Miss Caplin, a long-standing friend of Cherie Blair, insisted that she was not “some sort of sexpot or randy masseuse” and had not engaged in any “hanky-panky” when she gave massages to the former prime minister.
Her counsel, David Price QC, also said that Miss Caplin had not acted as a “Svengali or Rasputin type figure” in the Blairs’ marriage.
Miss Caplin made her extraordinary denials during libel proceedings against a newspaper in the High Court in London. She is taking legal action over an article that questioned whether she was planning to “blow the lid on Tony and Cherie Blair’s sex secrets”.
Miss Caplin was a “lifestyle adviser” and fitness trainer to Cherie Blair throughout her time at Downing Street.
She attracted controversy in November 2002 when Peter Foster, a convicted Australian fraudster and her then boyfriend, negotiated a £69,000 discount on the purchase of two flats in Bristol on behalf of Mrs Blair. » | Steven Swinford | Thursday, May 26, 2011
