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Former President Bill Clinton’s upcoming memoir includes claims about late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s island and one clear message: “I wish I had never met him.”

One of the most frequently asked questions regarding the deceased financier and his convicted sex trafficker former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, brought up the lack of arrests of any alleged clients. Among a who’s who list of high-profile individuals associated with the pair, Clinton readily acknowledged meeting them and flying on the pedophile’s plane but maintained he’d never traveled to Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James.

In a portion of his upcoming memoir, “Citizen: My Life After the White House,” detailed by The US Sun, the president addressed the association and wrote, “I had always thought Epstein was odd but had no inkling of the crimes he was committing.”

“He hurt a lot of people, but I knew nothing about it, and by the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had stopped contact with him. I’ve never visited his island,” stated the president.

Regarding the plane dubbed the “Lolita Express,” it has been known since 2019 that Clinton had traveled aboard the plane a number of times in 2002 and 2003 when a spokesperson had noted to the Sun the president had taken it once each to Europe and Asia and twice to Africa.

Clinton’s memoir further claimed that he only met Epstein privately twice, once at the financier’s home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where he kept a portrait of Clinton in a blue dress and red high heels lounging in a chair, and later at the Harlem office of the Clinton Global Initiative.

“The bottom line is, even though it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward,” wrote the Democrat. “I wish I had never met him.”

Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre had previously claimed she had met Clinton twice on Epstein’s island and the Daily Mail had reported in 2021 that Epstein had visited Clinton’s White House 17 times between 1993 and 1995. The sex offender had himself invoked the Fifth Amendment‘s Self Incrimination Clause 500 times when he had been deposed by Giuffre’s lawyers, including a refusal to answer questions regarding dinners with Clinton and every place the pair had been together.

Meanwhile, actor Kevin Spacey had attested his own concern about the flights when he’d told Piers Morgan earlier this year about an invite from the former president for an eight-day humanitarian trip to Africa.

“I didn’t know him. I have never spent any time with him,” the Oscar-winning star had explained to the host of Epstein. “I was with the Clinton Foundation people, that’s who I was with.”

He’d also noted of the sex offender’s former girlfriend, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he’d appeared in a photo with, “I have no relationship with her. I had no relationship with him. I mean, he’s not my friend. I’m not a confidant. I’ve never spent time with him.”

Prince Andrew had invited Clinton to Buckingham Palace leading to Spacey tagging along after their time in Africa, and the actor explained, “I have since learned who he is and I have since been able to go back and find out that the airplane that we flew on for this humanitarian mission was owned by Jeffrey Epstein.”

“I didn’t want to be around this guy because I felt he put the president at risk on that trip to South Africa because there were these young girls. We were like, ‘Who is this guy?’” he added.

The Sun went on to report that Clinton said his White House affair with Monica Lewinsky continued to haunt him, “I live with it all the time.”

“Monica’s done a lot of good and important work over the last few years in her campaign against bullying, earning her well-deserved recognition in the United States and abroad,” the president wrote. “I wish her nothing but the best.”

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