1. Rielle Hunter spent a short stint in the 80s being friendly with author Jay McInerney, who penned Bright Lights, Big City. He used Hunter in one of his lesser-known books, Story of My Life, and named the vapid character "Allison Poole."

2. "Allison Poole" reappears in two novels by Jay's buddy, Brett Easton Ellis. Both American Psycho (1991) and Glamorama (1998) feature Poole, the latter more so than the former, where she appears as only a tertiary character. You can decide for yourself whether BEE was talking about Hunter when he wrote about the drug-addled bimbo:

"You were hanging out with that bimbo Alison something … Stoole?"
"Poole, honey," I reply calmly. "Alison Poole."
"Yeah, that was her name, " [Elizabeth] says, then with unmasked sarcasm, "Hot number."
"What do you mean by that?" I ask, offended. "She was a hot number."
Elizabeth turns to Christie and unfortunately says, "If you had an American Express card she'd give you a blow-job."

3. Glamorama tells the story of a gorgeous but dimwitted model, Victor Ward, who gets caught up in international espionage when he realizes that a crew of beatiful supermodels have been brainwashed to become terrorists. Sound familiar? It's the plot of Zoolander, which came out three years after Glamorama. Brett Easton Ellis jokingly (?) said he was going to sue Stiller for plagiarizing his work, but nothing ever came of it.

4. Stiller's next directorial project comes seven years after Zoolander, and is called Tropic Thunder. Controversy surrounds the project due to the film's callous running gag about the mentally handicapped. On the other side of the continent, Rielle Hunter is dealing with fallout from her own mental handicap (the symptoms of which include a severe case of crazy blog).

Although Stiller and Hunter have (probably) never met, the two are involved in a strangley complex web of coincidences, the likes of which may have been thought up by Easton Ellis himself during a late night coke binge/ hooker strangling marathon that ended with him pounding the keys on a typewriter.