Dolly Fox corroborates Bill Clinton flirtation tale in Charlie Sheen memoir

Dolly Fox, a former Miss America contestant and longtime figure in Washington’s social and political circles, confirms Charlie Sheen’s recounting that Bill Clinton once tried to woo her in the 1980s. The claim appears in Sheen’s memoir, The Book of Sheen, which recounts an Arkansas visit in 1987 during filming of Three for the Road with Alan Ruck when the cast met with then-Gov. Clinton at the governor’s mansion.

According to Sheen’s account, while he was answering a reporter’s question, Ruck overheard Clinton whisper to an aide, 'Find out what you can about the brunette.' The brunette, the memoir states, was Fox. Fox told Page Six that she recalls the moment and the quoted line, adding that the anecdote fits what happened during the Arkansas visit. Sheen’s account places the moment in a specific milieu: a political energy house in a state capital, with a film crew in tow.

Fox described her connections to Clinton’s circle and the broader social web around the Clintons. She said Hillary Clinton and her mother, Yolande Fox (Miss America 1951), were close friends, and that Fox’s mother hosted one of Clinton’s inaugural events in Washington. She also noted that Clinton’s mother, Virginia Kelley, and her mother moved in similar social circles and would attend the racetrack together. Fox added that Monica Lewinsky’s mother was a friend of her mother as well, a detail she described as part of the family’s sprawling network. 'You can’t make it up. I have pictures of President Clinton holding my 5-year-old daughter,' she said, underscoring the layered, personal intersections that characterize her memories of the era.

Sheen’s memoir recaps the same incident and notes that he told fellow patients in rehab about it. He writes that at the time he was dependent on detox medications and that others did not believe him, but he persisted in telling the tale. He recounts telling a group gathered around a television, 'It’s kool, I’ll put it in a book one day and you can all go f--k yourselves.' The moment is presented as both a memoiristic confession and a reflection on the blurred lines between show business, politics and private life in the 1980s.

Reaction to Sheen’s account has been limited publicly. Reuters and the New York Post summarized the claim, but Clinton’s representatives had not publicly commented by press time. The Post reached out to a Clinton spokesperson for comment, with no immediate reply reported. The absence of an official response leaves Fox’s corroboration and Sheen’s memoir subject to ongoing scrutiny among fans, media observers and those who track the intertwined worlds of Hollywood and politics.

Fox’s public profile in recent years has centered on the arts. She is producing a play about Dorothy Dandridge, illustrating how a figure who moved in similar circles continues to cultivate creative projects. The juxtaposition of Fox’s testimony with Sheen’s memoir adds another layer to the discourse surrounding the Clinton era and the culture of celebrity memoirs that blend personal recollection with public history. The interplay between memory, fame, and power continues to fuel debate about what, if anything, can be known for certain about private exchanges in the era before social media and the #MeToo movement.