They schmoozed, flew on private jets together and grinned for photos in the White House.
But for years Bill Clinton has insisted he had ‘no knowledge’ of Jeffrey Epstein’s dark web of child sex crimes.
Republicans will now put that denial to the test after issuing a shock subpoena to the 42nd President of the United States on Tuesday.
The 78-year-old Democrat and his wife Hillary, 77, are among a swath of elite political figures and DOJ officials targeted by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Ex FBI Director James Comey and former US Attorney General Merrick Garland will also be grilled about the pedophile financier under oath in October.
This push for additional Epstein testimony comes amid heightened media scrutiny over unreleased Department of Justice and FBI files relating to the dead sex offender.
Clinton has been linked to Epstein for decades. He was listed in the billionaire’s contact book of powerful pals, hosted him at the White House and flew multiple times on his plane nicknamed the ‘Lolita Express’.
According to Epstein’s longtime accuser Virginia Giuffre, Clinton was even spotted reveling in the company of ‘two lovely girls’ on Epstein’s Caribbean Island.
Former President Bill Clinton has been linked to the pervert financier for decades and was photographed with him numerous times
Clinton was known to have flown the former president on his private jet – known as the ‘Lolita Express’ – dozens of times after he left office and was pictured on the aircraft with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2002
Clinton has dismissed the accusation – just as he claims that he and Epstein were nothing more than occasional acquaintances with a shared interest in philanthropy.
Democrats might prefer to focus instead on President Donald Trump’s once-chummy friendship with Epstein, who committed suicide in jail in 2019 while facing sex-trafficking charges.
But, as the Daily Mail can reveal, it’s perhaps Clinton who has more to fear if the full contents of the so-called ‘Epstein Files’ ever see the light of day.
FOLLOW THE TRAIL
Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have come under massive pressure to publish an alleged ‘client list’ supposedly lurking deep within the Epstein Files.
But the names of many alleged associates – including one William Jefferson Clinton – can already be found buried in paperwork in a 2015 defamation case filed by Virginia Giuffre against Epstein’s right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell.
According to Giuffre’s lawyers, Clinton was a ‘key person in the lives’ of the billionaire pervert and his jailed madam, the trio enjoying a ‘close relationship’.
In a 2016 deposition, Epstein victim Johanna Sjoberg testified that Epstein told her ‘Clinton likes them young,’ referring to girls.
In one especially incendiary filing, a 2016 deposition from another Epstein victim, Johanna Sjoberg, she recalled Epstein telling her that ‘Clinton likes them young’, referring to girls.
When asked about the two men’s alleged friendship, Sjoberg added: ‘I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton.’
Elsewhere in the since-settled suit Giuffre claimed that Clinton once intervened to stop a magazine exposé about Epstein.
Maxwell’s lawyers asked her about a 2011 email exchange she had with a reporter friend in which they discussed the merits of selling her now-infamous photo with Prince Andrew to Vanity Fair.
Giuffre had written: ‘It does concern me what they could want to write about me considering that B. Clinton walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend JE.’
Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has insisted the incident ‘categorically did not happen’.
PERVERTS’ PARADISE
Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most persistent and brave accusers, died by suicide on April 25 this year at her home in Australia.
But she left behind further tantalizing clues in her unpublished memoir ‘The Billionaire’s Playboy Club.’
Giuffre’s book claimed that Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in mid-2000 and groomed her for a job as Epstein’s travelling masseuse.
She claimed she was 15 at the time but later revised this to 17 in a deposition.
In her memoir, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre recalls a ‘big dinner party’ on Epstein’s private Little St. James island where, she says, the guest of honor was ‘the one and only Bill Clinton’
Despite Giuffre’s claims, Clinton has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s ‘terrible crimes’ and says he never visited his island
Giuffre also recalled attending a ‘big dinner party’ on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands, Little St James – widely known as Pedo Island.
The guest of honor was, according to Giuffre, ‘the one and only Bill Clinton’.
‘Sitting across the table from us was Bill with two lovely girls who were visiting from New York,’ Giuffre wrote in her memoir, an unsealed exhibit in her defamation case.
‘Bill’s wife, Hillary’s absence from the night made it easy for his apparent provocative cheeky side to come out,’ Giuffre continued.
‘Teasing the girls on either side of him with playful pokes and brassy comments, there was no modesty between any of them. We all finished our meals and scattered in our own different directions.
‘Strolling into the darkness with two beautiful girls around either arm, Bill seemed content to retire for the evening.’
Clinton has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s ‘terrible crimes’ and says he never visited his island.
The extent of Clinton’s relationship with Epstein and Maxwell came under intense scrutiny after the financier’s 2019 arrest as photos resurfaced showing Ghislaine attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010
FREQUENT LIAR
Epstein went from university dropout to mercurial money manager, acquiring all the trappings of a billionaire playboy and majestic homes in New York, New Mexico, and Palm Beach, Florida.
He bagged influential friends along the way, many of whom were listed in his ‘little black book’ of contacts – where he noted down 20 numbers and addresses for Clinton.
Despite repeatedly distancing himself from the child predator and his crimes, Clinton was allegedly close enough to be a frequent flyer on the Lolita Express.
Flight logs suggest that Clinton flew on Epstein’s Boeing 727 on 26 occasions, traveling to an array of exotic locations including Brunei, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, the Azores, Africa, Belgium and China.
The Daily Mail has previously published never-before-seen images of the former Leader of the Free World receiving a neck and shoulder massage from Epstein victim Chauntae Davies during a stopover in 2002.
