Biography
American news figure, caught up in the presidential scandal of 1998 in
which Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, was quoted as saying she had
an affair with President Bill Clinton. Few public figures have drawn more
scabrous press coverage than the Pentagon official, but then few have so
richly deserved it. She betrayed her friend in pursuit of political
payback and book-deal riches and then claimed that it was really
patriotism and self-preservation that led her to putting a recording
device on her body. She was arrested for grand larceny in 1969 and
accused Bush of having an affair during his administration.
In April 1998, she was age 48 with one son, Ryan, 22, and a daughter,
Allison, 19. She had divorced husband Bruce Tripp several years ago. She
was world traveled with her husband, a Lt. Colonel in the military, and
was fluent in German. She did clerical work, holding a classified job with
the Army's elite Delta Force. She was known as a hard lady except not much
of a lady, often with a chip on her shoulder.
Employed in secretarial jobs in the White House, she rubbed shoulders
with the movers and shakers. Picking up a lunch order, she was the last
person to see Vince Foster alive before his mysterious suicide. She liked
the gossip and being "in the know." However she was indiscrete
and officious, not trusted or well liked among her co-workers. In 1993,
she told reporters at Newsweek about the alleged Oval Office grope
session.
Tripp made friends with the younger intern, Monica Lewinsky and they
became confidants. When she told attorney James Moody what she knew about
Monica's alleged affair with the President, he set up Tripp's first
meeting with special prosecutor Ken Starr's people on January 12, 1998. On
the following day she was "wired" with a tape recorder strapped
to her body in order to record what her friend said about her sex life.
The story broke about January 20th. It was the girl-talk captured on those
tapes that led to the impeachment ugliness that obsessed the nation during
most of 1998.
On late 7/30/1999, a grand jury in Maryland's Howard County indicted
Tripp on two felony counts related to illegal wiretapping. Jury selection
for her trial was scheduled for summer 2000.
Deeply offended and hurt at her bad press and the jokes about her
appearance, Tripp went in for $28,000 of cosmetic surgery on 10/14/1999,
funded by an anonymous benefactor. In seven hours of surgery, Dr. Geoffrey
Keyes removed the bags from under her eyes, cut away the fat from her neck
and tightened her chin, softened and shortened her nose and provided a
chin implant. Tripp did her part by cutting back on smoking and losing 40
pounds. She topped off her new look with four hours in the beauty parlor
for a new hair color and style at a $400 stylist fee, for which she left
no tip.
In late 2000, Tripp bought a home in posh Middleburg, VA
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