Here's a look at the connections between Epstein and the former president.
As lawmakers press former President Bill Clinton about this relationship with the late financier and sex offenderJeffrey Epstein, here's a look at the connections over the years between Clinton and Epstein, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate who was convicted on sex trafficking charges in 2021.
No Epstein survivor or associate has ever made a public allegation of wrongdoing or inappropriate behavior by Clinton in connection with his prior relationship with Epstein, and Clinton has maintained that he did not associate with Epstein after accusations of wrongdoing came to light.
According to federal election records, Bill Clinton's presidential campaign received a $1,000 donation from Epstein in 1992. Seven years later, Epstein contributed $20,000 to a joint fundraising committee with the Democratic Party and then-Senate hopeful Hillary Clinton. The Clinton Foundation has acknowledged it received one donation of $25,000 from an Epstein-related foundation in 2006.
Epstein visited the White House multiple times during Clinton's presidency, signing in as a visitor on 17 occasions between 1993-1995, according to White House visitor logs obtained and reviewed by ABC News. Epstein and Maxwell, the daughter of the late media mogul Robert Maxwell, were photographed at at least one White House event with the then-president.
In sworn depositions submitted to the House Oversight Committee in January 2026, Bill Clinton says that Epstein "may very well have attended" White House events during Clinton's two terms in office and may have been among the "tens of thousands" of people photographed with him.But Clinton said he did "not recall encountering Mr. Epstein, or any specific interaction with him, while in office."
Both Clintons also state they could not recall the circumstances of how they met Maxwell, but remember that she later "began a personal relationship with a mutual friend."
"To be clear, I had no idea of Mr. Epstein's or Ms. Maxwell's criminal activities," former President Clinton wrote. "And, irrespective of any intent either may have ever had, I did not take any action for the purpose of helping them to avoid any type of scrutiny."
"During my tenure in public office, from 1993 to 2013, I never had any responsibility for, or involvement with, the Department of Justice's handling of the Epstein and Maxwell investigations or prosecutions," Hillary Clinton wrote in her declaration.
After leaving the White House, Clinton met with Epstein once in Clinton's Harlem office and once at Epstein's apartment, according to a 2019social media postby Clinton spokesperson Angel Urena made shortly after Epstein's arrest.
"He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein's New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail," the post said.
"President Clinton 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," Urena wrote. "He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida."
Flight logs from Epstein's private jets show that Bill Clintonand his entourage took four international trips in 2002 and 2003 on the financier's Boeing 727 to locations including Bangkok, Brunei, Rwanda, Russia, China and elsewhere, as part of what Clinton has described as trips for the Clinton Foundation, the nonprofit humanitarian organization he founded after he left the presidency in 2001.
Logs for Epstein's private jets show that Bill Clinton is listed on 26 total flight "legs" on Epstein's planes -- though many of those legs were parts of the same international trips.
Clinton's last known trip on Epstein's plane was in November 2003, according to the logs. The first reports that Epstein was under investigation in Florida for alleged sexual exploitation of minors surfaced in 2005.
