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Amazon is making a movie about the Monica Lewinsky scandal
Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to “Linda and Monica,” a screenplay detailing the short-lived friendship between former White House aide Linda Tripp and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, who was caught in a sexual relationship with former President Bill Clinton. (2015 file photo/Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

Amazon is making a movie about the Monica Lewinsky scandal

Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to “Linda and Monica,” a script detailing the short-lived relationship between Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp.

The script, written by Flint Wainess, was on the 2016 Black List, a catalog of the film industry’s top unproduced screenplays, Deadline reported. The film will detail Lewinsky and Tripp’s friendship in the 1990s, which imploded when revelations about the affair between Lewinsky, who was a White House intern, and former President Bill Clinton surfaced.

At the time, Tripp was a White House aide. Tripp secretly recorded Lewinsky’s account of her sexual encounters with the former president in the White House and she later leaked the audio recordings to Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who was investigating Whitewater.

Tripp claimed she was releasing the tapes to Starr because she was looking out for the best interests of her friend, Lewinsky. The bombshell revelation led to a very public legal battle and, ultimately, Clinton's impeachment.

The Amazon film will be produced by Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch, the Escape Artists trio behind the Best Picture-nominated “Fences” and the upcoming sequel to the “The Equalizer.”

In addition to the movie, screenwriter Ryan Murphy is exploring the Lewinsky episode for a possible season of FX’s “American Crime Story,” an anthology series about major U.S. legal battles, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Murphy is considering CNN’s contributor Jeffrey Toobin’s best-selling 2000 book, “A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President,” as source material.

News of the Amazon movie about Lewinsky comes just weeks after the former White House intern slammed Fox News in a New York Times op-ed for its coverage of her and her sexual relationship with Clinton in the 1990s.

She said the network’s reporting on the affair was a “nightmare” that made her feel she had become a “whore, a bimbo, a slut and worse” in the eyes of the public.

“My character, my looks and my life were picked apart mercilessly. Truth and fiction mixed at random in the service of higher ratings,” she wrote. “On Fox, it seemed, no rumor was too unsubstantiated, no innuendo too vile and no accusation too abhorrent.

“Other cable news channels didn’t hesitate to join the race to the bottom,” she continued. “Let’s not pretend that Fox News was the only network to cover this story in the gutter.”

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