First gained notoriety when the car in which she was riding was pulled
over by police in Washington, DC, in 1974. She jumped out of the car
into the nearby Tidal Basin, a sort of artificial lake. In the car with
her was Rep. Wilbur Mills, powerful chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, and a married man. According to police, both were
drunk. It was later found out that Foxe was a stripper in a local
establishment and she and Mills had been "keeping company" for some
time. Mills at first denied the incident had ever occurred, but had to
retract the denial when it turned out that a local TV cameraman
happened to be nearby at that moment and caught the whole incident on
film. The ensuing scandal, and another incident involving Miss Foxe,
caused Mills to resign his chairmanship and retire in 1976.
