But for Levy, affairs with older men in positions of authority provided security and excitement β two things friends and psychologists believe were important to the year-old intern, who has been missing for days. She was ambitious in a quiet, but very serious, way.
Well before married California Rep. Gary Condit, 53, stole her heart, Levy had developed a taste for older men β dating a cop 10 years her senior in her hometown of Modesto and a married doctor in Sacramento.
Steele, who has left the Police Department and lives outside Modesto in Salida, remembers Levy as a strong-minded, individualistic young woman who knew what she wanted.
But she was crushed when he broke off their relationship in , and Steele said she continued pursuing him, bombarding him with telephone calls, before moving on. Gail Smith, a Modesto police clerk, said Steele did not talk about the relationship and married the year after the split. A friend in Los Angeles, who requested anonymity, said Chandra was shattered by the breakup when she started studying at the University of Southern California in August The pattern appears to have been repeated the following year, when Levy moved to Sacramento to intern on the legal staff of California Gov.
Gray Davis between February and June. But she soon fell head over heels for Condit, her local congressman β a relationship Levy gradually revealed over several weeks to Sven Jones, who exercised at the same gym and also worked at the bureau. While she initially enjoyed the cloak-and-dagger preparations Condit insisted upon for their trysts, Chandra was becoming frustrated, wanting him to leave his wife, Carolyn.
