Epstein List: What do court documents say about former President Bill Clinton?

The first batch of court documents related to the deceased sex offender were released Wednesday night. Jeffrey Epsteinwhere the former president of the United States, Bill Clintonis mentioned several times, as well as other powerful and famous people related to the financial entrepreneur who committed suicide in 2019.

Disclosure was ordered by the judge Loretta Preskaof the federal court for the Southern District of New York.

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The documents are part of a defamation action filed in 2015 by Virginia Giuffreone of the main complainants Epsteinagainst his ex-lover and companion, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre (17 years old) and Ghislaine Maxwell posing for a photograph. (AFP). (FLYER/)

The American Virginia Giuffre stated that Epstein sexually abused her when she was a minor and that Ghislaine Maxwell helped with the abuse.

The initial release includes 40 documents that have been sealed and contain almost 1,000 pages of testimonies and statements. The total delivery is expected to contain almost 200 names, including people who accused Epsteinprominent businessmen, politicians, intellectuals and artists.

The documents contain extracts from statements made in Maxwell It is Giuffre. There is also a statement of Johanna Sjoberganother of the victims of Epstein.

The news network CNN stated that the story of Sjöberg It was public, but this is the first time his court statement has been revealed. She said she sometimes worked for Epstein and claimed he pressured her to sometimes give him sexualized massages.

Many of the alleged victims and some mentioned in the files have already given public interviews and have already been identified in the media, as is the case with former presidents. Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. The inclusion of them and others in the recently released documents does not represent a sign that they committed crimes or broke the law, CNN maintains.

The judge Preska He also ordered that the names of some victims remain withheld due to the sensitive nature of the crimes they suffered.

Former US President Bill Clinton speaks during a press conference hosted by Empire State Realty Trust on April 21, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP). (ANGELA WEISS/)

In the newly revealed material, lawyers for Giuffre they wrote this Bill Clinton was “a key person who can provide information about his close relationship with the accused (Maxwell) and you Epstein“.

The document, dated June 14, 2016, marked the first time that Giuffre expressed their desire to have the testimony of Clinton, as ABC News previously reported. The lawyers of Giuffre started informal conversations with lawyers Clinton five days earlier, on June 9, 2016, ABC News reported.

“In a 2011 interview, Ms. Giuffre mentioned the former president’s close personal relationship Bill Clinton with the accused and Jeffrey Epstein… the Lady Giuffre did not make accusations of illegal actions by Bill Clinton”, says the document.

In response, lawyers Maxwell They noted that “it has been conclusively demonstrated that each of plaintiff’s statements about President Clinton are false,” according to another document revealed Wednesday.

The lawyers of Maxwell They responded that the testimony of Clinton It was not relevant at trial. The former president was never called as a witness.

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and American financier Jeffrey Epstein. (AFP). (FLYER/)

In 2011, Giuffre had told a journalist that he saw Clinton on the private Caribbean island of Epstein shortly after the end of his presidency. He added that the two had dinner and claimed to have seen Maxwell take Clinton to the island in a “big black helicopter.” Later, Giuffre He denied witnessing the helicopter flight, according to ABC News.

“With a lawsuit like this, the plaintiff’s statements about the presence of Clinton on the island and the completely invented story about the dinner that took place there are completely discredited… the relevance of any testimony I can add is non-existent”, says the recently published document.

According to court documents, Johanna Sjoberg testified that Epstein I once told him that Clinton “He liked them young, that is, girls.”

In his testimony, Ghislaine Maxwell confirms that Clinton traveled on Epstein’s private jetbut he doesn’t know how many times.

Maxwell also said that Clinton had dined on Epstein’s plane, but denied having visited the billionaire’s Caribbean island, Little Saint James. He argued that the claim that Clinton I had dinner on Epstein’s island was “100% fake”.

After the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein In 2019, the spokesperson for Clinton denied that the former president knew about the crimes of the multimillionaire and rejected it Clinton would never be on the private island of Epstein. He added that he had not communicated with Epstein in more than a decade.

Maxwell and Epstein were a couple in the early 1990s, before becoming collaborators and accomplices in sex crimes for nearly three decades.

Jeffrey Epstein He committed suicide in 2019 in a federal prison in New York, where he was awaiting trial for allegedly creating a small sex trafficking ring from his mansions in New York and Florida. The youngest girls were 14 years old, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide. (AFP).

Ghislaine Maxwell She was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping Epstein sexually abuse minors.

Prince Andrew of Great Britain and Virginia Giuffre. (Photo by Steve Parsons and Ben Gabbe/AFP). (STEVE PARSONS BEN GABBE/)

Among the names that appear in court documents is that of Prince Andrew. Virginia Giuffre She said the Duke of York sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17.

On November 17, 2019, when asked about the case of Epsteinhe prince andrew “categorically” rejected the accusations of Giuffre.

Finally, the case of Virginia Giuffre vs Prince Andrew The problem was resolved through an extrajudicial agreement without admission of liability that involved the payment of 14.6 million dollars in favor of the woman. The prince has always denied any wrongdoing.

The documents revealed on Wednesday also contain a statement from Johanna Sjobergwhich highlights that prince andrew He playfully touched her breast while taking photos.

Sjöberg said she and Giuffre they flew with Epstein to New York on his private jet. Maxwell and Prince Andrew welcomed them theresustained.

At one point, she testified, Maxwell called her upstairs and a puppet was taken from a closet. prince andrew which was made for a BBC programme.

“He looked like him,” Sjoberg said. “And she took it and showed it to him; and that was a big joke, because apparently it was a production of a BBC program.”

“And they decided to take a photo with him, in which Virgínia and Andrés were sitting on a sofa. “They placed the doll on Virgínia’s lap, I sat on Andrés’ lap, they placed the doll’s hand on Virginia’s chest and Andrés placed his hand on mine and they took a photo”, he said. Sjöberg.

Former US President Donald Trump arrives at the New York State Supreme Court on December 7, 2023. (Photo by MIKE SEGAR/AFP). (MIKE SEGAR/)

donald trump It also appears in the declaration of Sjöbergbut does not contain accusations of irregularities.

Sjöberg He said when the plane Epstein had to land in Atlantic City, New Jersey, “Jeffrey said, Great, let’s call Trump,” and go to a casino. Sjoberg also stated that he was never asked to give a massage to trump.

donald trump flew at least once on Epstein’s private plane. Additionally, in July 2019, a video of Epstein It is trump together at a party held in the 1990s at the former president’s mansion in Florida.

In 2019, trump He said he didn’t get in touch Epstein in 15 years and that “I wasn’t a fan of his”.

Epstein’s powerful friends. (AFP).

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