
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 27, 1994                   TAG: 9405270128
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

BOB BARKER DENIES SEXUAL HARASSMENT

TV game-show host Bob Barker said Thursday he had an affair with a model from ``The Price is Right,'' but denied sexually harassing or exploiting her.

Barker, who has been widowed since 1981, said he was involved with Dian Parkinson for about 18 months, from 1989 to 1991.

Barker and ``The Price is Right'' producer Jonathan Goodson said they were going public about the affair because Parkinson threatened to sue Barker and the show unless she was paid $8 million.

Parkinson, who worked for the show for 18 years, quit in 1993. She said she left because of tension between herself and other models, Goodson said.

Before she quit, Parkinson posed nude for two Playboy magazine pictorials, in December 1991 and May 1993.

- Associated Press

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