President Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein.Photo:Taylor Hill/FilmMagic, New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP
Taylor Hill/FilmMagic, New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP
Bill Clinton’s office maintains that he “knows nothing” aboutJeffrey Epstein’s “terrible crimes” after the former president was mentioned in newly unsealed court filings related to the deceased sex offender. In one court document made public on Wednesday evening, an alleged victim of Epstein claims that he once told her Clinton “likes them young, referring to girls.”
The documents included adepositionfrom Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg who, under questioning from Giuffre’s attorney, said of Epstein: “I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton. I did not know they were friends until I read theVanity Fairarticle about them going to Africa together.”
“Did Jeffrey ever talk to you about Bill Clinton?” the attorney then asked.
“He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” Sjoberg responded. Elsewhere in the deposition, Sjoberg clarified that she never met Clinton or saw him on Epstein’s island.
Clinton did not object to the unsealing of the documents. In a statement to PEOPLE his spokesperson, Angel Ureña, noted that despite being mentioned in the documents, Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing.
Adding that “it’s been nearly 20 years since President Clinton last had contact with Epstein,” Ureña referred PEOPLE to his 2019 statement that said, in part, “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.”
Clinton was among dozens of other John Does whose names were unsealed under court order on Wednesday.
Elsewhere in Sjoberg’s deposition, she alleged that Prince Andrew groped her breast at Epstein’s New York City home in 2001 while posing for a group photo with Giuffre, Epstein, Maxwell and a puppet bearing Andrew’s likeness.
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Another newly unsealed document references the alleged “Clinton dinner party” on Epstein’s island that Giuffre once described. The document notes that Giuffre’s claims about Clinton attending a dinner on the island were disproven as the Secret Service logs his travel.
source: people.com
