Monica Lewinsky uninvited after Bill Clinton invited

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Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky said in a column Friday that Town & Country disinvited her from its Philanthropy Summit once it learned Bill Clinton would be in attendance — and offered her a conciliatory spot at a luncheon and opportunity to write an article for the magazine.

"On the spectrum of world injustices, I recognize fully, the act of receiving an invitation to a philanthropy summit and then having it revoked doesn't even rate. However, in a time when society is struggling to address issues of power and inclusion, maybe it is worth examining. For a minute or two," Lewinsky wrote in an op-ed for Vanity Fair.

It was lunch, or nothing," Lewinsky wrote, likening her modified invite to entry into a museum's gift shop, but not to its new art exhibit.

Lewinsky claims that the magazine "wanted to put me in a position that made the event so unappealing that I would decline — and their social problem would be solved."

Town and Country apologized for its handling of the "disinvitation debacle," writing in a tweet: "We apologize to Ms. Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled."

She was scheduled to give a talk at the conference — before Bill Clinton agreed to deliver the opening remarks, after which he would leave the premises.