Editing Monica Lewinsky (section)

==Life after the scandal==

Lewinsky's immunity agreement restricted what she could talk about publicly, but she was able to cooperate with [[Andrew Morton (writer)|Andrew Morton]] in his writing of ''[[Monica's Story]]'', her biography which included her side of the Clinton affair.<ref name="cnn030899" /><ref name="nyt030599" /> The book was published in March 1999; it was also excerpted as a cover story in [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]].<ref name="cnn030899" /><ref name="nyt030599">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/28/daily/030599lewinsky-book-review.html |title='Monica's Story': Tawdry and Tiresome |author=Kakutani, Michiko |author-link=Michiko Kakutani |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 5, 1999 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109113643/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/28/daily/030599lewinsky-book-review.html |archive-date=January 9, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> On March 3, 1999, [[Barbara Walters]] interviewed Lewinsky on ABC's ''[[20/20 (US television show)|20/20]]''. The program was watched by 70 million Americans, which ABC said was a record for a news show.<ref name="cnn030899">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/03/08/makeover.html |title=Monica's makeover |author=Cloud, John |publisher=[[CNN]]|date=March 8, 1999 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831082058/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/03/08/makeover.html |archive-date=August 31, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Lewinsky made about $500,000 from her participation in the book and another $1 million from international rights to the Walters interview, but was still beset by high legal bills and living costs.<ref name="nymag-profile" />

In June 1999, [[Ms. Magazine|''Ms.'' magazine]] published a series of articles by writer Susan Jane Gilman,<ref name="Ms1">{{cite news |url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-gilman.asp |title=Oral Report |last=Gilman |first=Susan Jane |date=June 1999 |work=[[Ms. Magazine]] |access-date=July 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210003700/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-gilman.asp |archive-date=February 10, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> sexologist [[Susie Bright]],<ref name="Ms2">{{cite news |url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-bright.asp |title=The Beauty and the Brains |last=Bright |first=Susie |date=June 1999 |work=[[Ms. Magazine]] |access-date=July 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715141323/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-bright.asp |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and author-host [[Abiola Abrams]]<ref name="Ms3">{{cite news |url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-abrams.asp |title=Dear Monica |last=Adams |first=Abiola Wendy |date=June 1999 |work=[[Ms. Magazine]] |access-date=July 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140806031850/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-abrams.asp |archive-date=August 6, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> arguing from three generations of women whether Lewinsky's behavior had any meaning for feminism. Also in 1999, Lewinsky declined to sign an autograph in an airport, saying, "I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1999/02/07/monica-gains-respect-for-renouncing-fame/ |title=Monica Gains Respect For Renouncing Fame |author=Leonard Pitts |date=February 7, 1999 |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701020518/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1999-02-07/news/9902050766_1_jessica-hahn-fame-monica-lewinsky |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> She made a cameo appearance as herself in two sketches during the May 8, 1999, episode of [[NBC]]'s ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', a program that had lampooned her relationship with Clinton over the prior 16 months.

In September 1999, Lewinsky began to sell a line of handbags bearing her name,<ref name="vogue">{{cite news |url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2004-05/040527-is-the-lewinsky-affair-over-.aspx |title=Is the Lewinsky Affair Over? |magazine=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=May 27, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515071129/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2004-05/040527-is-the-lewinsky-affair-over-.aspx |archive-date=May 15, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> under the company name The Real Monica, Inc.<ref name="nymag-profile">{{cite news |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/4481/ |title=Monica Takes Manhattan |author=Grigoriadis, Vanessa |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=March 19, 2001 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706183225/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/4481/ |archive-date=July 6, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> They were sold online as well as at [[Henri Bendel]] in New York, [[Fred Segal]] in California, and The Cross in London.<ref name="nymag-profile" /><ref name="vogue" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,616490,00.html |title=Monica: It's In the Bag |magazine=[[People (American magazine)|People]] |date=January 12, 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606231829/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C616490%2C00.html |archive-date=June 6, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Lewinsky designed the bags—described by ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine as "hippie-ish, reversible totes"—and traveled frequently to supervise their manufacture in [[Louisiana]].<ref name="nymag-profile" />

