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| Speaking out: Monica Lewinsky is reportedly writing a $12 million tell-all book about her affair with Clinton |
Monica's revenge: Lewinsky 'to publish secret love letters to Clinton revealing his insatiable desire for threesomes and how he trashed Hillary'
By Lydia Warren
Monica Lewinsky is reportedly set to
write a tell-all book about her affair with Bill Clinton - including her
intimate love letters to the ex-president and how he had an insatiable
desire for threesomes.
The
former White House intern, 39, reportedly wants revenge on Clinton, who
she believes escaped unscathed while she has never been able to shake
the disgrace of their Oval Office trysts.
Friends
claim publishers are scrambling to get their hands on the book, and
after holding meetings, she has learned she could get as much a $12
million if she recounts every tawdry detail.
While
she has not yet secured a book deal, her apparent attempts to cash in
on the affair could rattle the Clinton marriage - and wreck Hillary's
bid for the presidency in 2016.Speaking to the National Enquirer, her friends said the memoir could
even spark further health problems for the former
president, who has undergone heart surgeries.
'Her book could be more than just revenge, it could kill him!' a source said.
Her
bids for a book deal will at least shake Clinton - bringing him
crashing down from the success he enjoyed after an energetic speech at
the Democratic National Convention earlier this month.
The
book will also include never-before-seen love letters that she wrote to
the president - some of which were so intimate she never sent them,
another friend added.
They reportedly detail her love for
Clinton and how Lewinsky, then just 22, could make him much happier than
his wife, Hillary, who the president called a 'cold fish'.
Admiration: A December 1996 White House photo shows Clinton and Lewinsky at a Christmas party
Affair: Lewinsky, pictured in November 1995,
claimed she had nine sexual encounters with President Clinton in the
Oval Office between November 1995 and March 1997
Centre of a scandal: In October 1996, Clinton embraces Lewinsky, then a White House intern
He also laughed about his nonexistent sex life with his wife - and said he thought he was not the only one looking for love outside their marriage.
'Monica can describe how Bill went on
and on about his insatiable desire for three-way sex, orgies and the use
of sex toys of all kinds,' the friend added.
As
well as the heartbreak she suffered after her relationship with Clinton, Lewinsky
also plans to detail the pain of ending a pregnancy at the height of her
liaison with the president, the source said.
She
was carrying a child fathered by a Pentagon employee called 'Thomas',
she revealed in an earlier biography written by Andrew Morton. 'That
void has never been filled,' said the friend.
She
decided to develop the memoir after her sullied reputation meant she
struggled to find work but realised she would get a generous offer for the book.
Denial: With his wife standing by in January 1998, Clinton insists he did not have relations with 'that woman'
Truth: But in August 1998, Clinton confessed on television that he did have sexual relations with her
She is also writing it to get revenge on Clinton, now 66, friends said.
'For years, Monica tried to protect
Bill out of a misplaced sense of loyalty,' a source told the Enquirer. 'But she no
longer feels that way, and her memoir is his worst nightmare.'
During her grand jury testimony
against Clinton in 1998, an immunity deal prevented her from exposing
intimate details about their affair in the Morton expose that came out that
year.
'But that agreement expired in 2001, and
when Bill published his autobiography My Life three years later,
Monica felt betrayed by him all over again,' said the source.
In the wake of the scandal, Lewinsky became the centre of a political storm and gave a series of high-profile interviews.
But unable to escape the shake the reputation, she moved to England in 2005 where she earned her master's degree and worked as a news correspondent for the UK's Channel Five News.
'Nightmare': Lewinsky's friends believe the book
could rock Clinton's marriage to Hillary, left, who he called a 'cold
fish' during the affair. They are also pictured with daughter Chelsea
Though it has been 14 years
since she claimed she had nine sexual encounters with the president, her
presence still looms in the life of Clinton's post-presidency and
Hillary's political career.
