Lucianne Goldberg, key determine in Clinton impeachment, dies at 87 | CNN Politics

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Lucianne Goldberg, the literary agent who prompt to Linda Tripp that she document her telephone calls with Monica Lewinsky speaking about her relationship with then-President Invoice Clinton, has died on the age of 87.

Jonah Goldberg, the conservative political columnist who is also a CNN political commentator, confirmed his mom’s loss of life on Twitter Thursday.

“My beloved mother, Lucianne Goldberg, handed away yesterday. She died peacefully at house, surrounded by folks – and pets! – who liked her.”

“I’m nonetheless working by way of my shock and grief. It was a really laborious week on the finish of an intensely tough yr,” he tweeted.

Lucianne Goldberg was working in Washington, DC, as an writer and conservative literary agent when Tripp, then a confidante of Lewinsky, approached her with a narrative about then-President Clinton, Goldberg would inform PBS in an interview years later. Goldberg instructed Tripp she wanted proof of the accusations she was leveling about Clinton and Lewinsky.

“And I stated, ‘Effectively you bought to do one thing to show to me so I can show to a writer that this wild story was true.’ And I stated, ‘You say you discuss to her day-after-day, how about taping your telephone conversations?’

“And she or he agreed that that may be a cool thought, and she or he went to Radio Shack and acquired a tape recorder and plugged it into her telephone,” Goldberg stated.

The ensuing scandal introduced on, partly, by the disclosure of the tapes finally led to Clinton’s impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice, although he was acquitted within the Senate.

On the time of her loss of life, Goldberg was operating an internet site, Lucianne.com, that posts conservative information articles. A press release on the web site remembered her as a “loving spouse, mom, and grandmother.”

“She was additionally a patriot who expressed her love of this nation with each political fierceness and penetrating wit,” it reads.