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Clinton was held in civil court by Judge Susan Webber Wright for giving false testimony in the Paula Jones case regarding Lewinsky, and was also fined $90,000 by Wright.
The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was an oral sex affair involving Bill Clinton, the president of the United States, and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
Their sexual relationship began in 1995 - when Clinton was 49 and Lewinsky was 22 - and lasted 18 months, ending in 1997.
Clinton ended a televised address in late January 1998 with the later infamous statement: “I did not have sex with that woman, Mrs. Lewinsky".
Further investigation led to perjury charges and Clinton's 1998 impeachment from the US House of Representatives. He was subsequently acquitted of all charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day US Senate trial.
Clinton with Lewinsky in February 1997
Clinton was held in civil court by Judge Susan Webber Wright for giving false testimony in the Paula Jones case regarding Lewinsky, and was also fined $90,000 by Wright.
His license to practice law was suspended in Arkansas for five years; shortly thereafter, he was disbarred from presenting cases before the US Supreme Court.
Lewinsky was a graduate of Lewis & Clark College. She was hired during Clinton's first term in 1995 as a White House intern through the White House Internship Program and later was an employee of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. It is believed that Clinton began a personal relationship with her while she was working in the White House, the details of which she later confided to Linda Tripp, her colleague at the Department of Defense, who secretly recorded their phone conversations.
In January 1998, Tripp revealed that Lewinsky had sworn an affidavit in the Paula Jones case, denying an affair with Clinton.
She sent the tapes to Ken Starr, the independent counsel who was investigating Clinton on other matters, including the Whitewater scandal, the White House FBI files controversy and the White House travel office controversy.
During grand jury testimony, Clinton's answers were carefully worded, and he argued that "it depends on what the meaning of the word is" regarding the veracity of his statement that "there is no sexual relationship, sexual misconduct or any other type of improper relationship".
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