Bill Clinton’s relationship with a billionaire pedophile will be thrust into the spotlight once again in a major book by a bestselling author released just weeks before the presidential election.
The former president will face renewed questions over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender who was jailed for 13 months in 2008 for soliciting girls for underage prostitution.
The book, to be published on Monday, the day after Hillary Clinton will face off with Donald Trump in the second presidential debate, will address how Epstein flew Clinton around the world on his private jet to speak about his charitable work.
The 300-page book will rake up how Clinton once praised Epstein for his ‘insights and generosity’ and enjoyed a cozy relationship with him at the same time Epstein abused a string of young girls.
Titled Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy, the book is written by veteran investigative journalist John Connolly and James Patterson, the best selling author.
Book industry insiders say that the initial print run is 500,000 – they expect it to be a best seller.
Epstein, a former friend of Prince Andrew, may have served just 13 months but dozens of women came forward claiming he abused them at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida.
DailyMail.com has leaned that ‘Filthy Rich’ will discuss how Epstein flew Clinton to Africa on his personal Boeing 727 so that the former president could give a talk about AIDS.
Comedian Chris Tucker and actor Kevin Spacey were also along for the ride, it is believed.
Such was the closeness between Epstein and Clinton that the former president once said through a spokesman: ‘Jeffrey is both 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.
‘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.’
Epstein had supposedly vowed to keep himself out of the spotlight but the promise of spending time with Clinton was too hard to resist.
The book will reveal that Epstein broke the ‘oath’ he made to himself and that he never should have had so much attention.
The relationship between Clinton and Epstein has been chronicled previously, and flight logs show that the former president flew on the financier’s private jet more than ten times in the years before Epstein was accused of having sex with underage girls.
Between 2002 and 2005 Clinton took numerous trips including to Epstein’s Caribbean island Little St James where young girls were supposedly kept as sex slaves.
Clinton was deemed to be so close to Epstein that he was nearly deposed during the investigation into his pedophilia, legal documents have shown.
A phone transcript filed in a lawsuit includes references to ‘favors’ that Clinton owed Epstein.
The lawsuit states that Clinton’s trips on Epstein’s plane ‘suddenly stopped’ thus ‘raising the suspicion that the friendship abruptly ended, perhaps because of events related to Epstein’s abuse of children’
Yet before that the two men were so close Epstein had email addresses for Clinton and 21 numbers for him.
Epstein, who has donated more than $94,000 over the years to candidates from the Democratic Party, also flew with Clinton in November 2003 to destinations including Russia, Oslo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, the logs show.
The book features chilling accounts of Epstein’s victims including a teenage girl who is called Mary – not her real name.
She prepared for her first session with Epstein by listening to Britney Spears and spending ages in front of the mirror to look good.
According to the book she was ‘desperate to make an impression’ and, as she listened to the singer’s hit ‘Toxic’, put on a pair of tight white jeans and a halter top that left her stomach bare.
Around her neck was the cross that her boyfriend had given her. Mary said to herself: ‘Be Barbie’ to try and make sure she looked good.
For Mary the money she would earn was the equivalent of seven weeks wages at McDonald’s .
For Epstein it was ‘delicious twist’ that he would savoir, the book says.
Mary was lured to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion by her cousin who insisted on her not telling her family.
On her first visit she is freaked out at the sight of pictures of naked women everywhere.
Then she saw a photo of a young girl looking fearful with one of her nipples showing and at that point she turned around and Epstein was there – wearing nothing but a towel.
After Epstein’s arrest his star legal team engaged on what the book will call a ‘year long assault’ on the prosecutors by trying to get them thrown off the case because they are biased.
Whatever pressure they were able to exert, Epstein’s victims later tried to have his plea deal overturned on the grounds that it was too lenient, though they have so far failed.
In the introduction Patterson writes of Epstein: ‘Some people think they can operate outside the law. And that’s what they do’.