The “House of Cards” actor, whose profession dwindled amidst quite a few sexual assault allegations in 2017, claimed Tuesday he didn’t know Epstein, nor his since-convicted confederate Ghislaine Maxwell when he boarded Epstein’s personal jet for the 2002 journey.
“I didn’t want to be around this guy because I felt he put the president at risk on that trip to South Africa because there were these young girls,” the actor stated on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” “We were like, ‘Who is this guy?’”
When host Piers Morgan requested Spacey to make clear, he stated, “There were young girls on those flights.”
Spacey was accused of kid molestation in 2017. The actor’s personal dealings grew to become public when Epstein’s flight logs had been just lately authenticated, and Spacey’s title was discovered alongside Clinton’s.
Spacey claimed Tuesday that he had no thought who Epstein was when he boarded his airplane as a part of an “eight-day humanitarian trip” concerning AIDS prevention and consciousness in 2002, as he “had become friends” with Clinton earlier than accepting.
HuffPost has reached out to a consultant for Clinton for remark.
“In 2015, I started seeing reports online, things on my Twitter account that I had flown to this guy Jeffrey Epstein’s island and I had abused young girls,” he instructed Morgan. “If you’d asked me in 2015 … did I know a guy named Jeffrey Epstein, I probably would’ve said, ‘No.’”
Spacey claimed he’s “since been able to go back and find out” that the airplane utilized in 2002 “was owned by Jeffrey Epstein” and that he and “this Maxwell woman” had been on “some of those flights,” however that he “didn’t know him” and “never spent any time with him.”
Spacey added, “I was with the Clinton Foundation people. That’s who I was with.”
MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Photographs
Spacey recalled ending the journey with a go to to Buckingham Palace after Clinton invited him to fulfill Prince Andrew, whose connections to Epstein are effectively documented. He denied realizing a lot about Maxwell, with whom he was photographed within the Throne Room.
“So here’s what I can tell you,” Spacey instructed Morgan. “This Maxwell woman, she was one of many people to sit down next to me in that throne room. I have no relationship with her. I had no relationship with [Epstein]. I mean, he’s not my friend. I am not a confidant.”
He claimed, “I’ve never spent time with him.”
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on fees of intercourse trafficking of minors and conspiracy to have interaction in intercourse trafficking of minors. He was discovered useless in his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Middle the next month.
A consultant for Clinton stated in a press release on the time that the previous president “knows nothing” about Epstein’s “terrible crimes” — and that Clinton has “never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.”
Need assistance? Go to RAINN’s Nationwide Sexual Assault On-line Hotline or the Nationwide Sexual Violence Useful resource Middle’s web site.
