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Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern who is now an anti-bullying advocate, walked offstage at a conference in Jerusalem when she was asked a question relating to former President Bill Clinton. Yonit Levi, one of Israel’s top news anchors, asked Lewinsky — who has spoken in recent years about the humiliation she endured after her affair with the former president was made public — Monday night whether she still expected a personal apology from Clinton. “I’m so sorry I’m not going to be able to do this,” said Lewinsky, before laying her microphone down and walking off the stage. Later, Lewinsky, who became a household name in the late 1990s for an affair that nearly took down Clinton’s presidency, said on Twitter that Levi had put that same question to her when they’d met ahead of the conference and she’d responded that it was off-limits. “When she asked me it on stage, with blatant disregard for our agreement, it became clear to me I had been misled,” wrote Lewinsky on Twitter. She said the parameters laid out for the discussion were for it to be focused on the subject of her speech, which talked about the perils and positives of the Internet. A spokesman for Levi’s employer, the Israeli News Co., called it a legitimate question that “in no way deviated from Ms. Lewinsky’s requests.”
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz and later stolen from a Minnesota museum were recovered in a sting operation after a man approached the shoes’ insurer and said he could help get them back, the FBI said Tuesday. The slippers were on loan to the Judy Garland Museum in the late actress’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Minn., when they were taken in 2005 by someone who climbed through a window and broke into a small display case. The shoes were insured for $1 million. The FBI said a man approached the insurer in the summer of 2017 and said he could help get them back. After a nearly yearlong investigation, the slippers were found in July during a sting operation in Minneapolis. While no one has been charged in the case, the FBI said it has “multiple suspects” and continues to investigate. “We’re not done. We have a lot of work to do,” Christopher Myers, the U.S. attorney for North Dakota, said. The slippers had been on loan to the Garland museum from Hollywood memorabilia collector Michael Shaw. Three other pairs that Garland wore in the movie are held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian and a private collector. Garland, who was born Frances Gumm and died in 1969, lived in Grand Rapids until she was 4½, when her family moved to Los Angeles.