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Slow news day: Clinton's buddy Epstein is back
2024-12-29
[FoxNews] Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He was really surprised when he commited suiciede in jail...
, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, returned to national infamy this year after a federal judge ordered the unsealing of hundreds of documents about allegations against him in a civil lawsuit.

While Epstein's brother, Mark, is not alone in questioning the government's conclusion that he died of suicide in federal custody, there is also great public interest in the disgraced financier's associates, clients and potential accomplices.

Nearly 200 names that had previously been redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell were made public on orders of a federal judge in New York. Hundreds of documents were released in multiple waves in January.

Epstein had many high-profile connections, including former U.S. presidents, foreign prime ministers and Britannia's Prince Andrew, as well as Hollywood stars, leading academics, people in the modeling and fashion industries and other public figures. Some of the names were previously known through other means despite having been withheld from the public's eye in the lawsuit.

Many of the names belong to people who have not been accused of wrongdoing, like former President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
, who could have asked the court to have his name remain sealed but declined. A spokesperson for Clinton also denied claims in one of the documents that alleged the former president and Epstein had a "close personal relationship."

Other names unsealed included billionaire Glenn Dubin and his former private chef, Rinaldo Rizzo, the magician David Copperfield, Tony Figueroa, Limited Brands founder and former Victoria's Secret CEO Les Wexner, and Epstein accusers such as Johanna Sjoberg and Annie Farmer.

Former President Clinton, who had a brief business relationship with Epstein, wrote in his new memoir that he wishes he "had never met him."

Clinton took flights on Epstein's private jet on trips for the Clinton Foundation. He wrote that they only discussed "politics and economics" and that he never traveled to Epstein's infamous Little St. James Island.

"Traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward," he wrote in "Citizen," a new book about his life after leaving the White House.

In a deposition from Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg, which was unsealed during the January document dump, she said Epstein bragged about knowing the former president.

"I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton," she said. "I did not know they were friends until I read the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa together."

Under questioning, she later added, "He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls."

Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and spokesperson Angel Urena has denied claims in the documents that Clinton and Epstein had any kind of personal relationship.

"I had always thought Epstein was odd but had no inkling of the crimes he was committing," the former president wrote in his book.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#2  If you believe Epstein died by suicide, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Posted by: JohnQC   2024-12-29 23:02  

#1  Jeffrey Epstein documents: See all 40 unsealed files in Ghislaine Maxwell lawsuit
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-12-29 10:53  

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