Bill Clinton took TWO MORE trips with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

Bill Clinton took two trips with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein – including one on the pedophile’s private jet – that have not been previously disclosed.

A new podcast reveals that the former President flew on Epstein’s jet, which was dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’, in February 2005 while visiting Japan, Taiwan and China.

Clinton also flew on a private jet owned by billionaire Ron Burkle with Maxwell as a passenger during a trip to India in November 2003.

That visit was part of Clinton’s work with the Clinton Foundation, his philanthropic initiative, to lower the cost of AIDS drugs.

According to journalist Vicky Ward, Maxwell was part of the official Clinton party and even stayed at the same hotel as him.

Ward reveals the details in her new podcast ‘Chasing Ghislaine’, which is available from Thursday on Audible Originals.

A new podcast reveals that Bill Clinton flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet in February 2005 while visiting Japan, Taiwan and China. Pictured together in 1993  

This is Jeffrey Epstein's infamous 'Lolita Express' - a private Boeing 727 airliner that carried prominent passengers - including Bill Clinton - and allegedly underage girls

This is Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous ‘Lolita Express’ – a private Boeing 727 airliner that carried prominent passengers – including Bill Clinton – and allegedly underage girls

Few details about Epstein's role in Clinton's trip to China have been revealed before but were hinted at by reports. The New York Times, reporting on Clinton's stop in Taiwan , said that he arrived from Japan by 'private plane' but gave no further details. Clinton is pictured in China in 2005

Few details about Epstein’s role in Clinton’s trip to China have been revealed before but were hinted at by reports. The New York Times, reporting on Clinton’s stop in Taiwan , said that he arrived from Japan by ‘private plane’ but gave no further details. Clinton is pictured in China in 2005

The podcast claims that Maxwell used Clinton for her ‘escape’ from Epstein in the 2000s when her relationship with the financier was cooling.

Maxwell was considered by Clinton’s personal staff to be ‘just as important’ as Epstein for raising money for the Clinton Foundation and was the ‘go-to person’ when it came to asking for donations from the pedophile.

The claims put new focus on the friendship between the former President and Epstein, who hanged himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.  

Flight logs showed that Clinton took at least 26 trips aboard the ‘Lolita Express’ — even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights between 2001 and 2003.  

The period where Epstein and Clinton were closest – the early 2000s – coincides with the period that Epstein was charged with running a sex trafficking ring.

Journalist Vicky Ward reveals the details in her new podcast 'Chasing Ghislaine', which is available from Thursday on Audible Originals

Journalist Vicky Ward reveals the details in her new podcast ‘Chasing Ghislaine’, which is available from Thursday on Audible Originals

Clinton has always denied any involvement in any criminality and has claimed that has never visited Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean as some reports have suggested.

But the connections between the two appear to have been strong and there were financial as well as social links lasting many years.

Maxwell is currently awaiting a November trial for allegedly procuring and trafficking underage girls for Epstein, charges she denies.

Ward has reported on the Epstein case for nearly two decades, first for Vanity Fair and now in her role as a CNN journalist.

She wrote a profile of Epstein for Vanity Fair in 2003 but the details of his alleged abuse of two young sisters was left out after Epstein contacted her editor, Graydon Carter, she claims.

According to ‘Chasing Ghislaine’, during the 2000s Maxwell was trying to escape the ‘sick partnership’ she had built with Epstein, who she dated during the early 1990s and allegedly abused underage girls with.

In the podcast, Ward says: ‘Ghislaine used former President Bill Clinton for her escape.

‘Remember, Clinton’s post-presidency was an exciting, very attractive place to be. He and an entourage went on fascinating trips to Europe, to Asia, to Africa and he met with extremely interesting people.

‘Now, records I’ve seen recently show that in 2003, Ghislaine visited the Taj Mahal with Bill Clinton and a group of around 20 others. This trip has not previously been reported. Jeffrey wasn’t on it. And that was key in cementing Ghislaine’s rise as a VIP in her own right in Clinton World, according to sources close to Bill Clinton’.

Ward claims that the trip in November that year was aboard a private jet owned by Ron Burkle, a close friend and billionaire who raised $10m for the Clintons before falling out with them.

A report on Kaiser Health News from November 2003 talks about Clinton visiting a generic drug maker to show support for lowering the cost of AIDS drugs.

A press release by the Clinton Foundation from 2006 refers to Clinton visiting India in November 2003 where pharmaceutical companies agreed to lower the price of antiretroviral medicines used to treat HIV by more than 50 percent.

Ward described Maxwell as being part of the 20 or so people who traveled with Clinton and stayed at his hotel.

