Ken Starr, who investigated Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky affair, dies at 76

Ken Starr, the lawyer who relentlessly pursued Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, has died at the age of 76, according to a statement issued by his family.

A Reagan judicial appointee and US solicitor general under George HW Bush, Starr presented many arguments before the US supreme court.

He was later stripped of that university chancellorship, however, after the institution under his watch failed to take appropriate action over a sexual assault scandal involving 19 football players and at least 17 women.

Starr came to national prominence as the special prosecutor who investigated the sex-and-perjury scandal that led to only the second impeachment of a president in US history, against the at-the-time hugely popular Democratic president.

On December 19, 1998, the US House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton, following which a subsequent Senate trial failed to remove him from office.

Starr is survived by his wife Alice Starr, to whom he was married for 52 years, his three children and nine grandchildren, the family statement added. Starr will be buried at the Texas state cemetery in Austin.