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Hundreds of pages of documents were released on Wednesday regarding accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. This document dump was the first set of documents unsealed following a December 18th court order, with more expected in the coming weeks.
According to the first batch of documents, Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg claimed that “He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls”. This isn’t the first time that Sjoberg has claimed this but the first time that her deposition has been unsealed, CNN reported on Thursday.
Sjoberg claimed that Clinton was a friend of Epstein’s and that Epstein had “dealings” with Clinton. A spokesman for Clinton did confirm in 2019 that the former president had flown on Epstein’s private plane, but denied Clinton having any knowledge of Epstein’s “terrible crimes”.
“President Clinton 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,” Clinton’s spokesman, Angel Ureña, said in a statement.
“In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation,” the statement reads.
“He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein’s New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail,” the statement said.
“He’s not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida” the statement continued.
Epstein pleaded not guility to the charges alleging that he ran a sex trafficking ring where he paid girls as young as 14 to have sex with him.
According to law enforcement, Epstein had a painting that depicted Clinton wearing a blue dress and heals, and that the painting was “hanging up there prominently — as soon as you walked in — in a room to the right. Everybody who saw it laughed and smirked” The New York Post reported.
Former impeachment lawyer to Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, also appeared in the document release. Dershowitz denied the claims in the documents on Wednesday and said that the documents disprove the allegations against him.
“These documents, if all the documents are revealed, will prove categorically that she did misidentify me, that I never met her, never heard of her, never spoke to her and I can prove it by independent means,” Dershowitz told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“I have all my travel records, I have all my television appearances. I can prove that I couldn’t possibly have been anywhere near any of the people who were involved in this” Dershowitz said.
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre has admitted to potentially misidentifying Dershowitz during her testimony in November 2022, after accusing Dershowitz of sexual assault.
Dershowitz did defend Epstein in court as his attorney, but has claimed that after he found out what Epstein was doing, he ended any personal association with him.
“I was Epstein’s lawyer, of course I flew on his plane with Ken Starr, with Roy Black, with other lawyers,” Dershowitz said. “We flew to meetings with the U.S. attorney, with the state attorney. So people have to be very careful about what they are believing and when it happened. For example, as soon as Epstein was shown to be what he was, I ended my personal association with him completely, but I maintained a legal relationship with him. I’ve represented some of the worst people in the world and continue to do so. That’s my life.”
Dershowitz has repeatedly denied any wrong doing.
“Now of course these revelations put my name in the headlines again, but I’ve never been afraid of that, because I have nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be ashamed of, I did nothing wrong,” Dershowitz said. “Would I do it again? Not if I knew I was going to be falsely accused, but I represented far worse people. I represented murderers, I’ve represented people who have done terrible, terrible things. That is an essential part of our system. If I don’t do it, who will?”
More than 200 names are expected to be revealed over the coming weeks.