Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are mentioned in newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein-related court documents, but they are not accused of any wrongdoing involving the disgraced sex trafficking financier.
Clinton, who sometimes flew aboard Epstein’s private plane, is listed repeatedly in the documents. He was the topic of an argument over the credibility of a witness who said she saw the former president when he was a guest of Epstein.
Trump’s name appears in a document in which Epstein is quoted as saying he would invite the then-real estate mogul to join him at a casino. In another document, a witness said she was never asked to engage in sexual relations with Trump.
The unsealed documents also list prominent individuals who have denied accusations against them, including Prince Andrew of Great Britain and prominent litigator Alan Dershowitz.
“The Epstein list and guilt by association,” Dershowitz said on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). On Fox News, Dershowitz said that “the woman who accused me has now stated categorically that she may have misidentified me continuously with someone else … I never met her, never heard of her, never spoke to her.”
Among others named: billionaire hedge fund founder Glenn Dubin, high-powered fashion CEO Les Wexner, and deceased modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel.
All of the accused have denied allegations of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. Most of the documents unsealed late Wednesday were part of a lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims. More documents − and names − are expected to be released on Thursday.
One of Giuffre’s attorneys, Sigrid McCawley, said more needs to be known about “who enabled and facilitated” Epstein’s trafficking network, and that survivors of his abuse deserve more justice.
“The public interest must still be served in learning more about the scale and scope of Epstein’s racket to further the important goal of shutting down sex trafficking wherever it exists and holding more to account,” McCawley said. “The unsealing of these documents gets us closer to that goal.”
Clinton’s office referred reporters a 2019 statement that said the former president “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.”
The statement said Clinton has never been to Epstein’s island, and had “not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade.”
