Bill Clinton Responds to Hot Tub Photos in Epstein Files

Former US President Bill Clinton has addressed the viral images that surfaced in the Jeffrey Epstein case files, showing him in a hot tub and swimming pool alongside a woman whose identity was concealed. The photos quickly spread online, raising fresh questions about his past association with Epstein.

Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, appeared last week before a Republican-led congressional panel reviewing matters related to Epstein and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. During his testimony, Clinton said he had no awareness of Epstein’s criminal activities. Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Lawmakers asked Clinton about one image showing him sitting in a hot tub with a woman whose face was blacked out, and another photo of him in a pool with Maxwell and another unidentified woman. Clinton explained that the pictures were taken at a hotel during a trip to Brunei. He said he had traveled there at the invitation of the Sultan, who had expressed interest in supporting the Clinton Foundation’s AIDS initiative.

“He invited me to stay there and he said, ‘I want you to stay at this hotel and I hope you’ll use the pool,'” Clinton said.

“I swam around. I sat in the hot tub for five minutes or whatever it was and I got up and went to bed,” he said.

“I also believe that there was a Secret Service agent there at the other end of the pool.”

Clinton said he did not know the identity of the unidentified woman in the photos but he believed she was a member of the traveling party.

“I don’t know who that is,” he said.

Asked if he had “engaged in any sexual activities” with the woman in the photos, Clinton replied: “No.”

Hillary Clinton told the congressional panel that she did not know Epstein, and Bill Clinton said he broke ties with him before the financier’s sex crimes came to light in 2008.

Bill Clinton acknowledged during his testimony that he flew on Epstein’s private plane several times in the early 2000s for Clinton Foundation-related humanitarian work.

The depositions were held behind closed doors in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons reside, and the committee released videos of their testimony on Monday.

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Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking minor girls to Epstein.

Both Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump figure prominently in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice but neither has been formally accused of any wrongdoing.

Clinton told the committee that Trump, a one-time close friend of Epstein, “never said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything improper with regard to Epstein either.”