The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that former President Bill Clinton and other high-profile names were allegedly among a group who sent deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein birthday letters in 2003.
First releasing their report about an allegedly obtained “leather-bound album” given to Epstein for his birthday, the outlet reported that President Donald Trump had been one of the people to send an alleged suggestive letter. In a newly released piece, however, the WSJ named Clinton along with Wall Street billionaire Leon Black, fashion designer Vera Wang, media owner Mort Zuckerman, and billionaire and former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold as also being part of the album.
The album, created in 2003, had reportedly been compiled by Epstein’s former girlfriend and business partner Ghislaine Maxwell. People involved in putting the letters together told the outlet that Maxwell had been “keen” on including Clinton and other notable names in the book.
Clinton’s alleged message to the deceased pedophile had been written in his “distinctive scrawl” on a page, touching on Epstein’s “childlike curiosity.”
“It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends,” Clinton’s letter allegedly said.
The former president declined to respond to the outlet about the letter reviewed by WSJ and instead referred to a previous statement.
Following Epstein’s second arrest in 2019, a spokesperson for Clinton told Vanity Fair at the time that the former president “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.”
While some of the alleged birthday messages had been simple and inoffensive, the WSJ said others included “crude jokes about sex” and were “bawdy.” In one message to Epstein from Myhrvold, the billionaire allegedly sent pictures from a recent trip to Africa at the time, including images “of a monkey screaming, lions and zebras mating, and a zebra with its penis visible,” according to the outlet.
“They seemed more appropriate than anything I could put in words,” the letter allegedly stated.
In response to the WSJ, a spokeswoman for Myhrvold told the outlet that the billionaire didn’t recall the submission but is a wildlife photographer who “regularly shares photos of and writes about animal behavior.”
Black had also allegedly sent a poem to Epstein at the time, which included an acronym that read “V.F.P.C.,” standing for “Vanity Fair Poster Child” — a reference, according to the WSJ, that pointed back to Epstein’s profile by Vanity Fair.
“Blonde, Red or Brunette, spread out geographically,” Black allegedly wrote. “With this net of fish, Jeff’s now ‘The Old Man and The Sea’”
The Wall Street billionaire signed off the alleged note with, “Love and kisses, Leon.” A spokesperson for Black declined to comment to the WSJ on the note.
The outlet said that both Clinton and Trump were allegedly listed under the “Friends” group, which also included Black, former Victoria’s Secret leader Leslie Wexner, attorney and Epstein’s former lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Zuckerman and the late French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel. Other categories listed by the WSJ included “Business,” “Science,” “Brooklyn” and “Family.”
The new report comes after the outlet alleged Trump sent Epstein a letter in the 2003 album that contained an “outline of a naked woman.” At the time of the report’s release, Trump told the WSJ the letter was a “fake thing,” adding that it was not his “words” nor did he “draw pictures of women.”
The president on Friday filed a lawsuit over the piece against billionaire Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones & Company Inc., News Corporation and the two WSJ reporters who authored the report. In response to the lawsuit, a Dow Jones spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they had “full confidence” in their reporting.
“We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit,” the spokesperson said.
Calls for the remaining “Epstein files” to be released have been made for weeks by both Republicans and Democrats, as the Trump administration has faced backlash since the Department of Justice released its memo July 6. The memo said that the FBI found no “client list” of Epstein, nor did it find any foul play in his death, which officials declared as a suicide in 2019 while he had been held in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.
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