as an early part of the troopergate matter, writer david brock published an article, "his cheating heart" that refers to a liaison between clinton and woman named paula. this led to the paula jones affair and later led jones to sue clinton, successfully obtaining an out-of-court settlement in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. brock continued his conspiracy theorizing until a 1997 "esquire" article titled "i was a conservative hit man" in which he recanted some of his claims. in 1998 he went further and personally apologized to clinton. brock was let go from the "spectator" and published his 2002 book "blinded by the right: the conscience of an ex-conservative"."