CV NEWS FEED // A recently unsealed court document suggests that former President Bill Clinton told a media source not to report on Jeffrey Epstein, whom a victim of the notorious child sex trafficker referred to as Clinton’s “good friend.”
In a 2011 email addressed to Sharon Churcher, a journalist then with The Mail on Sunday, Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre wrote:
When I was doing some research into [Vanity Fair] yesterday, it does concern me what they could want to write about me considering that [Bill] Clinton walked into [Vanity Fair] and threatened them not to write sex-trafficing [sic] articles about his good friend [Epstein].”
The Mail on Sunday is a United Kingdom-based newspaper owned by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT).
Graydon Carter, then the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, contested Giuffre’s claim.
“This categorically did not happen,” he said on Thursday. Carter served as the magazine’s editor for a quarter of a century from 1992 to 2017.
Sources close to Clinton also questioned the reports.
FOX News reported:
Clinton spokesperson Angel Urena said Clinton and Epstein did not have a close personal relationship. He pointed to his 2019 statement regarding Epstein, saying that Clinton last had contact with Epstein 20 years ago.
Meanwhile, former longtime Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward appeared to neither confirm nor deny Giuffre’s account. “If that happened, I did not know about it,” she wrote on her Substack “Vicky Ward Investigates.”
During an appearance on CNN Thursday, Ward suggested that Giuffre could have been confusing Clinton with Epstein himself.
The journalist recounted an instance in 2002 when she was tasked to write a Vanity Fair story about Epstein’s finances.
“[T]his is a time when nobody knew who this guy was other than he lived in the most expensive townhouse in Manhattan,” Ward wrote:
I learned not of the horrific sex crimes going on that we now know about increasingly in more detail. I did hear about the story of two sisters, Maria and Annie Farmer, and they were on the record detailing to me at the time the abuse they had suffered at the hands of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
When Jeffrey Epstein realized that I was in possession of their allegations, he appeared in the offices of Vanity Fair. I knew about this because the fact checker, who was fact checking my piece at the time, sent me an email saying, Oh my God, he’s standing here in the office. And as I’ve said before, the Farmer sister’s allegations were suddenly cut from the piece that was ultimately published.
On a separate occasion, Ward said that Epstein threatened her with “reports” about her and her husband.
According to The Daily Wire, Carter, who was Ward’s boss at the time, “denied that as well, saying that the outlet had opted to cut certain information from the story because it had not been submitted in time and had not met legal standards.”
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CatholicVote reported Thursday that in a newly unsealed “transcript of a deposition, one of Epstein’s victims said that the notorious sex trafficker told her ‘one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.’”
Despite this, FOX noted, Clinton “has not been accused of anything improper related to Epstein.”
