Former US prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who led the prosecution against Democratic President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case, died Tuesday, September 13, at age 76, his family announced.
Kenneth Starr had gained worldwide notoriety in the late 1990s by investigating, as a special prosecutor, Bill Clinton’s affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
Republican Sensitivity
His pugnacity against the president, whom he had forced to publicly unpack his sexual escapades, was not enough to bring down the president: Bill Clinton was finally acquitted by the Senate in 1999.
Kenneth Starr, who has never hidden his Republican sensitivities, then worked as a lawyer, professor, university rector or commentator on the conservative Fox News channel.
In 2020, he participated in the defense of Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial. Accused of having conditioned military aid to Ukraine on the opening of an investigation into the son of his rival Joe Biden, the Republican president had been acquitted thanks to the support of senators from the Republican Party.