The lawyer, who briefly defended Donald Trump in another dismissal trial, died in a Houston hospital “because of complications that followed surgery,” said his relatives in a statement.
Le Monde with AFP
Former prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who had charged the Democratic President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case, died on Tuesday, September 13 at 76, announced his family.
Kenneth Starr had won worldwide notoriety in the late 90s by investigating, as a special prosecutor, on the bill of Bill Clinton with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
His pugnacity against the president, whom he had forced to publicly unpack his sexual escapades, had not been enough to make him fall: Bill Clinton had finally been acquitted by the Senate in 1999.
Kenneth Starr, who has never hidden his republican sensitivities, then worked as a lawyer, professor, rector of university or commentator on the conservative channel Fox News.
In 2020, he participated in the defense of Donald Trump during his first trial in dismissal. Accused of having conditioned military aid to Ukraine at the opening of an investigation into the son of his rival Joe Biden, the republican president had been acquitted thanks to the support of the senators of his party.