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Paula Jones filed a civil sexual-harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton, alleging unwanted sexual advances while he was Governor of Arkansas.
did lie under oath: he admitted to giving false testimony about his relationship with to investigators, and a federal judge later sanctioned him for misleading statements in a related deposition (admi...
has faced multiple public accusations of sexual misconduct across decades — most prominently the affair that produced impeachment proceedings, the sexual-harassment lawsuit that ended in a settlement,...
The Starr investigation presented a piece of physical forensic evidence—a blue dress belonging to Monica Lewinsky with a semen stain—and reported DNA testing that matched President Bill Clinton’s gene...
The Senate trial of President Bill Clinton concluded with acquittal on both articles of impeachment—perjury and obstruction of justice—on February 12, 1999, allowing him to finish his second term in o...
The principal legal outcomes tied to were civil litigation and settlement (), a landmark Supreme Court decision allowing civil suits to proceed against a sitting president (Clinton v. Jones), expansio...
Linda Tripp’s secretly recorded conversations with Monica Lewinsky supplied Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr with near‑20 hours of first‑person admissions from Lewinsky about a sexual relationship wi...
The narrowly negotiated legal definition of "sexual relations" used during President Clinton’s Paula Jones deposition became the hinge on which charges of perjury and obstruction in the subsequent imp...
Bill Clinton faced criminal exposure for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice arising from his denials about a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, was the subject of the...