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Linda Tripp’s Maryland home where she recorded hours of her telephone conversations with Monica Lewinsky, catching evidence of her affair with Bill Clinton and nearly bringing down his presidency in 1998, sold for $523,000 in September.
Tripp, who worked alongside Lewinsky in the White House‘s Public Affairs Office, lived in the house on the quiet cul-de-sac at 6258 Cricket Pass in Hickory Ridge, Columbia between 1983 and 2000, when she was forced to move from her house due to the media attention that followed her release of the tapes.
The whistleblower sold the four bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom home for $275,000 two years later, on May 10, 2002. It changed hands again in 2011 before it went up for sale most recently in 2020.
The 2,317 square-foot, wood-floored house features a gourmet kitchen outfitted with stainless steel appliances, a living room, a family room with a built-in fireplace, a chair railing, a formal dining room and a rear deck that looks out onto a yard and trees, according to the property’s listing on Zillow.
The two-floor home was built in 1977 and sits on a 9,147 square-foot lot.
The house where civil servant Linda Tripp infamously recorded her conversations with Monica Lewinsky (pictured) sold in September for $523,000
The Hickory Ridge, Columbia home is pictured in 1999, when Linda Tripp still lived there
Linda Tripp (left) recorded her private conversations with her friend, Monica Lewinsky (right), then released them in 1998 under the condition that she be granted legal immunity for wiretapping
The ‘gourmet kitchen’ in Tripp’s Cricket Pass home has been outfitted with stainless steel appliances
The two-floor, 2,317 square-foot home features a chair railing on its staircase
Tripp lived in the house between 1983 and 2000, when she was forced to move due to unwanted media attention
The home has four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms
The house was built in 1977. Pictured is a ‘breakfast space’ offset from the kitchen
A back deck looks out onto trees on the 9,147 square-foot property
The backyard of Tripp’s former home on Cricket Pass in Hickory Ridge, Columbia is pictured
Tripp, who was 24 years Lewinsky’s senior, became a close confidante to the White House intern. They had known each other for about a year and a half before Tripp infamously began recording their telephone conversations at the advice of Lucianne Goldberg, her literary agent.
After she released her telephone conversations with Lewinsky in January of 1998 under the condition of legal immunity, Tripp was forced to cover her windows with bedsheets to maintain a semblance of privacy and escape the onslaught of telephoto lenses that she described as ‘medium-sized tree limbs.’
Tripp, who was 24 years Lewinsky’s senior, became a close confidante to the White House intern. They had known each other for about a year and a half before Tripp infamously began recording their telephone conversations at the advice of Lucianne Goldberg, her literary agent
Clinton Library video of a 1997 photo op where Monica Lewinsky is seen with president Bill Clinton
Recently, Tripp was portrayed in the FX series ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ by Sarah Paulson.
Joseph Murtha, Tripp’s criminal lawyer, told the Baltimore Sun that Tripp moved in 2000 ‘to try to regain privacy in her life.’
‘She was looking for an area that would offer her a more private environment.’
She moved to a small cottage that she expanded into a six-bedroom, 7.5 bathroom estate on a 100-acre horse farm in Marshall, Virginia.
Recently, Tripp was portrayed in the FX series ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ by Sarah Paulson (pictured left)
Tripp had no regrets – in 2017, she told DailyMailTV she felt ‘compelled’ to act, though she knew it meant ‘shattering Monica’s dreams’, because she believes Bill Clinton, 71, is a ‘sexual predator,’ with an ‘addiction’.
‘This was part of his pattern where women are a means to an end. It was almost a servicing agreement but she romanticized it,’ Tripp told DailyMailTV. ‘I always say that Monica was 14. Look, she fancied herself in love. He fancied himself entitled.’
Tripp added: ‘She believed that the 15 minute interludes [of oral sex] was all he could spare and Hillary was still hanging around so she hoped that she would somehow disappear. It was all fantasy.’
She died at age 70 on April 8, 2020 after a long-fought battle with pancreatic cancer.
Tripp, pictured in 2017, died at age 70 on April 8, 2020 after a long-fought battle with pancreatic cancer
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