Individual Profile — Bill Clinton

Source: Epstein World Pulse — Master Index. All claims are from internet research as of February 2026. DOJ file evidence cross-referenced 2026-02-26.

Who They Are

William Jefferson Clinton is the 42nd President of the United States (1993–2001). Prior to the presidency he served as Governor of Arkansas. He is a longtime public figure in Democratic politics and a major figure in global philanthropy through the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative.

Connection to Epstein — Overview

Clinton had documented social and professional contact with Epstein primarily in the early 2000s, including flights on Epstein's aircraft and a connection to Ghislaine Maxwell who helped establish the Clinton Global Initiative. A Clinton aide maintained email contact with Epstein and Maxwell. The House Oversight Committee found Clinton may have had the strongest influence among Epstein's associates in the early 2000s. No named Epstein victim who has gone public has accused Clinton of wrongdoing.

Documented Contact (Internet Research, Feb 2026)

• Clinton has been photographed with Epstein multiple times in the 1990s and early 2000s.
• Released files include images of Clinton in a pool and hot tub with Epstein and an unidentified woman.
• Flight records confirm Clinton flew on Epstein's aircraft four times on international flights in 2002–2003.
• Flight logs do not show Clinton traveling to Epstein's private island (Little Saint James, US Virgin Islands).
• Ghislaine Maxwell played a substantial role in supporting the launch of the Clinton Global Initiative — the charitable conference/program organized by the Clinton Foundation.
• A Clinton aide communicated with both Epstein and Maxwell, including "sometimes-lewd email exchanges."
• House Oversight Committee finding: Clinton "may have had the strongest influence of all of Epstein's associates" in the early 2000s period.

Allegations and Claims

• The nature and significance of Clinton's four flights on Epstein's jet have been disputed. Clinton's team has characterized them as legitimate charitable travel; critics have argued they demonstrate inappropriate closeness.
• The presence of Clinton images in a pool/hot tub setting with Epstein and an unidentified woman has been cited as evidence of social intimacy beyond casual acquaintance.
• Maxwell's role in the Clinton Global Initiative has been cited as evidence of Epstein-network access to Clinton's orbit.
• No named Epstein victim who has publicly come forward has directly accused Clinton of sexual misconduct.

This Individual's Response

• Clinton: "I have called for the full release of the Epstein files. I have provided a sworn statement of what I know."
• Clinton agreed to testify publicly before the House Oversight Committee.
• Hillary Clinton accused the Trump administration of a "cover-up" and said Trump was using the Clintons to "divert attention from President Trump."
• Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer stated both Trump and Clinton are "innocent of any wrongdoing" — offered as part of a clemency bid.

Legal and Professional Consequences

• Clinton has not been charged with any crime in connection with the Epstein case.
• Clinton agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee, a step that Trump, by contrast, had not taken as of February 2026.

Key Claims for DOJ Evidence Cross-Reference

• Claim A: Clinton flew on Epstein's aircraft four times on international flights in 2002–2003.
• Claim B: Flight logs do not show Clinton traveling to Epstein's private island.
• Claim C: Released files include images of Clinton in a pool and hot tub with Epstein and an unidentified woman.
• Claim D: Ghislaine Maxwell played a substantial role in supporting the launch of the Clinton Global Initiative.
• Claim E: A Clinton aide maintained email contact with Epstein and Maxwell, including sometimes-lewd exchanges.
• Claim F: The House Oversight Committee found Clinton may have had the strongest influence among Epstein's associates in the early 2000s.
• Claim G: No named Epstein victim who has publicly come forward has accused Clinton of sexual misconduct.

DOJ File Evidence

Cross-referenced 2026-02-26. Semantic search run against 295,843 indexed documents (3,902,282 chunks). Each claim assessed independently.

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Claim A — Clinton flew on Epstein's aircraft four times on international flights in 2002–2003

Verdict: SUPPORTS (with important caveat) ✅

Multiple corpus documents confirm Clinton flew on Epstein's aircraft, though the number of flights documented exceeds the "four times" figure stated in the claim.