In
what was an unfortunate and awkward schedule at the Democratic National
Convention in North Carolina earlier this month, Lewinsky's former
rabbi - who publicly condemned Clinton during the sex scandal - gave the
benediction minutes after the former President took the stage.
ABC
News reported that the awkward pairing was likely overlooked by
organizers because Rabbi David Wolpe is such a well-known figure in the
Jewish community.
And
in July, during a visit to Egypt as U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary
Clinton was taunted by her husband's affair by protesters as they
chanted 'Monica, Monica!'
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Monica Lewinsky - Single, living with her mother and still struggling with her weight - but 'set to make $12m with a tell-all book about her affair with Clinton'
By Sara Nathan|
Stepping
into the pouring rain, her thick hair swept up underneath a cap and
rather bizarrely wearing sunglasses despite the gloomy New York weather,
the woman went about her business without attracting a single gaze from
passers-by.
The
first picture of Monica Lewinsky, 39, in public for the first time in a
year, paints a very different portrait from the young intern who
achieved global notoriety after her sordid Oval Office affair with
President Bill Clinton.
But
her low-key life may not last much longer amid reports she is planning
to pen an intimate, tell-all book about her affair with President
Clinton that will plunge her right back into the spotlight.
Rarely seen: Monica Lewinsky out and about in
New York yesterday, with her famous hair hidden under a cap and trying
to remain incognito with sunglasses - despite the rain
She's
been offered $12m to write the book, according to reports and it is
said to include her intimate love letters to the ex-president and how he
desired threesomes.
Is it
revenge on her former flame? She certainly must have been aggrieved to
watch as he managed to keep his family and career together in the
fallout that followed the affair. But for Monica, she has never been
able to emerge from its shadow and be known for anything other than that
girl who wore that dress and had that affair.
There
is no husband, as she dreamed of, no boyfriend, and no children,
despite saying that she was 'romantic at heart' and that getting married
and having kids was 'the most important thing to me.'
After numerous failed attempts to reinvent herself professionally, there is no sign of a successful career either.
MailOnline
has learned that as she also continues her struggle with her weight,
Monica now lives with her mother. She has moved out of the expensive
apartment she rented for nearly a decade in the exclusive Archive
building in Greenwich Village - where properties can cost up to
$7,450-a-month for a one-bedroom apartment - and divides her time
between New York and Los Angeles.
When she stays in New York, she lives with her mother Marcia Straus, who owns a penthouse in the city.
Sad: Monica Lewinsky clutches a hot drink while she stands alone on a Manhattan street
It also seems that she has regained the 31 pounds she once lost on the Jenny Craig diet program.
She
was famously axed from the company just three months after signing up
to a $1 million deal to be a spokeswoman, following criticism that she
was not a good role model.
Don't you know who I am? Monica cuts a much different figure than at 22
Monica has spent the
past few weeks comforting her mother Marcia following the death of her
beloved step-father, radio pioneer R.Peter Straus, who died at his New
York home in August, aged 89.
He
married Marcia, now 64, in 1989, after they were introduced by a mutual
Washington friend in 1997 - just months before the scandal of Monica's
liaison with President Clinton was made public in January 1998.
Mr
Straus had known President Clinton for years, but remained extremely
close to Monica, who fondly kept a picture of her mother and step-father
in her apartment in a frame shamed like a giraffe.
In the shade: Monica Lewinsky dons her sunglasses in New York today
She said in an
earlier interview: 'They've got a cute thing about giraffes - Peter gave
my mom a giraffe brooch when that whole thing was going on, to remind
her to look over the trees.'
Friends
said it was probably cash, not just revenge that was driving her. The
brunette, who turns 40 next July, still faces the hangover of massive
legal costs relating to the Clinton affair and nolonger runs her line of self-designed handbags.
In
2005, she fled to London to study at the London School of Economics,
receiving her Masters of Science in Social Psychology in December 2006.
