Now Bill and Monica get the OJ treatment: Lewinsky and Clinton White House-affair will be the focus of new season of Ryan Murphy's hit series American Crime Story 

  • Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewisnky will be the focus of the fourth season of Ryan Murphy's series American Crime Story 
  • At the time the affair began in November 1995, Clinton was 49-years-old and Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern
  • The affair became public in January of 1998 after Linda Tripp gave tapes of Lewinsky admitting to the relationship to Kenneth Star 
  • Murphy has optioned Jeffrey Toobin's bestselling book 'A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President'
  • Toobin also wrote The People V. OJ Simpson, which was the basis for the first season of American Crime Story 
  • Murphy is currently at work filming a second season about Hurricane Katrina and a third season about Gianni Versace's murder that will premiere in 2018 

By Heidi Parker and Chris Spargo For Dailymail.com

Published: 10:04 EST, 19 January 2017 | Updated: 13:58 EST, 19 January 2017

Hillary Clinton may have lost her bid for the White House, but it seems that the former first lady will soon be able to reminisce about her years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue thanks to a new television series. 

It is being reported that Ryan Murphy has optioned Jeffrey Toobin's bestselling book 'A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President' for an upcoming season of his American Crime Story anthology.

That book tells that tale of Bill Clinton's affair with a young intern by the name of Monica Lewinsky, and Linda Tripp, the woman who revealed the details of the pair's intimate indiscretions to the world.

The scandal grew so big at the time that it almost led to Clinton being impeached from office. 

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The way theuy were: Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewisnky (above in 1997) will be the focus of the fourth season of Ryan Murphy's series American Crime Story

Meet cute: At the time the affair began in November 1995, Clinton was 49-years-old and Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern (above in 1995, with actress Lauren Bacall in the background) 

First family: Ryan Murphy has optioned Jeffrey Toobin's bestselling book 'A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President' (Clinton above at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics)

The series is currently being fast-tracked according to The Hollywood Reporter, and Murphy has been meeting with actors to play the roles of Lewinsky and Tripp.  

It might be some time before the show airs however, with two seasons of American Crime Story currently being filmed in the wake of The People V. OJ Simpson.

That series, also based on one of Tobin's books, recently won the Golden Globe for Best Television Miniseries.  

Filming is currently underway on the second season, about Hurricane Katrina, and the third season, about the murder of Gianni Versace, which are both expected to air next year. 

Season three will cover the murder of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace who was shot dead in Florida in 1997.

Murphy, best known for Glee and American Horror Story, is also working on a story about the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford that is set to premiere in March, Feud. 

Talented guy: Toobin also wrote The People V. OJ Simpson, which was the basis for the first season of American Crime Story (Courtney B. Vance, Alexis Martin Woodall, Ryan Murphy, John Travolta, Brad Simpson, and Connie Britton at the Golden Globes above)

Upcoming: Murphy is currently at work filming a second season about Hurricane Katrina (left) and a third season about Gianni Versace's murder (designer right with Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington) that will premiere in 2018

At the time the affair began between the president and his intern in November 1995, Clinton was 49-years-old and Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House employee.

Lewinsky would later claim the two were together nine times between that first encounter and March of 1997.

The affair became public in January of 1998 after Tripp gave tapes of Lewinsky admitting to her relationship to Kenneth Star, who at the time was pursuing the Whitewater controversy and Clinton's alleged sexual harassment of Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee. 

When Clinton was under investigation for the affair in 1998, he denied having an relations with the brunette from Beverly Hills, famously saying: 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky' in a nationally televised White House news conference.'

He later admitted to the affair and claimed that hois definition of sexual relations differed from that of others. 

In an recent interview, Tripp suggested that she is the reason that Lewinsky is alive. 

'I say today and I will continue to say, that I believe Monica Lewinsky is alive today because of choices I made and action I took,' Tripp said in a radio interview with Breitbart's Aaron Klein.

Tripp told Klein she realized she sounded 'melodramatic,' but 'I can only say that from my perspective, I believe that she and I were at the time in danger, because nothing stands in the way of these people achieving their political ends. 

In court: Tripp (left in 1998) recently said that she believes Lewinsky (right in 1998) might be dead if she had not shared the tapes with Starr

Tripp had worked in both the Bush 41 and Clinton White House, and then worked in the Pentagon alongside Lewinsky when the former White House intern opened up to her about her affair with Bill Clinton.

Tripp taped their conversations and, to get out of a wiretape charge, handed the recordings over to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.

She was demonized in the media, as being motivated by money and for wanting to write a book. On 'Saturday Night Live' she was portrayed by John Goodman.

During an hour-long radio interview with Klein, who also operates as Breitbart's Jerusalem bureau chief, Tripp pushed back on her public persona.

'The money I might have made on a book would never have overtaken what I gave up: My career, my pension. I was making a very decent salary. There was just no way that a book could have made up for what I would lose,' Tripp said.

'But the media, in an attempt I suppose to support the Clintons' perspective, painted me that way,' she continued. 'So there is very little the average layperson can do to fight that media saturation.'

She also pointed to the fact that she never wrote a tell-all, even with the continued interest in the Clintons, especially the Lewinsky scandal, after all these years.

Now however, her story will be told. 

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