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The second batch of court documents related to the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein were dropped on Thursday, shedding some light on former President Bill Clinton's alleged involvement in protecting his “dear friend” from exposure for his sex trafficking activities.
One of Epstein's alleged victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, claimed the former president walked into the Vanity Fair office and threatened them not to write about Epstein's sex trafficking.
Giuffre made the claim in a 2011 email discussing an interview for her book.
“When I was doing some research on VF (Vanity Fair) yesterday, I was concerned about what they might want to write about me considering that Clinton walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex trafficking articles about his dear friend JE,” reads the email addressed to One of the journalists.
“Should I ask what this story has to do with?” she added.
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Did Clinton threaten Vanity Fair not to report on Epstein?
The email claiming that Clinton stormed the Vanity Fair offices and demanded the closure of the Epstein sex trafficking investigations sparked much controversy and debate on social media.
Even some normally Democratic figures expressed shock and disappointment at Clinton's alleged actions.
Ed Krasenstein, a left-wing social media figure, called the allegations “pretty damning,” adding that they were “not criminal, but certainly ridiculous and disgusting if true.”
Clinton's name has been published in all versions of the Epstein document. The court documents in question stem from a 2016 defamation lawsuit filed by Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving 20 years in prison for her involvement in the late billionaire's crimes.
The first round revealed that lawyers for Epstein's victim argued that Clinton was “a key person who could provide information about his close relationship with (Maxwell) and Mr. Epstein.”
One of the most shocking allegations in the newly unsealed documents came from another woman who claimed Epstein sexually abused her, saying the world's most famous pedophile told her “Clinton likes them at a young age,” referring to girls.
Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
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Vanity Fair downplayed the Epstein story
A representative for Graydon Carter, the former longtime editor of Vanity Fair, strongly denied the contents of the email, telling The Telegraph: “This categorically did not happen.”
Vicki Ward, the reporter in a Vanity Fair story from 2003 that raised questions about how Epstein got his money, allegedly interviewed two women who said the financier abused them when they were minors. The article did not include these accusations.
According to The Telegraph, Ward claimed that Carter was pressured by Epstein himself, after he “visited the magazine’s office to apply pressure” on them and demanded that they “raise the abuse allegations against him.”
It's one of two things — either someone pressured Carter not to publish the story, or he decided to publish it on his own, silencing victims from telling their stories because Epstein, Ward says, was “sensitive to young women.”
Neither conclusion shed a positive light on the magazine.
Vanity gallery It's not the only outlet with hidden stories about Epstein.
Former ABC News anchor Amy Robach was caught on a hot mic in 2019, saying the widely publicized Epstein scandal was frustrating, considering she had information about his crimes years before.
“It was unbelievable,” Robach said of Epstein, his crimes and his high-profile connections — including to Bill Clinton.
She continued: “Clinton, we had everything. “I've been trying for three years to get it to no avail. And now it's all come out and it's like these new discoveries, and I've got it all weird.”
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