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 are other powerful and famous people related to the financial businessman who committed suicide in 2019.

The 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 lawsuit filed in 2015 by Virginia Giuffreone of the main complainants of Epsteinagainst his ex-lover and partner, Ghislaine Maxwell.

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

The initial disclosure includes 40 documents that were sealed and have almost 1,000 pages of testimony 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 taken at Maxwell and Giuffre. There is also a statement of Johanna Sjoberganother of the victims of Epstein.

The news network cnn He stated that the history of Sjoberg has been public, but this is the first time that his judicial statement has been revealed. She has said that she sometimes worked for Epstein and has claimed that he pressured her to sometimes give him sexualized massages.

Many of the alleged victims and some mentioned in the court documents have already given public interviews and have already been identified in the media, as in the case of the former presidents. Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. The inclusion of them and others in the newly released documents does not represent a sign that they have committed crimes or broken 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.

What the documents say about Bill Clinton

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

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

“In a 2011 interview, Mrs. Giuffre mentioned the close personal relationship of the former president Bill Clinton with the accused and Jeffrey Epstein… Mrs Giuffre made no accusations of illegal actions on the part of Bill Clinton”says the document.

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

The lawyers of Maxwell They replied that the testimony of Clinton It was not relevant in the trial. The Former President was never called as a witness.

In 2011, Giuffre had stated to a journalist that he saw Clinton on the private Caribbean island of Epstein shortly after his presidency ended. 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 the file like this, the plaintiff’s statements about the presence of Clinton on the island and the completely fabricated story about the dinner that took place there are totally discredited… the relevance of any testimony I may add is non-existent,” the recently published document says.

According to court documents, Johanna Sjoberg testified that Epstein once told him that Clinton “He liked them young, meaning 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 that he ever visited the billionaire’s Caribbean island, Little St James. He argued that the statement that Clinton had dined on Epstein’s island was “100% false.”

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 that Clinton would have ever been on the private island of Epstein. She added that she had not communicated with Epstein in more than a decade.

Maxwell and Epstein were a couple in the early 1990s before becoming collaborators and abettors in sexual 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 minor sex trafficking ring in his mansions in New York and Florida. The youngest girls were 14 years old, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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

Other famous people mentioned

Among the names that appear in the 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 questioned about the case of Epsteinhe prince andrew “categorically” rejected the accusations of Giuffre.

Finally, the case of Virginia Giuffre against Prince Andrew It was resolved through an out-of-court agreement without admission of liability that involved the payment of $14.6 million in favor of the woman. The prince has always denied any wrongdoing.

In the documents revealed on Wednesday there is also a statement of Johanna Sjobergwho points out that the prince andrew He touched her chest jokingly while taking pictures.

Sjoberg said that she and Giuffre they had flown with Epstein to New York on his private jet. Maxwell and Prince Andrew welcomed them thereheld.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2019, trump He said he had not contacted Epstein in 15 years and that “I was not a fan of his.”