Nick Bryant
Gawker / Sott.net
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the "Lolita Express" - the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein - with an actress in softcore porn movies
whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for
"massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton
shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors
believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his
friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex (and one count of adult solicitation), for which he served just over a year
in county jail. But sprawling local, state, and federal investigations
into the eccentric investor's habit of paying teen girls for "massages" -
sessions during which he would allegedly penetrate girls with sex toys, demand to be masturbated, and have intercourse - turned up a massive network of victims, including 35 female minors whom federal prosecutors believed he'd sexually abused. He
has reportedly settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims
since 2008; the youngest alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of
her abuse.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein? Click here for our primer about the billionaire pedophile.
Epstein's predatory past, and his now-inconvenient relationships with a Who's Who of the Davos set, hit the front pages again earlier this month when one of his victims, Virginia Roberts, claimed in a federal court filing that Epstein
recruited her as a "sex slave" at the age of 15 and "sexually
trafficked [her] to politically-connected and financially-powerful
people," including Prince Andrew and attorney Alan Dershowitz.
(The latter, the filing claimed, had sex with the victim "on private
planes"; Dershowitz vigorously denies the charges, as does Prince
Andrew.)
Two female associates of Epstein - the socialite Ghislaine
Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen - have been
repeatedly accused in court filings of acting as pimps for him,
recruiting and grooming young girls into their network of child sex
workers, and frequently participating in sex acts with them. Kellen in
particular was believed by detectives in the Palm Beach Police
Department, which was the first to start unraveling the operation, to be
so deeply involved in the enterprise that they prepared a warrant for
her arrest as an accessory to molestation and sex with minors. In
the end, she was never arrested or charged, and federal prosecutors
granted her immunity in a 2007 non-prosecution agreement that described
her as a "potential co-conspirator" in sex trafficking.
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The Independent
From former US presidents to Nobel prize-winning scientists, Jeffrey Epstein had a rare knack for collecting acquaintances from the globe’s most powerful and rarefied walks of life.
The former Manhattan maths tutor turned multi-millionaire financier first became a fixture on the New York social scene in the early 1990s, amassing a list of contacts – from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump to Kevin Spacey – that competed only with his property portfolio in shiny exclusivity.
It was while moving in these circles that Epstein, a sharp-minded philanthropist who has donated millions to scientific research, came into contact with Prince Andrew, probably in 2000 when the Duke of York was on the cusp of a new career as a trade envoy for Britain.
What resulted was a friendship that stood the test of time, at some cost to the man fifth in line to the British throne.
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