Monica Lewinsky

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Monica Lewinsky (2014)

Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973 in San Francisco , California ) is an American psychologist . She gained international fame at the end of the 1990s as the main participant in an affair between then US President Bill Clinton , which also attracted international attention as "Monicagate" and "Zippergate".

Life

Lewinsky earned a college degree in psychology in 1995 and then worked as an intern in the United States White House and the Department of Defense . During the internship, a sexual relationship with President Clinton developed. When they became known, the Lewinsky affair caused a serious domestic political crisis that almost cost Clinton the office through impeachment proceedings .

Lewinsky later tried his hand at e-commerce marketing self-designed handbags on the Internet under the label The Real Monica Inc. , but was unable to gain a foothold. She then moved to London , where she continued her studies in September 2005 at the London School of Economics , which she completed in December 2006 with a master's degree in social psychology .

In May 2014, Monica Lewinsky described her life and scandal from her perspective in an essay for Vanity Fair entitled Shame and Survival . In March 2015 she gave a TED talk entitled The Price of Shame , in which she spoke from her own experience about cyber bullying and the “culture of humiliation ” and demanded that the hunt down of public humiliation (in general and specifically by young people) must come to an end and that one should return to long-standing values ​​of compassion and empathy .

Encouraged by the MeToo movement, she questioned the voluntary nature of her sexual relationship with Clinton in an interview in early 2018: “I am only now seeing how problematic it was that we both got to the point where it was a question of consent was. The way there was paved with the inappropriate abuse of authority, positions and privileges. "

In 2019, Monica Lewinsky began working as a producer for the US cable channel FX on a multi-part series about her affair at the time, which will be broadcast as the third season of the true crime series American Crime Story .

The music cabaret artist Bodo Wartke dedicated a song to her in 2005 with the title Monica ; Rabih Abou-Khalil wrote his Lewinsky March earlier , which was released in 2001 on his album The Cactus of Knowledge . Lewinsky herself reported in her TED talk that she was mentioned in 40 rap songs and at least two of these were complete songs about her ( Monica Lewinsky from G-Eazy and Splashin 'Over Monica from Mr. Live).

literature

Web links

Commons : Monica Lewinsky  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence and explanations

  1. ^ Monica Lewinsky: Shame and Survival. In: Vanity Fair. May 28, 2014, accessed July 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Monica Lewinsky: Shame and Survival. In: Vanity Fair. May 6, 2014, accessed July 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ TED Talk by Monika Lewinsky: The Price of Shame
  4. ↑ In the original: culture of humiliation
  5. ↑ Jessica Bennett: Monica Lewinsky Breaks Her Public Silence With a TED Talk , The New York Times, March 19, 2015; accessed on March 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ In the original: Public humiliation as a blood sport has to stop.
  7. ↑ In the original: We need to return to a long-held value of compassion and empathy.
  8. ^ Elisabeth Mittendorfer: Lewinsky questions the voluntary nature of the Clinton affair . February 27, 2017 ( kurier.at [accessed on February 28, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 10, 2019, p. 44 ("Sensation")
  10. ↑ Published among others on Achillesverse - live in Berlin (2006)
  11. ^ Reference to Lewinsky as a source of inspiration
  12. ^ Allison P. Davis: Every Rap Song That Mentions Monica Lewinsky . New York Magazine, March 24, 2015
  13. ↑ Matthias Matussek : I want the president, now! - Review in: Der Spiegel 10/99 of March 8, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Lewinsky, Monica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lewinsky, Monica Samille (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd July 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California