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What was Bill Clinton’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?

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During his post-presidency, Bill Clinton’s connection with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became known. While Clinton has never been accused of any wrongdoing related to his relationship with Epstein, he did fly on Epstein’s private jet multiple times. Clinton has said these trips were related to work for the Clinton Foundation. He was also among a number of prominent individuals named in court documents released in 2024 and reportedly was among some 50 people who contributed to a bawdy birthday album for Epstein in 2003. Clinton knew Epstein at least as early as 1993, when Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell were photographed speaking with Clinton at a White House event.

Clinton is also featured in a number of photographs in the notorious Epstein files, including one in which he is in a swimming pool with Maxwell and a woman whose identity has been redacted. In 2026 Bill and Hillary Clinton were deposed separately by the House Oversight Committee. In his testimony, which was conducted behind closed doors at the insistence of the Republican-led committee, Clinton said, “I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.”