Epstein Documents Reveal Accuser Sought Maxwell’s Communications With Bill and Hillary Clinton

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a panel at the Vital Voices Global Festival in Washington on May 5, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, who accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of abusing her, sought in a 2015 defamation lawsuit against his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, all of her communications with former President Bill Clinton and his wife former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Clintons were part of a list of “thirteen specific witnesses” with whom Ms. Giuffre’s attorneys sought their communications.

The document is part of dozens containing hundreds of pages of records that were released on Jan. 5, the latest tranche of evidence a judge ordered unsealed.

The 2015, defamation lawsuit was settled in 2017. Ms. Maxwell is currently serving time in a Florida prison for conspiring with Mr. Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls.

Former President Bill Clinton’s name was already mentioned in the first tranche of documents released on Jan. 3.

Ms. Giuffre, who in 2011 alleged that President Clinton had a “close personal relationship” with Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Epstein, tried unsuccessfully to have President Clinton deposed, according to an unsealed filing.

A document in the latest (third) batch also mentions President Clinton in the context of document and photograph requests as part of the lawsuit against Ms. Maxwell.

The Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea Clinton, was also named in a document that notes Ms. Maxwell was photographed at her New York wedding in 2010.

With the release of the latest batch, all three Clintons are now named in Epstein documents, though none of them has been accused of any wrongdoing.

A spokesperson for President Clinton confirmed in 2019 that the former president had flown in Mr. Epstein’s private plane but that he knew nothing about the sex offender’s “terrible crimes.”

The Epoch Times contacted the Clinton Foundation for further comment but received none by press time.

Then-President Bill Clinton welcomes Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to the White House in a 1993 file image. William J. Clinton Presidential Library

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, ordered the release of the filings last month.

Epstein Accusations

Mr. Epstein, who was awaiting trial on multiple sex trafficking charges, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in August 2019.

Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson ruled Epstein’s death as suicide by hanging.

Yet Mr. Epstein’s links to a wide network of rich and powerful individuals—along with rumors that he secretly recorded some of them engaging in sex acts with underage girls—has fueled speculation that he may have been murdered. The latest Epstein document disclosures—and more in the pipeline—have renewed interest in the case, especially in some of its mysterious elements.

One of these is the hypothesis that Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation, secretly recording powerful individuals and politicians having sex with underage girls for extortion and manipulation.

Mr. Ben-Menashe, an Iran-born Israeli businessman who says he worked for the Mossad in the 1980s, has claimed in a book and multiple interviews that Mr. Epstein secretly recorded people engaging in sex acts with underage girls at his numerous properties as part of an intelligence operation.

Israel has denied any links between Mr. Ben-Menashe and its intelligence services.

Others have claimed the existence of such tapes, including alleged Epstein victim Sarah Ransome, who said in a deposition in 2022 that she personally viewed a tape Mr. Epstein made of his wealthy friends having sex with a female victim for blackmail.

Sarah Ransome, an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, right, alongside Elizabeth Stein, left, speak to members of the media outside federal court, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in New York. AP Photo/John Minchillo

Another alleged Epstein victim, Chauntae Davies, has claimed in the docuseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” that the sex offender had “a lot of information on people, a lot of blackmail videos.”

However, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, has said that he doesn’t believe in the existence of such blackmail tapes. “This is just an opinion—I never really believed they existed,” Mark Epstein told the New York Post.

“Jeffrey was buying islands in the Virgin Islands. He had his own private 727 [jet]. Do you think he needed to make money by extortion?” he continued while labeling as “far-fetched” rumors that his brother secretly filmed men of influence cavorting with underage girls to get kompromat on them.

While Mark Epstein told the Post he doesn’t believe the tapes exist, he’s convinced his brother’s death was no suicide.

“I’m not here to defend him. What he did was wrong. But that’s not my concern. My concern is that my brother was murdered,” he told the outlet.

In an interview from prison in January 2023, Ms. Maxwell said she doesn’t believe Epstein’s death was a suicide.

“I believe that he was murdered,” Ms. Maxwell said in a Talk TV interview. “I was shocked. Then I wondered how it had happened because as far as I was concerned, he was going to … I was sure he was going to appeal.”

Many people have united in skepticism that Mr. Epstein could have taken his own life a mere month after being arrested on sex trafficking charges.