• Linda Tripp died on Wednesday morning and a close friend told DailyMail.com that ‘she died with a smile on her face’
• Tripp was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer less than a week ago 
• Husband Dieter Rausch and their daughter Allison Foley were the only relatives allowed to be in Tripp’s room in the ICU due to coronavirus protocols 

• ‘My mommy is leaving this earth. I don’t know myself if I can survive this heartache,’ Linda Tripp’s daughter Allison wrote on Facebook Tuesday
• Linda Tripp’s secret conversations with Monica Lewinski led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 after she was a whistleblower
• Lewinski said ‘no matter the past, upon hearing that linda tripp is very seriously ill, i hope for her recovery. i can’t imagine how difficult this is for her family’ 

Linda Tripp died this morning with her husband and daughter at her bedside, DailyMail.com has learned.

Tripp, whose taped conversations with Monica Lewinsky nearly brought down the Clinton presidency, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer less than a week ago when she took herself to hospital suffering from stomach pains.

Husband Dieter Rausch and their daughter Allison Foley were the only relatives allowed to be in Tripp’s room in the ICU due to coronavirus protocols.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com Diane Spreadbury, one of Tripp’s closest friends for more than two decades, described her as, ‘A wonderful person.’

‘But I’m glad for her that it was very peaceful. I’ve been told she died with a smile on her face.

‘We had discussed death many times and spoke of it together when she faced breast cancer 18 years ago. It wasn’t something that she was afraid of.’

There will be no funeral due to the pandemic but rather a private internment and a memorial service will be held at a later date 

Tripp is survived by her husband Dieter Rausch, her daughter, and a son named Ryan. 

Lewinsky, 46, acknowledged Tripp’s fate in her own social media message on Wednesday.

‘No matter the past, upon hearing that linda tripp is very seriously ill, i hope for her recovery,’ Lewinsky tweeted. ‘I can’t imagine how difficult this is for her family.’

In 1999, Lewinsky gave evidence against Tripp after details of their private conversations were revealed to the world.