Linda Tripp - Life Since The Lewinsky Scandal

Life Since The Lewinsky Scandal

Since the Lewinsky scandal, Tripp moved to Northern Virginia, married German architect Dieter Rausch in 2004 and opened with her new husband a year-round Christmas shop, called the Christmas Sleigh, in Middleburg, Virginia.

In a December 1, 2003, appearance with Larry King on Larry King Live, Tripp told of her suffering breast cancer. On the subject of her successful invasion of privacy lawsuit against the federal government, Tripp claimed that she actually came out behind financially, due to attorneys’ fees and the derailment of her government career. She also claimed that the Clinton Administration’s violations of her privacy were not equivalent to her violations of Monica Lewinsky’s privacy as the Clinton Administration’s leaking of her employment history was illegal, not addressing the fact that she herself was alleged to have violated the Maryland wiretap laws. Furthermore, Lewinsky had asked her to lie under oath in the Paula Jones lawsuit against Bill Clinton, something she had refused to do. She told King that she only began taping her conversations with Lewinsky, whom she had known for 18 months, a mere eight weeks before she was scheduled to be deposed in the Jones lawsuit. Tripp had earlier said she taped the conversations to prevent the Clinton Administration from retaliating against her, since she had decided not to lie under oath. Her would-be publisher, Lucianne Goldberg, however, said in a 1997 interview published in the New York Times that she had advised Tripp to record her conversations with Lewinsky in order to obtain factual proof for a book deal.