Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein Relationship Timeline Amid Allegations

With hundreds of previously sealed court filings regarding the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein set to be released this week, several prominent figures are expected to be named, including Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton.

In December, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska found that there was no legal justification for continuing to withhold the names of as many as 175 individuals allegedly connected with the sex offender, ordering the unsealing to begin from January 1.

Preska gave lawyers for each of the people named the opportunity to review the files before they were unsealed and argue in favor of keeping them out of public view, according to ABC News. It reported Clinton’s attorneys made no objections to the publication of the documents.

Clinton maintains that he did not have any contact with Epstein after he was accused of sex crimes, and never visited his now infamous private island of Little St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

In a statement released in 2019, and since reiterated to Newsweek, a spokesperson for the former Democratic president said he had “not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade” and “knows nothing about the terrible crimes” the financier pleaded guilty to in Florida and was later charged with in New York.

Newsweek approached Clinton’s spokesperson via email for further comment on Tuesday.

In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution in 2005 and served 13 months in prison. He was accused of sexually abusing as many as three-dozen underage girls.

He was arrested again in July 2019 on federal charges of trafficking minors for sex in Florida and New York between 2002 and 2005, but died in a Manhattan jail cell in an apparent suicide.

Epstein was also alleged to have flown underage girls to his private Caribbean island and to have offered them to wealthy and influential associates for the purposes of blackmail. While his long-time lover Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty in 2021 of the sexual trafficking of minors, no other person has been criminally charged in relation to the claims.

According to Clinton’s previous statement, in 2002 and 2003, the former president took a total of four trips on Epstein’s private plane—dubbed the “Lolita Express” by locals on Little St. James because of its use in transporting young girls there.

It said one of those trips was to Europe, one to Asia and two to Africa and “included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation.”

Flight logs kept by one of the plane’s pilots and used in court proceedings show that Clinton flew from New York to Britain and back in March 2002, and from Atsugi, Japan to two locations in China, as well as to Singapore, Thailand and Brunei between May 22 and May 25 that year.

On July 13, 2022, Clinton flew from Morocco to the Azores and on to New York, and on September 21 from New York back to the Azores. Between October 5 and October 9, 2003, Epstein’s plane flew the former president from Oslo, Norway to Russia, and on to three locations in China. The flight logs also suggest Clinton flew from Miami to Westchester, New York, on February 9, 2002.

“Staff, supporters of the Foundation, and his Secret Service detail travelled on every leg of every trip,” Clinton’s statement added.

It continued: “He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein’s New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail.”

The statement also denied Clinton ever visited Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico or his home in Palm Beach, Florida.

During legal proceedings, Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre—who would go on to settle out of court with the royal—claimed she had met Clinton on Little St. James without insinuating wrongdoing on the former president’s part.

Both Clinton and Maxwell have refuted Giuffre’s claim, nor is it confirmed by the flight logs.