According to his relatives, Kenneth Starr, the prosecutor whose inquiry resulted in President Bill Clinton's impeachment, passed away at the age of 76.
“We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving father and grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first,” one of his sons, Randall Starr, said in a statement.
Starr, a former US solicitor general and judge, passed away on Tuesday from surgical complications in a Houston hospital.
In the 1990s, Starr rose to fame in the US as the independent counsel looking into Mr. Clinton.
He most recently worked with the group that fought to prevent the 2020 impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
Texas-born Starr was chosen by the US Department of Justice in 1994 to look into the scandal-riddled 1980s land deal known as Whitewater, which featured both Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Starr's inquiry revealed evidence that Mr. Clinton had been having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
It resulted in Mr Clinton being impeached by the US House of Representatives in 1998. He was later acquitted by the Senate. Starr wrote about the inquiry in a bestselling book, Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation.
He said while promoting the book in a CBS interview in 2018 that he regretted “the pain that resulted to so many, including to the nation” from the Lewinsky phase of the probe.
But he maintained “it had to be done” and declined to apologise to Ms Lewinsky for the bullying and harassment she endured after the affair came to light.
Reacting to news of his death, Ms Lewinsky tweeted: “as i’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings… but of more importance, is that i imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him.”
Starr is survived by his wife Alice and three children.
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