Bill Clinton stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s villa on ‘orgy island’, court docs claim

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Bill Clinton stayed in Jeffrey Epstein‘s villa on the billionaire pedophile’s private Caribbean island because he owed him ‘a favor’, Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts told investigators in newly unsealed documents. 

In nine-year-old testimony that was only made public for the first time on Thursday, Roberts said Clinton visited the private Caribbean island of Little Saint James some time after his presidency ended in 2001.

Roberts told investigators that she, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell and two other ‘young girls’ from New York were also on the island at the time. 

When Roberts, who now goes by the name Guiffre, asked Epstein what Clinton was doing on the island, she claims he laughed and said: ‘He owes me a favor.’

‘He never told me what favors they were. I never knew. I didn’t know if he was serious. It was just a joke,’ she said. 

The former president has repeatedly denied ever visiting Epstein’s island in the Caribbean. He has also always maintained he knew nothing of Epstein’s abuse of young girls.  

Roberts gave the testimony to lawyers back in 2011, which was used as evidence during a 2015 defamation case that she brought against Epstein’s alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, who gave hours of her own testimony to investigators, eventually settled the case out of court in 2017.  

Roberts had claimed in the lawsuit and other litigation that Maxwell recruited her in 2000 to be a sexual servant to Epstein. She said the couple subsequently pressured her into having sex with numerous rich or notable men, including Prince Andrew, US politicians, wealthy entrepreneurs, a famous scientist and fashion designer.

Maxwell, and all of the accused men, have denied those allegations for years. 

Maxwell’s lawyers have long fought to keep the documents under seal, claiming they could harm the reputations of high-profile people. 

The seal was partially lifted by a judge on Thursday following Maxwell’s arrest on sex crimes charges and perjury earlier this month. 

In the documents, Roberts made six references to Clinton when she was being interviewed by investigators in April 2011.  

She recalled asking Epstein at the time what the former president was doing there on his private island.   

‘You know, I remember asking Jeffrey what’s Bill Clinton doing here king of thing, and he laughed it off and said well he owes me a favor. He never told me what favors they were. I never knew. I didn’t know if he was serious. It was just a joke,’ she said. 

‘He told me a long time ago that everyone owes him favors. They’re all in each other’s pockets.’

When asked where Clinton was, Roberts told the investigators: ‘On the island.’

She claimed that Maxwell and two ‘young girls’ from New York were also on the island when Clinton visited with Epstein. 

When investigators asked if all of them were staying on the island ‘including Bill Clinton’, Roberts replied: ‘That’s correct. He had about 4 or 5 different villas on his island separate from the main house and we all stayed in the villas. 

Roberts said sexual orgies were a regular occurrence on the island at Epstein’s house. 

In addition to Clinton, Roberts claimed in the unsealed testimony that she also recalled seeing former Vice President Al Gore, Naomi Campbell and Heidi Klum on Epstein’s private jet named ‘Lolita Express’.  

‘Just about anybody would fly on his plane. There was never any set routine who would come and would go. It was an influx of people on Jeffrey’s airplane,’ she said.

Roberts claimed that orgies were a ‘constant’ feature of life on the pedophile’s island and they also took place on the plane.

‘There would be sexual conduct, there would be foreplay, there was a bed in there, so we could basically reenact exactly what was happening in the house,’ she said. 

‘It would start off with massaging or we would start off with foreplay, sometimes it would lead to, you know, orgies.’

A former employee on Epstein’s island told a Netflix documentary earlier this year that he also saw Clinton around during trips with the pedophile.  

Clinton has denied ever visiting Epstein’s Caribbean island but has admitted flying in Epstein’s private jet on four occasions. 

Steve Scully, a 70-year-old former worker on the island, claims he saw Clinton sitting with the pedophile in the porch of the island’s villa.  

‘This was a lie the first time it was told, and it isn’t true today, no matter how many times it’s repeated,’ Clinton’s spokesman said at the time.  

Following Epstein’s arrest in 2019, the spokesman also said the former president had only taken four trips on the jet. 

‘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,’ the spokesman said.    

‘You have done nothing wrong and I’d urge you to start acting like it’: Newly unsealed court documents reveal Ghislaine Maxwell emailed Jeffrey Epstein five years after she claimed they last spoke 

Also included in the newly unsealed court documents were email exchanges in which Epstein told Maxwell she had ‘done nothing wrong’ and to ‘start acting like it’ after she was sued by Roberts in 2015. 

The email exchange between the pair was from January 2015, in which Epstein advised her to carry on normally and insisted she had nothing to worry about. 

‘You have done nothing wrong and i woudl [sic] urge you to start acting like it,’ the billionaire pedophile wrote. 

‘go outside, head high, not as an esacping [sic] convict. go to parties. deal with it’, he added.  

The email was in response to a message Maxwell had sent the previous day saying she ‘would appreciate it if shelley would come out and say she was your g’friend.’

‘I think she was from end 99 to 2002,’ she wrote.  

Shelley’s identity is unclear, however the time frame mentioned by Maxwell appears to correspond with abuse allegations made by one of Epstein’s accusers. 

‘Ok with me,’ Epstein replied.  

The email exchange also appears to confirm Maxwell lied in her bid for bail, during which she claimed she hadn’t spoken to Epstein in over a decade. 

