Ken Starr: Last News

old friend Bill Clinton to help him with his Oscar campaigns, a new book has claimed.Michael Schulman’s book “Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears” used sourcing from a former Miramax employee to dive deep into the disgraced producer’s Academy Award exploits.The anonymous staffer revealed that Weinstein, 70, asked Clinton, 76, for ideas to help promote Billy Bob Thornton’s 1996 film “Sling Blade,” according to an excerpt shared by IndieWire. Ultimately, Thornton scored a nomination for Best Actor a year later and won Best Adapted Screenplay for penning the script, which was set in Clinton’s native Arkansas.“I was so appalled that the president of the United States would spend half an hour with us on the phone,” the Miramax worker alleged.

Monica Lewinsky is processing the «complicated feelings» she said arose after learning about Ken Starr's death. Starr, who died Tuesday, served as the independent counsel whose investigation uncovered President Bill Clinton's affair with Lewinsky, and ultimately led to Clinton's impeachment for lying under oath and obstructing justice.

Ken Starr, the prosecutor who led the relentless Whitewater investigation into then-President Bill Clinton and whose report on the case revealed intimate details of Clinton’s extramarital sexual relations, died Tuesday in Houston following complications from surgery. He was 76.

In a new interview, Monica Lewinsky opens up about the toll the sandal surrounding her affair with then-U.S. President Bill Clinton took on her mental health.