A former model who worked as a pilot for sex predator Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty at least 42 times during a deposition, including when questions were asked about former President Bill Clinton and other Epstein associates.
Nadia Marcinkova invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to every question contained in the partial transcript of the April 13, 2010 deposition, which was released Friday.
Those questions included: “Do you know Bill Clinton?” and “Did you witness any inappropriate sexual activity between Jeffrey Epstein and minors while he was in the presence of Bill Clinton?”
Marcinkova, a longtime aide to Epstein and regular pilot of his so-called “Lolita Express” private jet, has been accused in lawsuits of participating in the convicted sex offender's abuse of underage girls.
Her lawyers insist she was a victim, not an abuser or recruiter in the financier's sex trafficking network, and that she has not been accused of wrongdoing.
Nadia Marcinkova invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to every question appearing in a partial transcript of her April 13, 2010 deposition
Former President Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein's longtime friend Ghislaine Maxwell are seen aboard Epstein's private jet, dubbed the 'Lolita Express', in 2002.
The partial transcript of Marcinkova's deposition was unsealed as part of a flurry of documents released in a lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Epstein's longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
In addition to Clinton, prominent people mentioned in the documents include actor Kevin Spacey, magician David Copperfield and businessman Leslie Wexner. No one was accused of wrongdoing in the documents.
Maxwell was convicted of child sex trafficking and other crimes in 2021, while Epstein died behind bars in 2019 while awaiting trial, with officials ruling a suicide.
The new transcript shows Marcinkova erecting a wall of silence and responding with the one-word answer “fifth” to every question Giuffre's lawyers ask.
The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives people the right not to incriminate themselves.
Those questions included: “Is it not generally true that Jeffrey Epstein would fly from one place to another for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with minors at his destination?”
Other questions focused on the nature of Epstein's alleged relationships with lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Clinton's former national security adviser Sandy Berger and French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel.
The document is only an eight-page excerpt from a much longer transcript, running at least 61 pages and probably much longer, and Marcinkova's answers to other questions are unknown.
Marcinkova is one of several women accused of acting as “recruiters” for Epstein in lawsuits filed by the sex predator's victims.
Marcinkova pleaded the fifth at least 42 times and refused to answer every question appearing in the recently unsealed partial transcript
Marcinkova was Epstein's long-time assistant and regular pilot of his so-called 'Lolita Express' private jet
Epstein and Maxwell speak with then-President Bill Clinton at an event held in 1993 for donors to the White House Historical Association
She visited him in prison 67 times while he was in prison for thirteen months in 2008 for sex with children.
Marcinkova says she is a victim. According to police documents from the 2005 Palm Beach investigation into Epstein, he once bragged that she was his “sex slave” whom he bought from her family in the former Yugoslavia when she was 15.
Other documents released Friday show Epstein invoked his own constitutional right to incriminate himself about 600 times in testimony during the Giuffre trial, which was settled in 2017.
In the September 2016 filing, Giuffre's lawyers said that Epstein routinely answered “Fifth” in a deposition that month to about 500 substantive questions they asked, and 100 substantive questions Maxwell's lawyers asked.
Giuffre's lawyers said Epstein's refusal to answer extended to questions that posed no real risk of incriminating him, including whether he knew Maxwell, had pleaded guilty in open court in 2008 to a prostitution charge and was healthy enough to testify.
The questions to Epstein also included at least three about Epstein's relationship with Bill Clinton.
Attorneys for Epstein said in a subsequent filing, also released Friday, that their client would have invoked the Fifth Amendment if he had to testify at trial.
They mentioned, among other things, the “burdens” he would face, and the expected “media circus generated by Mr. Epstein's personal appearance.”