Davies, then a 22-year-old massage therapist who claimed she was recruited into Epstein’s circle by Ghislaine Maxwell before being raped and abused, insisted that Clinton was ‘charming and sweet’ on the humanitarian trip to Africa that also included Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker.
Clinton’s camp insisted he took a ‘total of four trips’ from 2002 to 2003 on Epstein’s aircraft, which last flew in 2016 and is slowly corroding at an airfield in Brunswick, Georgia.
Staffers and Secret Service agents were present each time, they said.
One of the Daily Mail’s more disturbing Clinton–Epstein images show Clinton receiving a neck and shoulder massage from Epstein victim Chauntae Davies during a 2002 stopover
Flights logs show that Clinton flew on the Boeing 727 tri-jet on 26 occasions, traveling to an array of exotic locations including Brunei, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Africa.
Clinton’s team insists he took ‘a total of four trips’ on Epstein’s aircraft between 2002 and 2003, which last flew in 2016 and now slowly corrodes at a Brunswick, Georgia airfield
In his memoir, Citizen: My Life After The White House, Clinton wrote: ‘Even though it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward.
‘I wish I had never met him.’
CROSSDRESSER-IN-CHIEF
They say a picture speaks 1,000 words.
But anyone who stumbled across Epstein’s life-size portrait of a crossdressing Clinton would likely have been left speechless.
The bizarro artwork depicts the former Commander in Chief lounging on a chair in the Oval Office in blood red heels and a figure-hugging blue dress.
The outfit was said to resemble the semen-stained garment that Monica Lewinsky famously handed over to the Starr Investigation to test for Clinton’s DNA.
It was also strikingly similar to one worn by wife Hillary at a 2009 gala dinner for Kennedy Center Honorees.
The painting was called ‘Parsing Bill’ and was created in 2012 by fledgling Australian-American artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid.
In 2019, Daily Mail revealed Epstein had a bizarre portrait depicting the former Commander in Chief lounging on a chair in the Oval Office in blood red heels and a figure-hugging blue dress
The painting – which hung in the hallway of Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse – was called ‘Parsing Bill’ and was created in 2012 by Australian-American artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid. It showed Bill wearing a dress strikingly similar to one worn by Hillary Clinton at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors
In October 2012, the picture was seen hanging in Epstein’s $56 million New York townhouse, though it’s unclear whether he owned the original or a print
It’s not clear whether Epstein owned the original or a print, but the image was spotted hanging up inside the pedophile’s $56 million New York townhouse in October of that year.
Quite why Epstein would have such a lurid likeness of the former president in his home has been open to much speculation.
‘It was absolutely Bill Clinton. It was shocking – it was definitely a painting of him,’ a source said to the Daily Mail when we revealed the portrait’s existence in 2019.
WEST WINGMAN
Bill Clinton has owned up to six meetings with Epstein dating back to 2002. These include four flights on Epstein’s plane, a visit to his Harlem office and a brief appearance at the pedophile’s New York home.
However, as the Daily Mail has previously revealed, Epstein enjoyed extraordinary access to the White House throughout the Clinton administration, a decade earlier.
The deep-pocketed predator stopped by the West Wing just a month after Clinton’s inauguration in January 1993.
It was the first of 17 visits in three years, according to visitor logs, and he was accompanied by eight different women.
These included Maxwell, who at the time of the first visit was 32, and Celina Midelfart – a 21-year-old Norwegian heiress who once dated Donald Trump – and another former girlfriend Eva Andersson-Dubin.
Epstein visited the White House on 14 separate days and stopped by twice in one day on three occasions during Bill Clinton’s first term
Epstein’s first visit took place a month after Clinton’s inauguration in 1993. He stopped by again months later on September 29, 1993 with Maxwell for a reception organized by the White House Historical Association after he donated $10,000
Records show the late pedophile brought girlfriends, Celina Midelfart (left) and Eva Andersson-Dubin to the White House
Footage obtained by Daily Mail also revealed Epstein had photos of his visits to the White House displayed at his Palm Beach home. They could be seen in video taken by police officers when they raided the house in 2005
Epstein and Maxwell returned on September 29, 1993 to attend a reception organized by the White House Historical Association after he donated $10,000 to help renovate the building.
It was one of the earliest instances of Epstein using philanthropy to gain access to powerful men, a tactic he deployed extensively to negate his 2008 conviction in Florida for having sex with underage girls.
Photos from the event show Epstein and Clinton shaking hands with both men smiling broadly.
The bulk of Epstein’s visits came in 1994 when he went on a dozen occasions, meeting a variety of aides including Mark Middleton, a special assistant to the President.
SUICIDE RIDDLE
Middleton’s curious cameo doesn’t end there.
Cops say he took his own life in 2022, but the gory suicide raised more questions than answers.
The married father-of-two, who worked for his family’s HVAC business after leaving politics, was found hanging from a tree on farmland in Perryville, Arkansas.
Mark Middleton served as special assistant to President Bill Clinton. He signed Jeffrey Epstein into the White House several times and died by suicide in May 2022
The married father of two, who left politics to work in his family’s HVAC business, was found hanging from a tree on farmland in Perryville, Arkansas
‘I could see that he had a gunshot wound to the chest and that he had a knot tied in an extension cord that was around his neck, and it was attached to the limb directly above him,’ noted a deputy.
A search of Middleton’s BMW turned up three boxes of buckshot and a gun case – but no weapon. The 59-year-old’s death was nonetheless recorded as a suicide.
In 1996, one year after leaving the White House, Middleton was accused of abusing his access to impress business clients and was barred from the executive mansion without senior approval.
According to the Arkansas Times, Middleton’s family said he was suffering from depression when he died.
