Lewinsky wrote about the magazine rescinding her invite in a cryptic tweet posted Wednesday.
“dear world: please don't invite me to an event (esp one about social change) and -- then after i've accepted -- uninvite me because bill clinton then decided to attend/was invited,” Lewinsky wrote. “it's 2018.”
dear world:
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) May 9, 2018
please don't invite me to an event (esp one about social change) and --then after i've accepted-- uninvite me because bill clinton then decided to attend/was invited.
it's 2018.
emily post would def not approve.
✌🏼Me
“definitely, please don't try to ameliorate the situation by insulting me with an offer of an article in your mag,” she added in a subsequent tweet.
p.s. ...and definitely, please don't try to ameliorate the situation by insulting me with an offer of an article in your mag.
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) May 9, 2018
Town & Country held its annual Philanthropy Summit on Wednesday in New York City, The Associated Press reported.
On Thursday, magazine officials apologized to Lewinsky, writing on Twitter that they “regret the way the situation was handled.”
We apologize to Ms. Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled.
— TOWN&COUNTRY (@TandCmag) May 10, 2018
Clinton introduced March for Our Lives panelists at Wednesday's event, according to CNN. His press secretary, Angel Urena, said Clinton and his staff were unaware that Lewinsky had been invited to the summit.
President Clinton was invited to address the Town & Country Philanthropy Summit. He gladly accepted. Neither he nor his staff knew anything about the invitation or it being rescinded. https://t.co/iZ0xtG4OvQ
— Angel Ureña (@angelurena) May 9, 2018
Clinton initially denied that he had an affair with Lewinsky, who was originally hired in 1995 as an unpaid White House intern. He admitted to the affair in 1998.
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