biography
pronunciation:
[luhwinskee]
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| female
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| (1973– )
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| biography:
| Former White House intern, born in San Francisco, California, USA. She graduated from Lewis & Clark College at Oregon, and joined the White House in 1995, moving to the Pentagon the following year. She became known in 1998 during the official investigation into claims of sexual harassment made by Paula Jones against President Clinton (a claim later dismissed). In 1999 she was called to give evidence in the impeachment trial against the president. It was alleged that Lewinsky had had a sexual relationship with the president, and that he had persuaded her to deny the affair in her deposition to lawyers acting for Jones. Clinton subsequently denied the affair himself, while under oath (a denial he was forced by circumstantial evidence to retract during his impeachment trial). The enquiries were fuelled by a series of covert tape recordings of conversations made with her by her confidante Linda Tripp (1950– ), a former White House aide. Lewinski incurred heavy legal costs throughout the trials, and continued to maintain a high national and international profile after the impeachment. Her memoir, Monica's Story (1999), became a bestseller. |
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