Bill Clinton DID NOT march into Vanity Fair offices and threaten staff not to write about Jeffrey Epstein, says former editor Graydon Carter – dismissing Virginia Roberts-Giuffre's claim

Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has denied Virginia Roberts-Giuffre's claim that Bill Clinton marched into the magazine's offices and demanded it halt the planned publication of a story about Jeffrey Epstein.

She made this claim in a May 2011 email discussing an interview to promote her planned book.

Roberts-Giuffre said Clinton “walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend JE.”

But a spokesman for Carter told The Telegraph: “This categorically did not happen.”

There is no evidence that the former president intervened to stop Vanity Fair from publishing a story. Clinton is said to be currently on holiday in the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende.

However, Epstein himself is said to have prevented Vanity Fair from publishing reporting from 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 and told her, “I have reports here about you, your husband — I have everything under the sun that has been sent to me by people who want to be helpful.”

Vanity Fair said the sexual abuse claims were not included in its 2003 article because they were added too late and did not meet legal standards.

Roberts-Giuffre's correspondence was published Thursday as part of a series of documents from her 2015 defamation case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's right-hand man. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence: Epstein died by suicide in prison while awaiting trial, in August 2019.

Thursday's release of documents is the second set of files released by the Manhattan court.

In her May 2011 email, Roberts-Giuffre discussed whether she should speak to Vanity Fair to promote her book.

“I'm looking at both sides of the picture,” Roberts-Giuffre wrote.

'On the plus side, it gives a chance to build publicity for the case and the story, but as you said, it must be carefully written and not give any information about the upcoming book and/or new information.

“While doing some research on VF yesterday, I was concerned about what they might want to write about me, considering B. Clinton walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend JE.”

Ward insists that then-Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter removed her damning allegations about Epstein in 2003. Carter said the reporting did not meet their legal standards, and only his editors made the decision.

The former president, now 77, has long insisted that his connections to Epstein were professional in order to support the work of the Clinton Foundation. He emphasized in 2019 that during his four trips on Epstein's private jet, in 2002 and 2003, he was always accompanied by an entourage of Secret Service staff and agents.

But court documents from June 2016 – part of a defamation lawsuit filed by Roberts-Giuffre against Epstein's right-hand man, Ghislaine Maxwell – paint a different picture, after in another document Epstein accused Clinton of “finding them young.”

In her file, Roberts asks the judge for permission to force more people to make a statement to strengthen her case.

Roberts claims — using her married name, Virginia Giuffre — that Clinton had a close relationship with both Maxwell and Epstein, who died in prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial.

“In a 2011 interview, Ms. Giuffre mentioned former President Bill Clinton's close personal relationship with Defendant and Jeffrey Epstein,” the court document said.

“While Ms. Giuffre made no allegations about illegal actions by Bill Clinton, Ms. Maxwell in her statement identified Ms. Giuffre's comments about President Clinton as one of the 'obvious lies' she referred to in her public statement that formed the basis of this suit.

“In addition to Defendant and Mr. Epstein, former President Clinton is a key figure who could provide information about his close relationship with Defendant and Mr. Epstein and discredit Ms. Maxwell's claims.”

Clinton is mentioned 50 times in the nearly 950 pages of evidence.

Another woman who alleged she was sexually abused by Epstein, Johanna Sjoberg, said in her statement that Epstein told her, “Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.”

It's unclear how Clinton and Epstein met, but Roberts wasn't the only one to claim the pair were close.

On Wednesday, hours before the court documents were unsealed, Jeffrey Epstein's brother Mark, a New York-based real estate developer, said his sibling claimed to have information about Donald Trump and Bill Clinton that was so explosive it would leave the 2016 presidential election derail.

Mark Epstein, 18 months younger than Jeffrey, said his brother never provided details.

Mark, 69, told The New York Post: “Here's a direct quote: 'If I told them what I know about both candidates, they would have to cancel the election.' Jeffrey told me that in 2016.'

Hillary Clinton was not known to spend time with Jeffrey Epstein, but her husband had been a friend since at least 1993.

Epstein and Maxwell were pictured greeting Bill Clinton at the White House in 1993, during an event for donors to the White House Historical Association. Epstein attended the event after donating $10,000 to the fund.

The pedophile financier made at least 17 visits to the White House, presidential logs show, and Bill Clinton also flew on Epstein's private jet and made trips to Europe, Asia and Africa in 2002 and 2003.

Mark Epstein said flying with Bill Clinton was a major mistake by his brother because it suddenly put his activities in the spotlight.

“Jeff first took Clinton, and I think it was Chris Tucker and a few other people, to Africa – which was a mistake my brother made in that, because he was under the radar before that; no one was looking at him.

“But when he flew Clinton there, I thought, 'Who is this guy flying Clinton?'

Bill Clinton's spokesperson Angel Urena said in July 2019, when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, that he knows “nothing about the terrible crimes” Epstein was accused of, and that Clinton had not spoken to Epstein “in more than a decade.”

There is no evidence that Clinton ever visited Epstein's Caribbean island, Little St. James.

The first batch of documents, dumped on Wednesday, was 900 pages long. It included Bill Clinton, Stephen Hawking, Michael Jackson and others.

Most of the people named were peripherally involved in Epstein's crimes and had no knowledge of them, according to the newspapers.

The “list” does not suggest that those involved played any role in his crimes or sex trafficking, but serves as a more detailed map of Epstein's impressive social connections.

One bombshell included in Wednesday's documents, however, is the claim that Prince Andrew took part in an “orgy” on Epstein's Caribbean island.

The accusation was made by Jane Doe #3, who says she was forced to have sex with Andrew in London, at Ghislaine Maxwell's house, in New York and in the Caribbean with other girls.

Andrew has long denied the allegations.

To date, Maxwell is the only person facing charges besides Epstein who is behind bars in New York.

She still protests her innocence and claims she was the scapegoat for Epstein's crimes in a sexist legal system.

Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019.

While medical examiners and the attorney general maintain he died by suicide, some close to him have long alleged he was murdered or assisted in his suicide.