A set of 19 unsealed documents from lawsuits tied to late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by a court Thursday evening, revealing allegations that former President Bill Clinton threatened Vanity Fair over a story in 2011.
The second batch of records come one day after a trove of 900 pages was released in response to a Dec. 18 court order from the judge overseeing the case, responding to the Miami Herald’s longtime bid to release the records. The new documents Thursday include more than 300 pages.
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Epstein, the convicted pedophile who died before he could face trial on federal sex trafficking charges, is referenced frequently in the hundreds of pages pertaining to his associate and sometimes-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is named as the defendant in the 2015 defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre. The newly released records are from that lawsuit.
Bill Clinton was already mentioned in several documents from the first batch released Wednesday. A document in the new set of records show allegations from Giuffre in which she claimed the former president “threatened” Vanity Fair reporters “not to write sex-trafficking articles about his good friend J.E.”
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“Good points, all of them. I am looking at both sides to the picture. On the upside it will give exposure to build up publicity for the case and the story but like you said, It must be carefully written and not give any notions about the upcoming book and or any new info,” Giuffre wrote in an email to journalist Sharon Churcher on May 30, 2011.
Giuffre added in the 2011 email that after she did research into Vanity Fair, she noted it “does concern me” what it might want to write about her considering that “B.Clinton walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex-trafficing articles about his good friend J.E. Should I be asking what is this story their writing pertaining to?”
“I wouldn’t want to give the public a bad image or anything like that. I don’t know, it’s all such a gamble,” Giuffre added.
It’s not clear whether the Vanity Fair reporting that Giuffre referenced in the email was published. The Washington Examiner reached out to a spokesperson for the outlet.
Another document in the latest batch includes a deposition from Palm Beach detective Joseph Recarey, who described the process he said Epstein and Maxwell used to find and recruit young girls “to perform massages and work at Epstein’s home.” Recarey was the lead detective on a case against Epstein in the mid-2000s. It was previously reported that Recarey interviewed more than 30 girls abused by Epstein.
The document also included details about the scope of the powerful network to which Epstein was connected and the people who used Epstein as a source to abuse the young girls.
“Epstein also trafficked Jane Doe #3 for sexual purposes to many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders,” according to one filing from the trove of documents.
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Maxwell is presently serving a 20-year sentence in Florida’s Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, and she will be eligible for release in July 2037.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
