Linda Tripp, key figure in Bill Clinton's impeachment, dies from cancer
Linda Tripp
Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded phone conversations withMonica Lewinskyled to former US President Bill Clinton’s impeachmenthas died due to cancer.
Tripp’s lawyer, Joseph Murtha, confirmed Tripp’s deathand US media cited family members saying she died after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.
The70-year-oldwas a public affairs official of the US Department of Defense when her co-worker Lewinsky, who had served as a White House intern in the mid-1990s, told her she had secretly had sexual encounters withClintonin the Oval Office.
Tripp then took the recordings to independent prosecutor Ken Starr, who used them to expand a separate investigation ofClinton.
Clintonat first denied the relationship, but Tripp's recordings and the blue dress she urged Lewinsky to save as an "insurance policy" blew the case open.
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In 1998Clintonultimately was impeached by the House of Representatives and placed on trial in the Senate for lying and obstruction of justice. He was acquitted.
Tripp said in a 1999 interview, on the day ofClinton's acquittal, that she had no regrets despite having received numerous threats.
She was later forced from her job, in which she was a political appointee, whenClintonleft office in January 2001.
Also read: Monica Lewinsky offers 'Gentle Reminder' not to use her name in 1998 impeachment comparisons
After that, she moved to Middleburg, Virginia where she operated a Christmas store, The Christmas Sleigh, with her second husband Dieter Rausch.
Lewinsky, who made clear at the time that she felt deeply betrayed, tweeted earlier Wednesday about Tripp after news emerged that she was severely ill.
"No matter the past, upon hearing that Linda Tripp is very seriously ill, I hope for her recovery. I can't imagine how difficult this is for her family."
The affair made Tripp a villain to Democrats andClintonsupporters, but a minor hero to Republicans.