BLAST FROM PAST: Once it seemed all the world was snickering at Donna Rice, shown in this June 1987 photo with then presidential candidate Gary Hart. AP FILE PHOTO In a bit of trivia that will ...

Gary Hart was a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination until allegations of an affair with Donna Rice forced him to leave the race. The scandal is the focus of the new movie ...

Donna Rice, was romantically involved with the married Democratic presidential election front-runner — Colorado senator Gary Hart In May of 1987 the bombshell news broke that a beautiful 29-year ...

FILE--Senator Gary Hart, right, walks away from Miami Herald reporter Jim McGee May 2, 1987, after talking with Herald reporters about the identity of a woman (Donna Rice) staying in his townhouse ...

It’s been 31 years since the lurid tale of former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and his alleged dalliance with model Donna Rice dominated headlines and knocked the earnest, brainy Colorado ...

the day former Colorado Senator Gary Hart quit the Democratic ... by the photograph that eventually emerged of Hart and a woman named Donna Rice on a dock next to a yacht called "Monkey Business." ...

The Denver Post//Getty Images The the June 2, 1987 cover of the National Enquirer, showing Donna Rice with Gary Hart. Hart did try to re-enter the race later, but his second try didn't last long.

Gary Hart, who was coasting toward the Democratic nomination for president in 1988 when a scandal surrounding his relationship with a much-younger woman named Donna Rice created a political ...

Gary Hart, the Colorado senator bound for the White ... later identified as Miami model Donna Rice. Less than a week after the first story published — amid a feeding frenzy of journalists ...

A journalist who reported on Gary Hart’s downfall in 1987 pushes back on the notion that the candidate’s Monkey Business incident may have been staged. My name is James Savage, and I was the ...

And in a private act of repentance that has remained private for nearly three decades, he told Raymond Strother that he was sorry for how he had torpedoed Gary ... Hart said that Donna Rice ...