A second batch of previously sealed records involving Jeffrey Epstein and his associates was released Thursday night.
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An allegation that former President Bill Clinton “threatened” Vanity Fair magazine to kill articles about sex trafficking allegations involving Jeffrey Epstein highlighted a second tranche of unsealed documents released Thursday, a day after he was named alongside figures like Prince Andrew, law professor Alan Dershowitz and magician David Copperfield as associates of the late convicted sex offender (all listed have denied any suggestion of wrongdoing).Key Facts
The unsealed names mentioned in the initial tranche of documents Wednesday included prominent figures like Clinton, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew and Copperfield—all of whom have denied wrongdoing in their associations with Epstein.
The following mentions are from documents unsealed Thursday, which previously had much information, including the names of Epstein’s alleged victims and associates, redacted.
Former President Bill Clinton: “When I was doing some research into [Vanity Fair]
yesterday, it does concern me what they could want to write about me considering that B.Clinton walked into [Vanity Fair] and threatened them not to write sex-traffic[k]ing articles about his good friend J.E.” (Attachment 2, email sent by Virginia Giuffre to journalist and friend Sharon Churcher) Representatives for Clinton and Vanity Fair did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment, though Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 to 2017, told CNN the incident “categorically did not happen.”
“Traveled with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and may have information about Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual trafficking conduct.
