When Bill Clinton toured the world with Jeffrey Epstein in 2002, the former president had a six-course meal in Singapore with sex trafficker and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as government officials from the city-state. Enjoyed it.
Now, photos from the incident, which were removed from the National Archives of Singapore (NAS), have resurfaced on X and Reddit ahead of the release of a cache of Epstein’s secret files. As The Daily Beast reported, a federal court is expected to unseal hundreds of records in the new year that were part of victim Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 lawsuit against Maxwell. It is.
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong hosted a dinner for former US President Bill Clinton and Jade Restaurant at Fullerton Singapore.
Collection of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, courtesy of the National Archives of Singapore
Mr. Clinton’s evening fine dining occurred during a tour on Mr. Epstein’s private plane, dubbed the “Lolita Express” by the tabloids.
Flight records show that Clinton and former adviser Doug Band, one of more than 150 people expected to be named in the document dump, traveled from Shenzhen, China, to Singapore on May 23, 2002. accompanied Mr. Epstein and Mr. Maxwell.
That night, then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong hosted Mr. Clinton and his crew at the Jade Restaurant at the Fullerton Hotel Singapore, according to NAS photos and contemporaneous reports in Singapore’s daily newspapers.
Award-winning chef Sam Leong served a full course dinner including roasted rack of lamb with green curry sauce and pear crostini. Straits Times report.
One archived photo from the event shows Mr. Epstein and Mr. Maxwell smiling and posing for a group photo with other local officials at a round table topped with wine glasses. Clinton stands a few seats to the left of the creepy couple. This image was last saved to his Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive last June, but is no longer on his website on his NAS. In his second archived photo, Maxwell and Epstein are seated on opposite sides of the table.
Group photo of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and former US President Bill Clinton with guests during dinner at The Fullerton Singapore’s Jade Restaurant.
Collection of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, courtesy of the National Archives of Singapore
In a photo on the NAS website, Epstein and Band are seen in the background as the prime minister walks with Clinton. Former US Ambassador to Singapore Stephen Green, who was also at the dinner, was arrested nearby.
It is unclear why the photos of Clinton, Epstein and Maxwell were removed from Singapore government archives.
The former president’s relationship with Epstein and Maxwell has come under increased scrutiny since Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on child sex trafficking charges and died in prison a month later. ing.
“President Clinton traveled on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane a total of four times.”
Mr. Giuffre’s lawsuit and two others filed against J.P. Morgan last year are linked to other powerful people around Mr. Epstein, including Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Bill Gates, to name a few. It further exposed figures such as billionaire Leon Black, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Before Mr. Clinton’s Singapore dinner, he spoke at the two-day National Achievers Conference, where people paid $9,950 each to hear him speak. Straits Times report.
That year, flight records show that Clinton, Maxwell, the band, the Secret Service, young women from Epstein’s circle, and other celebrities, including model Naomi Campbell, hitchhiked onto the traffickers’ jets.
In September 2002, Clinton, along with actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, traveled to Africa on Epstein’s plane to raise awareness about poverty and HIV/AIDS. (Billionaire Ron Burkle also accompanied him on part of the trip.) One of the victims, Juliette Bryant, told The Daily Beast that the cronies were recruited into Epstein’s world when they stopped in Cape Town, South Africa. said that it was done. “That’s what gave Epstein credibility,” she said. “The fact that he was with Clinton.”
Chaunte Davis, a 22-year-old masseuse and Epstein victim at the time, was one of the passengers on the Africa trip and was photographed giving Clinton a shoulder massage. She described the 42nd president of the United States as “the perfect gentleman.”
“Although the images look strange,” Davis said. daily mail“During the trip, President Clinton was a perfect gentleman and there was no evidence of any foul play involving him.”
In 2019, Clinton’s press secretary said that Clinton “has no knowledge of the serious crimes to which Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida several years ago or the serious crimes for which he was recently charged in New York.” said.
“I remember asking Jeffrey what Bill Clinton was doing here…”
“In 2002 and 2003,” the spokesperson added in a statement, “President Clinton traveled on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane a total of four times: once to Europe, once to Asia, and twice to Africa. .One of the stops also included a stop related to the president’s business.”Clinton Foundation. Foundation staff, supporters, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg of every trip. He met with Epstein once in 2002 at his Harlem office, and made one brief visit to Epstein’s New York apartment around the same time with staff and security.
“He has not spoken to Epstein in over 10 years and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.”
But Mr. Clinton continued to communicate with Mr. Maxwell. As The Daily Beast reported, he joined the British socialite for a group dinner in Los Angeles in 2014 with former staffers, Democratic donor Steve Bing, Maxwell’s current husband Scott Borgerson and others. did.
In 2010, Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, and three years later her ocean nonprofit, The Terramar Project, partnered with the Clinton Global Initiative.
According to court records released in 2020, Ms. Clinton denies ever visiting Mr. Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but Ms. Giuffre once told her lawyer that the former president was never a guest there. (She has not accused Epstein of wrongdoing), according to court records released in 2020.
A former employee of Mr. Epstein also reported seeing Mr. Clinton on the island.
“You know, I remember asking Jeffrey, what is Bill Clinton doing here?” [on the island]” Giuffre said in a recorded conversation with his attorney. She added that Mr. Epstein laughed off her question and replied, “Well, he owes me a favor.”
“He never told me what a favor it was,” Giuffre said. “He had no idea. I didn’t know if he was serious. It was just a joke.”