text: On June 10, The New York Times inadvertently briefly posted an article on the lives of the women involved in Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal. The article, written by reporter Michael Barbaro, was titled “For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers.” It was quickly deleted before being replaced with a production note: 
   
   “An article was posted on this page inadvertently, before it was ready for publication,” read the note left on the story page. 
   
   “The story was posted inadvertently before it was ready,” New York Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha told BuzzFeed. “We do not discuss stories in advance of publication.” 
   
   But while the story was deleted from the Times website, large portions of it remained cached by Google. By looking at search result listings in a series of more than 100 searches in Google News, it was possible to reconstruct what appears to be the bulk of the article: 1,342 words. 
   
   The article that emerges is a sympathetic look at several of the women whose names were made public after Weiner accidentally tweeted a lewd picture to a college student. The women, many of whom went public in exchange for cash, and one of whom is a porn star who held a press conference to draw attention to herself, are portrayed as victims of a harsh media environment who have banded together in a shared struggle to reclaim their lives: 
   
   This is the life of a Weiner Woman: infused with indignity, two years later. Anthony D. Weiner’s improbable campaign for mayor of New York is a carefully calibrated wager that voters have made peace with his lewd online behavior, a seemingly victimless cybercrime for which his wife and family have forgiven him. But for the women who were on the other end of Mr. Weiner’s sexually explicit conversations, the scandal remains an open sore that has cut short careers, disrupted educations and shattered reputations. In ways big and small, they say, the experience has defined them: once-private details of their lives, as well as their exchanges with Mr. Weiner, are now immortalized on the Internet for all to see and judge. 
   
   “I cannot tell you the devastation,” Lisa Weiss, a blackjack dealer who leaked her emails with Weiner to RadarOnline, is quoted as saying, calling herself “a little piece of collateral damage from the Weiner situation.” 
   
   “Fans of Mr. Weiner from the start, their feelings about him now are complex and unsettled: Some, like Ms. Weiss, are heartened by his campaign for mayor and rooting for him to win, despite their travails,” the story says. 
   
   The porn star Ginger Lee, who capitalized on the situation by staging a press conference with the lawyer Gloria Allred, “called on [Weiner] to stay out of the race to spare women like her further anguish,” the spiked Times story said. “Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over,” she said through her lawyer. “There will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements, and hurtful remarks.” 
   
   Weiss and Traci Nobles, a Georgia fitness instructor, both say in the story that they support his mayoral campaign. 
   
   “I think third time is going to be the charm,” Nobles told the Times. “A perfect comeback story, ya know?” 
   
   Asked about the fallout, Mr. Weiner said in a statement to the Times: “I am deeply sorry that my behavior caused so much upheaval in the lives of those who were unwittingly involved.” 
   
   The portions that could be recreated were taken from the Google cache below; BuzzFeed cannot guarantee the sentences appear in the exact order as The New York Times intended to them to be. 
   
   Update Several hours after this story was posted the New York Times republished their story. A New York Times spokesperson said in a statement: “Our editors decide when a story is ready for publication. Outside coverage does not play a role in that decision,” according to Dylan Byers of Politico. 
   
   Anthony Weiner responding to the New York Times in an interview with City and State said “I want to reiterate that sense of apology, and I’ve never talked about the private exchanges that we’ve had and I never will, because I think that they’ve already been put through enough.” ||||| Customers taunt Lisa Weiss. “Talk dirty to me,” they joke. “We know you like it.” Colleagues refuse to speak with her. Strangers mock her in nasty online messages. 
   
   “Clearly she’s got mental issues,” declared the latest. 
   
   Anthony D. Weiner’s improbable campaign for mayor of New York City is a wager that voters have made peace with his lewd online behavior, a subject he has largely left behind as he roils the race with his aggressive debating style and his attention-getting policy proposals. 
   
   But for the women who were on the other end of Mr. Weiner’s sexually explicit conversations and photographs, his candidacy is an unwanted reminder of a scandal that has upended their lives in ways big and small, cutting short careers, disrupting educations and damaging reputations. 
   
   “I cannot tell you the devastation,” said Ms. Weiss, a 42-year-old blackjack dealer in Nevada who exchanged dozens of explicit messages with Mr. Weiner, then a congressman, in 2010 and 2011. 
   
   Ms. Weiss, a die-hard Democrat who once volunteered for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign and was inspired by “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a film critique of the Bush administration, said she had reached out to Mr. Weiner after watching him joust with Republican rivals on cable news. They traded admiring messages on Facebook that, at his prompting, became intimate and raunchy, she said. 
   
   When their correspondence eventually became public, she said in an interview, conservative-minded colleagues sought to have her fired. The press lined up outside of her house and showed up at her casino, causing her to miss work for weeks. One night, she turned on the television to find the HBO host Bill Maher and the actress Jane Lynch performing a dramatic reading of the bawdy messages. Ms. Weiss, an avowed Maher fan, said she sat in her living room crying. While coping with the onslaught, she drank heavy amounts of alcohol, a habit that persists. 
   
   “I obsess about it,” she said, “every day.” 
   
   It is hard not to, she said: Mr. Weiner had faded from view after resigning from Congress, but now that he is in the mayoral race, her phone lights up with calls from reporters, online enemies are pouncing and fresh cruelties abound. 
   
   “We know what you want to do to him,” she recalled a man teasing her at work recently. 
   
   Little unites the five women whose online relationships with Mr. Weiner have become public. Some were self-confident political admirers; some were struggling and insecure, flattered by attention from a man in power. Some fled publicity after his downfall; some sought it out. (Ms. Weiss even appeared on “Inside Edition.”) Some of them still think he would be a good mayor; some are repelled by the concept. 
   
