Al Gore Sex Assault Charges Dropped by Portland Police for Lack of Evidence

The Al Gore sexual assault investigation has been terminated due to a lack of evidence. According to the National Enquirer, detectives from the Portland, Oregon Police Department investigating masseuse Molly Hagert'ys charges that the Nobel Peace Prize winner tried to purloin a "piece" from her back in 2006 recently interviewed Gore in San Francisco.

The supermarket tabloid originally broke the news of the Gore sex harassment charges back in June. Local Portland newspapers had heard of the original investigation but not printed anything as their research indicated that there was no credible evidence to back up Hagerty's charges.

Terminated

In an article with the banner headline "SEX CASE COPS GRILL AL GORE!" carried on its Internet site, the Enquirer quotes a source they allege is close to the investigation saying the detectives met with Gore in secret in San Francisco.

The investiagation of Gore was terminated by the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office after the police investigation. Publicity from the National Enquirer article has influenced the D.A.'s office to reopen the inquiry into Gore's behavior. Gore had not been interviewed personally when Hagerty made her charges but had issued a denial through is representatives.

In the recent interview with Portland detectives, the former Veep admitted he had received a massage from Hagerty but denied that he had sexually assaulted her. According to Gore spokesperson Kalee Kreider, the man who came within one vote in the Senate from becoming President during BIll Clinton's impeachement trial and fell one vote short on the Supreme Court from allowing a Florida recount that likley would have elevated him to the Presidency after the 2000 election, "unequivocally and emphatically denied this accusation when he first learned of its existence three years ago."

Kreider went on to say, "He respects and appreciates the thorough and professional work of the Portland authorities and is pleased that this matter has now been resolved."

Cover Story

Moly Hagerty first accused Gore of sexual misconduct to the Portland, Oregon police department in 2006, but dropped the case in order to pursue a civil lawsuit seeking damages for sexual harassment. No case was ever filed. She re-approached the Portland P.D. in 2009, giving them a lengthy statement, but the police decided not to go ahead with the case due to a lack of evidence.

She contacted the department this year to see if she could amend her 2009 statement. She was told she could add to it, but not edit it. Hagerty then told the police, after obtaining a copy of her statement, that she had decided to go to the court of public opinion to indict Al Gore.

Evoking shades of the Monica Lewisnky scandal, the National Enquirer subsequently featured Hagerty on its cover holding a plastic bag with a pair of pants that she says she wore the night of the alleged assault. In her 2009 statement, she claimed to the police that the pants she wore that night were in her possession and were stained, seemingly with Al Gore's semen, though she denied then there was any recoverable D.N.A.

The Enquirer published Hagerty's allegations against Gore last month. In the Enquirer's cover story, Hagerty called Al Gore a "pervert and sexual predator."

There are reports that Hagerty offered to sell her story to the supermarket tabloid for $1 million.

New Allegations

The National Enquirer recently printed new allegations of sexual harassment, claiming that masseuses from Beverly Hills, California and Tokyo Japan have come forward with stories that Al Gore behaved inappropriately towards them in the process of obtaining a rub down.

In its most recent coverage of the scandal, the Enqurier says a nude Al Gore demanded sex from a masseuse while staying at a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills. Big Al was in Tinsel Town to attend the 2007 Academy Awards show where his movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, won Oscars for best documentary and best original song.

According to the Enquirer, a lusty Gore had bared his own tschotske to the masseuse earlier. The Enquirerquotes a source from the hotel as saying that once Gore was alone with the massage therapist, he whipped off his towel, displaying an erection and demanding of the masseuse, "Take care of THIS."

The Enquirer goes on to report that Gore pulled a similar stunt with a masseuse in a Tokyo hotel in 2008.