{"id":75133,"date":"2025-12-19T02:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75133\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:37:28","slug":"exclusive-bill-clinton-brought-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-to-moroccan-kings-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75133\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Bill Clinton brought Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell to Moroccan king’s wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Former President Bill Clinton shocked<\/a> his own aides ahead of Moroccan King Mohammed VI\u2019s 2002 wedding by demanding to bring two unrelated plus-ones \u2014 the now-notorious Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell \u2014 to the royal nuptials, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Clinton, who had earned goodwill in the North African nation by attending the funeral of the king\u2019s father, Hassan II, while president three years prior, beamed with Epstein, Maxwell and his daughter, Chelsea, in a group photo shared exclusively with The Post for this story.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Clinton] brought them as guests to a king\u2019s wedding. I mean, it almost sounds made up,\u201d said one source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The Post exclusively obtained a photo of former President Bill Clinton and his wedding guests in Morocco in 2002 \u2014 Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Obtained by New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many times in your life have you been invited as a guest of a guest at a wedding?\u201d<\/p>\n

The request was seen by members of Clinton\u2019s own team as rude and has been a subject of discussion in Democratic circles for more than two decades.<\/p>\n

The account is surfacing as Clinton downplays his ties to Epstein<\/a> \u2014 and as the Justice Department faces a congressionally mandated Friday deadline to release files on the financier\u2019s crimes, which were not publicly known at the time of the Moroccan king\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n

A second source said the 42nd president\u2019s staff \u201cinsisted\u201d and \u201cpushed\u201d to bring Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking conspiracy and other offenses, and Epstein, who died in jail in August 2019 while awaiting his own trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.<\/p>\n

Clinton joined Epstein and Maxwell aboard the financier\u2019s \u201cLolita Express\u201d private jet for a flight to Morocco. Chelsea Clinton, then a student at Oxford University, traveled independently. Netflix<\/p>\n

\u201c[Former first lady] Hillary [Clinton] was in the Senate, so she couldn\u2019t go. Chelsea very much wanted to go, and the president very much wanted to go,\u201d said the second person.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea that they would take [Epstein] was a head-scratcher. But nonetheless, the Clinton office moved forward and made this request \u2026 to bring these two guests, and that\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear what exactly the Moroccan king\u2019s aides said upon receiving the request, but \u201cobviously they said yes,\u201d and the ex-president joined Epstein and Maxwell aboard the financier\u2019s \u201cLolita Express<\/a>\u201d private jet for a flight to Morocco. Chelsea Clinton, then a student at Oxford University, traveled independently.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat kind of person would impose [and] bring someone to a wedding?\u201d the second source asked rhetorically.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my own family, unless you\u2019re married or engaged, you\u2019re not bringing a guest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[Clinton] brought them as guests to a king\u2019s wedding. I mean, it almost sounds made up,\u201d one source said of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The sick duo is seen above with the then-president at the White House in 1993. The William J. Clinton President<\/p>\n

At one point, Chelsea Clinton insisted that the party take a photo together, the second source said \u2014 with Abdeslam Jaidi, Morocco\u2019s former ambassador to the United Nations, and an unidentified man crowding in for the snap, a grainy version of which was shared with The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was important to her to take a picture with her father,\u201d this insider explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone sat for the ceremony part and then moved to a dinner portion,\u201d the source went on. \u201cClinton and Epstein and Ghislaine sat with the king. It was like a formal, sit-down, black-tie, fancy, fancy wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Both sources said the ex-president is dishonestly downplaying his former links to Epstein and Maxwell and do not fully understand why he was so drawn to the pair.<\/p>\n

Neither believes Clinton, who was impeached in December 1998 over his affair with White House intern<\/a> Monica Lewinsky, was aware that Epstein was trafficking and sexually abusing young women and girls, but both say that Clinton\u2019s relationship with him reflects poorly on his judgment.<\/p>\n

Congress passed legislation to force the DOJ to release the Epstein files by Friday. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people around the Clintons had pushed young women on him,\u201d the second source said, though they were unaware of any instance of Epstein doing so.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy seemed like a total swindler and BS artist. It wasn\u2019t uncommon that Clinton and those people would be taken by him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Lore in Clintonworld for a long, long time\u2019<\/p>\n

The July 2002 festivities in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, followed a private ceremony that March binding the then-38-year-old monarch and computer scientist Lalla Salma Bennani, whom Mohammed VI later divorced.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s coverage on the Jeffrey Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell, and more<\/p>\n

According to public reports,1,500 people were invited to the ceremony, including royals and leaders from across Europe and the Arab world.<\/p>\n

The second source said that they believed fewer people actually showed up, estimating a guest count closer to 250.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wedding ceremony wasn\u2019t huge. The dinner wasn\u2019t huge. Neither of them were big \u2026 it was a relatively private, you know, high-society, tightly attended event,\u201d this person said.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Epstein died in prison awaiting trial in 2019. AP<\/p>\n

The people familiar with the matter who spoke with The Post said they were astonished that it took so long for the bizarre situation to be reported, especially since information about Clinton\u2019s many flights with Epstein has long been in the public domain.<\/p>\n

The exact reason for Clinton\u2019s inviting Epstein and Maxwell to the exclusive event remains unclear, but The Post\u2019s sources believe there was more at play than the prospect of a free trans-Atlantic flight on Epstein\u2019s jet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe king of Morocco would have sent seven 747s to get him to that wedding,\u201d the second source said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese are people that he just all of a sudden, out of thin air, takes to a wedding in Morocco. I mean, it was totally crazy \u2026 it was lore in Clintonworld for a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s office has said he cut ties with Epstein in 2005, three years before the pervert pleaded guilty to child sex crimes in Florida. <\/p>\n

Other former Epstein associates, including President Trump, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates<\/a> and former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president Larry Summers, have downplayed or expressed regret over their ties to him.<\/p>\n

Maxwell is currently in prison. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

Clinton spokesman Angel Ure\u00f1a would not deny to The Post on Wednesday that Clinton invited Epstein and Maxwell to the Moroccan wedding, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t know how many times we need to say there was travel more than 20 years ago before he was cut off. Apparently, we need to one more time. But nice try.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ure\u00f1a said after Epstein\u2019s arrest on federal charges in July 2019 that \u201cPresident Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation,\u201d Ure\u00f1a said at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein\u2019s New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail. He\u2019s not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein\u2019s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services\u2019 sex offender registry March 28, 2017. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The Moroccan Embassy in Washington and a rep for Chelsea Clinton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first source for this story said that Clinton aides have buzzed about a \u201cvery prosaic\u201d purported reason for why the ex-president finally broke off contact with Epstein.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Epstein] told a series of tall tales that Clinton just grated against and rubbed him the wrong way, and the proverbial straw that broke the camel\u2019s back was about Epstein claiming that he invented the derivatives market,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

\u201cClinton is a very sophisticated individual as it relates to the economy and finance \u2026 And hearing someone say that really pissed him off because then it makes you question, \u2018What else does he tell us about that\u2019s bulls\u2013t?’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Former President Bill Clinton shocked his own aides ahead of Moroccan King Mohammed VI\u2019s 2002 wedding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10049,16582,68,7115,6769,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-75133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bill-clinton","9":"tag-chelsea-clinton","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-ghislaine-maxwell","12":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}