Maxwell’s friend Christopher Mason, a British journalist, tells the podcast: ‘She was always, you know, on her way to something, to see someone of extraordinary importance.

‘She was very excited by what she was about to do. And she told me that she was off to see Bill Clinton, and that-that seemed to be a leitlight motif in her conversation for quite a long time’.

Clinton also flew on a private jet owned by billionaire Ron Burkle with Maxwell as a passenger during a trip to India in November 2003

Clinton also flew on a private jet owned by billionaire Ron Burkle with Maxwell as a passenger during a trip to India in November 2003

Ward claims that the trip in November that year was aboard a private jet owned by Burkle, a close friend and billionaire who raised $10m for the Clintons before falling out with them

Ward claims that the trip in November that year was aboard a private jet owned by Burkle, a close friend and billionaire who raised $10m for the Clintons before falling out with them

In the podcast, Ward says: ‘I’ve also only recently learned from sources close to Bill Clinton that he and his post-presidency staff considered Ghislaine to be just as important as Jeffrey – if not more so.

‘She was the go-to person for ‘financial asks’ for Jeffrey’s money by the Clinton Foundation and then the Global Initiative’.

Those ‘asks’ included Epstien and Maxwell contributing a ‘high six-figure sum’ in 2005 to be founding members of the Clinton Global Initiative, another of Clinton’s philanthropic endeavours.

Ward says: ‘This meant that Ghislaine was constantly being asked to Clinton VIP gatherings.

‘There were heads of state there and important businessmen like Bill Gates and Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin’.

Flight logs from one of Epstein’s pilots show that between 2001 and 2003 Clinton took at least 26 flights aboard the pedophile’s planes including trips to Asia and Africa where he was doing work for the Clinton Foundation.

A photo from 2002 on the Africa trip shows Clinton standing on the steps of Epstein’s plane with his arm on the shoulder of a smiling Maxwell.

Also on the trip was a host of celebrities, including shamed actor Kevin Spacey and comedian Chris Tucker.

‘Chasing Ghislaine’ says that Epstein and Clinton were so close that the pedophile would brag to friends about serving him peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

According to a transcript of one of Ward’s interviews with Epstein, he told her that Clinton was ‘shocked’ when he found out they were serving the filling on his private jet.

Epstein said that Clinton asked ‘why are we serving peanut butter and jelly’ but it was on the menu because Epstein liked it.

A photo from 2002 on the Africa trip shows Clinton standing on the steps of Epstein's plane with his arm on the shoulder of a smiling Maxwell

A photo from 2002 on the Africa trip shows Clinton standing on the steps of Epstein’s plane with his arm on the shoulder of a smiling Maxwell 

On a trip to Africa was a host of celebrities, including shamed actor Kevin Spacey, comedian Chris Tucker and Bill Clinton - who all traveled there on Epstein's Lolita Express

On a trip to Africa was a host of celebrities, including shamed actor Kevin Spacey, comedian Chris Tucker and Bill Clinton – who all traveled there on Epstein’s Lolita Express

Ward reveals for the first time another trip that Clinton took on Epstein’s jet, in February 2005 to China, Taiwan and Japan to promote his memoirs.

Ward says in the podcast: ‘They were joined by Ted Waitt, a billionaire who ran Gateway Computers.

‘He was at a dinner in Beijing. This was the start of Ghislaine’s next chapter, say two sources close to Clinton. From that moment on, Ghislaine and Ted got tighter and tighter. Jeffrey seemed to be completely left behind’.

Maxwell would go on to date Waitt for some years and he would become her first serious boyfriend after Epstein. 

Few details about Epstein’s role in Clinton’s trip to China have been revealed before but were hinted at by reports.

The New York Times, reporting on Clinton’s stop in Taiwan, said that he arrived from Japan by ‘private plane’ but gave no further details.

In Taiwan Clinton met the country’s Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun and had dinner with then President Chen Shui-bian – it is not known if Epstein was present.

A report on China Daily talks about Clinton signing an agreement with the Chinese health ministry to provide $70,000 worth of AIDS drugs after landing in China.

It is not known what kind of access Epstein got to high level Chinese officials, if any.

Maxwell and Epstein’s friendship with Clinton dates back to at least 1993 when they attended a reception at the White House where they shook hands with him while he was President.

