Podcaster Joe Rogan suggested that Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing Bill Clinton by displaying a giant painting of the former president dressed in his New York home.
In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan brought up the painting, first revealed by DailyMail.com in 2018, that hung in the foyer of Epstein’s Manhattan apartment after he was found dead by suicide in his jail cell. Underage sex trafficking ring.
Flight logs show that Clinton boarded the financed Boeing 727 jet a total of 26 times between 2001 and 2003. Clinton has denied being on Epstein’s ‘pedophile island’ Little St. James, and her spokeswoman Angel Urena has said the former president knows nothing. About Epstein’s ‘horrible crime’.
The image, which shows Clinton sitting in an Oval Office chair, wearing red heels and posing suggestively in a Monica Lewinsky blue dress, was in a room next to the stairs of an Upper East Side townhouse.
‘That painting is like: ‘I got you bitch,’ Rogan Epstein said of keeping the painting in his home, ‘you know he knows about it.’
Clinton denies staying on Epstein’s ‘pedophile island’ Little St. James in US Virgin Islands
Clinton was pictured sitting in an Oval Office chair, wearing red heels and posing suggestively in a Monica Lewinsky blue dress, in a room next to the stairs of an Upper East Side townhouse.
Rogan continued: ‘Imagine if I knew some horrible dark secret about you and you came to my house and I had a huge painting of you. Just when you walk in your front door in a dress and I’m like, ‘Hey dude.’
Rogan and his guest comedian Duncan Trussell who commented that displaying the image was a way to ‘control’ the former president.
Clinton’s spokeswoman confirmed that in 2002 and 2003, the former president made four trips on the financier’s private jet to multiple stops and that staff and his Secret Service detail traveled on each leg.
One of Epstein’s former sex slaves, Virginia Roberts, claimed she saw Clinton at a dinner in his honor on the island shortly after he left office, and stood by the claim during questioning under oath.
The original painting is titled ‘Persing Bill’ and is by Australian-American artist Petrina Ryan-Clyde, although it is unclear whether Epstein purchased the canvas or mounted a print. Ryan-Clyde exhibited it for her degree show when she graduated from the New York Academy of Art in 2012 with an MFA.
The painting was secretly hidden in his $56 million home in October 2012, four years after Epstein completed his sweetheart deal for prostitution of a minor and seven years before he was charged with running an underage sex trafficking ring.
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, was meeting with Epstein to present a business proposal.
He told DailyMailTV at the time: ‘It was absolutely Bill Clinton. It was shocking – it must have been one of his paintings. It was a very provocative, sexual picture. She was wearing heels, a blue dress and her hands were in a strange position.
The color of the dress appeared to be a subtle reference to former Clinton intern Monica Lewinsky, who wore blue during their infamous White House sex encounter.
The dress is strikingly similar to the one worn by Hillary Clinton at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.
Inspiration? The dress is strikingly similar to the one worn by Hillary Clinton at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.
The source told Daily MailTV: ‘It was absolutely Bill Clinton. It was shocking – it must have been one of his paintings. It was a very provocative, sexual picture. She was wearing heels, a blue dress and her hands were in a strange position’. Photo: Clinton and Lewinsky in 1997
‘Clinton’ crosses her legs over the arms of the chair, blood-red heels dangling over a rug that appears to bear the presidential seal.
‘Clinton’ appears to point a finger at the viewer as the shoulder of the blue dress hangs to the side.
This image is apparently inspired by James Montgomery Flagg’s famous illustration of Uncle Sam used in World War I recruitment posters.
The source who saw the painting said he saw it when ‘we saw the portrait while being moved from the office to his private quarters.
‘It was through a door which had been temporarily left open by his housekeeper or butler.
‘I thought, “Why on earth would Epstein be like that?” I didn’t know they knew each other.’
Although he was shocked to see the painting, his business partner managed to take a snap of the painting.
He said: ‘He took a picture. I was shocked because there were cameras everywhere.’
The source added that he was at Epstein’s home for about an hour and a half for the meeting, which was arranged by his then-assistant Leslie Groff.
Blonde was named as a potential accomplice and granted immunity in Epstein’s controversial plea deal in 2008.
Epstein and Clinton were once friends, the now 72-year-old flew on the now-deceased financier’s private plane, known as the Lolita Express, visited the town house several times and once on his own account – making it possible that he could have seen. Strange painting
Epstein committed suicide at the age of 66 in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
Last month, the US government asked an appeals court to uphold Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the disgraced financier sexually abuse teenage girls.
Maxwell, 61, remains behind bars in Tallahassee, Florida, after a Manhattan jury convicted him in December 2021 of five counts of recruiting and grooming four girls for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004.
Her accusers say she and Epstein first welcomed them into their orbit, before Epstein began demanding sexual massages. Hundreds of women said he abused them.
In her appeal, Maxwell, the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell, accused prosecutors of making her a scapegoat because Epstein was dead and demanded ‘public outrage’ that someone else should absorb the blame.
Maxwell is eligible for release in July 2037, having served two years in prison before being sentenced for good behavior.
Prosecutors rejected his claim that they waited too long to bring charges, and Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement stemming from the alleged abuse at his Palm Beach, Florida mansion also vacated him.
They also said the trial judge had discretion in deciding that Maxwell’s jury was fair and impartial, even though a juror failed to disclose in pre-trial questioning that he had been sexually abused as a child.
Maxwell is eligible for release in July 2037, with credit for good behavior and the two years he spent in prison before being incarcerated.
Others who were friendly with Epstein have seen their reputations fade or tarnish, including Britain’s Prince Andrew and former JPMorgan Chase executive and Barclays chief executive Jess Staley.
JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, both of which had Epstein as clients, are paying the accused a combined $365 million for their work for Epstein. The US Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a home, are also suing JPMorgan.