Linda Tripp | |
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 Yearbook photo | |
| Born | Linda Rose Carotenuto November 24, 1949 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | April 8, 2020 (aged 70) |
| Education | Hanover Park High School |
| Occupation(s) | Civil servant, small business owner |
| Known for | Role in Clinton–Lewinsky scandal |
| Spouses | Bruce M. Tripp
(m. 1971; div. 1990)Dieter Rausch (m. 2004) |
| Children | 2 |
Linda Rose Tripp (née Carotenuto; November 24, 1949 – April 8, 2020) was an American civil servant who played a prominent role in the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal of 1998. Tripp's action in illegally and secretly recording Monica Lewinsky's confidential phone calls about her relationship with President Bill Clinton caused a sensation with their links to the earlier Clinton v. Jones lawsuit and with the disclosing of intimate details. Tripp maintained that her motives were purely patriotic, and she avoided a wiretap charge by agreeing to hand over the tapes.
She later claimed that her firing from the Pentagon at the end of the Clinton administration was vindictive, but the administration called it standard procedure for a political appointee.
From 2002, Tripp and her husband, Dieter Rausch, owned and ran a year-round holiday store, The Christmas Sleigh, in Middleburg, Virginia.