Bill Clinton Allegations in Jeffrey Epstein Documents—What We Know

Jeffrey Epstein told one of his victims that former President Bill Clinton "likes them young," according to newly unsealed court documents related to the late financier.

Nearly 1,000 pages of records, testimony and filings linked to Epstein, who died by suicide in August 2019 while awaiting trial for child sex offenses, were made public on Wednesday. They featured the names of several high-profile people who were associated with the billionaire. Read the unsealed Epstein documents in full here.

Many of those who are featured in the unsealed documents are not accused of any wrongdoing. The documents released Wednesday are not an Epstein "client list." They feature claims and statements which have been public knowledge for years, including those involving Clinton. The former president has long denied being aware of Epstein's sex offenses, with his spokesperson reiterating that he had cut ties with the financier more than a decade before his suicide.

The details were disclosed as part of a settled civil lawsuit between Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped Epstein abuse his young victims for years, and accuser Virginia Giuffre, who is alleged to have been trafficked by Epstein to have sex with his friends around the world. One of these people allegedly includes Britain's Prince Andrew. The royal has denied the claim. He settled his civil lawsuit with Giuffre in February 2022.

Included in the document is a deposition from Johanna Sjöberg, who is alleged to have been recruited by Maxwell to perform massages and sexual acts for Epstein. Sjöberg accuses Prince Andrew of touching her breast while they were at Epstein's New York apartment in 2001, an allegation that Buckingham Palace previously said was "categorically untrue."

During questioning, the documents show, Sjöberg was asked whether she knew Clinton and Epstein were friends. She replied that she "knew he had dealings" with the former president.

'Clinton Likes Them Young'

"I did not know they were friends until I read the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa together," she added. When asked if Epstein ever talked to her about Clinton, Sjöberg said: "He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls." Sjöberg made no allegations of illegality against Clinton.

Epstein and Clinton's associations have been widely reported for years, with the former visiting the latter in the White House several times in the 1990s. Clinton also said he had used Epstein's private jet—dubbed the "Lolita Express" by certain media outlets—for work purposes in the early 2000s.

Clinton has always denied claims made by Giuffre that he visited Epstein's notorious private island of Little St. James, where Epstein is alleged to have trafficked and sexually abused young women and girls. There are no flight logs or new details in the unsealed documents to suggest Clinton visited Little St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

During her deposition, Sjöberg said she had never met Clinton, nor ever saw him on Epstein's private island.

Following the unsealing of the documents, Angel Urena, a spokesperson for Clinton, told Newsweek that "nothing has changed" from a statement released about Epstein in 2019 after he was charged with sex trafficking in New York.

"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.

"He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida."

Clinton 'Did Not Take the Bait'

The documents also include a section where Maxwell's lawyer disputes a media report suggesting that Clinton had traveled to visit Epstein on his private island soon after he left office in 2001.

A 2011 article in the Daily Mail, which was cited as evidence in the civil lawsuit between Maxwell and Giuffre, alleged that Epstein invited "two young brunettes" to a dinner on the island, but the former president "did not take the bait."

"I'd have been about 17 at the time," Giuffre told the Daily Mail. "I flew to the Caribbean with Jeffrey and then Ghislaine Maxwell went to pick up Bill in a huge black helicopter that Jeffrey bought her.

"I used to get frightened flying with her but Bill had the Secret Service with him and I remember him talking about what a good job she did. I only met Bill twice but Jeffrey told me they were good friends."

Giuffre added that later that evening she attended a dinner along with Clinton, Epstein, Maxwell and two "very innocent-looking" women who she said looked to be around 17 years old.

"They weren't there for me. They weren't there for Jeffrey or Ghislaine because I was there to have sex with Jeffrey on the trip. Maybe Jeffrey thought they would entertain Bill, but I saw no evidence that he was interested in them.

'Total Absence' of Secret Service Documentation

"After dinner I gave Jeffrey an erotic massage. I don't remember seeing Bill again on the trip but I assume Ghislaine flew him back."

The allegations that Clinton visited Little St. James have long been denied by the former president, with Maxwell also denying suggestions that she ever flew Clinton to the island via helicopter.

The unsealed court documents also contain a statement from former FBI Director Louis Freeh to say that Clinton never went to Little St. James.

Freeh added that if any Secret Service agents had accompanied Clinton to the island then "they would have been required to make and file shift logs, travel vouchers, and related documentation relating to the visit," and there was a "total absence" of any such documentation.

Giuffre later said in a 2016 deposition that she was never on a helicopter with Clinton or his Secret Service detail, with Maxwell as the pilot, adding that the details in the 2011 Daily Mail article may have been "taken out of context."

The deposition had been unsealed in 2020. Clinton's name had been redacted.