Paper Says Lawyers Told FBI About an Alleged Quayle Pass at Lobbyist

Two former attorneys for one-time lobbyist Paula Parkinson say she told the FBI in 1981 that Sen. Dan Quayle, the GOP vice presidential nominee, asked her to have sex with him during a Florida trip, but she refused.

In a copyright story published in Tuesday’s editions of the Daily News of Los Angeles, the attorneys said Ms. Parkinson told the FBI the request was made when she, Quayle -- then a congressman -- and two other congressmen shared a cottage during the 1980 golfing trip, the lawyers said.

Quayle, who has been married since 1972, has denied that he had an affair with Ms. Parkinson, and a campaign spokesman declined comment Monday evening about the lawyers’ allegations.

Efforts to find Ms. Parkinson on Monday were unsuccessful.

The two lawyers represented Ms. Parkinson when she was questioned on March 28, 1981, by the FBI during a sex-for-influence investigation.

“Paula reported to the FBI during the investigation of the lobbying scandal that Quayle was interested in her, flirted with her and asked her to go to bed with him,” said Washington attorney Glenn Lewis, referring to his notes from the FBI interview of Ms. Parkinson. He no longer represents her.

Washington attorney Roy Kinsey, who also was present during the interview but no longer represents Ms. Parkinson, said his paraphrased notes show that she told the FBI, “Quayle made a pass, and said he would like to sleep with” her.

Parkinson, who posed nude for Playboy magazine in 1980, is scheduled to appear nude again in the magazine’s November issue. She reportedly is to have additional comment published concerning Quayle, but editors for the magazine declined to elaborate on the content of those comments.