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...tapes Lewinsky is heard telling Tripp about a dress with a stain from Clinton. The Times attributed its account to "investigators who have heard the tapes." The next day, the Washington Post reported that Lewinsky told Tripp "she has an article of clothing with Clinton's semen on it" and attributed this to discussions contained in more than 20 hours of taped conversations between Tripp and Lewinsky, citing "sources who have listened to" portions of them...
...Newsweek, in a Jan. 21 online report, said Lewinsky had been taped saying Clinton had given her a dress. On Jan. 24 the New York Post described the gift dress as a "multicolored peasant dress" and distinguished it from the "black cocktail dress" that reportedly had the President's semen on it. (A source close to Tripp has told TIME there are two dresses. The gift dress, the source says, is a "cheap" one purchased on Martha's Vineyard; the stained dress is a black silk cocktail dress...
...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...
Also on Jan. 25, a Mary McGrory column in the Washington Post denounced Drudge for alleging on Today that Lewinsky possessed "an item of underwear with presidential semen on it" as well. Drudge had spoken of a "piece of clothing," but according to a transcript of the show he did not say "underwear." Two days earlier, in a column criticizing widespread rumors, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper cited a rumor of "semen-stained underwear Lewinsky kept." Roeper says he cannot recall where he heard reports of semen-stained underwear, but that it was "definitely broadcast, not print...
...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...