Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "inappropriate relationship"^[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. Its repercussions in the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the surrounding scandals of 1997-99 became known as the Lewinsky scandal. The scandal affected Clinton's second term and gave Lewinsky significant notoriety. Monica lewinsky copyright This image comes from:http://www. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Psychological science redirects here. ... Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The scope of social psychological research. ... Mascot: Beaver Affiliations: University of London Russell Group EUA ACU CEMS APSIA Universities UK U8 Golden Triangle G5 Group Website: http://www. ... For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. ... is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... For the pop band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... The impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1999, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presiding. ... The Monica Lewinsky scandal was a political-sex scandal emerging from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a then 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. ...

Early life

Lewinsky was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in southern California on the west side of Los Angeles and in Beverly Hills. For her primary education she attended the John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air.^[2] She later attended Beverly Hills High School, but then left and graduated at Pacific Hills School, formerly known as Bel Air Prep, as salutatorian. San Francisco redirects here. ... This article is about the region of Southern California. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Beverly Hills redirects here. ... Bel Air is the name of several places in the United States of America: Bel Air, Alabama Bel Air, Los Angeles, California Bel Air, Kentucky Bel Air, Maryland Bel Air, Tennessee Bel Air, Texas Bel Air, Virginia (two places): in Fairfax County in Stafford County Outside America: Bel Air, Mauritius... Beverly Hills High School (usually abbreviated as Beverly or as BHHS) is the only major public high school in Beverly Hills, California. ... Pacific Hills School is a private, independent, co-educational college preparatory school in West Hollywood, California. ...

After transferring from Santa Monica College, she graduated with a psychology degree from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 1995. Then, Lewinsky moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked at the White House as an intern starting in July, getting a paid job there in November. Santa Monica College is a two-year public community college located in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California. ... Psychological science redirects here. ... Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. ... Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State Counties Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - Total 376. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Scandal

Main article: Lewinsky scandal

Between 15 November 1995 and 7 April 1996, Lewinsky had a relationship with the President. She later testified that the relationship involved oral sex, but not sexual intercourse. The Monica Lewinsky scandal was a political-sex scandal emerging from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a then 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. ... is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. ... It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ...

Clinton had previously been dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct, most notably in regard to a relationship with singer and former Arkansas state employee Gennifer Flowers, and an encounter with Arkansas state employee Paula Jones (née Corbin) in a Little Rock hotel room in which Jones claimed that Clinton exposed himself to her. These alleged affairs would have occurred during Clinton's time as Governor of Arkansas. Lewinsky's name actually surfaced during legal proceedings connected to the latter matter, when Jones's lawyers sought corroborating evidence of Clinton's conduct to substantiate Jones's allegations. Sexual misconduct is misconduct of a sexual nature. ... Official language(s) English Capital Little Rock Largest city Little Rock Largest metro area Little Rock Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 29th  - Total 53,179 sq mi (137,002 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 261 miles (420 km)  - % water 2. ... Gennifer Flowers (born January 24, 1950) is one of three women who have claimed to have had affairs with U.S. President Bill Clinton. ... Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin on September 17, 1966, in Lonoke, Arkansas) is a former Arkansas state employee who sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment and eschewal. ... There is also a Littlerock, California. ... This is a list of governors of Arkansas. ...

Lewinsky left the White House in April 1996 because her superiors felt she was spending too much time around Clinton. Since September 1997, Lewinsky's older colleague and confidante Linda Tripp was secretly recording their telephone conversations regarding the affair with Clinton. In January 1998, after Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit in the Paula Jones case, denying any physical relationship with Clinton, and attempted to persuade Tripp to lie under oath in the Jones case, Tripp gave the tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and these tapes added to his ongoing investigation into the Whitewater controversy. Starr broadened his investigation to include investigating Lewinsky, Clinton, and others for possible perjury and subornation of perjury in the Jones case. Noteworthy for its revelation of Tripp's motivations was Tripp's, after speaking with Lewinsky, reporting of their conversations to literary agent Lucianne Goldberg. Tripp also convinced Lewinsky to save the gifts that Clinton had given her during their affair, and not to dry clean what would later be infamously known as "the blue dress." This page is about the official residence of the President of the USA. For other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). ... Linda Tripp at the time of the Lewinsky scandal. ... An affidavit is a formal sworn statement of fact, signed by the declarant (who is called the affiant), and witnessed (as to the veracity of the affiants signature) by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public. ... Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin on September 17, 1966, in Lonoke, Arkansas) is a former Arkansas state employee who sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment and eschewal. ... United States Office of the Independent Counsel was an independent prosecutor — distinct from the Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice — that provided reports to the Congress under Title 28 of the United States Code, Article 595. ... Kenneth Winston Starr Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions by President Bill Clinton. ... The Whitewater Controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal or simply Whitewater) was an American political controversy concerning the real estate dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates in the Whitewater Development Agency during the 1970s and 1980s. ... Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law or in any of various sworn statements in writing. ... Subornation of perjury is a legal term describing the act of an attorney who presents testimony (or an affidavit) the attorney knows is materially false to a judge or jury as if it were factual. ... Lucianne Goldberg, born Lucianne Steinberger in 1935 in Virginia, is an American literary agent. ...

Clinton denied having had "a sexual affair," "sexual relations," or "a sexual relationship" with Lewinsky while under oath,^[3] and on 26 January 1998 claimed "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" in a nationally televised White House news conference. The line later became famous for its technical verity but deceptive nature, based on one's definition of "sexual relations." Human sexuality is the expression of sexual feelings. ... An affair may refer to a form of nonmonogamy, to infidelity or to adultery. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Bill Clinton denying the allegations of sexual misconduct. ...