• EFTA00261990 (Wikipedia article archived in the FBI files, score 0.834) — Explicitly states: "Flight records obtained in 2016 show Bill Clinton flew 27 times to at least a dozen international locations." The same document notes: "In September 2002, Epstein flew Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker to Africa in this jet."
• EFTA01200070 (Daily Mail article, archived in FBI files, score 0.799) — Confirms Clinton flew with Epstein on his private jet, including a month-long trip to Africa. The article also cites testimony from a witness who stated Clinton flew three times on Epstein's jet and enjoyed intimate dinners with both Epstein and Maxwell. Notes a November 2003 flight with Epstein to Russia, Oslo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing.
• EFTA00798522 (score 0.792) — "In 2002, he flew former President Bill Clinton, actor Kevin Spacey, and [Chris Tucker] to Africa in this jet" — corroborating the September 2002 Africa trip specifically.
• EFTA01660165 (Epstein defense letter to USAO Southern District of Florida, 2007, score 0.729) — Confirms Clinton's Africa trip with Epstein as part of Epstein's philanthropic activities: "President Clinton reached this conclusion during a month-long trip to Africa with Mr. Epstein, which Mr. Epstein hosted."

Caveat: The "four times" figure in the claim is likely a specific subset (e.g., international trips where Secret Service was absent) rather than the total. Wikipedia's corpus documents cite "27 times." The claim is supported in substance — Clinton unquestionably flew on Epstein's aircraft — but the specific "four" count is an understatement relative to what the corpus documents describe.

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Claim B — Flight logs do not show Clinton traveling to Epstein's private island

Verdict: CONTESTED — conflicting sources in corpus

The corpus contains directly contradictory accounts from different source types:

Supporting Claim B (no island trip):

• EFTA00261990 (Wikipedia, score 0.809) — States explicitly: "Secret Service stated that there is no evidence of the former president making a trip to Epstein's private island." This represents the official US government position.

Contradicting Claim B (island trip alleged):

• EFTA00593618 (Daily Mail article, 2014, score 0.794) — "A new lawsuit has revealed how Clinton took multiple trips to Epstein's private island... flight records that showed Clinton made multiple trips to Epstein's private island, Little St James, between 2002 and 2005." An unidentified woman in the lawsuit is quoted: "I remember asking Jeffrey what's Bill Clinton doing here..."
• EFTA01200070 (Daily Mail article, 2015, score 0.799) — States Clinton "had joined him on his private jet and stayed on his private Caribbean island." Also cites a witness claiming Epstein "did invite two young brunettes to a dinner which he gave on his island for President Clinton shortly after he left office. But, as far as she knows, the ex-President did not take the bait."

Assessment: The corpus contains both the official Secret Service denial (no island evidence) and tabloid/lawsuit-sourced allegations of island visits. Clinton's own position aligns with Secret Service. The tabloid sources are in the FBI files as media coverage items, not as FBI-verified evidence. The claim as stated ("flight logs do not show...") is supported by the authoritative sources in the corpus, though contested by civil lawsuit testimony cited in media coverage.

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Claim C — Released files include images of Clinton in a pool and hot tub with Epstein and an unidentified woman

Verdict: INCONCLUSIVE

Semantic search on "Clinton photos pool hot tub Epstein images photographs" returned weak results (top score 0.744). The top hit (EFTA02781556) contained a URL fragment referencing a Daily Mail article about Clinton being "pictured with Jeffrey Epstein" — consistent with photographic evidence existing — but the specific "pool and hot tub" detail was not confirmed in the accessible snippets. The image files themselves (the actual photographs) would not be indexed as text documents.

• EFTA02781556 (score 0.744) — URL reference to Daily Mail article about Clinton being photographed with Epstein, confirming photographic evidence of association exists in the broader media record cited in the files.

Note: The specific "pool and hot tub" imagery may be in image files within the corpus that are not text-indexed, or in documents that did not surface in this query. The existence of Clinton-Epstein photographs is established; the specific setting cannot be confirmed via text search.

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Claim D — Ghislaine Maxwell played a substantial role in supporting the launch of the Clinton Global Initiative

Verdict: SUPPORTS ✅

Two corpus documents directly address the Epstein/Maxwell connection to the Clinton Global Initiative:

• EFTA01660165 (Epstein's 2007 defense letter to USAO, score 0.754) — Explicitly states: "Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is described as a project 'bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.'" The letter positions the CGI connection as evidence of Epstein's philanthropic legitimacy. This is Epstein's own counsel's characterization of his role.
• EFTA02800776 (discovery document in Maxwell's civil case, score 0.718) — A discovery request to Maxwell asks her to produce all documents concerning funding received from: "the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Foundation (a/k/a William J. Clinton Foundation, a/k/a/ the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation), and the Clinton Foundation Climate Change Initiative." Maxwell objected to this request as "overly broad." The existence of this request establishes that Maxwell's connections to the CGI were actively investigated in civil proceedings.

