By 2005, Lewinsky found that she could not escape the spotlight in the U. S., which made both her professional and personal life difficult.

Lewinsky's testimony that Clinton concealed gifts was contradicted by both Clinton's testimony and that of his personal secretary Betty Currie, who each said that it was Lewinsky who asked him for some gifts and that he tended to give a number of his staff gifts as an act of courtesy.

Starr also presented nothing credible to back his claim that Clinton obstructed justice by asking Lewinsky to file an affidavit denying there was ever a relationship between the two or that both Lewinsky and Clinton denied what had truly happened during the relationship under oath.

Starr also argued that Clinton abused power by: denying the relationship with Lewinsky ever occurred ; using executive privilege to both pursue an appeal against the case without Starr's knowledge ; using executive privilege to cover up the relationship ; delaying his grand jury testimony until August, and by getting the Secret Service to agree to assist in covering up the relationship in an acquiescing matter.

Tripp became a close confidante of another former White House employee, Monica Lewinsky, while they both worked in the Pentagon's public affairs office.

Eventually both Clinton and Lewinsky had to appear before a Washington, D. C., grand jury to answer questions, although Clinton appeared via closed circuit television.

The report was also criticized for exaggerating what the legal definition of perjury is, accusing Clinton of committing perjury after only one witness claimed he did so and saying that Clinton lied when he said he did not have sexual relations with Lewinsky in terms described by Paula Jones ' attorneys.

The report alleged that Clinton considered oral sex to be a form of sexual relations and that the relationship between him and Lewinsky lasted longer than the date he described, but presented nothing relevant to back its claims.

The two were described as being in the middle of a hike up Hunter at the time, although it is unknown where they were on the mountain when Lewinsky made her disclosure.

The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones.

On March 3, 1999, Lewinsky was interviewed by Barbara Walters on ABC's 20 / 20.

Lewinsky made about $ 500, 000 from her participation in the book and another $ 1 million from international rights to the Walters interview, but was still beset by high legal bills and living costs.

By her own account Lewinsky had survived the intense media attention during the scandal period by knitting.

In September 1999, Lewinsky took this interest further by beginning to sell a line of handbags bearing her name under the company name The Real Monica, Inc.

In March 2002, Lewinsky, no longer bound by the terms of her agreement with the United States Office of the Independent Counsel, appeared in the HBO special, " Monica in Black and White ", part of the America Undercover series.

Nevertheless, the show debuted to very high ratings, and The New York Times said that " after years of trying to cash in on her fame by designing handbags and other self-marketing schemes, Ms. Lewinsky has finally found a fitting niche on television.

According to his autobiography, then-United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson was asked by the White House in 1997 to interview Lewinsky for a job on his staff at the UN.

* President Bill Clinton was impeached by the United States House of Representatives in 1998 for obstruction of justice charges based on allegations Clinton lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

The report also claimed that Clinton falsely denied under oath ever meeting with Lewinsky alone at times, despite the fact that Clinton did admit to this when he testified, and that Clinton obstructed justice by concealing gifts he gave to Lewinsky and destroying an intimate note that was left in a book he claimed Lewinsky gave him when she visited the White House on January 4, 1998.

It ran five episodes from April to May 2003 and was hosted by Monica Lewinsky, produced by Brian Gadinsky.

BBC Magazine cites a 1998 statement " I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky ," by U. S. President Bill Clinton, made during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, as a " non-denial denial.

Clinton left office with the highest end of office approval rating of any president since World War II, but he was the first US president to be impeached since Andrew Johnson, and only the second in US history, as a result of the Lewinsky scandal, though like Johnson, he was acquitted by the Senate.

On March 3, 1999, Monica Lewinsky was interviewed by Barbara Walters on the program ; that particular edition of 20 / 20 was watched by an estimated 70 million viewers, which ABC stated was a record audience for a news show.

Also at the start of 2000, Lewinsky moved to New York City, living in the West Village and becoming an A-list guest in the Manhattan social scene.