Days earlier, Epstein had emailed Maxwell what appeared to be a court statement proclaiming her innocence, which read as if it was written by her. 

‘Since JE was charged in 2007 for solicitation of a prostitute I have been the target of outright lies, innuendo, slander, defamation and salacious gossip and harrassment; headlines made up of quotes I have never given, statement I have never made,’ it reads. 

‘I have never been a party in any criminal action pertaining to JE.’

The statement also claimed Maxwell had been in a ‘very long-term committed relationship to another man’ at the time of Epstein’s conviction.

‘Whilst I remained on friendly terms with him up until his plea, I have had limited contact since,’ it continues. 

Ghislaine Maxwell had ‘continuous’ orgies with girls as young as 15 on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island, newly-unsealed documents claim 

Also contained within the documents is a deposition that Roberts gave to investigators in which she accused Maxwell of having orgies with 15-year-old girls.

Asked to describe women she personally saw Maxwell have sexual contact with, she responded: ‘There’s so many, I don’t know where you want me to start.’

‘There were blondes, there were brunettes, there were redheads. They were all beautiful girls. I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21,’ she added.

Maxwell participated in sex sessions with them by a pool, near the beachfront, in small huts and in Epstein’s cabana, she alleged.

‘One occasion stands out,’ she said. ‘Models were — I think they were models — were flown in. There were orgies held outside by the pool.’

The women – ‘beautiful, tall, some were blonde, some were sandy brown’ – did not speak English, and conversed in a European language that Roberts guessed was Russia or Czech. 

Describing the sex session, she added: ‘Ghislaine, myself, Jeffrey, another girl in this blue, outdoor — I don’t know what you want to call it. Cabana, that … just a bed could fit in.’

Roberts also alleges that during the deposition that she was trafficked to Europe to have sex with powerful men, including Britain’s Prince Andrew and attorney Alan Dershowitz.

She said Maxwell and Epstein constantly reminded her of how powerful their friends were, so that she wouldn’t betray them.

‘Jeffrey did a lot more of that than she did. But she definitely made it aware that we shouldn’t cross boundaries with them,’ she said.  

Describing her first meeting with Epstein, she said: ‘For the first hour, it was actually a real massage, maybe not an hour, maybe like 40 minutes or something. 

‘That’s when he turned over on the other side to expose himself fully.

‘So then Ghislaine told me that she wanted me to undress and began to take off my shirt and skirt, my white uniform from Mar-A-Lago, she also took off her shirt and got undressed, and so I was there with just my undies on, and she was completely bare…

‘During all of this I’m like: “What’s going on, how do I act, what do I say.” I was so afraid of, not afraid or fearful for my life, but unsure of how all this started and wanting to obtain a profession, I was so afraid thinking about upsetting and disappointing them…

‘I was expected to lick [Epstein’s] nipples, instructed on how to do so by [Epstein] and give him oral sex while he wanted to fondle me, and then at the end, I was told by Ghislaine to get on top and straddle Jeffrey sexually…

‘When we were done, we went and had a shower in the room and Jeffrey told me to wash him up and down…’

Also included in the tranche of unsealed documents are allegations that Prince Andrew lobbied the US government on behalf of Epstein to try an get him a sweetheart plea-deal after he was initially charged with sex crimes.

The controversial plea deal saw Epstein jailed for just 18 months on two counts of prostitution, despite facing a 53-page federal indictment. 

Lawyers for an anonymous pair of Epstein’s accusers wrote: ‘(They are) seeking documents regarding Epstein’s lobbying efforts to persuade the government to give him a favorable plea arrangement, including efforts on his behalf by Prince Andrew and former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.

‘They have alleged these materials are needed to prove their allegations that, after Epstein signed the non-prosecution agreement his performance was delayed while he used his significant social and political connections to lobby the justice department to obtain a more favorable plea deal.’ 

Roberts also speaks about the prince’s involvement in Epstein’s activities.

Asked by her lawyers in 2011 whether Andrew would have ‘relevant information’ in the case, she answered: ‘Yes, he would know a lot of the truth.

‘I don’t know how much he’d be able to help you with, but seeing as he’s in a lot of trouble himself these days I think he might, so I think he might be valuable.’  

Maxwell is currently in a Brooklyn jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges as well as perjury, relating a deposition she gave under oath in the 2015 defamation suit.

On Thursday, Maxwell filed an emergency motion with the federal appeals court in Manhattan to block the release of that deposition, along with one other document. 

Lawyers for Maxwell said making her deposition public could make it ‘difficult if not impossible’ to find an impartial jury for her criminal trial.

The two depositions and materials that quote from or disclose information contained in them were expected to remain sealed at least until Monday, depending on how the appeals court rules.

Materials covered by the July 23 order included flight logs from Epstein’s private jets; and police reports from Palm Beach, Florida, where Epstein had a home, among other documents.

Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and eventually abuse three girls from 1994 to 1997, and committing perjury by denying her involvement under oath.

She was arrested on July 2, and has been housed in a Brooklyn jail after a judge called her a flight risk. Maxwell’s trial is scheduled for next July.

Epstein was found hanged at age 66 last August in a Manhattan jail, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges for abusing women and girls in Manhattan and Florida from 2002 to 2005. He had also pleaded not guilty.