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Lewinsky later was featured in the TV documentary series The Clinton Affair (2018). She also was a producer and consultant for the TV anthology series Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021), which looked at the scandal from the perspectives of Lewinsky, Tripp, and Paula Jones.
Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), who oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became the second U.S. president to be impeached; he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999. Learn more about Clinton’s life and career.
In 1999, Gennifer Flowers, who had previously alleged an affair with Carville's 1992 client Bill Clinton, sued Carville and his colleague George Stephanopoulos for defamation of character. In 2000, Flowers additionally named Hillary Clinton as a defendant in the suit.
Watergate scandal. The Watergate scandal was a significant political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.
After the scandal was exposed, Clinton denied the affair. But later he admitted in a taped grand jury testimony in August that he had engaged in an “improper physical relationship” with Lewinsky. File image/Reuters. After the scandal was exposed, Clinton denied the affair, famously saying that he “did not have sexual relations with that ...
In 1998, Starr's office learned that a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, had engaged in an affair with Clinton. In a deposition related to the Jones lawsuit, Clinton swore under oath that he had not engaged in sexual relations with Lewinsky.
President Bill Clinton then spoke with Monica Lewinsky in private and, according to Lewinsky, advised her to sign an affidavit stating that she had never had sexual relations with him.