At the start of 2000, Lewinsky began appearing in television commercials for the diet company [[Jenny Craig, Inc.]]<ref name="nyt122899">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/28/business/media-business-advertising-monica-lewinsky-meets-jenny-craig-spokeswoman-born.html |title=Monica Lewinsky Meets Jenny Craig, and a Spokeswoman Is Born |author=Hays, Constance L. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 28, 1999 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308114855/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/28/business/media-business-advertising-monica-lewinsky-meets-jenny-craig-spokeswoman-born.html |archive-date=March 8, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The $1 million endorsement deal, which required Lewinsky to lose 40 or more pounds in six months, gained considerable publicity at the time.<ref name="nymag-profile" /> Lewinsky said that despite her desire to return to a more private life, she needed the money to pay off legal fees, and she believed in the product.<ref name="bbc041300" /> A Jenny Craig spokesperson said of Lewinsky, "She represents a busy active woman of today with a hectic lifestyle. And she has had weight issues and weight struggles for a long time. That represents a lot of women in America."<ref name="nyt122899" /> The choice of Lewinsky as a role model proved controversial for Jenny Craig, and some of its private franchises switched to an older advertising campaign.<ref name="nymag-profile" /><ref name="bbc041300">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/711920.stm |title=Lewinsky trimmed from slimming ads |work=[[BBC News]] |date=April 13, 2000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122015835/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/711920.stm |archive-date=January 22, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The company stopped running the Lewinsky ads in February 2000, concluded her campaign entirely in April 2000, and paid her only $300,000 of the $1 million contracted for her involvement.<ref name="nymag-profile" /><ref name="bbc041300" />

Also at the start of 2000, Lewinsky moved to New York City, lived in the [[West Village]], and became an [[A-list]] guest in the [[Manhattan]] social scene.<ref name="nymag-profile" /> In February 2000, she appeared on [[MTV]]'s ''[[The Tom Green Show]]'', in an episode in which the host took her to his parents' home in [[Ottawa]] in search of fabric for her new handbag business. Later in 2000, Lewinsky worked as a correspondent for [[Channel 5 (UK)|Channel 5]] in the UK, on the show ''Monica's Postcards'', reporting on U.S. culture and trends from a variety of locations.<ref name="nymag-profile" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/now-monica-shows-off-her-postcards-on-uk-tv-1.48592 |title=Now Monica shows off her 'Postcards' on UK TV |agency=[[Associated Press]]/[[South African Press Association]] |publisher=[[Independent Online (South Africa)|Independent Online]] |date=September 24, 2000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917021754/http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/now-monica-shows-off-her-postcards-on-uk-tv-1.48592 |archive-date=September 17, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

In March 2002, Lewinsky, no longer bound by the terms of her immunity agreement,<ref name="nymag-profile" /> appeared in the [[HBO]] special, "Monica in Black and White", part of the ''[[America Undercover]]'' series.<ref name="nyt030302" /> In it she answered a studio audience's questions about her life and the Clinton affair.<ref name="nyt030302">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/arts/television-radio-telling-her-own-story-selling-her-new-self.html |title=Telling Her Own Story, Selling Her New Self |author=James, Caryn |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 3, 2002 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816230849/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/arts/television-radio-telling-her-own-story-selling-her-new-self.html |archive-date=August 16, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Lewinsky hosted a reality television dating program, ''[[Mr. Personality]]'', on [[Fox Television Network]] in 2003,<ref name="time-where">{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1870544_1870543_1870550,00.html |title=Where Are They Now: The Clinton Impeachment: Monica Lewinsky |magazine=Time |date=January 9, 2009 |access-date=May 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617060523/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0%2C28804%2C1870544_1870543_1870550%2C00.html |archive-date=June 17, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> where she advised young women contestants who were picking men hidden by masks.<ref name="nyt032303">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/business/media-business-advertising-mr-personality-featuring-monica-lewinsky-draws-young.html |title='Mr. Personality,' featuring Monica Lewinsky, draws the young audience of advertisers' dreams |author=Carter, Bill  |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 23, 2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307194210/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/business/media-business-advertising-mr-personality-featuring-monica-lewinsky-draws-young.html |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Some Americans tried to organize a boycott of advertisers on the show, to protest Lewinsky's capitalizing on her notoriety.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Saint Paul Pioneer Press]] |page=C8 |title=People |date=April 27, 2003}}</ref> Nevertheless, the show debuted to very high ratings,<ref name="nyt032303" /> and Alessandra Stanley wrote in ''[[The New York Times]]'': "after years of trying to cash in on her fame by designing handbags and other self-marketing schemes, Ms. Lewinsky has finally found a fitting niche on television."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/arts/the-tv-watch-the-name-of-the-game-is-class-guys-and-gals-or-the-lack-of-it.html |title=The Name of the Game Is Class, Guys and Gals, or the Lack of It |author=Stanley, Alessandra |author-link=Alessandra Stanley |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 23, 2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123201635/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/arts/the-tv-watch-the-name-of-the-game-is-class-guys-and-gals-or-the-lack-of-it.html |archive-date=November 23, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The same year she appeared as a guest on the programs ''[[V Graham Norton]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Episode #4.47 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0738471/ |website=IMDb |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref> in the UK, ''[[High Chaparall]]''<ref>{{cite web |title="High Chaparall" Monica Lewinsky (TV Episode 2003) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0601047/ |website=IMDb |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref> in Sweden, and ''[[The View (U.S. TV series)|The View]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Episode dated 21 April 2003 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0740340/ |website=IMDb |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref> and ''[[Jimmy Kimmel Live!]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Episode #1.84 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0615600/ |website=IMDb |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref> in the U.S.

