Bill Clinton was described in newly released court documents as a “key person” in the lives of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who had a “close relationship with the couple.”
The former president, now 77, has long insisted that his ties to Epstein were on a professional basis to support the work of the Clinton Foundation. He insisted in 2019 that he was always accompanied by an entourage of associates and Secret Service agents during his four trips on Epstein's private jet in 2002 and 2003.
But court documents from June 2016 – part of a defamation lawsuit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts – paint a different picture after Epstein accused Clinton of “liking her young” in another document.
A photographer traveled to Bill and Hillary Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York, on Wednesday evening, but was largely kept away from their home by local security. It is unclear where the Clintons are currently located.
In her filing, Roberts asks for the judge's permission to compel more people to testify under oath to bolster her case.
Bill Clinton greets Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein at the White House in 1993
Clinton is seen with Jeffrey Epstein at the White House in 1993 at an event for donors to the White House Historical Association. Epstein attended the event after donating $10,000 to the fund. Ghislaine Maxwell is pictured next to Epstein
Virginia Roberts, who was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000 when she was 17 and working at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club
Roberts argued in her June 2016 motion that Clinton should be forced to sit for a deposition
Roberts — using her married name, Virginia Giuffre — argues that Clinton was close to both Maxwell and Epstein, who died in prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial.
“In an interview in 2011, Ms. Giuffre mentioned former President Bill Clinton’s close personal relationship with the defendant and Jeffrey Epstein,” the court document states.
“While Ms. Giuffre made no allegations of illegal actions by Bill Clinton, Ms. Maxwell in her testimony characterized Ms. Giuffre's comments about President Clinton as one of the 'obvious lies' that she referred to in her public statement that formed the basis.” of this suit.
“In addition to the defendant and Mr. Epstein, former President Clinton is a key person who can provide information about his close relationship with the defendant and Mr. Epstein and reject Ms. Maxwell's allegations.”
Clinton is mentioned 50 times in the nearly 950 pages of evidence.
Another woman who claimed she was sexually abused by Epstein, Johanna Sjoberg, said in her deposition that Epstein told her, “Clinton likes them young when it comes to girls.”
It's unclear how Clinton and Epstein met, but Roberts wasn't the only one to claim the pair were close.
Bill Clinton is pictured with Jeffrey Epstein in an undated photo
On Wednesday, hours before the court documents were unsealed, Jeffrey Epstein's brother Mark, a New York-based real estate developer, said his brother had claimed to have information about Donald Trump and Bill Clinton so explosive that it could tip the 2016 presidential election would bring failure.
AMONG THOSE MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN LIST OF JANUARY 3rd
Bill Clinton
Donald Trump
Prince Andrew
Glenn Durbin
Stephen Hawking
Michael Jackson
Tom Pritzker
David Copperfield
Jean Luc Brunel
Bill Richardson
Mark Epstein, 18 months younger than Jeffrey, said his brother never gave details.
Mark, 69, told the New York Post: “Here's a direct quote: 'If I said what I know about both candidates, they would have to cancel the election.' That's what Jeffrey told me in 2016.”
Hillary Clinton was not known to have spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, but her husband had been friends with her since at least 1993.
Epstein and Maxwell were pictured welcoming Bill Clinton to the White House in 1993 at an event for donors to the White House Historical Association. Epstein attended the event after donating $10,000 to the fund.
The pedophile financier made at least 17 visits to the White House, presidential logs show, and Bill Clinton also flew on Epstein's private jet and took trips to Europe, Asia and Africa in 2002 and 2003.
Mark Epstein said flying with Bill Clinton was a crucial mistake by his brother because it suddenly brought his activities into the spotlight.
“Jeff took Clinton first, and I think it was Chris Tucker and some other people to Africa – which was a mistake my brother made because he was under the radar before; no one looked at him.
“But when he flew Clinton there, I asked myself, 'Who is this guy flying Clinton?'”
