FEVER PITCH With her lawyer fielding more than 200 media calls a day, Tripp becomes a household name—and a national punch line. A male performer, John Goodman, portrays her as a snitch on “Saturday Night Live,” and “Linda Tripp” Halloween costumes sell out all over Washington.
PRESENT DAY Retired from government work, Tripp and her German husband live on a farm in Middleburg, Va., where they run the Christmas Sleigh, a year-round holiday shop and German clothing store. In an e-mail message to NEWSWEEK, Tripp’s assistant boasted that the shop offers the most high-end lederhosen “this side of the Rockies.” Still, Tripp can’t seem to shake the White House from her mind. A decade after tattling on Bill and Monica, she has designed a “mouth-blown” glass ornament depicting the first indoor White House Christmas tree. It sells for $65.
