Kenneth Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, has died at the age of 76, his family says.
Starr, a former judge and US solicitor general, died at a Houston hospital yesterday of complications from surgery.
As the independent counsel investigating Mr. Clinton, Starr became a household name across the US.
More recently he served on the team defending former President Donald Trump from impeachment in 2020.
A native of Texas, Starr was appointed by the US Department of Justice in 1994 to investigate Whitewater, a scandal-plagued 1980s land venture that involved both Bill and Hillary Clinton.
While conducting the investigation, Starr found evidence that Mr. Clinton had been having an affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
It resulted in Mr. Clinton being impeached by the US House of Representatives in 1998. END.