Monica Lewinsky had an affair with a married man while she was in college in Oregon and used the school's stationery to write a phony letter, The Oregonian reported Sunday.
The Oregonian quoted three unidentified acquaintances of Lewinsky as saying she spoke openly about a relationship she had in Portland with a married man eight years her senior while she was attending Lewis & Clark College in the early '90s.One of the acquaintances said Lewinsky had no problem with the fact she was seeing a married man or discussing it publicly, sometimes in front of people she barely knew, the newspaper said.
"I never quizzed her about it personally, but I often heard her talk about it," said the student, who now is attending graduate school. "She was proud and not repentant at all."
Another acquaintance who knew Lewinsky for about a year saw her with the man. "She was somewhat taken by this guy," the acquaintance told the newspaper.
The allegedly phony letter on Lewis & Clark College stationery was written to help someone Lewinsky knew continue receiving unemployment benefits, The Oregonian reported Monday, quoting an unidentified source.
College President Michael Mooney said the school encouraged an employee who kept a copy of the letter to turn it over to Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who is investigating allegations that Lewinsky had a sexual relationship with President Clinton.
"It's now up to the prosecutor's office to do what they'd like to do," Mooney told The Oregonian.
He said the college has not done its own investigation of the letter. "The documents may go to the issue of forgery," said Scott Staff, vice president for college relations. "But those documents have not been authenticated or investigated in any serious legal way."