Linda Tripp, a key figure in the 1998 sex scandal involving Monica Lewinsky and former president Bill Clinton, has died at the age of 70 from pancreatic cancer. https://t.co/wIYDUMVP7Z
— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) April 8, 2020
Tuesday evening, Tripp's daughter, Allison Tripp Foley posted on Facebook that she was terminally ill, according to the New York Post.
As news broke Wednesday that Tripp was near death, Lewinsky tweeted that she hoped for her recovery “no matter the past.”
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.
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) April 8, 2020
Tripp became a White House employee under the George H.W. Bush administration working as a secretary and eventually becoming an administrative aide, according to The Washington Post. She later worked in the Pentagon and became a confidante to Lewinsky.
Tripp made secret tapes of conversations with Lewinsky, who told her she had had an affair with Clinton. Tripp turned almost 20 hours of tapes over to Kenneth Starr, the independent prosecutor investigating the president, prompting the investigation that led to his impeachment.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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