Ghislaine Maxwell has an infamous forbear - her father - Sir Ian Robert Maxwell MC, a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, member of parliament, suspected spy, and fraudster.
Robert Maxwell was born on 10 June 1923 into a poor Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish family in the small town of Slatinské Doly, in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia (now Solotvyno, Ukraine).
Glitzy Pics of Clinton, Epstein and Ghislaine Resurface
The National Archives of Singapore had scrubbed some of the photos from its website.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty
During one of Bill Clinton’s jaunts around the world with Jeffrey Epstein in 2002, the former president enjoyed a six-course meal in Singapore with the sex-trafficker, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and government officials of the city-state.
Now photos of the occasion—which were scrubbed from the National Archives of Singapore (NAS)—are resurfacing on X and Reddit ahead of the release of a cache of secret Epstein files. As The Daily Beast reported, a federal court will unseal hundreds of records in the new year that were part of victim Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 lawsuit against Maxwell.
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong hosts dinner for former United States President Bill Clinton and Jade Restaurant, The Fullerton Singapore.
Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore
Clinton’s night of fine dining occurred during one of his tours on Epstein’s private plane, which was christened the “Lolita Express” by the tabloids.
Flight records show that Clinton and his former adviser Doug Band, who is among the more than 150 people expected to be named in the document dump, joined Epstein and Maxwell on a trip from Shenzhen, China, to Singapore on May 23, 2002.
That evening, according to the NAS photo and a contemporaneous report in a Singaporean daily newspaper, then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong hosted Clinton and his crew at The Fullerton Hotel Singapore’s Jade restaurant.
Award-winning chef Sam Leong served up a full-course dinner, including roasted lamb rack with green curry sauce and pear crostini, The Straits Times reported.
One archived photo from the event shows Epstein and Maxwell smiling for a group picture with other local officials at a round table topped in wine glasses. Clinton is standing a couple seats to the creepy couple’s left side. The image, last saved on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in June of last year, is no longer on NAS’s website. Maxwell and Epstein sit at opposite ends of the table in a second archived photograph.
Group photograph of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and former United States President Bill Clinton with guests taken during dinner at Jade Restaurant, The Fullerton Singapore
Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore
In a photo that remains on NAS’s site, Epstein and Band appear to be in the background as the prime minister walks with Clinton. Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore Steven Green, who also joined the dinner, is captured nearby.
It’s unclear why the photos of Clinton, Epstein, and Maxwell were removed from the Singapore government archives.
The former president’s ties to Epstein and Maxwell have been under increased scrutiny since Epstein’s July 2019 arrest for child sex-trafficking and death in jail a month later.
Giuffre’s litigation and a pair of lawsuits filed against JPMorgan last year further exposed other high-powered people in Epstein’s orbit—Microsoft honcho Bill Gates, billionaire Leon Black, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, to name a few.
Before Clinton’s Singapore dinner, he spoke at a two-day “National Achievers Congress,” where people paid $9,950 each to hear him, The Straits Times reported.
That year, Clinton, Maxwell, Band, the Secret Service, young women in Epstein’s circle, and other famous faces including model Naomi Campbell hitched rides on the trafficker’s jet, flight records show.
In September 2002, Clinton used Epstein’s plane to tour Africa to raise awareness about poverty and HIV/AIDS with actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. (Billionaire Ron Burkle also traveled with them for parts of the trip.) One victim, Juliette Bryant, told The Daily Beast that she was recruited into Epstein’s world when this entourage made a stop in Cape Town, South Africa. “That’s what gave Epstein credibility,” she said. “The fact that he was with Clinton.”
Chauntae Davies, then a 22-year-old masseuse and victim of Epstein, was one of the passengers on the Africa trip and was photographed giving Clinton a shoulder massage. She described the 42nd President of the United States as a “complete gentleman.”
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