Bill Clinton spokesman Angel Urena said in July 2019, when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, that he “knows nothing about the terrible crimes” Epstein was accused of and that Clinton had not spoken to Epstein “for more than a decade.”
There is no evidence that Clinton ever visited Epstein's Caribbean island of Little St. James.
Wednesday's unsealing of the documents made uncomfortable reading for a number of famous faces, beyond Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, months before he died in prison. The long-awaited list of his associates and friends named in a 2015 lawsuit was partially released today
Donald and Melania Trump are seen with Epstein and Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000
Donald Trump and Epstein are pictured together at Mar-a-Lago in 1997
Neither Clinton nor Trump are accused of having sex with any of Epstein's victims, but Roberts claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew.
He denies these allegations and all claims of impropriety.
Sjoberg also accused the prince of groping her breast.
Andrew has always firmly denied her claims. In March 2022, he paid Roberts a settlement, officially ending her civil case against him, but without any admission of guilt.
At the time, he said he “never intended to denigrate Ms. Giuffre's character” and he recognized that she had “suffered both as an established victim of abuse and from unfair public attacks.”
He also promised to “express regret over his association with Epstein.”
Roberts also said she had sex with billionaire Hyatt hotel heir Tom Pritzker.
Pritzker is chairman of Hyatt Hotels and cousin of Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. He is chairman and CEO of the Pritzker Organization.
When Giuffre was asked if they had had sex, she said – and reiterated this under oath several times – that she believed she had “once been with Tom.”
Roberts, who claims she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and had sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17, said in a recently released statement that she had sex with billionaire Hyatt hotel heir Tom Pritzker (pictured).
Epstein is pictured in September 2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Pritzker's other cousin – JB's sister – is former Obama official Penny Pritzker, who now sits on Harvard's board of directors and was instrumental in the appointment of Claudine Gay, who resigned as college president on Tuesday amid allegations of anti-Semitism and plagiarism.
In March, he was among three billionaires issued subpoenas over JPMorgan's ties to Epstein.
A spokesman for Pritzker — who has not been charged in connection with the Epstein case — disputed Giuffre's claims.
“This is the same false and isolated claim that was published and vehemently denied more than four years ago,” the spokesman said.
'Mister. Pritzker continues to vehemently deny this.'
Investor Glenn Dubin is the first name to appear in a transcript of a recorded statement with Maxwell, in which Maxwell was asked whether Sjoberg had ever been asked to massage Dubin.
Maxwell replied: “I don't think so, I have no memory of it.”
Magician David Copperfield dined with Epstein, according to court documents filed by Roberts, and asked Sjoberg if she knew other girls were being paid to recruit young women.
Magician David Copperfield is said to have asked an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking if she was aware that the pedophile used his “girls” to procure other young women
Stephen Hawking pictured at a barbecue on Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean island of Little St. James in 2006
Copperfield's name was known to appear in Epstein's Little Black Book – in 2020, a Mother Jones journalist called all the phone numbers in the book – but his comment was not previously known.
According to the documents, another of Epstein's guests was Michael Jackson.
Sjoberg said she met the singer at Epstein's Palm Beach home – but was not asked to give him a massage.
Jackson died in June 2009 at the age of 50 and was himself accused of pedophilia.
Epstein's Palm Beach mansion was one of several places where he sexually abused young girls.
The waterfront property, just over a mile from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago, came on the market in 2020 for $21.9 million but is believed to have sold for $18 million.
Todd Michael Glaser, a Florida-based developer, now plans to demolish the existing home and build a new one in its place.
Others named in the documents include scientists and academics whom Epstein courted – including Professor Stephen Hawking, the British physicist.
Hawking visited Epstein's island in 2006 to meet with other prominent scientists.
After the visit, according to court documents, Epstein sent an email to Maxwell asking her to dismiss comments that the disabled physicist had participated in a pedophile orgy during his stay.