After Clinton's autobiography, ''[[My Life (Bill Clinton autobiography)|My Life]]'', appeared in 2004, Lewinsky said in an interview with the British tabloid ''[[Daily Mail]]'':<ref name="USAT0625">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-06-25-lewinsky-clinton_x.htm |title=Lewinsky: Clinton lies about relationship in his new book |date=June 25, 2006 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=December 18, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501061943/http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-06-25-lewinsky-clinton_x.htm |archive-date=May 1, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=He could have made it right with the book, but he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. ... I really didn't expect him to go into detail about our relationship. ... But if he had and he'd done it honestly, I wouldn't have minded. ... I did, though, at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. ... This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. ... I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.}}

By 2005, Lewinsky found that she could not escape the spotlight in the U.S., which made both her professional and personal life difficult.<ref name="time-where" /> She stopped selling her handbag line<ref name="vogue" /> and moved to London to study [[social psychology]] at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name="time-where" /> In December 2006, Lewinsky graduated with a [[Master of Science]] degree.<ref name="LSEgrad">{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/monica-lewinsky-earns-masters-degree-in-london |title=Monica Lewinsky Earns Master's Degree in London |date=December 21, 2006 |publisher=[[Fox News]]|access-date=December 27, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108173219/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C238021%2C00.html |archive-date=January 8, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/sep/07/highereducation.psychology |title=Lewinsky to study psychology at LSE |author=MacLeod, Donald |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=September 7, 2005 |access-date=December 24, 2009 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507020752/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/sep/07/highereducation.psychology |archive-date=May 7, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Her thesis was titled, "In Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third-Person Effect and Pre-Trial Publicity".<ref name="thesis">{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/people-lewinsky-degree-dc/lewinsky-graduates-from-london-school-of-economics-idUSN2044156920061220|title=Lewinsky graduates from London School of Economics|date=January 7, 2007|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=January 19, 2018}}</ref> For the next decade, she tried to avoid publicity.<ref name="time-where" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/the_monica_lewinsky_scandal_where_are_they_now/ |title=The Monica Lewinsky scandal: Where are they now? |author=Gupta, Prachi |magazine=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |date=July 23, 2013 |access-date=November 5, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923211310/http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/the_monica_lewinsky_scandal_where_are_they_now/ |archive-date=September 23, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="pol-purdum">{{cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/lewinskys-perspective-106421.html |title=Monica Lewinsky's hard-won perspective |first=Todd S. |last=Purdum |author-link=Todd Purdum |newspaper=[[Politico]] |date=May 10, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140511000926/http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/lewinskys-perspective-106421.html |archive-date=May 11, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Lewinsky did correspond in 2009 with scholar [[Ken Gormley (academic)|Ken Gormley]], who was writing an in-depth study of the Clinton scandals. Lewinsky wrote to Gormley that Clinton had lied under oath when asked detailed and specific questions about his relationship with her.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30745.html |title=Monica's back&nbsp;– says Clinton lied |author=Gerstein, Josh |author2=Harris, John F. |newspaper=[[Politico]] |date=December 17, 2009 |access-date=December 24, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220235752/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30745.html |archive-date=December 20, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> In 2013, the items associated with Lewinsky that Bleiler had turned over to Starr were put up for auction by Bleiler's ex-wife, who had come into possession of them.<ref name="time-items">{{cite news |url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/25/monica-lewinsky-mementos-go-up-for-auction/ |title=Monica Lewinsky Mementos Go Up for Auction |first=Erica |last=Ho |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=June 25, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625221709/http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/25/monica-lewinsky-mementos-go-up-for-auction/ |archive-date=June 25, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

During her decade out of the public eye, Lewinsky lived in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Portland but, due to her notoriety, had trouble finding employment in the communications and marketing jobs for nonprofit organizations where she had been interviewed.<ref name="pol-purdum" /><ref name="ShameVF" />