What is Linda Tripp?
[[File:Linda Tripp yearbook.jpg|right|200px]] '''Linda Rose Tripp''' (née '''Carotenuto'''; November 24, 1949 – April 8, 2020) was an American [[civil servant]]. She played an important role in the [[Lewinsky scandal]] of 1998. Tripp's action in secretly recording [[Monica Lewinsky]]'s secret phone calls about her relationship with the president caused a sensation with their links to the earlier ''[[Clinton v. Jones]]'' lawsuit. Tripp claimed that her motives were patriotic, and she was able to avoid a wiretap charge for handing in the tapes. She then claimed that her firing from [[the Pentagon]] at the end of the Clinton administration was because she leaked the phone calls, while the administration claimed it to be a standard routine. From 2004, Tripp worked with her husband in a retail business in [[Middleburg, Virginia]]. Tripp was born in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]]. She died from [[pancreatic cancer]] in Middleburg at the age of 70 on April 8, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Mark |last2=Nelson |first2=Steven |title=Linda Tripp, whistleblower in Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal, dead at 70 |url=https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/linda-tripp-whistleblower-in-lewinsky-scandal-near-death/ |website=New York Post |language=en |date= April 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-linda-tripp-whistleblower-clinton-sex-scandal-dead-from-pancreatic-cancer/LGXMbINXPoywbGzpOJCHuI/|title = BREAKING: Linda Tripp, whistleblower in Clinton sex scandal, dead at 70 from cancer |last = Darnell|first = Tim|date = April 8, 2020|access-date = April 8, 2020|work = [[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tripp, Linda}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer]] [[Category:Businesspeople from New Jersey]] [[Category:Bill Clinton]]