Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative quietly banked a $25,000 check from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2006 — a year that would mark the beginning of a criminal investigation into one of America’s most notorious sex offenders.

RadarOnline.com has confirmed the payment through Epstein’s long-buried tax returns, revealing that the multimillionaire wired the money to Clinton’s foundation on July 18, 2006. At the time, Florida police were already collecting evidence from dozens of girls who claimed Epstein lured them to his Palm Beach mansion for “massages” that turned into sexual abuse.

Two years later, Epstein would plead guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor — but in the interim, his legal team was working overtime to salvage his reputation.A 23-page letter sent in July 2007 by high-powered attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Gerald Lefcourt to prosecutors argued Epstein wasn’t just a financial wizard — he was also a philanthropist with ties to global leaders.

“Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative,” the letter claimed, portraying the project as a noble effort to fight poverty, climate change, and ethnic conflict.

Yet official Clinton Foundation filings list no such founding role for Epstein.

The revelation comes as both Bill and Hillary Clinton face mounting pressure over their association with Epstein. Last week, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the couple to testify about what they knew and when.

The subpoena to Bill pulls no punches:

“By your own admission, you flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane four separate times in 2002 and 2003. During one of these trips, you were pictured receiving a ‘massage’ from one of Mr. Epstein’s victims,” the document states. “It has also been claimed that you pressured Vanity Fair not to publish sex trafficking allegations against your ‘good friend.’

The Committee says it intends to investigate not only the federal government’s handling of Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell but also the broader failures in prosecuting sex trafficking crimes.

Bill Clinton’s ties to Epstein are well-documented. Flight logs show the former president aboard Epstein’s infamous “Lolita Express” multiple times in the early 2000s. Clinton has admitted traveling with Epstein but insists he had “no inkling” of his criminal activities.

“He hurt a lot of people, but I knew nothing about it,” Clinton wrote in his memoir Citizen. “By the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had stopped contact with him. I’ve never visited his island. I wish I had never met him.”

Still, the optics of accepting money from Epstein the very year police began their probe — and then defending the relationship years later — could prove politically toxic.

“Even if Clinton had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, the timing of that donation looks terrible,” one former federal prosecutor told RadarOnline.com. “In the court of public opinion, perception is reality.”

The Clintons have long faced scrutiny over their foundation’s donors. But this newly unearthed check adds a fresh chapter — one that ties their charitable work directly to one of the most reviled criminals of the 21st century, right as his predatory empire was starting to crumble.


With Congress now demanding answers and the public clamoring for transparency, Bill Clinton’s past dealings with Jeffrey Epstein are once again front-page news — and this time, the questions may be harder to dodge.