Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several major news organizations were reporting that the gift dress and the stained dress were the same. The New York Times' Jan. 24 story said that "Ms. Lewinsky made references to gifts" from Clinton, including a dress, and that she told Tripp on tape that this dress "contains a semen stain from President Clinton." The next day, Jan. 25, the Baltimore Sun ran an article that also indicated the stained dress was one given to Lewinsky by Clinton. The Sun's story was attributed to "a series of explosive news leaks," and national editor Lee Horwich says the source...
Lewinsky attorney William Ginsburg disavowed knowledge of the dress on Jan. 25's Meet the Press. Tim Russert asked if "some dresses or a dress with DNA evidence" had been taken from his client. Ginsburg called the question "salacious." If Lewinsky "had a dress that was sullied or dirty, she would have had it cleaned," he said, adding, "I know of no such dress." He also said the FBI had searched her apartment and taken "black and blue pantsuits and dresses...
...TIME and Newsweek ran stories reporting on the dress in similar terms. TIME stated that in an untaped conversation with Tripp, Lewinsky "allegedly held up a dress she claimed was stained with the President's semen and said, 'I'll never wash it again.'" TIME's story did not contain attribution for this point, but its source was someone close to Tripp that TIME believes credible. Newsweek wrote that "Lewinsky told Tripp that she was keeping, as a kind of grotesque memento, a navy blue dress stained with Clinton's semen. Holding it up as a trophy to Tripp...
...Evening News was the first to report that FBI testing was complete, and "no DNA evidence or stains have been found on a dress that belongs to Lewinsky." The network did not give a source. TIME has confirmed with its own FBI sources that no semen stains or DNA evidence was found on any of the clothing seized from Lewinsky. The next day New York Newsday ran a story quoting forensic scientists saying tests for seminal stains can be rendered useless if clothing is laundered or dry-cleaned...
Also on Jan. 30, Ginsburg appeared on ABC's 20/20. Asked by Barbara Walters whether Clinton ever gave Lewinsky a dress, Ginsburg responded, "Unless you consider a long T shirt a dress, the answer is no." Last Friday the New York Times reported that Betty Currie, Clinton's personal secretary, had turned over to investigators items she had retrieved from Lewinsky, including a dress. The Times did not say whether it was a stained dress, a gift dress, both, or neither...