Lewinsky's off to London
2005-09-07 08:16
London - Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who achieved instant fame because she had an affair with US president Bill Clinton in the late 1990s, is to study psychology in London, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
The city's Evening Standard daily said the 32-year-old had enrolled in a Masters in social psychology at the London School of Economics.
The LSE refused to confirm or deny the report.
"We don't comment on any individuals, students, staff, alumni, non-students, or anyone, without their permission, so we're not saying anything," a spokesperson said.
Lewinsky's affair with Clinton almost cost him his presidency. He was impeached over the sex scandal before finally being acquitted in February 1999 by the United States senate.
The year-long LSE course costs non-European Union students £12 000 but Lewinsky should be able to foot the bill.
According to press reports, she received six-figure dollar sums for interviews she gave after Clinton's autobiography My Life was published last year.
Lewinsky graduated with a psychology degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, in 1995, before the affair which put her name on the front pages of newspapers the world over.