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Portland, Ore.

Gore under investigation: Portland police have reopened an investigation into a massage therapist’s complaint that former Vice President Al Gore made unwanted sexual advances to her in 2006. Police had closed the case in 2009, citing insufficient evidence, but reopened it after determining that high-level police officials should have reviewed the case before it was dropped. Molly Haggerty, 54, claimed that Gore wrapped her in “an inescapable embrace” after a massage in his hotel room. She says she fended him off after telling him he was acting “like a crazed sex poodle.” A spokesman for Gore, who in June announced his separation from his wife, Tipper, said he “unequivocally and emphatically” denies the charges.

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