Monica Lewinsky

She claimed that between November 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with the then-President Bill Clinton at the Oval Office, the office of the President of the United States.

She told her co-worker Linda Tripp about her relationship with Bill Clinton, after which Tripp began discreetly recording the phone conversations between Lewinsky and Bill Clinton.

Linda Tripp submitted the phone tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Tripp further investigated the case and persuaded Lewinsky to save all the gifts that Clinton had given her.

Monica Samille Lewinsky was born to Bernard Lewinsky, an affluent and established photographer and doctor, and Marcia Kaye Vilensky in San Francisco, California.

She attended the Sinai Akiba Academy in Los Angeles. It was a religious academy that taught Judaism. Her family regularly attended the ‘Sinai Temple’, a conservative Judaist temple located in Los Angeles, California.

She finished her primary education at the John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air and later attended her senior year at the Beverly Hills High School.

In 1991, she graduated from the Pacific Hills School after which she attended the Santa Monica Community College. In 1995, she graduated with a degree in psychology from the Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

In July 1995, she moved to Washington D.C, where she got a job as an unpaid summer intern at the White House Office. Here, she worked under the White House Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta.

In December 1995, she was offered a paid position at the White House Office and she gladly accepted the offer.

In April 1996, she was transferred to The Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defence located in Arlington Country, Virginia.

In 1999, she gave an interview on ABC networks show ‘20/20’. This programme was hosted by Barbara Walters and was watched by 70 Million Americans.

On May 8, 1999, she appeared on ‘Saturday Night Live’, in which she portrayed herself, on two sketches for the show that ridiculed her relationship with Bill Clinton.

This infamous White House intern and fashion designer apparently stated that she survived the intense media attention she received following a sex scandal by ‘knitting’.

This infamous White House intern, who gained immense publicity after a sex scandal, was, once, asked to sign an autograph that said ‘I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for’.