polier is said to have given the interview with a major US network before Christmas - but the channel has held back from showing it until it can verify that her claims are true.
According to one TV executive connected with the programme: "She wants to tell her story. She has talked at length about her relationship with Kerry. But no one is believing her."
It was reported last week that the TV news division of ABC was investigating the 27-year-old's alleged relationship with Senator Kerry, who is said to have pestered her to join his campaign team.
The channel has refused to say if it is working on the story.
Miss Polier, who worked in London in 1998, in the Houses of Parliament, is still in hiding in Kenya, where she has been staying with the family of her fiancÈ Yaron Schwartzman.
The couple first met when they were students at Columbia in New York, with Miss Polier later working for Mr Kerry as an intern.
Her parents are refusing to comment, after her father Terrance Polier's initial description of Mr Kerry as "a sleazeball" who was "not the sort of guy I would chose to be with my daughter".
Mr Kerry strongly denies the allegations.
With the American media continuing to ignore the story, Mr Kerry could be barely 24 hours from all but sealing the Democratic nomination for November's presidential election.
