Los Angeles, California -
The reporter who uncovered the Monica Lewinski scandal claims a new scoop: full nude erotic photographs of Arnold Schwarzenegger taken by renowned gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Matt Drudge, on his Drudge Report, says that "voters have never seen an elected official in such detail."
Although copies of a benign nude photo of the bodybuilder-actor-politician that appeared in the 1970s publican After Dark have been circulating for months on the internet, the Mapplethorpe photos are reportedly "shocking".
In a world exclusive, Drudge reports that pictures so steamy they have been kept under lock at the New York Estate of Mapplethorpe who died in 1989.
Operatives with the Schwarzenegger campaign are reportedly rushing to ensure that pictures are not published.
Mapplethorpe is considered the foremost American photographer of the 20th century. Openly gay, his outrageous homoerotic pictures caused a fury in the 1980s over an exhibit in Cincinnati. The Contemporary Arts Center was charged with pandering obscenity.
The exhibition, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, included a self portrait of Mapplethorpe with a riding crop inserted in his ass. Other photographs were of male models having sex and close-up shots of penises.
The furor over the exhibit reached the halls of Congress. Led by Republicans, federal funding the arts was slashed.
In his report Drudge does not indicate if the pictures are of Schwarzenegger alone in the photos or if other male models were with him.
There has been no official comment from either the Schwarzenegger campaign or from the Mapplethorpe Foundation which oversees the artist's estate.
The revelation came as a federal appeals court in San Francisco rejected a three-judge panel's decision to put off the gubernatorial recall election for months. The court unanimously reinstated Oct. 7 as the date for the vote.
by Matt Johns
365Gay.com Newscenter
Los Angeles Bureau
©365Gay.com® 2003
Matt Drudge, on his Drudge Report, says that "voters have never seen an elected official in such detail."
Although copies of a benign nude photo of the bodybuilder-actor-politician that appeared in the 1970s publican After Dark have been circulating for months on the internet, the Mapplethorpe photos are reportedly "shocking".
In a world exclusive, Drudge reports that pictures so steamy they have been kept under lock at the New York Estate of Mapplethorpe who died in 1989.
Operatives with the Schwarzenegger campaign are reportedly rushing to ensure that pictures are not published.
Mapplethorpe is considered the foremost American photographer of the 20th century. Openly gay, his outrageous homoerotic pictures caused a fury in the 1980s over an exhibit in Cincinnati. The Contemporary Arts Center was charged with pandering obscenity.
The exhibition, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, included a self portrait of Mapplethorpe with a riding crop inserted in his ass. Other photographs were of male models having sex and close-up shots of penises.
The furor over the exhibit reached the halls of Congress. Led by Republicans, federal funding the arts was slashed.
In his report Drudge does not indicate if the pictures are of Schwarzenegger alone in the photos or if other male models were with him.
There has been no official comment from either the Schwarzenegger campaign or from the Mapplethorpe Foundation which oversees the artist's estate.
The revelation came as a federal appeals court in San Francisco rejected a three-judge panel's decision to put off the gubernatorial recall election for months. The court unanimously reinstated Oct. 7 as the date for the vote.
by Matt Johns
365Gay.com Newscenter
Los Angeles Bureau
©365Gay.com® 2003
This article originally appeared on 365gay.com. Republished with permission.
