Julie Tauber McMahon

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McMahon, 56, has been dogged by the affair rumors since 2001 — fueled by sightings of the former president visiting her home without his wife.She’s a very good friend, and an upstanding person. Her family and the Clinton family have been friends for years. They go way back, ” Fisher says. “She is the best part of a lot of people’s lives, including the Clintons’.”McMahon and Bill Clinton reportedly first met in 1998 at the $25 million Aspen, Colo., vacation home of her father, Joel Tauber, a longtime Democratic fundraiser from Michigan. It was around the time McMahon’s marriage to Goldman Sachs exec Bill McMahon, whom she married in 1990 and had three children with, was unraveling.“She was from a political family, and he was just a good Joe, ” says attorney Ira Garr, who represented Bill McMahon in the divorce.Julie, then a homemaker, first filed for divorce in 1998. In 1999, Goldman Sachs became a public company via an IPO that netted Bill McMahon some $30 million.Julie, who graduated from Columbia with a master’s in education, is the eldest of Joel and Shelley Tauber’s five children.Like her mother, Julie is involved in philanthropy. She sits on the advisory counsel of Oceana, an international ocean conservation group based in DC.