When the FBI arrested billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein on July 6, 2019 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, sickening revelations emerged about his sex trafficking crimes.
So did his mysterious, wealthy world, populated by celebrities, politicians and captains of industry.
Among the strange revelations was an oil painting that hung prominently in his Upper East Side home.
Dubbed “Parsing Bill,” the colorful work by Australian artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid shows former President Clinton in a blue dress and red heels while lounging in the Oval Office.
“It was hanging prominently, as soon as you walked in, in a room on the right,” a source told The Post in 2019. “Everyone who saw it laughed and smiled.”
Now, as a flood of long-awaited documents was released this week, including the names of more than 170 associates of late sex trafficker Epstein, a source told The Post that the brazen painting is a symbol of the relationship between Epstein and Clinton, 77 years old. .
Bill Clinton’s name appears frequently in Epstein’s latest documents. His relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell dates back to the early ’90s. President William J. Clinton/MEGA Bill Clinton shakes hands with Jeffrey Epstein during a tour of the White House in 1993 as Ghislaine Maxwell looks on. William J. Clinton Presidential Library In his New York City home, Jeffrey Epstein hung “Parsing Bill,” an oil painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress and lounging in the Oval Office. Petrina Ryan-Kleid
“It shows how comfortable they were with each other joking about something like that,” the source told The Post. “Many in Clinton’s world are sycophants, but they were close.”
(A Clinton source snorted: “The painting indicates nothing more than that Epstein had bad taste in art.”)
Although he has not been involved in criminal activity, Clinton’s name appeared in the recently leaked documents, all filed in Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, at least 73 times.
Bill Clinton received a neck massage from Epstein victim Chauntae Davies in 2002. Davies said it was at the suggestion of Ghislaine Maxwell. MEGA
“[Epstein] “I once said Clinton likes them young, meaning girls,” Epstein victim Joanna Sjoberg testified in 2016.
When asked for comment, Clinton spokeswoman Angela Ureña referred to a 2019 statement that said Clinton had not spoken to Epstein in “more than a decade” and “knows nothing about the terrible crimes he committed.” “Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida a few years ago or those.” of which he has recently been accused in New York.”
When it comes to finding out exactly how the two men met, Clinton’s world experts are quick to pass the buck.
Ghislane Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein smile in an older photo. One source called them “two of the sickest scammers.” ZUMAPRESS.com
While a well-placed source told The Post that socialite Lynne de Rothschild, a Hillary Clinton fundraiser, introduced Epstein to Clinton, she denied it and suggested it was “well established” that “Ghislaine had introduced Epstein to the Clintons through some White House.” furniture fundraiser.”
According to visitor records, Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times, beginning shortly after Clinton took office in 1993.
The photos show the two with Maxwell, Epstein’s right-hand man and ex-girlfriend, now serving 20 years for child sex trafficking and other Epstein-related crimes, at a 1993 event for donors to the White House Historical Association. .
According to the Daily Beast, Epstein donated $10,000.
In 2006, Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to Vanity Fair.
Ghislaine Maxwell rubbing Jeffrey Epstein’s feet on a plane. ZUMAPRESS.com
But Epstein and Clinton’s relationship first became public in 2002, when they traveled to Africa on Epstein’s plane, the so-called Lolita Express, for a humanitarian trip along with actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker.
Footage from that flight has since emerged of Clinton posing with Maxwell and receiving a massage from Epstein accuser Chauntae Davies, who has said Maxwell egged her on.
“Ghislaine jumped in to be funny and said she could give him a massage,” Davies said of Clinton. “Everyone laughed a little, but Ghislaine, in her prim British accent, insisted and said I was good.”
Davies maintains that the 42nd president kept his hands to himself: “President Clinton was a perfect gentleman during the trip and I saw absolutely no foul play involving him.”
Bill Clinton poses with Chauntae Davies, Epstein’s victim, who gave him a massage during his trip with Epstein to Africa. MEGA
He made at least nine flights on the infamous plane, but there are no records of him traveling to Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands, where the financier is said to have sex-trafficked scores of women and It was raided by the FBI in 2019.
A source who knows the Clintons said there was nothing unusual about their relationship with Epstein or Maxwell.
“Former presidents, all of them, borrow private planes, have relationships that are transactional in nature,” the source said, adding that former presidents have lifetime Secret Service details. “They are never alone. “Bill would never have been alone on a plane.”
Bill Clinton walks his daughter Chelsea down the aisle during their 2010 nuptials, as wedding guest Ghislaine Maxwell (right) looks on. AP
But the source said the relationship was more than transactional, explaining that Clinton, Epstein and Maxwell were real friends who had dinner together and that the two men had private talks in the back of the plane.
