Ten years later, and in the midst of his wife's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, The London Times revisits Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal, and the key players, minus Bill. Here we cut the verbose BS and round-up the women in Bill's life at that time. Is it bad that after all of this, including Kathleen Willey's experience ("During their meeting, she says, he sexually assaulted her. He groped her and put her hand on his erect penis while aides were outside banging on the door because he was late for a meeting."), we'd still jump at the chance to be his "intern?"
Paula Jones: the woman who started it all
Paula Jones was not the first of the Clinton women. There had been many before her and there were more after. But she was the trigger for the investigation of the President that nearly brought him down. Jones brought a sexual harassment case claiming that when she was a lowly state employee and he was Arkansas Governor a state trooper took her to Clinton’s hotel room, where he exposed himself.
Kathleen Willey: the accuser from the Oval Office
One day in 1993, when her husband was in desperate financial difficulties of his own making, she went to see Clinton in the Oval Office to ask for a proper job. During their meeting, she says, he sexually assaulted her. He groped her and put her hand on his erect penis while aides were outside banging on the door because he was late for a meeting. She extricated herself and left.
Linda Tripp: the woman who was everyone’s friend
She moved to the Pentagon, where she befriended Lewinsky, who had been moved out of the White House by aides concerned about her relationship with the President. Tripp became the younger woman’s confidante as she agonised about what Clinton really thought of her.
Monica Lewinsky: the world’s most famous intern
Monica Lewinsky was 21 when, as a White House intern, she delivered pizza to the President, flirted with him, flashed her thong and began an 18-month relationship that involved oral sex, phone sex, an infamous incident with a cigar, a great deal of soul-searching about what he really felt for her and then increasing fear and panic as it became clear that the relationship could become public.
[Times Online: Oral history: The Monica Lewinsky scandal ten years on]