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By RICHARD JOHNSON with Jeane MacIntosh
Steamy stories from Bill's butler
BILL Clinton once allowed sexy White House receptionist Debra Schiff to lock his butler in the closet so she and the fun-loving prez could be alone together.
What's more, Bill did spend time alone with Monica Lewinsky - and once chased Barbra Streisand around a piano during a trip to California.
So says former Clinton chief steward Mike McGrath, a decorated 21-year Navy veteran who worked for Clinton as his chief steward from the start of the president's first term until 1996.
McGrath - who testified for the "Zippergate" grand jury - tells Star magazine he was manning the pantry across from Clinton's private study one day in 1994 when Schiff approached and announced, "We don't want to be disturbed for 20 minutes."
He says Schiff swung shut the pantry door, put a jam under it and entered the study where the president waited.
"It was about 20 minutes on the nose that she came whipping by me," McGrath recalls. "She was in a real hurry - she didn't say a word and she didn't look me in the eye. I waited a minute and went and checked on the president, and he was gone, too."
Schiff denies the account.
McGrath also tells the tab about the time White House steward Bayani Nelvis saw Lewinksy emerge from a private session with Clinton in the Oval Office study shortly after her promotion from intern to the Legislative Affairs office.
"Nelvis took me aside and told me Monica had just come out of the study with her hair all messed up, her liptick smeared - and she was all shaky and in shock.
"It was obvious Nelvis knew what went on there - he didn't have to spell it out for me."
What's more, notes McGrath, "Monica really didn't have any business" in the study. "Not even the Secret Service go in there."
It was on a 1993 California trip that McGrath says other staffers told him Streisand was a guest in the presidential hotel suite: "I heard she was up in his room and they were pretty playful. Somebody told me he chased her around a piano."
According to McGrath, a small group of White House insiders - including secretary Betty Currie - knew what was going on behind closed doors. Notes McGrath: "That's one of the things they asked me in the grand jury - "who else have you told?'"