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Classify Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is a former White House intern
with whom United States President Bill Clinton
admitted to having had what he called an "inappropriate relationship"
while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.
The affair and its repercussions, which included Clinton's impeachment,
became known as the Lewinsky scandal.
As a result of the scandal, Lewinsky gained worldwide celebrity status;
she subsequently engaged in a variety of ventures
including designing a line of handbags under her name,
being an advertising spokesperson for a diet plan,
working as a television personality,
and then leaving the public spotlight
to pursue a master's degree in psychology in London.
Monica Samille 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 in Beverly Hills.
Her father is Bernard Lewinsky, an oncologist,
who is the son of German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany
and emigrated to El Salvador and then moved to the United States.
Monica's maternal grandfather, Samuel M. Vilensky, was a Lithuanian Jew,
and Monica's maternal grandmother, Bronia Poleshuk,
was born in Tianjin, China, to a Russian Jewish family.
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