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Re: Lucianne Goldberg, key figure in rapist Clinton impeachment, dies
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Rudy Constipated
Oct 28, 2022, 1:05:02 AM10/28/22
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governo...@gmail.com wrote:
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> Clinton is dead any day now. Either one of the two is okay.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lucianne Goldberg, a literary agent and key
figure in the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton over
his affair with Monica Lewinsky, has died at the age of 87.
Goldberg’s son, political commentator and author Jonah Goldberg,
posted Thursday on Twitter that his mother died Wednesday at her
home. He did not give a cause of death.
Lucianne Goldberg, a longtime conservative activist whose agency
specialized in right-wing books, gained national prominence for
advising her friend Linda Tripp to secretly tape Tripp’s
conversations with Lewinsky, a former White House intern who had
been involved in a sexual relationship with Clinton.
Tripp’s 20 hours of tapes of her conversations with Lewinsky
were crucial to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr’s investigation
of Clinton over his affair with Lewinsky. Clinton was impeached
by the House of Representatives on Dec. 19, 1998 for denying
under oath that he had had sex with Lewinsky, but he was
acquitted by the Senate.
A longtime Clinton foe, Goldberg had met Tripp while working on
a proposal for a book on the death of Vince Foster, a Clinton
aide whose suicide sparked conservative conspiracy theories. It
was Goldberg who told her friend the recordings would be legal —
they weren’t — and then encouraged her to break Lewinsky’s trust
and give them to Starr. Goldberg later said she was glad Clinton
had been caught “at something.”
Goldberg set up her literary agency to promote books others
would have shunned. The New York Times described her as “an
agent with a taste for right-wing, tell-all attack books” in an
article published amid the fallout from the Lewinsky tapes.
Goldberg also wrote racy novels and worked as a ghostwriter for
celebrities.
Her earlier career included the 1970 co-founding of a group
called the Pussycat League that campaigned against feminism and
the Equal Rights Amendment.
Goldberg was born Lucianne Steinberger in Boston. Her first
marriage, to William Cummings, ended in divorce. Her second
husband, newspaper executive Sidney Goldberg, died in 2005.
Her survivors include Jonah Goldberg. Another son, Joshua
Goldberg, died in 2011.
https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-
wire/nationworld/headlines/ap-lucianne-goldberg-key-figure-in-
clinton-impeachement-dies/
baba19...@googlegroups.com>
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Clinton is dead any day now. Either one of the two is okay.
>
NEW YORK (AP) — Lucianne Goldberg, a literary agent and key
figure in the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton over
his affair with Monica Lewinsky, has died at the age of 87.
Goldberg’s son, political commentator and author Jonah Goldberg,
posted Thursday on Twitter that his mother died Wednesday at her
home. He did not give a cause of death.
Lucianne Goldberg, a longtime conservative activist whose agency
specialized in right-wing books, gained national prominence for
advising her friend Linda Tripp to secretly tape Tripp’s
conversations with Lewinsky, a former White House intern who had
been involved in a sexual relationship with Clinton.
Tripp’s 20 hours of tapes of her conversations with Lewinsky
were crucial to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr’s investigation
of Clinton over his affair with Lewinsky. Clinton was impeached
by the House of Representatives on Dec. 19, 1998 for denying
under oath that he had had sex with Lewinsky, but he was
acquitted by the Senate.
A longtime Clinton foe, Goldberg had met Tripp while working on
a proposal for a book on the death of Vince Foster, a Clinton
aide whose suicide sparked conservative conspiracy theories. It
was Goldberg who told her friend the recordings would be legal —
they weren’t — and then encouraged her to break Lewinsky’s trust
and give them to Starr. Goldberg later said she was glad Clinton
had been caught “at something.”
Goldberg set up her literary agency to promote books others
would have shunned. The New York Times described her as “an
agent with a taste for right-wing, tell-all attack books” in an
article published amid the fallout from the Lewinsky tapes.
Goldberg also wrote racy novels and worked as a ghostwriter for
celebrities.
Her earlier career included the 1970 co-founding of a group
called the Pussycat League that campaigned against feminism and
the Equal Rights Amendment.
Goldberg was born Lucianne Steinberger in Boston. Her first
marriage, to William Cummings, ended in divorce. Her second
husband, newspaper executive Sidney Goldberg, died in 2005.
Her survivors include Jonah Goldberg. Another son, Joshua
Goldberg, died in 2011.
https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-
wire/nationworld/headlines/ap-lucianne-goldberg-key-figure-in-
clinton-impeachement-dies/
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