Ted Waitt, a billionaire who ran Gateway Computers, joined Clinton, Epstein and Maxwell on their 2005 trip. Maxwell would go on to date Waitt for some years and he would become her first serious boyfriend after Epstein

Ted Waitt, a billionaire who ran Gateway Computers, joined Clinton, Epstein and Maxwell on their 2005 trip. Maxwell would go on to date Waitt for some years and he would become her first serious boyfriend after Epstein

Clinton is seen visiting the Taj Mahal in 2003. 'Now, records I've seen recently show that in 2003, Ghislaine visited the Taj Mahal with Bill Clinton and a group of around 20 others, Ward says.' This trip has not previously been reported. Jeffrey wasn't on it. And that was key in cementing Ghislaine's rise as a VIP in her own right in Clinton World, according to sources close to Bill Clinton'

Clinton is seen visiting the Taj Mahal in 2003. ‘Now, records I’ve seen recently show that in 2003, Ghislaine visited the Taj Mahal with Bill Clinton and a group of around 20 others, Ward says.’ This trip has not previously been reported. Jeffrey wasn’t on it. And that was key in cementing Ghislaine’s rise as a VIP in her own right in Clinton World, according to sources close to Bill Clinton’

The event was for the White House Historical Association and came after Epstein donated $10,000 to help with refurbishments.

According to journalists Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper, who wrote a book about Epstein called ‘A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein’, Maxwell was actually the reason why Clinton was associating with the pedophile.

Maxwell is currently awaiting a November trial for allegedly procuring and trafficking underage girls for Epstein, charges she denies

Maxwell is currently awaiting a November trial for allegedly procuring and trafficking underage girls for Epstein, charges she denies 

The book claimed that Clinton and Maxwell were having an affair and it was her he was interested in, rather than Epstein’s young and underage girls.

Clinton has denied this but ‘A Convenient Death’ claimed that Clinton visited Maxwell’s $11m townhouse in Manhattan multiple times.

The pair were spotted together dining at the upscale restaurant Nello on Madison Avenue, according to a 2002 New York magazine article.

When Clinton went to an education charity gala in late 2001 Maxwell was reportedly his date – his wife Hillary did not attend.

Even Epstein’s 2007 plea deal under which he served 15 months in prison for having sex with underage girls did not end the friendship between the Clintons and Maxwell.

In July 2010 Maxwell was among the guests to attend Chelsea Clinton’s wedding at the former Astor estate in Rhinebeck, New York.

Clinton’s former close aide Doug Band has told Vanity Fair that Maxwell and Chelsea had been close for some time because ‘Ghislaine had access to yachts and nice homes’ and ‘Chelsea needed that’.

In October 2011 Band tried to bar Maxwell from any Clinton events but he found that Clinton himself was resistant.

Band said: ‘I knew in telling everyone to stop including Ghislaine that Chelsea and her father would be very angry.

‘It made it harder for them to justify being close to her’.

Among the other claims in ‘Chasing Ghislaine’ is that during the early 1990s Maxwell had an ‘almost a manic relationship’ with being ‘naughty’.

According to Ward she ‘talked about sex in all sorts of inappropriate venues – and she behaved scandalously’.

Clinton's former close aide Doug Band (pictured with Maxwell) has told Vanity Fair that Maxwell and Chelsea had been close for some time because 'Ghislaine had access to yachts and nice homes' and 'Chelsea needed that'. In October 2011 Band tried to bar Maxwell from any Clinton events but he found that Clinton himself was resistant

Clinton’s former close aide Doug Band (pictured with Maxwell) has told Vanity Fair that Maxwell and Chelsea had been close for some time because ‘Ghislaine had access to yachts and nice homes’ and ‘Chelsea needed that’. In October 2011 Band tried to bar Maxwell from any Clinton events but he found that Clinton himself was resistant

Journalist Ed Epstein – no relation to Jeffrey – saw this firsthand at a wedding in 1991 at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s private club in Florida.

Edward Epstein says: ‘She didn’t show up during dinner. She showed up for dessert, just as we’re finishing dessert, she showed up and of course, she needed an excuse.

‘And she said, ‘look’, to the whole table, not to me, she announced, she said: ‘You know, I was just having the greatest sex of my life and I’ve never had such great sex, so please forgive me’. And everyone laughed’.

Ward claims that during another incident in New York around the same time, a friend told her he had seen Maxwell ‘mid-dinner party, leap up from the table and push the movie star Hugh Grant to the floor to give him a massage’.

Ward says: ‘It seemed amusing, a bit outrageous maybe; but her friends told me that they began to wonder if Ghislaine was over-compensating; overcompensating for a private suffering that possibly had to do with rejection by Jeffrey’.

A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to a request for comment.

Nobody for Grant replied when asked to comment and neither did a spokesman for Burkle.

Chasing Ghislaine is available from Thursday on Audible Originals. 

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