In late March 1987 Hart spent a weekend on a Miami-based yacht called Monkey Business.

Monkey business yacht senator. The history of Gary Harts ironically named Monkey Business boat previewing other illicit behavior to Bill Clintons I did not inhale defense against charges of illegal drug use are more than fodder for late-night talk shows. Two young women joined the boat when it sailed to Bimini. To that point we could add nomination scandals to this list.

The Monkey Business a mere 2000-a-day charter was a dinghy compared with Khashoggis 70 million yacht. Broadhurst a Louisiana lawyer and lobbyist. In March 1987 at which time it was owned by developers Donald Soffer and Eddie Lewis the yacht was rented by William C.

Hart was the leading Democratic presidential candidate in 1988 until rumors surfaced of an affair with a woman named Donna Rice. Together with former US senator Gary Hart Broadhurst sailed it to Bimini for an overnight trip with two women one of whom was Donna Rice. That along with a photo of the two alongside the yacht sank his campaign.

Once considered the future of his party a policy wonk and leading figure among the Atari Democrats so named for their pro-business tech-friendly policies Hart became a punchline his name forever associated with that of the yacht where his fateful tryst was consummated Monkey Business. The presumed 1988 Democratic presidential front-runner was considered a good bet to beat Vice President George HW. While the boat was docked there one of the women took a picture of Hart sitting on the pier with the other Donna Rice in his lap.

On Saturday the two men had taken an overnight trip to Bimini with Rice and her girl-friend. Who owned the boat Monkey Business. Even if you werent in yachting in the late 1980s surely you remember the scandal involving Senator Gary Hart and the megayacht Monkey Business.

After the Miami Herald reported on his affair a picture surfaced showing Rice sitting on Harts lap while he wore a T-shirt reading Monkey Business Crew referring to the name of the. A picture soon appeared in the National Enquirer and then in hundreds of newspapers showing Donna Rice sitting in Harts lap with Hart in a Monkey Business T-shirt. The woman was a 29-year-old model named Donna Rice whom the senator had first met in 1983 during a New Years Day party at the Aspen vacation home of rock singer Don Henley.