Why : just a few days before clinton began depositions in the sexual harassment lawsuit paula jones brought against him in january 1998 , the president , his wife , and their daughter took a four-day vacation in the u.s. virgin islands .
The final , irresistible pull for redford was the fact that cruise had already expressed interest , not only as an actor playing the slick yet impassioned senator , but also as executive , making the film with his long-time partner paula wagner as their first project in the new united artists .
The fbi continues to look into how mr. petraeus 's biographer , paula broadwell , with whom he had the affair , came to have classified documents on her computer , according to officials .