Monica, we hardly knew ye.
But we sure know a lot more now.
Never before has a legal document provided so many people with a keyhole view of a young woman's hopes, dreams and sexual proclivities, offering the public at large a chance to analyse, sympathise and criticise. Readers of MrKenneth Starr's report imagine her as the star of either Fatal At- traction or Seduced and Abandoned - or Dumb and Dumber.
Just looking at a list of the (numerous) gifts that she presented President Clinton offers a portrait of a girl/woman, a person who is, or is trying to be, coy, seductive, sophisticated and supremely tacky. She delivered them in batches, too: if he didn't like the frog-embossed letter opener, maybe he'd go for the copy of Oy Vey! The Things They Say: A Guide to Jewish Wit. Or what about the selection that included an erotic postcard and her "thoughts on education reform"?
Ms Lewinsky's spokeswoman, Ms Judy Smith, said that neither she nor Ms Lewinsky would comment on the report by the independent counsel. Indeed, one of the oddities of this episode is that millions of people now know more about Lewinsky in some ways than they do about their closest friends, but have no idea what her voice sounds like.
Opinions about Ms Lewinsky are as diverse as her presents. She's a conniving tramp; she's pathetic; she's bravely honest.
On one level, thoughts about her reflect a generational divide, as people closer to her age tend to be less shocked by what older people see as Ms Lewinsky's brazen aggression. (Showing the President of the United States of America the straps of your thong underwear by way of introduction, for example.) And for some, her story demonstrates a quandary faced by many young women today - they are well schooled in the techniques of sex and seduction, but less prepared for a multidimensional relationship.
"Women my age don't necessarily think she is the worst tramp in the world," said Ms Amy Holmes (25), special project manager for the Independent Women's Forum, an anti-feminist group of women intellectuals. "We understand it. We didn't grow up with the idea that you don't call a boy, or you don't jump into a sexual relationship on the first date.
"She is typical of the nihilism of female sexuality at this point. I think it's tragic someone in his position so brutally exploited her lack of understanding and sophistication. This poor little girl thought this was going to be like Dynasty."
Ms Sally Rosenthal (25), a research assistant for a film production company in Manhattan, views Ms Lewinsky as "a naive little ho, actually . . . I don't generally have much sympathy for a woman who'll go chase after a married man, even if he is who he is."
A therapist consulted by Ms Lewinsky, Dr Kathleen Estep, told the prosecutors that her patient suffered from depression and low self-esteem, but was "self-aware, credible, insightful, introspective, relatively stable, and not delusional", the report said.
Others see in Ms Lewinsky a product of Beverly Hills and Brentwood, California, where she grew up among the brains trust that produced Melrose Place.
"I don't for one minute think she was anything but a conniver," said a friend of her father, Mr Bernard Lewinsky, who observed her as a teenager. "I would never consider Monica a victim. She knew exactly what she was doing and that she would capitalise on it big time."
The young women shopping on Saturday at the BCBG store in Brentwood - a store for the impossibly thin and extremely hip located a few blocks from Mr Bernard Lewinsky's house - know women like her. In this part of the world, star stalkers are a dime a dozen. Everyone knows someone who has slept with someone famous.
"I call those people spotlight vampires," said a recent UCLA graduate, Ms Tassa Hampton, as she fingered a $60 blouse. "They always need to be in the spotlight. She seems like the type to make herself known at a party."
"Spoiled. Daddy's little girl. Knows how to wrap a man round her little finger," said her friend and classmate, Ms Grace Kim.
But one woman who went to Brentwood High School had some compassion for Ms Lewinsky. "I really feel sorry for her," said Ms Llisa Marie Novins (35) having coffee at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf barely two blocks from Ms Lewinsky's father's house.
"I'm most incensed at Kenneth Starr. He's humiliated her. Her life is ruined. How dare he take this young woman and degrade her to the world, and pass it on to Congress? He had no remorse for that young woman. We're all human, we all have desires, make mistakes."
But even some of those who feel little compassion for Ms Lewinsky's situation now show concern about what may await her in the future.
"Who's going to want to marry her, now that she's famous for this?" said Ms Julie Hayes (36), a management consultant in Chicago and a "Clinton fan".
Writing is also not her forte, judging from the examples provided by Mr Starr, although that may not prevent her from getting a $6 million book contract.