by Jen Smith, Daniel Bates, Karen Ruiz and Harriet Alexander at Daily Mail
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- Virginia Roberts-Giuffre claimed in a May 2011 email that Bill Clinton threatened the staff of Vanity Fair not to report on Jeffrey Epstein
- Roberts-Giuffre ‘walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex-trafficking articles about his good friend JE’, she alleged
- There is no record of Clinton marching into Vanity Fair’s offices, but the magazine’s then-editor Graydon Carter said he regrets some of their reporting
Virginia Roberts-Giuffre claimed that Bill Clinton marched into the offices of Vanity Fair and demanded the magazine halt planned publication of a story about Jeffrey Epstein, newly-released court documents show.
Roberts-Giuffre’s claim was made in a May 2011 email discussing an interview to promote her planned book.
She said Clinton ‘walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex-trafficking articles about his good friend JE’.
There is no evidence for her wild claim, and it seems highly unlikely that the former president would intervene in such a public way.
Epstein himself did, however, allegedly prevent Vanity Fair from publishing reporting by journalist Vicky Ward – who had interviewed sisters Maria and Annie Farmer about their abuse by the pedophile financier.
Ward said in her 2022 podcast that Epstein threatened her,…
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