Donald Trump apparently isn’t the one president that despatched a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein. “The most important identify within the album” was Invoice Clinton, the Wall Road Journal reported on Thursday. The ex-president’s letter appeared alongside practically 50 others, together with different outstanding celebrities and executives.
Final week, the Journal reported that Trump had authored a “bawdy” letter to Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 after he was arrested on federal sex-trafficking expenses. The letter was included in an album Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell compiled on the event of his fiftieth birthday in 2003. Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch, two Wall Road Journal newspaper reporters and the newspaper’s writer Dow Jones for libel and slander over the reporting.
In Thursday’s article, the Wall Road Journal offered further particulars on the album, together with names of among the practically 50 individuals who wrote to Epstein. They reportedly embody billionaire investor Leon Black, designer Vera Wang, billionaire media proprietor Mortimer Zuckerman, billionaire former Victoria’s Secret proprietor Les Wexner, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, mannequin scout Jean-Luc Brunel and billionaire former Microsoft govt Nathan Myhrvold.
It additionally consists of the British ambassador to the US and Labour occasion politician Peter Mandelson in a piece titled “buddies”. Epstein’s former co-workers, Alan “Ace” Greenberg and James “Jimmy” Cayne, who he labored with on the funding agency Bear Stearns within the Nineteen Seventies, additionally despatched letters.
The New York Occasions confirmed the Wall Road Journal’s reporting on Thursday night.
“The professionally certain birthday guide had a number of volumes and included a desk of contents,” the Journal reported.
Based on the newspaper, Clinton’s word to Epstein learn: “It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as lengthy, throughout all of the years of studying and understanding, adventures and [illegible word], and in addition to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a distinction and the solace of buddies.”
A Clinton spokesperson declined to remark to the Journal, as an alternative referring the paper to a earlier assertion from the ex-president, saying he had minimize ties with Epstein greater than a decade earlier than his arrest and was not conscious of Epstein’s crimes.
Trump’s letter to Epstein was removed from the one word that was sexual in nature, in response to paperwork the Journal reviewed.
It describes a poem signed by Black that learn “Blonde, Pink or Brunette, unfold out geographically / With this web of fish, Jeff’s now ‘The Outdated Man and The Sea’”, and a word from Wexner that included “a line drawing of what gave the impression to be a lady’s breasts”. Spokespersons for Black and Wexner declined the Journal’s request for remark.
A letter from Wang urged Epstein star on The Bachelor. Wang didn’t reply to the Journal’s requests for remark.
And a word from Myhrvold promised pictures from a current journey to Africa: “They appeared extra applicable than something I may put in phrases.” The pictures included “a monkey screaming, lions and zebras mating, and a zebra with its penis seen”, the Journal reported.
A spokesperson for Myhrvold instructed the Journal the previous Microsoft govt didn’t recall the submission, solely knew Epstein as a donor to scientific analysis, and that he “usually shares photographs of and writes about animal habits”.
The letter from Mandelson “included photographs of whiskey and a tropical island”, the Journal reported. Mandelson referred to Epstein as “my greatest pal” within the word. A spokesperson for Mandelson declined to remark to the Journal.
As for the connection between Trump and Epstein, the Occasions discovered that not less than as soon as earlier than, Trump had written Epstein an admiring word.
“To Jeff — You’re the biggest!” reads an inscription in a replica of Trump’s guide Trump: the Artwork of the Comeback, which belonged to Epstein.
The message, reviewed by the Occasions, is signed “Donald” and dated “Oct 97” – the month the guide got here out.
The Occasions additionally reviewed a beforehand undisclosed photograph of Trump and Epstein with the singer James Brown. It isn’t clear the place the photograph was taken. Brown regularly carried out in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, the place Trump owned the Taj Mahal on line casino.
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