{"id":359888,"date":"2025-12-20T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359888\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:06:20","slug":"epstein-files-include-photos-of-bill-clinton-in-hot-tub-with-redacted-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359888\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein files include photos of Bill Clinton in hot tub with redacted person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A photo of former President Bill Clinton topless in a dimly lit hot tub with his arms folded behind his head was included in a massive trove of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/jeffrey-epstein?page=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> files released Friday by the Department of Justice (DOJ).<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In another photo, Clinton is seen wading in a pool next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ghislaine-maxwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> and a woman whose face was redacted by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent photos showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/bill-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Clinton posing<\/a> with American pop stars Michael Jackson and Diana Ross and seated on a plane next to a female wearing an American flag pin whose face was redacted.<\/p>\n<p>He was also seen smiling arm-in-arm with the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Epstein at what appeared to be a dinner party, wearing a festive shirt.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1200\/675\/bill-clinton-in-hot-tub-epstein-files-sharpened.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Bill Clinton in Epstein files\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Former President Bill Clinton was pictured in a hot tub in the newly released Epstein files. (Department of Justice)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gop-accuses-democrats-fabricating-trump-epstein-link-selective-document-leaks-internal-memo-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GOP ACCUSES DEMOCRATS OF &#8216;FABRICATING&#8217; TRUMP-EPSTEIN LINK WITH SELECTIVE DOCUMENT LEAKS, INTERNAL MEMO SHOWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The locations where the photos were taken were not included, and no context was provided.<\/p>\n<p>White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson took to social media Friday afternoon to comment on the never-before-seen photos of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">former POTUS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here is Bill Clinton in a hot tub next to someone whose identity has been redacted. Per the Epstein Files Transparency Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DOJ was specifically instructed<\/a> only to redact the faces of victims and\/or minors,&#8221; Jackson wrote. &#8220;Time for the media to start asking real questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1200\/675\/epstein-files-released-003.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross in a photo, in the newly released Epstein files on Friday, Dec. 19. (Credit: Department of Justice)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross in a photo from the newly released Epstein files Friday. (Department of Justice)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/doj-files-motion-unseal-epstein-docs-latest-step-toward-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DOJ FILES MOTION TO UNSEAL EPSTEIN DOCS IN LATEST STEP TOWARD RELEASE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clinton&#8217;s deputy chief of staff, Angel Ure\u00f1a, accused the White House of trying to &#8220;hide [things] forever,&#8221; in a statement on X, implying President Donald Trump continued a relationship with Epstein after his crimes were revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The White House hasn\u2019t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton. This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they\u2019ll try and hide forever,&#8221; Ure\u00f1a wrote in the post. &#8220;So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn\u2019t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be. Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are two types of people here,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We\u2019re in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that. Everyone, especially MAGA, expects answers, not scapegoats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1200\/675\/epstein-files-released-011.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Bill Clinton in a pool in new photo found in the Epstein files\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Former President Bill Clinton pictured in a pool in the newly released Epstein files. The images were released by the Department of Justice on Friday.\u00a0 (Department of Justice)<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ dumped thousands of documents and hundreds of photos on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/epstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> Friday, all supposedly obtained by authorities during investigations into Epstein and Maxwell\u2019s sex trafficking cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other photos showed interior and exterior views of Epstein\u2019s properties, personal photos of Epstein with various people and heavily redacted potential victim exhibits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/comer-warns-contempt-clintons-face-january-dates-epstein-probe-depositions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">COMER WARNS CONTEMPT AS CLINTONS FACE JANUARY DATES FOR EPSTEIN-PROBE DEPOSITIONS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While more than a dozen politically known individuals appeared in the files, Clinton and other notable figures&#8217; inclusion in the files does not necessarily imply wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The document drop was triggered by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the DOJ to make the files public 30 days from its Nov. 19 signing by President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1200\/675\/epstein-files-released-008.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Former President Bill Clinton in a photo with Jeffrey Epstein as part of a DOJ Epstein files release Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Department of Justice)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some files may be withheld by the DOJ if disclosure would jeopardize an ongoing investigation or prosecution, to safeguard\u00a0victims\u2019 privacy or to avoid publishing sensitive child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>Ross&#8217; communications teams did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital&#8217;s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Koch is a Fox News Digital journalist who covers breaking news, with a focus on high-impact events that shape national conversation.<\/p>\n<p>She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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