Hillary Clinton’s name has appeared in court documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for the first time, with a newly-published tranche requesting ‘all communications’ from her and 12 other people.
The former Secretary of State’s surprise entrance on the Epstein stage – her husband has been mentioned multiple times, and was known to associate with the late pedophile financier for several years – came as lawyers asked whether the Clinton Foundation was bankrolling Maxwell.
Maxwell, the only person convicted for her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking network, refused to answer.
Hillary Clinton was not known to be close to either Maxwell or Epstein.
Her name comes up in a 2016 document filed by Maxwell’s attorneys, relating to Virginia Roberts-Giuffre – an Epstein victim, who sued Maxwell for defamation in 2016.
Hillary Clinton’s name is mentioned in a single line concerning Roberts-Giuffre’s request for ‘all communications with thirteen specific witnesses,’ according to Newsweek.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are pictured together in June 2023 in New York City
Clinton is seen with Jeffrey Epstein inside the White House in 1993, at an event for donors to the White House Historical Association. Epstein attended the event after donating $10,000 to the fund. Ghislaine Maxwell is pictured beside Epstein
She does not feature anywhere else in the documents that have been released as of Friday.
Another document shows Roberts-Giuffre trying to assess how much Maxwell is worth, as part of the defamation case.
Roberts-Giuffre’s legal team accuse Maxwell of refusing to release her financial records, and imply that she wanted to hide the source of her wealth.
‘For example, Defendant has refused to comply with a discovery request seeking information about her connection to the Clinton Foundation, claiming that such a request is ‘obviously intended to harass and embarrass’ her,’ the court documents state.
‘Nothing could be further from the truth.’
Roberts-Giuffre’s lawyers say that Maxwell intends to claim that she lied about meeting Bill Clinton.
They suggest that Maxwell could be trying to protect Bill Clinton, because his foundation supports Maxwell financially.
‘It is Defendant who intends to argue at trial that Ms. Giuffre has made inaccurate statements about various interactions with former-President Bill Clinton,’ said Roberts-Giuffre’s legal team.
‘Of course, if Defendant (or any of her organizations) is receiving funding from the Clinton Foundation, that would provide a clear motive for her to slant testimony on this subject.
‘Ms. Giuffre is entitled to explore this clear possibility of bias by obtaining information of the financial connections between Defendant and the Clinton Foundation.’
There has never been any evidence that the Clinton Foundation was financing Maxwell, or any other private individuals.
Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton are accused of any wrongdoing in connection to Maxwell and Epstein.
Bill Clinton travelled on Epstein’s private jet four times, and said the flights were in relation to his work with the Clinton Foundation.
The former president, now 77, has long insisted that his connections to Epstein were on a professional basis.
He insisted in 2019 that during his four trips on Epstein’s private jet, in 2002 and 2003, he was always accompanied by a retinue of staff and Secret Service agents.
But court documents from June 2016 – part of a defamation suit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts – paint a different picture, showing them to be close personal friends, and Epstein accuse Clinton of ‘liking them young.’
Roberts, in her filing, is seeking permission from the judge to force more people to sit for a deposition, to bolster her case.
Bill Clinton is pictured greeting Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in the White House in 1993
Virginia Roberts, who was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000, when she was a 17-year-old working at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club
Roberts, in her June 2016 filing, argued that Clinton should be forced to sit for a deposition
Roberts – using her married name, Virginia Giuffre – argues that Bill Clinton was close to both Maxwell and Epstein, who died in jail awaiting trial in August 2019.
‘In a 2011 interview, Ms. Giuffre mentioned former President Bill Clinton’s close personal relationship with Defendant and Jeffrey Epstein,’ the court document states.
‘While Ms. Giuffre made no allegations of illegal actions by Bill Clinton, Ms. Maxwell in her deposition raised Ms. Giuffre’s comments about President Clinton as one of the ‘obvious lies’ to which she was referring in her public statement that formed the basis of this suit.
‘Apart from the Defendant and Mr. Epstein, former President Clinton is a key person who can provide information about his close relationship with Defendant and Mr. Epstein and disapprove Ms. Maxwell’s claims.’
Clinton is mentioned 50 times in the first tranche of documents, released on Wednesday – almost 950-pages of evidence.
Another woman who claimed she was sexually abused by Epstein, Johanna Sjoberg, said in her deposition that Epstein told her ‘Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.’
It is unclear how Clinton and Epstein met, but Roberts was not the only one to claim the pair were close.
Bill Clinton is pictured with Jeffrey Epstein in an undated photograph
On Wednesday, hours before the court documents were unsealed, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark, a New York-based property developer, said his sibling claimed to have information about Donald Trump and Bill Clinton which was so explosive it would derail the 2016 presidential election.
Mark Epstein, younger than Jeffrey by 18 months, said his brother never provided details.
Mark, 69, told The New York Post: ‘Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.’
Hillary Clinton was not known to spend time with Jeffrey Epstein, but her husband was a friend from at least 1993.
Epstein and Maxwell were pictured in 1993 greeting Bill Clinton inside the White House, at an event for donors to the White House Historical Association. Epstein attended the event after donating $10,000 to the fund.
The pedophile financier made at least 17 visits to the White House, presidential logs show, and Bill Clinton also flew on Epstein’s private jet – making trips to Europe, Asia and Africa in 2002 and 2003.
Mark Epstein said that flying with Bill Clinton was a key mistake of his brother’s, because it suddenly shone a spotlight on his activities.
‘Jeff first took Clinton and I think it was Chris Tucker and some other people to Africa — which was a mistake my brother made by doing that, because prior to that he was under the radar; nobody was looking at him.
‘But when he flew Clinton there, it was like, ‘Who’s this guy flying Clinton?”
Bill Clinton’s spokesman Angel Urena said in July 2019, when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, that he ‘knows nothing about the terrible crimes’ that Epstein was accused of, and that Clinton had not spoken to Epstein ‘in more than a decade.’
There is no evidence that Clinton ever visited Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little St. James.
