There's hope for me yet (maybe):
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NATIONAL ENQUIRER......
Oh Danny Boy, you may be a great comedian -- but this audiotape won't be too
hilarious to your fans!
Following months and months of Dan Aykroyd refuting our stories of his illicit
affair with a former Miss Virginia, The ENQUIRER has received a tape of the
funnyman arranging a cover-up of the steamy relationship.
The recorded messages from lover Lisa Aliff's answering machine prove he
resorted to a desperate cover-up effort to save his image and his marriage to
Donna Dixon, who ironically is another former Miss Virginia.
When The ENQUIRER originally told you three years ago of how Aykroyd's affair
broke up Aliff's marriage, Dan denied the affair and blasted The ENQUIRER.
In a page-long statement, he called The ENQUIRER's story a "baseless fantasy,
depicting me in a far more exotic life than that of which I am capable.
"My contact with this person was sparse, consisting of no more than two random,
mutually unsolicited meetings in public places with others in attendance
lasting no more than 20 minutes at a time."
Dan's spokesperson Susan Patricola declared, "He unequivocally had no affair
with this woman." Even Lisa's lawyer, John Lichtenstein, weighed in, also
denying the affair.
Once again we were faced with a major star's high-priced publicity machine
lying to the public. But then we reported in our Aug. 20, 1996, issue that
Dan's denials were proven untrue when Lisa, battling in court with ex-husband
Rick Hawkins for custody of their son, admitted under oath that she had an
affair with the Blues Brother.
Still, Dan continued to deny it. But now, on the tape, Dan plots a last-ditch
desperate cover-up of his affair. Dan orders Lisa (whom he calls "Lee"):
• To prepare a false statement denying the affair -- and to send it for review
by his publicist before its release.
• To put a car he got for her in her mother's name.
• And to refuse to talk to The ENQUIRER reporter calling for information on her
damning court testimony.
"Lee, on the car lease, I think it would be a good idea to put that in Norma's
(Aliff's mother) name . . . that helps us," Dan suggested.
In the second of his flurry of panicky calls, he said, "Uh, hi. The publicist
just got a call from The ENQUIRER and they have you under oath. They have you
admitting to an intimate relationship with the . . . uh . . . the individual .
. . uh, speaking now."
Lisa had prepared a statement about her testimony to release to the press, but
that's when Aykroyd got really nervous.
"We really should run that by myself or Susie (his publicist) before it goes
out, because there are a couple of things that we have to be consistent with
the statement that I gave the last time," Dan said.
He also demanded she say "the material in the court transcripts was given on
the advice of your lawyer to satisfy an inquiry that came up in the case."
He urged her, "We say that you were accepted into the company of my friends out
there on a couple of occasions, because remember that last statement I said,
that we had contact on only a couple of occasions. Please get back to me and
read what you have."
When she did not send the statement quickly enough to the publicist to suit
Dan, he grew anxious: "It would help, I guess, if you did respond here . . . it
is important that we stick together and help each other out, you know?"
Aykroyd, who still insisted publicly that he hardly knew Aliff, concluded the
call: "Arm in arm and side by side, there's nothing we can't handle."
Aykroyd and his publicist would not comment on the tapes or Aliff's admission
under oath of the affair. Aliff also did not speak to The ENQUIRER for this
story.
An insider said: "This is a classic case of a celebrity using high-priced
lawyers and publicists to lie to the public."
-- JOHN BLOSSER
