Bill Clinton’s Scandal Whistleblower, Linda Tripp Dies
April 9, 2020
6:05 am
Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at age 70.
Her death was confirmed by attorney Joseph Murtha. He provided no further details.
Tripp was working in the Pentagon when she befriended Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern who was having an affair with the president.
She made 22 hours of surreptitious recordings of Lewinsky in 1997, where Lewinsky spoke about the affair.
Then she handed them over the tapes to special prosecutor Ken Starr.
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