Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky speaks out about the death of Ken Starr, the former U.S. Solicitor General, who led the impeachment investigation of Bill Clinton, the former President of the United States.
“As I’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about Ken Starr bring up complicated feelings …. But of more importance is that I imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him,” Lewinsky wrote on Twitter.
Ken Starr died Tuesday at the age of 76 from surgery complications. He had been in an intensive care unit in Houston for nearly four months.
Ken Starr had exposed Lewinsky’s relationship with Bill Clinton. Clinton’s lie about the affair Prompted an impeachment. The lawyer led a high-profile investigation that finally led to Clinton’s 1998 impeachment for perjury.
It would be understandable if Lewinsky tweeted in a way to get things off her chest, considering that Starr’s long-running investigation of the Clintons turned Lewinsky into a target for public shaming.
Lewinsky started working as an intern at the White House in 1995. She and Clinton had a sexual encounter in a hallway near the Oval Office during the government shutdown late that year. Both had several other sexual encounters over the next year and a half.
Lewinsky disclosed the affair to Linda Tripp, a co-worker, who tape-recorded a few of their conversations and submitted the tapes to Starr’s prosecutors. Clinton denied having sexual relations with Lewinsky. Lewinsky became Starr’s chief witness against Clinton after being granted immunity from prosecution.