(Washington) Former US President Bill Clinton assured a parliamentary committee which heard at length from him and his wife, Hillary Clinton, about their past links with Jeffrey Epstein, that he had no knowledge of the sex criminal’s actions nor had he been complicit in them.
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This committee of the House of Representatives dominated by Republicans on Monday released videos of the closed-door hearings under oath of Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, on Thursday, and of Bill Clinton on Friday, each lasting a little more than four and a half hours.
Asked about possible “sexual contacts” with young girls or young women introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein or his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, or in their presence, the former Democratic president responded in the negative.
Bill Clinton notably recounts a conversation with Donald Trump, which he places in the years “2002 or 2003”, during which the latter explained his break with Jeffrey Epstein through a dispute over real estate that both wanted to acquire.
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Former President Bill Clinton testifies behind closed doors before a congressional committee about his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in Chappaqua, New York, February 27, 2026.
In July, Donald Trump provided a new version of this breakup, even though the two men had been close when both were in the jet set of New York and Florida.
The dispute concerned young employees of his spa in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, recruited against his will by Jeffrey Epstein, including Virginia Giuffre, then a minor, the Republican president had claimed.
Epstein’s main accuser, Virginia Giuffre committed suicide in April 2025.
Previously, the White House assured that Donald Trump had expelled the businessman from his club at Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, for having “behaved like a crook”.
Bill Clinton also told parliamentarians that he had no knowledge of any wrongdoing on the part of Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein.
These two hearings were carried out in Chappaqua, a small town north of New York, where the Clintons own a house.
At the end of her hearing, Hillary Clinton repeated to the press that she had never met Jeffrey Epstein and that her husband knew nothing of his crimes.
Bill Clinton confirmed these two points after his own hearing. “I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong,” he insisted in a video Friday evening, reaffirming that he had distanced himself from Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade before his death in prison in 2019.
Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, both 79 years old, each had links with Jeffrey Epstein, but claim to have broken up with him well before his death and to have had no knowledge of his sexual crimes.
The mere mention of a person’s name in the Epstein file documents made public by the US Department of Justice does not a priori imply that they have committed wrongdoing.
But since the publication on January 30 by the department of “three million pages” of documents, many leaders and personalities from around the world have been splashed by the revelation of their past links with Jeffrey Epstein, provoking criminal investigations, arrests and resignations, mainly in Europe.
