


For her primary education, she attended the John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air.

The family attended Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, and Monica attended Sinai Akiba Academy, its religious school. Peter Straus, a media executive and former director of the Voice of America under President Jimmy Carter. Her father later married his current wife, Barbara her mother later married R. Monica's parents' acrimonious separation and divorce during 19 had a significant impact on her. Vilensky, was a Lithuanian Jew, and Monica's maternal grandmother, Bronia Poleshuk, was born in the British Concession of Tianjin, China, to a Russian Jewish family. During the Lewinsky scandal, the press compared Lewis's unproven "hints" that she had an affair with opera star Plácido Domingo to her daughter's sexual relationship with Clinton. In 1996, she wrote her first and only book, the gossip biography The Private Lives of the Three Tenors. Her mother, born Marcia Kay Vilensky, is an author who uses the name Marcia Lewis. Her father is Bernard Lewinsky, an oncologist, who is the son of German Jews who escaped from Nazi Germany and moved to El Salvador and then to the United States when he was 14. Lewinsky was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in an affluent family in Southern California in the Westside Brentwood area of Los Angeles and later in Beverly Hills. In 2014, she returned to public view as a social activist speaking out against cyberbullying. Lewinsky later left the public spotlight to pursue a master's degree in psychology in London. She subsequently engaged in a variety of ventures that included designing a line of handbags under her name, serving as an advertising spokesperson for a diet plan, and working as a television personality. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton's impeachment) became known later as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.Īs a result of the public coverage of the political scandal, Lewinsky gained international celebrity status. President Bill Clinton admitted to having an affair with Lewinsky while she worked at the White House in 19. Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American activist, television personality, fashion designer, and former White House intern. White House Office of Legislative Affairs
