Though former President Bill Clinton denies visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s orgy island, he admitted flying on the deceased rapist’s private jet dubbed the Lolita Express. Indeed, Clinton flew on it 26 times.
And if a book excerpt published in today’s New York Post is right, we can surmise why Clinton was such a frequent flier. He was an enthusiastic member of the Mile-High Club, and his partner was none other than Ghislaine Maxwell, the women accused of procuring Epstein’s rape and sex-trafficking victims.
Due out June 2, A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein, by Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper, reports that Clinton was pals with Epstein for one reason: access to Maxwell, the daughter of British newspaper tycoon and Israeli spy Robert Maxwell.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most high-profile victims, fingered Maxwell as Epstein’s procurer and accused her of participating in the perverted Wall Street tycoon’s sex crimes.
Epstein was under a federal indictment for sex trafficking when he was found hanging in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. Celebrity pathologist Michael Baden disputes the coroner’s conclusion that Epstein, 66, committed suicide.
Clinton Used Epstein
“Clinton was allegedly carrying on an affair with at least one woman in Epstein’s orbit, but she was well over the age of consent,” the excerpt opens.
That woman was Maxwell, “a constant presence at the ex- president’s side during these trips” and “the primary reason Clinton let Epstein ferry him around the world.”
“[Bill] and Ghislaine were getting it on,” a source who witnessed the relationship said in an interview. “That’s why he was around Epstein — to be with her.”
The source explained that reporters have been missing the point about the Clinton-Epstein relationship by focusing on Epstein’s sex crimes. “[Clinton’s] stupid but not an idiot,” the source says, dismissing the idea that the ex-president was sexually involved with children….
“You couldn’t hang out with her without being with him,” the source said of the Epstein-Clinton relationship.
“Clinton just used him like everything else,” the source explains.
In this case, Epstein was being used as an alibi while he hooked up with Maxwell.
Nor did the affair involve just sexcapades in the stratosphere, the book alleges.
They sweated up the sheets at “Maxwell’s own private townhome at 116 East Sixty-fifth Street, an $11 million pad that runs a touch below seven thousand square feet, much more modest than Epstein’s palatial townhome a few blocks north.”
And Clinton didn’t try to hide it, the book reports, which means the former president continued humiliating wife Hillary Clinton long after his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky that led to his impeachment in 1998.
Clinton and Maxwell were spotted dining together at the Madison Avenue Italian mainstay Nello, according to a 2002 New York magazine article, which described Maxwell as a “man-eater” in the same paragraph. When Clinton went stag to a New York education charity gala in late 2001 — Hillary declined to attend — Maxwell was reportedly at his side.
Maxwell was a “fixture” at events sponsored by Clinton’s Global Initiative and foundation, and “it was there where she was served court papers related to her about her participation in Epstein’s abuse.”
That was in 2009.
Even more humiliating for the loser in 2016’s presidential contest, the book reports, Maxwell “was among the few guests to attend Chelsea Clinton’s wedding at the former Astor estate in Rhinebeck, New York, on July 31, 2010.”
Clinton, of course, denies the affair, just as he denied his affair with Lewinsky.
Photos, and What Did Clinton Know?
In January, the Post published photos of Clinton and Maxwell on the Lolita, and yet another of Clinton and one of Epstein’s victims.
Those photos, and the latest report on the Clinton-Maxwell affair, raise the question of what Clinton knew and when he knew it.
Guiffre has claimed that Clinton did indeed visit Epstein’s orgy island but that she did not have sex with him or see him have sex with anyone else.
True perhaps, but the chances that Clinton knew nothing of Epstein’s exploits, particularly given the pillow talk he undoubtedly enjoyed with Maxwell, are slim.
Indeed, Clinton’s affair with the jetsetting party girl suggests that law enforcement looking into the Epstein-Maxwell sex-trafficking operation might well find a major source in Clinton if he doesn’t lie about that the way he lied about his affair with Lewinsky.
That aside, Clinton would have been major national security risk — perhaps a target for Russian or Chinese blackmail to extract foreign policy concessions from the United States — had his wife defeated Donald Trump.
Photo: AP Images
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
