Lucianne Goldberg, key figure in Clinton impeachment, dead at 87

Lucianne Goldberg suggested Linda Tripp to secretly tape conversations with Monica Lewinsky.
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Lucianne Goldberg, a literary agent and key determine within the 1998 impeachment of President Invoice Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, has died on the age of 87.

Goldberg’s son, political commentator and writer Jonah Goldberg, posted Thursday on Twitter that his mom died Wednesday at her residence. He didn't give a explanation for demise.

Lucianne Goldberg, a longtime conservative activist whose company specialised in right-wing books, gained nationwide prominence for advising her pal Linda Tripp to secretly tape Tripp’s conversations with Lewinsky, a former White Home intern who had been concerned in a sexual relationship with Clinton.

Tripp’s 20 hours of tapes of her conversations with Lewinsky had been essential to particular prosecutor Kenneth Starr’s investigation of Clinton over his affair with Lewinsky. Clinton was impeached by the Home of Representatives on Dec. 19, 1998 for denying below oath that he had had intercourse with Lewinsky, however he was acquitted by the Senate.

Lucianne Goldberg had a profession penning racy novels and ghostwriting.

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Goldberg co-founded the Pussycat League, which campaigned in opposition to feminism.

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Goldberg arrange her literary company to advertise books others would have shunned. The New York Occasions described her as “an agent with a style for right-wing, tell-all assault books” in an article revealed amid the fallout from the Lewinsky tapes.

A longtime Clinton foe, Goldberg had met Tripp whereas engaged on a proposal for a e book on the demise of Vince Foster, a Clinton aide whose suicide sparked conservative conspiracy theories. It was Goldberg who informed her pal the recordings could be authorized — they weren’t — after which inspired her to interrupt Lewinsky’s belief and provides them to Starr. Goldberg later mentioned she was glad Clinton had been caught “at one thing.”

Goldberg additionally wrote racy novels and labored as a ghostwriter for celebrities.

Her earlier profession included the 1970 co-founding of a bunch known as the Pussycat League that campaigned in opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Modification.

Goldberg was born Lucianne Steinberger in Boston. Her first marriage, to William Cummings, resulted in divorce. Her second husband, newspaper govt Sidney Goldberg, died in 2005.

Her survivors embrace Jonah Goldberg. One other son, Joshua Goldberg, died in 2011.