Lewinsky Monica

American activist, television personality, fashion designer, and former White House intern. President Bill Clinton admitted to having had what he called an "inappropriate relationship" with Lewinsky while she worked at the White House in 1995–1996. In 1998 she thus became the focus of a sex-scandal that rocked the presidency. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clintons impeachment) became known later as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Monicas parents had been married four years when she was born and her brother Michael followed on 30 December 1977. The two kids grew up with a life of privilege in Beverly Hills, California. When she was 14, on 21 September 1987, her parents had a messy divorce. Her mother got a restraining order to keep her father from "threatening and assaulting the family." He acknowledged that they lived beyond their means and owed more than $100,000 in back taxes, but denied abuse. Her mother, Marcia Lewis, is an author of an unauthorized tell-all book, "The Private Lives of the Three Tenors," about the alleged sex lives of Pavarotti, Jose Carreras, and Placido Domingo. Her dad was a radiologist and both had a taste for high living. In Beverly Hills high school she appeared in school musicals and was named in the year-book, "the girl most likely to get her name in lights." A pretty girl, she was always a bit on the heavy side, with big, lustrous black hair. Monica graduated from a posh prep school in 1991 that cost $12,000 a year tuition. She briefly went to Santa Monica college before transferring in 1993 to Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR where she made the deans list. In May 1995, she earned a degree in psychology and moved to Washington DC where her mom was living. She began a job at the White House as a staffer, a 21-year-old political intern. In 1997, she became buddies with another White House employee, Linda Tripp, and they became confidantes. When Tripp told attorney James Moody what she knew about Monicas alleged affair with the President, he set up Tripps first meeting with special prosecutor Ken Starrs people on 12 January 1998. On the following day Tripp was "wired" with a tape recorder strapped to her body in order to record what Lewinsky said about her sex life. On 20 January 1998, Clinton categorically denied any trysts, "I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman." Ken Starr had been deeply involved in an investigation of President Clinton for the past four years. He needed Lewinskys testimony, and on 28 July 1998, he granted Monica and her mother full immunity in exchange for testimony. She had fired her attorney William Ginsburg on June 2 and hired Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris. On 6 August 1998, she testified about her relationship with Clinton before the grand jury. She related how she began work at the White House in July 1995, and began to make eye contact with the president, a mutual flirtation. On 15 November 1995, he invited her into his private study where they kissed. They had their first sexual encounter that evening with the second two days later and a third on New Years Eve. The testimony included details of an 18-month affair with over a dozen sexual encounters in which she performed oral sex, and included the physical evidence of a semen-stained dress which she had kept. There were some exchanges of gifts. In April 1996, Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. On 17 August 1998, Clinton testified that he had "misled people" and h Read less