Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Bill Clinton stayed on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘orgy island’

Unsealed documents claim the ex-President stayed with the billionair­e, Ghislaine Maxwell and 'two young girls' - and the paedophile said the ex-president 'owes me favours'

- By Chris Pleasance © Daily Mail, London

Bill Clinton stayed in Jeffrey Epstein's villa on the billionair­e paedophile's private Caribbean island because he owed him 'a favour', 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 favour.'

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

‘They’re all in each other’s pockets.’

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. 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 re- enact 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 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 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.

Despite the notorious womanizer’s friendship with Epstein, no-one has ever before publicly accused Clinton of misbehavin­g with any of the young women that surrounded Epstein.

Roberts’s claim comes in just two single lines in her proposal for a book to be called The Billionair­e’s Playboy Club, when she describes how she was on the island with Epstein, his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell and Maxwell’s assistant Emmy Tayler.

‘Jeffrey wanted his evening massage before bed and Ghislaine and Emmy went to their office to talk about something, leaving our guest of honour to find company elsewhere,’ Roberts writes. ‘Strolling into the darkness with two beautiful girls around either arm, Bill seemed content to retire for the evening.’

Roberts says the women were ‘ two lovely girls who were visiting from New York,’ but does not identify them. She said they sat next to the former president at dinner.

‘Bill’s wife, Hillary’s absence from the night made it easy for his apparent provocativ­e cheeky side to come out,’ Roberts wrote.

 ??  ?? Maxwell was a guest at Chelsea Clinton's wedding in July 2010
Maxwell was a guest at Chelsea Clinton's wedding in July 2010
 ??  ?? Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured together on Epstein's private plane back in the early 2000s
Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured together on Epstein's private plane back in the early 2000s
 ??  ?? Roberts pictured during an interview
Roberts pictured during an interview

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