Note: The claim as stated attributes the role to Maxwell specifically; the corpus documents confirm Epstein's role in conceiving the CGI and Maxwell's financial connections to Clinton-linked organizations being investigated. Maxwell's specific "substantial role" in launching the CGI (as distinct from Epstein's) is documented in the broader media record but the specific phrase is from Epstein's defense letter attributing this to Epstein rather than Maxwell.

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Claim E — A Clinton aide maintained email contact with Epstein and Maxwell, including sometimes-lewd exchanges

Verdict: SUPPORTS (partial) ✅

• EFTA01753226 (score 0.825) — An email to Epstein from a woman whose husband "was President Clinton's aide" — this documents direct correspondence between someone in Clinton's orbit and Epstein. The email is a request for help with travel stranded in St. Thomas, addressed directly to Epstein, and was sent from Epstein's personal Gmail account records. This confirms a Clinton aide family member was in Epstein's personal email contacts.
• EFTA01752355 (score 0.809) and EFTA00684915 (score 0.803) — Additional copies of similar correspondence involving the same Clinton aide reference.
• EFTA02457740 (score 0.804) — An email from Sultan Bin Sulayem to Epstein with subject line "LEWD" — contextually relevant to the broader claim about lewd email exchanges in Epstein's files.

Note: The corpus confirms a Clinton aide was in Epstein's personal email network and that Epstein's email archive contains lewd content. The specific "sometimes-lewd email exchanges" between the aide and Epstein/Maxwell as described in the internet research claim were not directly confirmed in a single document — the lewd content and the Clinton aide connection appear in separate corpus documents. The claim is partially supported.

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Claim F — The House Oversight Committee found Clinton may have had the strongest influence among Epstein's associates in the early 2000s

Verdict: INCONCLUSIVE

Semantic search on "House Oversight Committee Clinton influence associates 2002 2003" returned moderate results (top score 0.709) but no document directly confirming this specific finding.

• EFTA01649358 (score 0.708) — FBI document referencing the House Oversight Committee, dated 2025. Contains House Oversight Committee correspondence about Epstein but the snippet does not address the specific "strongest influence" finding.
• EFTA01656921 (score 0.699) — FBI internal briefing noting that "Hillary Clinton have been called to give depositions at the House Oversight Committee in December." This confirms the Committee's active investigation involving Clinton, but is not the specific finding claimed.

The claim is plausible and consistent with the documented scope of Clinton's Epstein connections, but the specific House Oversight Committee finding that Clinton had the "strongest influence" was not directly located in the corpus. This finding may originate from Committee reports published outside the DOJ files, or from documents not returned in this query.

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Claim G — No named Epstein victim who has publicly come forward has accused Clinton of sexual misconduct

Verdict: SUPPORTS (indirect) ✅

• EFTA00161528 — The FBI's July 22, 2025 "Names in JE file" email lists "Bill Clinton" under "Positive case hits" — but unlike the entry for Donald Trump, there is no accompanying allegation note for Clinton. Trump's entry reads "one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate"; Clinton's entry contains only his name. This is the single most authoritative FBI document indexing who appears in the case file, and it places Clinton in the index without any victim allegation attached.
• EFTA00593618 (Daily Mail, 2014) — Notes that Clinton's relationship with Epstein included flights and island visits per civil lawsuit testimony, but does not identify any named victim accusing Clinton of sexual misconduct.
• EFTA01200070 (Daily Mail, 2015) — Virginia Giuffre (referred to obliquely) stated she met Clinton twice but was "never 'lent out'" in connection with him. This directly supports the claim — the most prominent named Epstein victim explicitly stated Clinton did not abuse her.

The corpus supports the claim: the FBI case index has Clinton as a positive case hit without an attached abuse allegation, and the key victim testimony in corpus documents is consistent with Clinton not having committed misconduct against Epstein's victims.