Jeffrey Epstein ‘hosted’ Bill Clinton on his private island, documents reveal
Unsealed court documents have revealed that a woman who has accused Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged “pimp” Ghislaine Maxwell of sex abuse, said former US President Bill Clinton stayed on the dead paedophile’s private island.
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Former US President Bill Clinton was a guest at Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island, according to testimony from an Epstein accuser which was unsealed on Thursday (local time).
Australian-based Virginia Roberts Giuffre — who has also accused Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell of abusing her — told lawyers in 2011 that Mr Clinton visited Epstein’s private Little St. James Island with Maxwell, herself and “two young girls” from New York, reports the New York Post.
She added that Mr Clinton stayed in Epstein’s private residence on the island, where “orgies were a constant thing that took place.”
Ms Giuffre recalled being surprised to see the former president on the island.
“I remember asking Jeffrey what’s Bill Clinton doing here kind of thing, and he laughed it off and said well he owes me a favour,” Ms Giuffre said.
“He never told me what favours they were. I never knew. I didn’t know if he was serious. It was just a joke,” she said.
Mr Clinton has strongly denied any stories connecting the former president with Epstein’s island, saying they are untrue.
“This was a lie the first time it was told, and it isn’t true today, no matter how many times it’s repeated,” spokesman Angel Urena told the New York Post in May.
Ms Giuffre said Mr Clinton also travelled on Epstein’s private plane and noted how other famous people, including Mr Clinton’s vice president, Al Gore, and models Naomi Campbell and Heidi Klum were aboard at one point when she was.
“Just about anybody would fly on his plane. There was never any set routine who would come and would go. It was an influx of people on Jeffrey’s aeroplane,” said Ms Giuffre.
There were also “orgies” held on Epstein’s plane, Ms Giuffre said.
Frequently, Ms Giuffre said, she would be on the plane with Epstein and Maxwell when the sexual encounters occurred.
“There would be sexual conduct, there would be foreplay, there was a bed in there, so we could basically re-enact exactly what was happening in the house,” Ms Giuffre said.
“It would start off with massaging or we would start off with foreplay, sometimes it would lead to, you know, orgies.”
The details revealed on Thursday night (local time) were included in documents from a 2015 civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by Ms Giuffre ordered released by a Manhattan judge.
MAXWELL LOSES LEGAL BATTLE TO KEEP FILES SEALED
On Thursday (local time), disgraced socialite and accused sex offender Maxwell lost her legal battle to keep secret documents outlining the part she allegedly played in billionaire paedophile Epstein’s sex ring.
A Manhattan judge issued a late night ruling Thursday, local time, which made public a cache of sealed documents from previous court cases.
More documents, including some that will detail Maxwell’s sex life, are set to be released on Monday, local time.
Among the newly released documents are emails from Epstein to Maxwell, his former lover and alleged madam, telling her she had “done nothing wrong”.
The email appears to contradict evidence from her legal team last month that she hadn’t spoken to Epstein for a decade before his death last year.
Epstein killed himself at a New York City prison a year ago after he was charged with sex crimes that could have sent him to jail for life.
An email sent in 2015 between the two appears to show them discussing her testimony at a defamation case which was brought by Australian-based mother Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
Roberts Giuffre has emerged as a key player in the international scandal and has accused Prince Andrew and others of having sex with her when she was a minor and under the control of Epstein and Maxwell as a “sex slave”.
Prince Andrew vehemently denies the allegations.
Epstein wrote to Maxwell in the 2015 email: “You have done nothing wrong and i woudl [sic] urge you to start acting like it”.
“go outside, head high, not as an esacping [sic] convict. go to parties. deal with it.”
The email was responding to a message from Maxwell sent the day before, in which she said she would “appreciate it” if a woman named as “Shelley” would come forward and say she was Epstein girlfriend.
“Since JE was charged in 2007 for solicitation of a prostitute I have been the target of outright lies, innuendo, slander, defamation and salacious gossip and harassment,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell, Amed as “GMax” in the January 2015 email.
“OK, with me,” Epstein responded.
Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to six counts including grooming minors for sex and perjury. She was deemed a serious flight risk and refused bail ahead of her trial slated for July next year.
COUPLE’S SECRET FORTUNE
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly made a staggering $A140 billion together but the vast fortune may be hidden from victims in mystery offshore accounts, the late billionaire’s former mentor has claimed.
While the Epstein estate has been valued at $A885 million, his old boss Steven Hoffenberg dismisses that amount and says it’s more likely to be closer to $A140 billion.
According to The Sun, Hoffenberg, who was the criminal mastermind between the pair fleecing hundreds of millions out of investors in one of the world’s biggest Ponzi schemes, took Epstein under his wing in the 1980s, teaching him everything about forensic accounting.
The 75-year-old said that even in the late eighties and early nineties, while working for his company Towers Financial, he and Epstein were laundering at least $2.5 billion-a-year and had other sideline fraudulent businesses laundering a similar amount.
Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein and his alleged pimp Maxwell were working together for more than 20 years and made $A140 billion, but only a small portion of the vast fortune has been declared publicly – which lawyers for the estate’s executor strongly refute.
