Ms Monica Lewinsky's new legal team is reported to be negotiating an agreement under which she would testify that she had sex with President Clinton in return for immunity to other charges.
But in a separate report on taped conversations between Ms Lewinsky and her then colleague, Ms Linda Tripp, the tapes are said to be "ambiguous about whether there ever was a physical relationship" between the former White House intern and Mr Clinton. "But they carry an implication that there was a sexual component to their phone conversations."
In a front page report in the Washington Post, the two reporters following the Lewinsky saga write that her new legal team, "seeking a deal to protect her from prosecution, has offered to have her testify that she had sex with Mr Clinton, but independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr wants her to plead guilty to some offence as part of any agreement".
But Ms Lewinsky's lawyers are said to have told Mr Starr she will not testify that she was encouraged by Mr Clinton or his friend, Mr Vernon Jordan, to lie under oath in the Paula Jones case. A key part of Mr Starr's investigation is whether Mr Clinton encouraged her to lie about their relationship when Ms Lewinsky told him she would have to testify about this as part of the separate Paula Jones civil suit.
It is believed there is little chance of Congress trying to impeach Mr Clinton merely on the basis of his personal relationship with Ms Lewinsky, but if Mr Starr can produce compelling evidence that the President tried to obstruct justice in the Jones case, this could be seen as a basis for impeachment.
Ironically, the Paula Jones suit against Mr Clinton for alleged sexual harassment has now been dismissed by a federal judge as not even worthy of a trial.
US News and World Report reported at the weekend that it had listened to two hours of new tapes which "convey a different picture of Lewinsky, her relationship with Clinton and the role of Tripp".
The magazine says Ms Lewinsky in these tapes is "insecure, apologetic, vulnerable, whiny and immature. She comes across as a desperate romantic, teetering on the edge of an emotional collapse, obsessively focused on the unobtainable".
Ms Tripp, on the tapes, encourages Ms Lewinsky to write a letter to Mr Clinton for help in getting a new job in the US delegation to the UN. In the letter, Ms Lewinsky also says that she wants to be near Mr Clinton. "I want you in my life," she writes.
Later Ms Lewinsky was interviewed for a job at the UN by the then US ambassador, Mr Bill Richardson, but she turned it down. But she accepted an offer of a job in public relations in New York organised by Mr Vernon Jordan, whom the President had asked to help in her job search.