   But it is clear that all of them have been overwhelmed by the reaction to the imbroglio. 
   
   Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old college student when she interacted with Mr. Weiner, is still trying to reclaim her identity, online and off. 
   
   In spring 2011, Mr. Weiner sent her an image of himself in boxers, with an obvious erection. Ms. Cordova, who has told The New York Times that she had chatted electronically with Mr. Weiner about politics and not about sex, was shocked by his unwanted advance. 
   
   When Mr. Weiner inadvertently posted the image publicly on Twitter, the Internet quickly rendered its own verdict, branding Ms. Cordova, incorrectly, she says, a participant in his online dalliances. The news media dug up Ms. Cordova’s old yearbooks and sifted through police records, publicizing her youthful indiscretions. The attention prompted her to withdraw from academic classes. She moved from Seattle to New York City, before Mr. Weiner’s decision to run for mayor, eager to leave a place where she had become known for her ties to the unfolding drama. 
   
   But, with Mr. Weiner back in the spotlight, the story has followed her across the country. A few weeks ago, a reporter showed up, unannounced, at her office, asking her about Mr. Weiner. 
   
   The repercussions were also painful for Traci Nobles, a onetime schoolteacher and a fitness instructor in Georgia, who says her roommate leaked her salacious messages with Mr. Weiner without her permission. As media inquiries poured in to her employer, Ms. Nobles was forced to quit her job at a Young Women’s Christian Organization because of the attention. 
   
   “Which sort of broke my heart,” she has said in an interview. Determined to explain her online relationship with Mr. Weiner and its impact on her life, Ms. Nobles is writing a book that has yet to be published. 
   
   The shared experience of the women involved has brought several of them together, for a kind of online group therapy. Ms. Weiss said she had discussed Mr. Weiner with both Ms. Nobles and Ms. Cordova. 
   
   “We all kind of commiserated,” Ms. Weiss said. “They were all very supportive.” 
   
   Asked about the fallout, Mr. Weiner said in a statement: “I am deeply sorry that my behavior caused so much upheaval in the lives of those who were unwittingly involved.” 
   
   On the campaign trail, though, he mixes contrition with wittiness. Not long ago he cracked a joke about his use of social media. “You know how much I trust Twitter,” he said at a candidate forum. 
   
   A number of the women remain angry with Mr. Weiner — arguing that, after taking advantage of his political devotees, he is now drawing them back into the spotlight. 
   
   Ginger Lee, a former star of adult films who communicated with Mr. Weiner online, has pleaded with him not to run for mayor. 
   
   “Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over,” she said in a statement released by her lawyer. “There will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements and hurtful remarks.” 
   
   Ms. Weiss, who said she was a voluntary participant in explicit online chats with Mr. Weiner, said it was his position as a prominent lawmaker that allowed him to steer conversations about politics and policy into racy exchanges about sex. 
   
   “If he were a regular guy off the street talking to me like that,” she said, “I would have not done it.” 
   
   Ms. Weiss said her back-and-forth with Mr. Weiner was at times remarkably intimate and confessional. She recalled Mr. Weiner acknowledging loneliness when his wife, an aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton, traveled abroad. He once called Ms. Weiss and, after realizing that her 12-year-old niece was in the room, got on the phone with the girl to wish her good night. 
   
   “I was flattered,” she said of their chats. 
   
   Soon after Mr. Weiner confessed to his online indiscretions, Ms. Weiss’s own troubles began. She said a former boyfriend threatened to make public her messages with Mr. Weiner. So she acted first, granting access to her Facebook account to a reporter at RadarOnline.com, a decision that she says was a result of her naïveté about the news media, and that she now regrets. 
   
   “I thought I could control it,” she said. 
   
   She could not. Hundreds of the messages appeared on Web sites and in newspapers across the country. The coverage even reached her 98-year-old grandmother. “How do you explain that to everyone you know who reads that?” Ms. Weiss asked. “It was horrible.” 
   
   Her feelings about him now are complex, unsettled and somewhat counterintuitive. She acknowledges she brought on some of the damage herself, and even went on to his Facebook site to apologize. 
   
   But she is heartened by his campaign for mayor and rooting for him to win, despite her travails. 
   
   “I’d like him to say, ‘I am sorry I put you in that position,’” she said. 
   
   But she added: “If he lived here, I’d vote for him. He is such a big fighter for all of our causes.” 
   
   Ms. Nobles, the Georgia fitness instructor, said she, too, understood the appeal of Mr. Weiner’s candidacy, though she did not express outright support. “A perfect comeback story, ya know?” she wrote in an e-mail to The Times. 
   
   Back at the casino, Ms. Weiss says she is trying to laugh off the crude jokes that she hears. But the words sting. 
   
   “It gets old after two years,” she said.
target: – Anthony Weiner may be moving on from his 2011 sexting scandal—but for the five women on the other end of his raunchy messages and photos, it's not so easy, the New York Times reports. Lisa Weiss, 42, says customers at the casino where she works as a blackjack dealer don't make it easy to forget, saying things like, "Talk dirty to me," and, "We know what you want to do to him," while colleagues refuse to speak to her, and strangers send her disparaging remarks online. "Clearly she’s got mental issues," read a recent one. Gennette Cordova, who was 21 when she received a photo of Weiner's, er, weiner, moved across the country to get away from the scandal, but the press still tracked her down, showing up at her new workplace. And Ginger Lee says his new mayoral campaign is a constant reminder of what happened. "Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over," she says. "There will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements and hurtful remarks." (Vaguely interesting side-note, Buzzfeed reported earlier today that this story was first published on June 10 then pulled offline. The Times then posted the story hours later, but says it wasn't influenced by the Buzzfeed piece.)