Women of Controversy: Linda Tripp

Womanica

Acast Creative Studios

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Linda Tripp (1949-2020) was an American civil servant who illegally recorded conversations with Monica Lewinsky about her affair with President Bill Clinton. She testified regarding the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and her role in exposing it before largely withdrawing from the public eye.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girl's Guide to Politics.
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0:39.1	and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get your
0:45.0	podcast. Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.
0:57.5	This month, we're talking about women who found themselves at the center of controversy,
1:01.6	whether deserved or not.
1:03.9	In January of 1998, the American political world was rocked,
1:08.5	when the news aggregator website The Dredge Report published a shocking
1:12.1	claim that Newsweek had a story brewing about a relationship between a White House intern and
1:17.5	the president of the United States. It would become one of the biggest political scandals in American
1:23.0	history, but how did the media learn of this secret affair? Well, it was thanks in part to this woman.
1:29.3	Let's talk about Linda Tripp.
1:32.3	Before Linda Tripp became a household name and late-night fodder,
1:36.3	she was Linda Rose Kara Tanuto from New Jersey.
1:39.3	Linda was born on November 24, 1949.
1:53.0	When Linda was a senior in high school, her father had an affair and her parents divorced. After Linda graduated, she began working as a secretary in Army Intelligence in Maryland.
1:58.0	It was there that she met and married her first husband, Bruce Tripp.
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