Richard Gere/Kim Basinger torrid affair

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National ENQUIRER Online Insider News
Tuesday, September 22, 1998

Book blows lid off . . . Richard Gere's affair with married Kim Basinger

Kim Basinger had a torrid affair with Richard Gere while she was still
married to Hollywood makeup man Ron Britton, reveals Ron in a steamy
tell-all book.

And after Richard seduced Kim, he professed his love for the sultry
sexpot in letters Ron found hidden in Kim's drawer.

Richard and Kim starred together in the 1986 movie "No Mercy," and
then-hubby Ron grew suspicious when the actress kept coming home late
from "rehearsals" with Gere, Ron discloses in his book "Kim Basinger:
Longer Than Forever."

Those suspicions were confirmed one night when Ron caught Kim and
Richard making out passionately in a car in a restaurant parking lot,
Ron writes.

And she continued to see the actor even after Ron confronted her about
the affair.

Several months later, Ron found two letters Richard had sent to Kim that
the actress had stashed in a drawer in her home gym, according to Ron's
soon-to-be-published book, which has been excerpted in a British
newspaper.

"I feel silly saying, 'I love you,' " Gere wrote in one letter. "I wish
to . . . make love to you with no withholding . . . I wish I could
please you tonight."

Ron -- whose marriage to Kim ended in 1989 after nine years -- also
reveals intimate details of his own sex life with the beauty. He claims
they sometimes videotaped their love sessions -- and often had steamy
sex in their car after dining out.

Now Kim's current husband, movie hunk Alec Baldwin, is steamy too --
he's "enraged that Britton would cash in on Kim's new popularity after
winning the Oscar this year," an insider declared.

"He told me, 'He was nothing but a makeup artist and now, with no career
in sight, he hopes to make some money off cheap, scurrilous gossip about
my wife.

" 'He's a gutter rat -- and if he ever comes into my home territory, he
better be prepared for a confrontation!' "