http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/prince-andrews-pimp-jeffrey-epstein-h...Prince Andrew’s ‘pimp’ Jeffrey Epstein had 21 phone numbers for Bill Clinton: court documents
5 HOURS AGO JANUARY 07, 2015 12:41AM
Friends ... court documents show billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had former US President Bill Clinton on speed dial. Picture: News Corp Australia Source: News Corp Australia
THE billionaire sex offender accused of pimping out a teenage girl to Prince Andrew also kept former President Bill Clinton on speed dial — 21 of them, court documents show.
Lawyers stumbled upon e-mail addresses and 21 phone numbers for the ex-president and his personal aide, Doug Band, stashed away in Jeffrey Epstein’s electronic directory, according to court documents.
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The filthy-rich sex felon has recently been in the spotlight again thanks to a federal lawsuit filed in Florida by Virginia Roberts, a woman who claims he kept her as a teen “sex slave” and paid her a $US15,000 ($18,500) bonus to bed the prince.
Former US President Bill Clinton. Picture: AP Source: AP
The fifth in line to the crown stuck by Epstein even after he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008.
But Clinton apparently turned his back on Epstein in 2005 — the year the financier was first arrested for receiving an “erotic massage” from a minor, according to the 2011 court records, related to a suit brought by women who claimed the businessman abused them.
Before that, Clinton was a frequent flyer on the moneyman’s private jet.
The documents state: “The documents clearly show that Clinton flew with Epstein and then suddenly stopped, raising the suspicion that the friendship abruptly ended, perhaps because of events related to Epstein’s sexual abuse of children.”
taken from Daily mail web page copyright unknown Virginia Roberts photographed with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell in early 2001. Collect picture from Virginia Roberts. Source: Supplied
Clinton was also pals with Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late disgraced British press baron Robert Maxwell. She has been accused of “acting as a madam” for Epstein in the lawsuit filed by Roberts last week.
Maxwell was a guest at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010, according to the 2011 court documents, which are part of a civil lawsuit involving Epstein and two lawyers who represented some of his underage victims.
Those lawyers even considered subpoenaing Clinton since he “might well be a source of relevant information” — but he was never deposed.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Prince Andrew laid low in his Windsor mansion — where he is believed to have made a cringe-worthy phone call to his mum, Queen Elizabeth, to discuss the recent allegations, the Daily Mail reported.
Roberts, now a 30-year-old mum of three, claims she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York on three occasions, starting when she was just 17.
On Monday, it also emerged that three of Epstein’s employees were questioned about Prince Andrew’s involvement in any sordid sexual activities with minors in 2010, but they all invoked the Fifth Amendment, the Guardian reported.
Buckingham Palace has denied the allegations, and Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, called him “the greatest man there is” outside the couple’s Swiss Alps ski chalet.
“It was the finest moment of my life in 1986 when I married him,” she told reporters. “He is a great man, the best man in the world.”
The former Duchess of York once took $US24,000 from Epstein to pay off debts to an assistant — later admitting it was “a gigantic error of judgment.”