Bill clintons sex scandal

Monica Lewinsky is among the producers on a new series of American Crime Story focusing on the Bill Clinton sex scandal. Titled Impeachment: American Crime Story, the Ryan Murphy-helmed anthology drama will recount the notorious affair between the then US president Clinton and former White House intern Lewinsky, and the subsequent impeachment proceedings called against him by the US House of Representatives. Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein will star as Lewinsky, with Sarah Paulson playing Linda Tripp, the civil servant who secretly recorded phone calls the year-old made about her affair with Clinton, who was 27 years her senior. Powerful people, often men, take advantage of those subordinate to them in myriad ways all the time.

Sarah Paulson will play Lewinsky's confidante Linda Tripp, who infamously recorded their phone conversations about the Clinton affair without Lewinsky's knowledge. Those tapes became key evidence in the impeachment inquiry into Clinton. Broadway star Annaleigh Ashford Kinky Boots will play Paula Jones, whose sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton ultimately led to his impeachment. Simpson , which established the series' acclaimed approach to re-examining the exhaustively covered scandals that dominated the news in the s. The show's second season, The Assassination of Gianni Versace , traced how Andrew Cunanan came to murder the famed fashion designer in In a statement to Vanity Fair, Lewinsky explained why she decided to partake in the project after much convincing from Murphy. FX has scheduled Impeachment to debut on Sept.

Former White House intern turned anti-bullying activist Monica Lewinsky commemorated how she "survived the unimaginable" in her life on the 20th anniversary of the revelation of her affair with President Bill Clinton Tuesday. The anniversary marks the day her confidant, and Pentagon public affairs office colleague, Linda Tripp delivered secret recordings of telephone conversations with Lewinsky about a sexual affair she had with Clinton between to to independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Clinton gave evasive answers to questions about the relationship in testimony to a grand jury during Starr's investigation. Starr was investigating allegations related to the Whitewater property scandal and became aware of the Lewinsky affair when looking into sexual harassment. Tripp's tapes revealed what Clinton did to Lewinsky, who was 22 years old when her relationship with the then year-old president began.

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