Vice President Al Gore was cleared of allegations that he groped and assaulted a masseuse in 2006. Among the reasons the court denied the allegations were true were that she and her attorney had refused to answer questions about whether she was paid for making the allegation. And because it was commonly known that the National Enquirer, which first published her allegation, had a practice of paying for such stories, the district attorney assumed that she had been compensated. She also failed a polygraph examination about her allegations. Princess DianaDaily Mirror editor Piers Morgan described his bidding war for an account by Princess Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, about his work for her. Burrell was offered up to $1.6 million by various tabloids, and accepted $500,000 from the Mirror. Its circulation jumped 300,000 copies a day during its series of articles. Ironically, Burrell was subsequently attacked by those same losing tabloids for cashing in by revealing Diana's most intimate secrets. Publishers and editors of British newspapers subsequently pledged to abide by a new code, as a result of Princess Diana's death, which lays down rules about privacy, harassment and buying stories. Others U.S. Richard Nixon: CBS paid about $500,000 for the right to excerpt 90 minutes out of 38 hours of videotaped "conversations" with Nixon.Bykofsky, Stuart D., "CBS News Not Bashful Buying Nixon ‘Memoirs’", The Star Press (Muncie, IN), 3/17/84 H. R. Haldeman, convicted as part of the Watergate scandal, demanded to be well compensated before he gave an interview for 60 Minutes. He received $100,000 for his hour-long interview in 1975 with host Mike Wallace, who admitted later that paying for the interview was "a bad idea." CNN paid $10,000 to a plane passenger for an interview and a photo. The Dutch citizen had overpowered Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit before he could detonate a bomb. In 1989, New York Post reporter Bill Hoffmann flew to Bermuda to interview Janet Culver, who had miraculously survived 14 days at sea in a rubber raft. When he arrived at the hospital, Hoffmann was told that People magazine had bought exclusive rights to her story for $10,000. After the second Rodney King trial, a number of jurors demanded to be paid for giving interviews. After the Columbine High School shootings, a friend of one of the gunmen was paid $10,000 by the National Enquirer for information about the