At the time, her publicist said she had spent the years studying and 'staying away from the London social scene'.
She
completed a thesis called: 'In Search of the Impartial Juror: An
exploration of the third person effect and pre-trial publicity.'
Her longest relationship after the Clinton affair is still believed to be with filmmaker Mick Reed.
She
rarely ventures out to high-profile events and was last seen in public
nearly a year ago at an American Cancer Society Benefit, which her her
good friend, The Good Wife actor Alan Cumming, hosted last December.
She
has seen with Alan, 47, and his partner Grant Shaffer, on various
occasions and was pictured on a lunch outing with the couple in 2009.
Pouting: Monica Lewinsky, President Bill Clinton and their now infamous kiss caught on camera
Indeed, she now spends her time
staying with her mother and visiting her brother Michael
Lewinsky and father Dr Bernard Lewinsky in Los Angeles, where she grew
up.
Speaking to the National Enquirer,
friends said the book will include never-before-seen love letters that
Monica wrote to the president - some of which were so intimate she never
sent them.
They reportedly detail her love for
President Clinton, now 66, and how Monica, then 22, could make him
much happier than his wife, Hillary, who the president called a 'cold
fish'.
The book will also reportedly detail
how he laughed about his non-existent sex life with Hillary - and said
he thought he was not the only one looking for love outside their
marriage.
Monica can describe how Bill went on
and on about his insatiable desire for three-way sex, orgies and the use
of sex toys of all kinds,' the friend added to the Enquirer.
Monica Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton beam at the White House - before their affair was exposed in 1998
As well as the heartbreak she
suffered after her relationship with President Clinton, Monica also
plans to detail the pain of ending a pregnancy at the height of her
liaison with the president, the source said.
She was carrying a child fathered by a
Pentagon employee called 'Thomas', she revealed in an earlier biography
written by Andrew Morton. 'That void has never been filled,' said the
friend.
During her grand jury testimony
against President Clinton in 1998, an immunity deal prevented her from
exposing intimate details about their affair in the Morton expose that
came out that year.
But that agreement expired in 2001, and when President Clinton published his autobiography My Life three years later, Monica felt betrayed by him all over again,' said the source.
But that agreement expired in 2001, and when President Clinton published his autobiography My Life three years later, Monica felt betrayed by him all over again,' said the source.
But one source insisted to Mail Online
that, while she was exploring the option of writing a book, she wasn't
out for revenge, adding: 'That's not like her'.
Smiling: The last time Monica was seen in public
was in December, at a benefit for the American Cancer Society in New
York, pictured alongside her friend Neil Mendoza
Sharing a joke: Monica and publisher Luke
Janklow, the former boyfriend of heiress Jemima Khan. at the American
Cancer Society Benefit
Though it has been 14 years since she
claimed she had nine sexual encounters with the president, her presence
still looms in the life of Clinton's post-presidency and Hillary's
political career.
In what was an unfortunate and
awkward schedule at the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina
last month, Monica's former rabbi - who publicly condemned President
Clinton during the sex scandal - gave the benediction minutes after he
took the stage.
Striding: Monica near her mother's New York penthouse
ABC News reported that the awkward
pairing was likely overlooked by organizers because Rabbi David Wolpe is
such a well-known figure in the Jewish community.
And in July, during a visit to Egypt
as U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was taunted by her husband's
affair by protesters as they chanted 'Monica, Monica!'
Despite the rumours surrounding a book, a friend told the Huffington Post last
month: 'Several publishers would love her to tell all, but she has no
intention of doing so. She has been through enough already and all this
happened 14 years ago. She has put it behind her and moved on with her
life.
Monica in 2009 as she joined her good friend, actor Alan Cumming for lunch in New York's Soho
'She has nothing new to add to this painful chapter in her life.It’s time we all moved on.'
But
as Monica attempts to get her life back on track, while President
Clinton still remains the darling of the Democratic Party, it may be
easier said than done.
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