Ken Starr, the lawyer who pursued Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, died Tuesday at the age of 76, his family said in a statement.

Starr was a prosecutor whose Whitewater investigation led to the impeachment of former Democratic president Clinton, in 1998. He was admitted Baylor St Luke’s medical center in Houston where he was declared dead.

In the statement, his family said that Starr died of complications from surgery.

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According to Celebrity Net Worth, the American attorney and former federal judge had an estimated net worth of $3 million.

Starr also served as independent counsel, president and chancellor of Baylor University and dean of the Pepperdine School of Law. 

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

Lewinsky tweeted saying Starr’s death brought up “complicated feelings” but she sympathized with his loved ones.

Following his death, Kentucky Republican and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement saying: “I am very sorry to learn of the passing of my friend Judge Ken Starr. He was a brilliant litigator, an impressive leader, and a devoted patriot.”

Republican congressman Pete Sessions, representing Starr’s native Texas, tweeted that he was saddened, and called Starr “a great man.”

Last year, Starr had started a “scorched-earth” legal campaign to persuade federal prosecutors to drop a sex-trafficking case against the late sex offender and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein relating to the abuse of multiple underaged girls.

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In his book, Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation, Starr had given details about the inquiry. While promoting the bestseller in a CBS interview in 2018, Starr said he regretted “the pain that resulted to so many, including to the nation” from the Lewinsky phase of the probe.