Lewinsky profile in New York, 2001

* 1999: Maureen Dowd, New York Times, " for her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Goldberg ’ s career as a pundit was launched following his mother Lucianne Goldberg's role in the Clinton – Lewinsky scandal, when he wrote about the “ media siege ” on his mother ’ s apartment in The New Yorker.

Shortly before Tripp was scheduled to appear before the grand jury in the Lewinsky investigation, in March 1998, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Kenneth Bacon, and his deputy, Clifford Bernath, leaked to reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine, Tripp ’ s answer to the arrest question on her security clearance form.

In 1998, she was one of four Republicans, along with Amo Houghton and Peter T. King of New York and Chris Shays of Connecticut, to oppose all four articles of impeachment against Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal.

** Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, for her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

It was also revealed that Currie had asked Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan to help Lewinsky find a job in New York on December 8, 1997.

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 known as " the blue dress.

In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a graduate of Lewis & Clark College, was hired to work as an intern at the White House during Clinton's first term, and began a personal relationship with him, the details of which she later confided to her friend and Defense department co-worker Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded their telephone conversations.

During their friendship, Lewinsky had shown the dress to Tripp and said she intended to have it dry-cleaned ; Tripp cunningly convinced her not to by providing various spurious reasons such as Lewinsky looking fat in it and the dress being Lewinsky's " ultimate protection ".

Tripp has claimed that she taped Lewinsky out of self-defense, as she feared retaliation from the Clinton Administration, also claiming Lewinsky had assured President Clinton that she had only told Tripp about their affair ( which was untrue ), thus making her a target as she refused to go along with perjuring herself to protect Lewinsky and the President.

White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit that she had not had a relationship with Clinton, but Lewinsky's confidant Linda Tripp had been recording their phone conversations and offered Starr tapes of Lewinsky describing her feelings for, and alleging encounters with, the president.

Among the many notable past occupants are the following: Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Anna Chennault, Bob and Elizabeth Dole ( Watergate South ), Plácido Domingo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( Watergate South ), Alan Greenspan, Monica Lewinsky ( she stayed briefly at her mother's apartment in the complex ), Senator Russell Long, Clare Boothe Luce ( after 1983 ), Robert McNamara, John and Martha Mitchell, Paul O ' Neill, Condoleezza Rice, Mstislav Rostropovich, Maurice Stans, Ben Stein, Herbert Stein, John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor ( during their marriage ), Caspar Weinberger, Charles Z. Wick, and Rose Mary Woods.

Frustrated with public indifference to the Lewinsky scandal, Weyrich wrote a letter in February 1999 stating that he believed conservatives had lost the culture war, urging a separatist strategy where conservatives ought to live apart from corrupted mainstream society and form their own parallel institutions:

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

In a lame-duck session of Congress after the 1998 elections, the House voted to impeach Clinton, based on the results of the Lewinsky scandal.

Impeachment proceedings were based on allegations that Clinton had lied about his relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

Clinton has been subject to several allegations of sexual misconduct, though he has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers.

During the deposition for the Jones lawsuit, which was held at the White House, Clinton denied having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky a denial that became the basis for the impeachment charge of perjury.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U. S. President Bill Clinton denies having had " sexual relations " with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

Monica Samille Lewinsky ( born July 23, 1973 ) is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an " improper relationship " while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

The affair and its repercussions ( which included Clinton's impeachment ) became known as the Lewinsky scandal.

Monica Samille Lewinsky was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in an affluent family in Southern California in the Westside Brentwood area of Los Angeles and in Beverly Hills.

Her father is Bernard Lewinsky, an oncologist, who is the son of German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and emigrated to El Salvador and later the United States.

With the assistance of a family connection, Lewinsky got a job at the White House as an unpaid summer intern in the office of White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta.

Lewinsky moved to Washington, D. C. and started the position in July 1995.

Lewinsky alleged that between November 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President Bill Clinton that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts in the Oval Office, but that none of them involved sexual intercourse.