Bill Clinton has denied visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private island in the Caribbean, but has admitted flying on the “weird” late pedophile’s plane in 2002 and 2003.
The former president has addressed his controversial relationship with Epstein in his upcoming memoir “Citizen,” claiming he flew the financier’s private plane — nicknamed the Lolita Express — in connection with his work with the Clinton Global Initiative. – was used, according to the earliest reported excerpts American Sun,
These reported trips took place before Epstein was convicted of child sex charges in Florida in 2005.
According to the outlet, Clinton wrote, “The bottom line is that even though it allowed me to tour my foundation’s work, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the scrutiny in later years.”
The 42nd president reportedly argued, “I always thought Epstein was weird but I had no idea what crimes he was committing.”
“He hurt a lot of people, but I didn’t know anything about it, and I had stopped contacting him by the time he was first arrested in 2005. “I have never visited his island,” Clinton wrote in the book, according to the outlet.
He said, “I wish I had never met him.”
Clinton claims in her book that she only met Epstein in private on two occasions, both times briefly – once at Epstein’s townhouse on the Upper East Side and again at the Clinton Global Initiative offices in Harlem.
According to The US Sun, in 2019 a spokesperson for Clinton also acknowledged that the former president had flown on the Lolita Express in 2002 and 2003.
The spokeswoman said Clinton took four trips on Epstein’s private plane – once to Europe, once to Asia and twice to Africa.
After one of those trips, Clinton was photographed getting a backrub From Chaunte Davis, an Epstein accuser who worked as a flight attendant on Lolita Express.
Davis previously said she gave Clinton a massage while en route to Africa for a humanitarian trip.
Clinton’s refusal to set foot on Little St. James Island, where Epstein is accused of holding underage sex parties, contradicts allegations by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.
In 2020, it was revealed that Giuffre claimed that Clinton was actually A guest on the island, however, did not allege any wrongdoing on the part of the former president.
“Citizen: My Life After the White House” will be released on November 19.
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