Linda Tripp, Whistleblower in Monica Lewinsky Scandal, Dies at 70
Reading now: 601
variety.comBy Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Linda Tripp, the career civil servant who ignited the impeachment of President Bill Clinton by tape-recording his mistress, has died.
She was 70. Tripp was working in the Pentagon when she befriended Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern who was having an affair with the president.
In 1997, she made 22 hours of surreptitious recordings of Lewinsky speaking about the affair, and then handed them over to special prosecutor Ken Starr.
To Clinton’s supporters, Tripp became one of the primary villains of the impeachment episode — a false friend who had betrayed Lewinsky’s confidence out of partisan motives.
Read more on variety.com
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.
