Back in 2003, Bill Clinton called Jeffrey Epstein “a highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science,” per New York Magazine. “I especially appreciated his insights and generosity during the recent trip to Africa to work on democratization, empowering the poor, citizen service, and combating HIV/AIDS,” the former president told the magazine through a spokesperson. Clinton had flown on Epstein’s jet to various locales in Africa in 2002 — as well as England, Japan, China, Singapore, Morocco, the Azores, and New York, that year and into 2003, per Newsweek.
Epstein liked to collect “beautiful minds” and went out of his way to befriend Clinton, according to New York magazine.”I invest in people — be it politics or science,” the publication reported Epstein telling friends. “It’s what I do.” The disgraced financier and registered sex offender died by suicide in 2019 in a federal jail in New York City while awaiting his trial on charges he trafficked minors for sex in the early 2000s.
