A subsequent, sexually explicit Penthouse article (accompanied by a nude photo layout, for which Flowers was paid an additional $250,000, pushing her total scandal earnings over $500,000) made Brummett’s portrait appear relatively kind. Flowers boasted of the many married men she’d seduced for fun and profit. “I usually throw them back. I don’t want to keep them. Let the wives have them back.” Her ex-roommate Lauren Kirk told the article’s author, CNN correspondent Art Harris, that she believed Flowers had lied for revenge and money. “She just can’t accept the fact that he [Clinton] came, wiped himself off, zipped up, and left.”