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This month, we're talking about women who found themselves at the center of controversy,

whether deserved or not.

In January of 1998, the American political world was rocked,

when the news aggregator website The Dredge Report published a shocking

claim that Newsweek had a story brewing about a relationship between a White House intern and

the president of the United States. It would become one of the biggest political scandals in American

history, but how did the media learn of this secret affair? Well, it was thanks in part to this woman.

Let's talk about Linda Tripp.

Before Linda Tripp became a household name and late-night fodder,

she was Linda Rose Kara Tanuto from New Jersey.

Linda was born on November 24, 1949.

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.

It was there that she met and married her first husband, Bruce Tripp.

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