The American lawyer, who also defended Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial, died on Tuesday “due to complications following surgery”, his family announced.
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It is the prosecutor who led the prosecution against Democratic President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case. The American lawyer Kenneth Starr died Tuesday, September 13, at the age of 76, his family announced. He died at a hospital in Houston, Texas, “due to complications following surgery”, say his relatives.
Kenneth Starr had gained worldwide notoriety in the late 1990s by investigating, as a special prosecutor, Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, secretary of the White House. 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.