2017 memoir What Happened, then choosing to stay in the marriage after her husband admitted, in 1998, to having had an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky when she was a 22-year-old White House intern, was undoubtedly the second.
Four years earlier, civil servant Paula Jones had accused the President of sexual harassment, and three further women – Juanita Broaddrick, Leslie Millwee and Kathleen Willey – have subsequently come forward with sexual-misconduct allegations against him, all of which he has denied.