When ABC's 20/20 secured its exclusive interview for Barbara Walters with Monica Lewinsky, the network – whose guidelines forbid paying for interviews – allowed Lewinsky to resell international broadcast rights of the interview, which garnered $1 million, according to a Jane Mayer piece in the New Yorker in 2000. As part of her immunity deal, Lewinsky had agreed to give no interviews about her experience. ABC considered suing then-independent counsel Ken Starr for violating Lewinsky's First Amendment rights, according to the Mayer piece, the contents of which the Washington Post confirmed with a person with direct knowledge of the arrangement. Instead, the network paid $25,000 to Theodore Olson of Gibson Dunn, who was a close friend of Starr's. The payment allowed Olson to negotiate a private deal with Starr, who permitted the interview. Olson declined to comment, as did a representative for ABC.