Former President Bill Clinton reportedly put the squeeze on Vanity Fair to refrain from publishing allegations about "his good friend" Jeffrey Epstein.
In newly released court documents made public Wednesday, Virginia Giuffre — who accused Prince Andrew of abusing her as a teen — talked about selling a photo of the pair to Vanity Fair in a 2011 email exchange with Daily Mail journalist Sharon Churcher, the New York Post reported.
According to the Post, Churcher was advising Giuffre on whether to do an interview and sell a photo to the publication. The journalist was also offering to help her land a book deal at the time, the Post reported. The exchanges are among some 1,000 legal documents related to Epstein that went public.
"When I was doing some research into VF yesterday, it does concern me what they could want to write about me considering that B.Clinton walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex-trafficing [sic] articles about his good friend J.E," Giuffre wrote in the email.
It's unclear where Giuffre learned of the alleged threats and a former Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter, told the Telegraph, "This categorically did not happen."
A separate document names Clinton as someone who "traveled with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and may have information about Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual trafficking conduct," the bombshell document drop revealed, the Post reported.
A Clinton spokesperson referred the news outlet to a 2019 statement that said the former president "knows nothing about the terrible crimes" Epstein pleaded guilty to and was accused of and that he hadn't spoken to Epstein "in well over a decade."
In the same statement, the spokesperson said Clinton took a total of four trips on Epstein's plane in 2002 and 2003 in connection with work for the Clinton Foundation.