Lawyer Ken Starr dies at 76

(Washington) Former prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who led the prosecution against Democratic President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case, died Tuesday at age 76, his family announced.

The lawyer, who briefly defended Donald Trump in another impeachment trial, died in a Houston hospital "due to complications following surgery," his relatives said in a statement.

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.

His pugnacity against the president, whom he had forced to publicly unpack his sexual escapades, was not enough to bring him down: 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 his party.

WASHINGTON: Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to the impeachment of former US President Bill Clinton in 1998, has died at age 76, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.

Starr died on Tuesday in Houston from complications from surgery, his family said.

Starr came to national prominence as the special prosecutor who investigated the sex-and-perjury scandal that led to then-President Clinton's impeachment.

The investigation into Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky produced a book-length official document for Congress that became a bestseller when commercially sold as "The Starr Report."

Offering startling glimpses of sexual trysts intermingled with the densest legalese, the report found Clinton's attempt to cover up the affair offered grounds for impeachment.

"According to Ms. Lewinsky, she performed oral sex on the president on nine occasions. On all nine of those occasions, the president fondled and kissed her bare breasts," "The Starr Report" said. "She called him 'Handsome'; on occasion, he called her 'Sweetie,' 'Baby,' or sometimes 'Dear.'"

The scandal centered on Clinton's attempt to cover up his relationship with Lewinsky, and the impeachment charges stemmed from his false denial of the relationship in his 1998 grand jury testimony and in a deposition in a sexual harassment case filed against him by Paula Jones of Arkansas where Clinton had been governor.

On Dec. 19, 1998, the US House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton - only the second president until then to face this charge of wrongdoing. A subsequent Senate trial failed to remove him from office.

Starr repeatedly said that no one, not even the US president, was above the law.

Born July 21, 1946, in Vernon, Texas, Starr was a clerk to former Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1974 and 1975, and in 1981, he became counselor to William French Smith, then-President Ronald Reagan's first attorney general.

In 1989, he became solicitor-general, the US government's chief litigator.

In that job, he argued 25 cases, including controversial lawsuits on abortion rights and school prayer. Before he became special prosecutor, he was often mentioned as a Republican president's potential nominee to the US Supreme Court.

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