Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's name has appeared in the latest batch of unsealed court documents concerning deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In freshly publicized documents on Friday, Clinton is briefly mentioned alongside her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and several others named as witnesses in Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
In a 2016 document filed by Maxwell's attorneys, Clinton appears in a single line concerning Giuffre's request for "all communications with thirteen specific witnesses." She does not feature anywhere else in the documents that have been released as of Friday.
The appearance of Clinton's name is not evidence of any illegal activity by the former secretary of state or by anyone else listed. Epstein and Maxwell were prominent socialites frequently spotted with the rich and famous before being accused of sex trafficking underage girls.
Newsweek reached out for comment to a Clinton spokesperson via email on Friday.
In addition to the Clintons, other prominent names to make appearances in the documents unsealed so far include former President Donald Trump, ex-Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz, former Vice President Al Gore and Prince Andrew of Britain.
Famous names from the entertainment world also appear, including actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Kevin Spacey, Bruce Willis and magician David Copperfield. Deceased pop star Michael Jackson and the late physicist Stephen Hawking are listed as well.
Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution from a person under the age of 18. He was arrested on child sex trafficking charges in July 2019, dying behind bars one month later in what prison officials ruled a suicide.
Maxwell, a former girlfriend of Epstein who remained his close confidante for decades, was convicted of federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges in 2021. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Bill Clinton makes multiple appearances in the unsealed documents. Flight logs indicate that the former president took several rides on Epstein's private jet, known as the "Lolita Express." Trump and others also flew on the plane.
Johanna Sjöberg, who was allegedly recruited by Maxwell to perform massages and sexual acts for Epstein, recalled in an unsealed deposition that Epstein once told her "that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls."
However, Sjöberg did not accuse the former president of engaging in any illegal activity. Guiffre, another alleged Epstein victim, said in a 2011 interview with The Daily Mail that she "saw no evidence that [Clinton] was interested in" young girls.
Angel Urena, spokesperson for Clinton, said that the former president knew "nothing" about Epstein's crime following his 2019 arrest, having cut ties more than a decade earlier. Urena told Newsweek this week that "nothing has changed."
Hillary Clinton is a frequent figure in far-right conspiracy theories, including QAnon, which claims without evidence that Trump is secretly fighting against a powerful cabal of Democrats and Hollywood elites running a child sex trafficking ring.
Prior to entering politics, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, once an outspoken QAnon devotee, shared a Facebook post that baselessly claimed Clinton murdered, mutilated and drank the blood of a child.
QAnon conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist Cirsten Weldon, who died of COVID-19 in 2022, claimed in 2021 that Clinton's supposed blood-drinking activities had already resulted in her death from kuru, a rare brain-wasting disease tied to cannibalism.
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