Clinton also said, "there is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship"^[4] which he defended as truthful on 17 August 1998 hearing, famously arguing "it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"^[5] (i.e., he was not, at the time he made that statement, still having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky). Under pressure from Starr, who as Clinton learned had obtained from Lewinsky a blue dress with Clinton's semen stain, as well as testimony from Lewinsky that the President had inserted a cigar-tube into her vagina, Clinton admitted that he misled the American people and that he had had "inappropriate intimate contact" with Lewinsky. Clinton denied having committed perjury because, in the court's definition ^[6], oral sex was not "sex" per se. is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Horse semen being collected for breeding purposes. ... For other uses, see Cigar (disambiguation). ... The vagina, (from Latin, literally sheath or scabbard ) is the tubular tract leading from the uterus to the exterior of the body in female placental mammals and marsupials, or to the cloaca in female birds, monotremes, and some reptiles. ... Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. ...

In addition, relying upon the definition of "sexual relations" as proposed by the prosecution and agreed by the defense and by Judge Susan Webber Wright, who was hearing the Paula Jones case, Clinton claimed that because certain acts were performed on him, not by him, he did not engage in sexual relations. Lewinsky's testimony to the Starr Commission, however, contradicted Clinton's claim of being totally passive in their encounters. Clinton's lawyer later argued that different people can remember the same events in different ways. Susan Webber Wright (b. ... Passive has several meanings: In grammar it describes a grammatical voice. ...

Outcomes

President Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives and ultimately acquitted by the Senate on all charges brought there: allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice regarding the affair and lying under oath in a civil lawsuit. The aspects of the President's behavior in the Lewinsky matter that exonerated him in the eyes of the Senate will never be known conclusively beyond Senators' apparent belief that the charges simply did not warrant removing a President from office. Modern Obstruction of Justice, in a common law state, refers to the crime of offering interference of any sort to the work of police, investigators, regulatory agencies, prosecutors, or other (usually government) officials. ...

Paula Jones' civil lawsuit against President Clinton, the matter in which President Clinton originally provided testimony that gave rise to his impeachment, was ultimately dismissed. To end the appeal that followed, Paula Jones was paid $850,000 in an out of court settlement.

In the scandal's immediate aftermath Congress chose not to extend the legislation that empowered the driving force behind the investigation of the Lewinsky matter, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.

After the scandal

The affair led to a period of pop culture celebrity for Lewinsky as a younger-generation nexus of a political storm that was both lighthearted and extremely serious at the same time. It also contributed to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. After a 21-day trial, the Senate vote fell short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction and removal from office under the Constitution. Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... The impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1999, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presiding. ...

Around early 1999, Lewinsky reportedly said "I'm well-known for something that isn't great to be well-known for."^[7]

By her own account, Lewinsky survived the intense media attention by knitting; soon after the scandal she started a business selling her own brand of handbags online, but she closed it in 2004. In 2000 she appeared on The Tom Green Show in which the host took her to his parents' home in Canada's capital city of Ottawa in search of fabric for her new business. Lewinsky made a cameo appearance as herself in two sketches during the May 8, 1999 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live, a program that had lampooned her relationship with Clinton over the prior 16 months. She was also the host of the short-lived reality television dating program called Mr. Personality in 2003. For the record label, see Knitting Factory. ... This article is about the terms most basic meaning; a purse is also a race track term. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Tom Green Show was a Canadian (later American) television show which first aired in September 1994 on Rogers Television 22, a community channel in Ottawa, Ontario until 1996, and was later picked up by the Comedy Network in 1997. ... This article is about the capital city of Canada. ... is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the television network. ... This article is about the American television series. ... // This article is about the genre of TV shows. ... Mr. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After Clinton's autobiography My Life appeared in 2004, Lewinsky said in an interview with the British tabloid Daily Mail: My Life My Life is a 2004 autobiography written by former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who left office on January 20, 2001. ... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper and the oldest tabloid, first published in 1896. ...

"He could have made it right with the book, but he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. (...) I really didn't expect him to go into detail about our relationship (...) But if he had and he'd done it honestly, I wouldn't have minded.... I did, though, at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. (...) That's not how it was. This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. ... I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character."^[8]

In December 2006, Lewinsky graduated with a master's degree in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics^[9] where she had been studying since September 2005.^[10] Her dissertation was entitled “In Search of the Impartial Juror: An exploration of the third person effect and pre-trial publicity.” This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The scope of social psychological research. ... Mascot: Beaver Affiliations: University of London Russell Group EUA ACU CEMS APSIA Universities UK U8 Golden Triangle G5 Group Website: http://www. ...

References

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Further reading

• Andrew Morton: Monica's Story: an authorised biography/interview. St. Martin's Press, March 1999; ISBN 0-312-24091-0, mass-market paperback ISBN 0-312-97362-4
• One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism by Marvin L. Kalb
• Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the Public Interest (Sexual Cultures) by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan

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External links

• A Guide to the Monica Lewinsky Story, also: The Starr Report; Tripp Tapes; Articles of Impeachment; The "Stalker" Tale
• Monica Lewinsky profile in the Washington Post (January 24, 1998)
• Timeline of the affair from Washington Post
• Lewinsky profile in New York magazine, 2001
• Monica Lewinsky at the Internet Movie Database