The first of a 250-page mountain of documents related to disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein from the lawsuit against his former madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, have revealed a who’s who connected to their international sex trafficking ring.
Among the most notable names listed was former President Bill Clinton, who The Horn News has been reporting since 2016 was heavily connected to Epstein, his “Lolita Express” plane, and his disgraced empire. Clinton’s name came up over fifty times in the court documents.
Specifically, a three-word bombshell buried deep in the documents from a witness at the Maxwell trial grabbed the most attention.
Epstein once bragged that Clinton “liked them young,” said an unidentified witness while testifying under oath.
Testimony from one witness:
Q: "Did Jeffrey ever talk to you about Bill Clinton?"
A: "He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls."
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The testimony came from Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein’s many victims.
She claimed that United Kingdom’s Prince Andrew groped her — with Maxwell’s help — in 2001 and they photographed the incident.
In her 2016 deposition, Sjoberg said she was sat on Prince Andrew’s lap next to Virginia Roberts Giuffre, another accuser, inside Epstein’s luxurious Manhattan townhouse. Giuffre’s breast was groped by a puppet of Andrew, while his hand grabbed her breast for a picture.
“They put the puppet on Virginia’s lap, and I sat on Andrew’s lap, and they put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo,” she said of Maxwell and Epstein.
Andrew has vigorously denied the accusation.
Later in the same deposition, Sjoberg was asked about Clinton. Sjoberg claimed that Epstein “said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.”
The documents on Epstein and his elite friends are being unsealed as part of the 2015 lawsuit filed against Maxwell by Giuffre. She is one of the dozens of women who sued Epstein saying he had abused them at his homes in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and New Mexico.
Giuffre said the summer she turned 17, she was lured away from a job as a spa attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club to become a “masseuse” for Epstein — a job that involved performing sexual acts.
Besides the Duke of York, Giuffre also claimed she was pressured into having sex with other men in Epstein’s social orbit, including former Democratic Party leaders former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, and the billionaire Glenn Dubin, among others. All of those men said her accounts were fabricated.
Giuffre settled a lawsuit against Prince Andrew in 2022. That same year, Giuffre withdrew an accusation she had made against Epstein’s former attorney, the law professor Alan Dershowitz, saying she “may have made a mistake” in identifying him as an abuser.
Giuffre’s lawsuit against Maxwell was settled in 2017, but the Miami Herald went to court to access court papers initially filed under seal, including transcripts of interviews the lawyers did with potential witnesses like Sjoberg.
About 2,000 pages were unsealed by a court in 2019. Additional documents were released in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
The batch currently being released contains around 250 records that sections that were blacked out or were sealed entirely because of concerns about the privacy rights of Epstein’s victims and other people whose names had come up during the legal battle but weren’t complicit in his crimes.
Only around 40 of those documents were made public Wednesday. More will be released in the coming days.
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article