Former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter is “adamant” about claims that former President Bill Clinton threatened the magazine not to write a sex-trafficking story about Jeffrey Epstein, according to a report. I denied it.
Documents released this week in connection with Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit against Epstein's former accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell included allegations that the former president threatened the magazine.
In a 2011 email to journalist Sharon Churcher, Giuffre said she looked into Vanity Fair after being asked to write about her, and mentioned her book.
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Graydon Carter was the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 to 2017. (Michael Kovac/Getty Images, Vanity Fair)
“Yesterday, as I was researching VF, I wondered what they would want to write about me, considering that B. Clinton came to VF and threatened them not to write an SCX trading article about my good friend JE. We are concerned about this,” the email states. “May I ask what this story is about?”
Carter, who was Vanity Fair's editor from 1992 to 2017, said in an article that this “absolutely would not have happened.” Statement to the Telegraph. The documents came to light during Giuffre's case against Maxwell, a convicted accomplice in Epstein's sexual predation.
Former Epstein contributing editor Vicki Ward, who profiled Epstein for the magazine more than 20 years ago, said on CNN's morning show Friday that she had “never heard of anything like that happening” but that Giuffre He wondered if he was confusing it with another story. Mr. Ward said Mr. Epstein himself went to Vanity Fair's offices in 2002 to pressure the magazine not to report on allegations of sexual abuse against Mr. Epstein by Maria and Annie Farmer. Ward said the allegation has been removed from the article, saying the investigation was originally commissioned to investigate the source of Epstein's vast wealth and did not include any allegations of sexual misconduct. It is said that it was not done.
Mr. Clinton's name also appears in court documents released Wednesday, which allege that he favored younger women and had a close personal relationship with Mr. Epstein. The former president has not been charged with any wrongdoing related to Epstein.
Clinton's press secretary did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend President Clinton's White House at an event held for donors to the White House Historical Association in 1993. (mega)
Mr. Clinton's press secretary, Angel Urena, previously said that Mr. Clinton and Mr. Epstein did not have a close personal relationship. He pointed to a 2019 statement about Epstein and said Clinton last had contact with Epstein 20 years ago.
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Carter left Vanity Fair in 2017 after 25 years.
Epstein, already a convicted sex offender in Florida, died in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019 while awaiting federal sex trafficking trial. His death was ruled a suicide.
FOX News' Houston Keene, Luis Casiano and David Lutz contributed to this report.
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