Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin on September 17, 1966 in Lonoke, Arkansas) was a former Arkansas state employee who sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment.

According to her story, in 1991 she was escorted to the hotel room of Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, where he crudely propositioned her. She kept quiet about the incident until 1994, when a David Brock story in American Spectator told a story, popularly referred to as Troopergate, about an Arkansas employee named "Paula" offering to be Clinton's girlfriend. Jones filed a sexual harassment suit against Clinton in May 1994. Ann Coulter served as one of her attorneys in the beginning of this matter; however as Coulter admitted in the Hartford Courant in 1999, saying "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president", she leaked the lurid details of Jones' testimony to the press in order to prevent Clinton from avoiding publicity by settling the suit, even though that had been Jones' express intention since the beginning of the suit, because that would not have been damaging to Clinton.

Coulter broke with Jones, and Jones began to be represented by Susan Carpenter-McMillan . Carpenter-McMillan wasted no time in using the press to attack Clinton to a much greater degree, calling him "un-American," a "liar," and a "philanderer" on Meet the Press, Crossfire, Equal Time , Larry King Live, Today, The Geraldo Rivera Show , Burden of Proof , Hannity & Colmes, Talkback Live , and other shows. "I do not respect a man who dodges the draft, cheats on his wife, and exposes his wee-wee to a stranger." In September, 1997 , Jones' attorneys Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata both quit the case, after Carpenter-McMillan advised Jones to reject a settlement offer from Clinton because it didn't come with an apology. Carpenter-McMillan's husband, personal-injury lawyer William McMillan , then became Jones' chief attorney, while Carpenter-McMillan continued to serve as Jones' spokeswoman, chair her legal fund, and run her fund-raising Website. Under her influence, Jones underwent a substantial 'fashion makeover' in early 1998. "I talked to her as a friend," Carpenter-McMillan said, "I don't know that anyone had ever talked to her about her hair." Jones' permed curly dark 'big hair' was converted to a softer, smoother, straight hairstyle in a lighter brown color; her makeup changed from brighter colors to more subtle shades; her clothing went from faddish short skirts and garish accessories to conservative pantsuits. Most observers agreed that she had had a subtle rhinoplasty, although Jones and Carpenter-Mcmillan denied it, saying "She has not had a nose job! She has not had plastic surgery at all. We couldn't afford it." The net effect, it was universally agreed, was to change her image from unreliable 'trailer trash', as the Clinton organization had been portraying her, to a sober, reliable, competent professional.

However, when the case did go to court, it was summarily dismissed as groundless, in that the judge ruled that Jones could not show that she had suffered any damages whatsoever, even should all her charges prove true. Jones did eventually gain a settlement from Clinton in exchange for not appealing the decision, but it was only $850,000, one third the size she had been asking for, and went to pay her now considerable legal expenses; meanwhile, her marriage had broken apart under the strain. However, the investigation of the Jones case eventually led to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, and Clinton's 1998 impeachment.

Jones now claims she was victimized by both Clinton and his Republican opponents. Her legal fund did not cover the attorneys' fees, and the settlement went completely to pay them, as well as back taxes. Now impoverished and divorced, Jones earned an unknown sum of money by posing for Penthouse. This caused her to be publicly denounced as "trailer trash" by Coulter, who said, "I totally believed she was the good Christian girl she made herself out to be. Now it turns out she's a fraud, at least to the extent of pretending to be an honorable and moral person." Jones defended herself on Larry King Live, saying, "I haven't been out doing anything and trying to make a lot of money. I haven't been offered a book deal like everybody else in this huge thing has done. Ann Coulter's done books. I haven't seen her call me up and say: 'Paula, would you like for me to help you write a book, a really nice, decent book?' I haven't had any help from anybody whatsoever."

Jones subsequently appeared in a boxing match against Tonya Harding in Fox TV's Celebrity Boxing in 2002, where she lost.

In an ironic twist, Brock apologized to Clinton in an article in Esquire in April, 1998 saying the original article in American Spectator was simply made up as part of an anti-Clinton crusade on the part of Richard Mellon Scaife's Arkansas Project. However, his detractors ask how we can be sure that he is not lying about this if he is a self-confessed liar about his original article.