Editing Monica Lewinsky (section)

== Early life ==
Lewinsky was born in [[San Francisco]], California, and grew up in an affluent family in [[Southern California]] in the [[Westside (Los Angeles County)|Westside]] [[Brentwood, Los Angeles, California|Brentwood]] area of [[Los Angeles]] and later in [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]].<ref name="Morton1999">{{cite book |last=Morton |first=Andrew R. |author-link=Andrew Morton (writer) |title=Monica's Story |url=https://archive.org/details/monicasstory00mort |url-access=registration |year=1999 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=0-312-97362-4 |page=357}}</ref><ref name="WashpoProfile" /><ref name="cnn-whois">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/06/lewinsky.profile/ |title=Who Is Monica Lewinsky? |author=Aiken, Jonathan |publisher=[[CNN]]|date=August 6, 1998}}</ref><ref name="jta" /> Her father is [[Bernard Lewinsky]], an [[Oncology|oncologist]], who is the son of [[German Jews]] who emigrated from [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] in the 1920s, first moving to [[El Salvador]] and then finally to the United States when he was 14.<ref name="WashpoProfile" /><ref name="mworld">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/23/time/pooley.html |title=Monica's World |author=Pooley, Eric |magazine=Time |date=February 23, 1998}}</ref> Her mother, born Marcia Kay Vilensky, is an author who uses the name Marcia Lewis. In 1996, she wrote a "gossip biography", ''[[The Private Lives of the Three Tenors]]''. Lewinsky’s maternal grandfather, Samuel M. Vilensky, was a [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jew]], and her maternal grandmother, Bronia Poleshuk, was born in the [[British concession of Tianjin|British Concession]] of [[Tianjin]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]], to a [[Russian Jewish]] family.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/1998-08-09/news/18078775_1_monica-lewinsky-friends-marcia-lewis |title=Monica's Mom Defended |date=August 9, 1998 |newspaper=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |location=New York |access-date=September 10, 2011 |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707135201/http://articles.nydailynews.com/1998-08-09/news/18078775_1_monica-lewinsky-friends-marcia-lewis |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/02/news/ls-35076/2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224131532/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/02/news/ls-35076/2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Monica's Mom, the Reluctant Starr Witness |date=April 2, 1998}}</ref> Lewinsky’s parents divorced in 1988 and each has remarried.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/02/monica.mom/ |title=Lewinsky's mother to wed media executive |publisher=[[CNN]]|date=February 2, 1998}}</ref><ref name="jta" /><ref name="WashpoProfile" />

The family attended [[Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, California)|Sinai Temple]] in Los Angeles and Lewinsky attended [[Sinai Akiba Academy]], the school affiliated with the Temple.<ref name="jta">{{cite news |url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/7521/l-a-temple-fends-off-lewinsky-inquiries/ |title=L.A. temple fends off Lewinsky inquiries |author=Tugend, Tom |agency=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |newspaper=[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]] |date=January 30, 1998 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221094718/http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/7521/l-a-temple-fends-off-lewinsky-inquiries/ |archive-date=February 21, 2010 |df=mdy-all |access-date=December 29, 2009 }}</ref> For her primary education, she attended the [[John Thomas Dye School]] in [[Bel Air, Los Angeles, California|Bel-Air]].<ref name="Wire">At Pacific Hills School (formerly Bel-Air Prep) she won the "Outstanding Junior of the Year" award. [http://weeklywire.com/ww/03-15-99/memphis_book.html "That Girl"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061112175517/http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/03-15-99/memphis_book.html |date=November 12, 2006 }} by Leonard Gill, March 15, 1999. ''Memphis Flyer'' book review. Retrieved December 18, 2006.</ref> Lewinsky attended [[Beverly Hills High School]] for three years before transferring to [[Pacific Hills School|Bel Air Prep]] (later known as [[Pacific High School (San Bernardino, California)|Pacific High School]]), graduating in 1991.<ref name="WashpoProfile">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/lewprofile.htm |title=Lewinsky: Two Coasts, Two Lives, Many Images |author=Leen, Jeff |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 24, 1998 |page=A1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907170242/http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/lewprofile.htm |archive-date=September 7, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="cnn-whois" />

Following her high school graduation, Lewinsky attended [[Santa Monica College]] while working for the drama department at Beverly Hills High School and at a tie shop.<ref name="WashpoProfile" /><ref name="people">{{cite news |author=Green, Michelle |date=February 9, 1998 |title=Scandal at 1600 |magazine=[[People (American magazine)|People]] |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124429,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=December 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050331/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124429,00.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> In 1992, she and Andy Bleiler, her married former high school drama instructor, began a five-year affair.<ref name="wapo-bleiler">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/drama012898.htm |title=Lewinsky's Former Teacher Discloses Affair |first=William |last=Clairborne |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 28, 1998 |page=A22}}</ref> In 1993, she enrolled at [[Lewis & Clark College]] in [[Portland, Oregon]], graduating with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1995.<ref name="WashpoProfile" /><ref name="cnn-whois" /><ref name="people" /> In an appearance on ''[[Larry King Live]]'' in 2000, she revealed that she started an affair with a 40-year-old married man in Los Angeles when she was 18 years old, and that the affair continued while she was attending Lewis & Clark College in the early 1990s; she did not disclose the man's identity.<ref name="Usa_news_9/12/2021">{{cite web | title=Monica Lewinsky Once Revealed She Had A Relationship With A Married Man Prior To Bill Clinton Affair | website=USA News Site | date=September 12, 2021 | url=https://usanewssite.com/culture/monica-lewinsky-once-revealed-she-had-a-relationship-with-a-married-man-prior-to-bill-clinton-affair/ | access-date=September 13, 2021}}</ref>

With the assistance of a family connection, Lewinsky secured an unpaid summer [[White House]] internship in the office of [[White House Chief of Staff]] [[Leon Panetta]]. Lewinsky moved to Washington, D.C. and took up the position in July 1995.<ref name="WashpoProfile" /><ref name="people" /> She moved to a paid posting in the [[White House Office of Legislative Affairs]] in December 1995.<ref name="WashpoProfile" />