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		</div><p>The US businesswoman at the centre of a storm over her links to Boris Johnson has refused to say whether they had an affair.</p>
<p>Jennifer Arcuri said she and Mr Johnson, who she saved on her phone as “Alex the Great”, bonded over their “mutual love of classic literature”.</p>
<p>The technology entrepreneur refused to answer when asked whether she had had a sexual relationship with Mr Johnson, but insisted that he “never ever gave me any favouritism”.</p>
<p>Ms Arcuri was speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain following a series of stories about her links to the Prime Minister during his tenure as London mayor.</p>
<p>Ms Arcuri said that Mr Johnson had visited her flat a “handful” of times, adding that she did not have time for the media attention surrounding him when they met in public.</p>
<p>She added: <em>“We tried having drinks out in public or having lunch, it just became too much of a mob show, so I said ‘you just have to come to my office’.”</em></p>
<p>Ms Arcuri said that her office was in her Shoreditch flat, which also featured a pole-dancing pole.</p>
<p>She said the British Prime Minister had been there “five, ten, a handful of times” and described him as “a really good friend”, adding: <em>“It’s really not anyone’s business what private life we had.”</em></p>
<p>Ms Arcuri refused to answer questions on whether she had an “intimate relationship” with Mr Johnson.</p>
<p>She said that Mr Johnson had not had anything to do with her other achievements.</p>
<p>She added:<em> “Because the press have made me this objectified ex-model pole dancer, I am really not going to answer that question.</em></p>
<p><em>“I am not going to be putting myself in a position for you to weaponise my answer.</em></p>
<p><em>“Boris had nothing to do with my other achievements.”</em></p>
<p>Ms Arcuri also said the Prime Minister “asked me to show him a few things” on the pole she had in her flat.</p>
<p>Describing it as a “conversation starter,” she said she and Mr Johnson “always had a laugh about it”.</p>
<p><em>“The pole stood in the living room, yes, he saw the pole.”</em></p>
<p>When asked directly whether Mr Johnson had ever used the pole, Ms Arcuri said: <em>“I’m never going to tell you that.”</em></p>
<p>The former model was reportedly given £126,000 in public money and privileged access to three foreign trade missions led by Mr Johnson while he was in City Hall.</p>
<p>Last month, the Prime Minister was referred to the police complaints body to assess whether he should face a criminal investigation over his association with her.</p>
<p>The Sunday Times has reported that the businesswoman confided to four friends that they had been engaged in an affair during his time as mayor.</p>
<p>But Ms Arcuri told GMB: <em>“Those people are not my friends.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Johnson insisted last week that everything he did when promoting London overseas as mayor was done in “complete conformity with the code and the rules”.</p>
<p>Over the weekend, the Sunday Times also reported that Mr Johnson wrote a letter recommending Ms Arcuri for a job as the head of a technology quango when he was in City Hall.</p>
<p>Leaked emails seen by the Sunday Times suggested Mr Johnson was listed as a reference in her application for the role at Tech City.</p>
<p>Ms Arcuri was said to have been a 27-year-old student at the time of applying for the £100,000 a year job.</p>
<p>In recent days, Downing Street has also been forced to deny claims that Mr Johnson squeezed the thigh of a female journalist under the table during a private lunch.</p>
<p>Charlotte Edwardes said the incident took place at the offices of The Spectator in London shortly after Mr Johnson became the magazine’s editor in 1999.</p>
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