Mr Hoffenberg claims he has inside knowledge of the whole operation between Epstein, Maxwell and their inner circle.
“I know the methods they used to hide the money,” he told The Sun in an exclusive interview.
“We have to do the good guys’ work for them in explaining where the billions are and how they got there from the poisonous monetary tree, the dots are not being connected.
“The billions are in accounts all around the world that have not been exposed. There’s been a way to store it and obstruct people finding out.
“The FBI’s role is to investigate, but they have not done forensic auditing on Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s financial crimes and understand the methods used by them. They haven’t got near to this, that’s not their purpose.
“That’s what experts can provide, like myself, who know first-hand what they’re doing, who can work for the good guys instead of the bad guys, where there are plenty of experts. I can assist the lawyers in the inner workings of their investments.”
Lawyers representing a coexecutor of the Epstein estate, have strongly refuted the claims saying they are “untrue” and “incredulous”.
“After spending 18 years behind bars for being a fraudster Hoffenberg is not a reliable source and his story is completely false,” Daniel Weiner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reeds, said.
“To say his estate is worth US$100 billion dollars is insane – that would put him as the third richest person in the world before he died.”
MAXWELL TOOK PHOTOS OF TOPLESS GIRLS AS A ‘HOBBY’
It comes as court documents revealed that Maxwell allegedly photographed topless girls as a “hobby” — keeping the snaps with sex toys in Epstein’s Florida mansion.
The British socialite “had an album full of photographs of people, young girls, girls,” Epstein’s former butler, Juan Alessi, said in an unsealed 2016 deposition revealed by the Daily Mail.
“And I remember that she had. Like a hobby … It was some girls were topless, taking the sun,” he said, while insisting they did not show “any vaginal or things.”
Alessi, 70, also said that he was given access to cash to pay “probably over 100” girls to massage Epstein and Maxwell — and would find sex toys in the room, which he would wash off.
“I would find things like a dildo, it’s called a double,” Alessi said about his time working at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion from 1990 to 2002, according to the documents.
“But I find these things, put my gloves on, took it out and rinse it, and put it in Ms Maxwell’s closet,” he reportedly said.
He also saw a “shiny black costume” in Maxwell’s closet that he believed was used for sex, the Mail said.
Alessi insisted he knew they were Maxwell’s sex toys because he knew where “everything was in that house” as part of his duties.
One such toy found in the trash by undercover cops was a purple “Jelly A**l Wand,” according to a police report.
“This device is commonly used as a sexual toy,” a Palm Beach officer wrote in the 2005 report.
Alessi’s statement was made to lawyers for Epstein accuser Ms Giuffre as part of her 2015 defamation lawsuit against Maxwell for accusing her of lying by saying she was trafficked and abused.
Maxwell is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn on charges of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse young women.
Epstein, 66, hanged himself in his Manhattan lockup last August while facing serious sex charges.
Ms Giuffre sued the British socialite for defamation after Maxwell claimed that Ms Giuffre had made up the sexual abuse allegations against her and multi-millionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The Australian-based Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most vocal accusers, has claimed that Maxwell forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew, one of Epstein’s close pals. The disgraced royal has denied the allegations.
Maxwell was arrested on sex-trafficking and perjury charges and ordered held without bail until her case goes to trial. She’s pleaded not guilty to procuring underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse at his properties.
MAXWELL’S BIZARRE EPSTEIN TRIBUTE
Accused sex abuser Maxwell once hired someone to write a birthday song for paedophile Jeffrey Epstein — insisting that it refer to 24-hour erections and schoolgirl crushes, according to a report.
It comes as a US federal judge ordered several documents related to a now-settled defamation case against Epstein and Maxwell to be released to the public by no later than July 30.
Journalist Christopher Mason told the Times of London how Maxwell approached him in New York to pen the birthday surprise because he was known for witty musical “roasts.”
“Normally I speak to as many people who know the person as possible. But this time I was only allowed to speak to Ghislaine,” Mason told the UK paper of the undated request.
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As well as being controlling, accused madam Maxwell also had very specific requests for the lyrics — insisting there was mention of the late paedophile’s 24-hour erections, Mr Mason told the Times.
She also said the song had to refer to schoolgirls having crushes on Epstein when he was a teacher in the 1970s in The Dalton School in New York, Mr Mason told the paper.
It was not clear when the request was made, or if the song was ever completed or performed.
It comes as lawyers for Maxwell want to keep sensitive evidence from the public ahead of her trial — including any naked photos and “sexualised” videos.
Court papers lodged by lawyers for the British socialite, accused of procuring girls for billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, listed material they believe should remain private.
Documents filed in her New York criminal case say US Attorneys may have “Highly Confidential Information”, which includes “nude, partially-nude, or otherwise sexualised images, videos, or other depictions of individuals”.
Maxwell’s lawyers cited current civil litigation between Maxwell and “many of the government’s potential witnesses,” saying numerous potential witnesses and their lawyers have already publicly commented about the case.
“There is a substantial concern that these individuals will seek to use discovery materials to support their civil cases and future public statements,” the lawyers wrote.