“Any minimization of their relationship is ridiculous. Epstein attracted Clinton. He was the elusive cool billionaire. And the women liked him,” the source said. “Clinton wanted everyone to love him, and this mysterious guy shows up and shows interest in him.”
The source, who called Epstein and Maxwell “two of the sickest con artists,” also said Maxwell’s social charms should not be underestimated. “Everyone was benefiting from it.”
Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton attended the Nearness of You benefit concert at Lincoln Center in 2017, two years before Epstein was arrested. fake images
Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña told the Post that “President Clinton was not a friend of [Epstein], and to suggest otherwise is categorically false. “Their brief relationship revolved strictly around philanthropic work.”
However, Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding to investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. (A Clinton source said she was a guest of her ex, businessman Ted Waitt.)
In an explosive Vanity Fair interview in 2020, former Clinton aide and gatekeeper Doug Band said he tried to cut Epstein and Maxwell out of his boss’s life.
“I knew that by telling everyone to stop including Ghislaine, Chelsea and her father would be very angry. They had a harder time justifying being around her,” Band said.
Doug Band, a former Clinton aide, poses with Ghislaine Maxwell at a 2007 Valentine’s Day event hosted by his wife Lily Rafii. He has said that he tried to get Epstein and Maxwell out of his boss’s life. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
“Ghislaine had access to yachts and nice houses. “Chelsea needed that.”
A Clinton family spokesperson defended Chelsea to the magazine at the time, saying: “It wasn’t until 2015 that Chelsea became aware of the horrific allegations against Ghislaine Maxwell…Chelsea was friendly with her because of Maxwell’s relationship with a dear friend. “When that relationship ended, Chelsea’s relationship with her ended too.”
Band, who left the Clinton fold in late 2011, told the publication that Epstein made him reflect as early as the 2002 trip to Africa because he was a fabulist who claimed to have invented derivatives, among other absurd stories.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who dated Epstein at one point, is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking of minor girls. ZUMA24.com
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting a minor and served 13 months in prison.
According to the Daily Beast, Clinton met Maxwell and her husband Scott Borgerson for dinner at Crossroads Kitchen in Los Angeles in February 2014.
“This is an intimate dinner with Clinton in Los Angeles,” a source told The outlet. “Think of all the people she knows in Los Angeles and that Ghislaine attends.”
But after an explosive 2018 expose by the Miami Herald about Epstein’s previous plea deal, he was arrested again.
Federal authorities alleged that from 2002 to 2005, he abused nearly three dozen girls (most of them between the ages of 13 and 16) at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach.
In August 2019, Epstein died by hanging in his Manhattan jail cell.
It was considered a suicide.
In 2020, Maxwell, a British socialite, was arrested for grooming girls for sex in connection with Epstein.
He is currently serving 20 years in prison.
The documents released this week, by order of Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska, were part of a since-settled defamation lawsuit that Epstein accuser Giuffre filed against Maxwell in 2015.
Among the previously redacted revelations was a victim who claimed Epstein had offered her up to powerful politicians in order to obtain blackmail material.
An incredible variety of rich and powerful names appear in the documents.
According to one source, Epstein and Clinton were “close.”
Prince Andrew is alleged to have participated in an underage orgy on Epstein’s Little St. James Island. (He denied the allegations against her and settled with Giuffre, who said she was forced to sleep with him, for $12 million.)
In her 2016 deposition, Giuffre claimed to have had sexual relations “once” with Hyatt Hotels heir Tom Pritzker, whose spokesman said he “continues to vehemently deny” the allegation.
Giuffre also testified that Maxwell sent her to have sex with the late New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, according to the documents.
Donald Trump, Epstein’s butler revealed, would come to the financier’s Palm Beach home to eat, but never to get a massage.
Ghislane Maxwell kisses her ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein on the cheek. ZUMAPRESS.com
Trump has not been accused of any crime or wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
Sjoberg, who said he worked for Epstein from 2001 to 2006, testified in the newly released documents that he met pop icon Michael Jackson at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, and that magician David Copperfield, who was performing illusions for Epstein, “He asked me if I was aware that girls were paid to find other girls,” noting that the illusionist did not specify what he was referring to.
When the documents were released later in the week, Clinton didn’t seem to be sweating the attention: He was seen greeting fans in Mexico, seemingly without a care in the world.
Additional reporting by Joshua Rhett Miller and Kathianne Boniello
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