![]() ![]() But Daniel Ellsberg didn't take his clothes off for Playboy magazine, she was reminded, and his "expose" wasn't revealing that he made love with his wife on the steps of the Capitol, as Rita Jenrette has reported about her husband John, who resigned his South Carolina congressional seat because of Abscam. "When a man like Daniel Ellsberg writes an expose, he's applauded, but when a woman does it, suddenly it's kiss and tell," she said, somewhat plaintively, opening her big brown eyes wide. She holds a well-attended press conference or three, is grilled for being an opportunist and then delights and appalls the public with confessions and hints of various private peccadilloes. signs contracts for books, magazine articles or performances, and announces her new career as an actress and liberated woman. It all seemed a familiar ritual: Washington scandal is exposed. And she had nothing to do with the mysterious appearance of a few of the pictures that accompany the Playboy article, pictures that somehow appeared on the wire services last Friday.Ĭapitalizing on her now estranged husband's conviction in the Abscam scandal? Of course not. "It just sort of happened." Playboy asked her to pose for them and write an article, and Bantam Books asked her to write a book which will be out a mere few weeks from now. "I have never sought publicity," Rita Jenrette said, at a crowded New York press conference yesterday.
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