Now HILLARY Clinton is named in Epstein's papers, as Virginia Roberts-Giuffre's lawyers suggest she and Bill Ghislaine's foundation may have funded Maxwell

Hillary Clinton's name has appeared for the first time in court documents involving Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, with a newly published tranche requesting “all communications” from her and twelve other people.

The former secretary of state's surprise entrance onto the Epstein stage — her husband has been mentioned several times and was known to have associated with the late pedophile financier for years — came as lawyers asked whether the Clinton Foundation funded Maxwell.

Maxwell, the only person convicted for her role in Epstein's sex trafficking network, declined to answer.

Hillary Clinton was not known to be close to Maxwell or Epstein.

Her name appears in a 2016 document filed by Maxwell's lawyers regarding Virginia Roberts-Giuffre – an Epstein victim, who sued Maxwell for defamation in 2016.

Hillary Clinton's name is mentioned in a single line about Roberts-Giuffre's request for “all communications with thirteen specific witnesses,” according to Newsweek.

She does not appear anywhere else in the documents released Friday.

Another document shows that Roberts-Giuffre is trying to assess Maxwell's worth as part of the defamation case.

Roberts-Giuffre's legal team accuses Maxwell of refusing to release her financial records, implying she wanted to hide the source of her wealth.

“For example, Defendant has refused to comply with a request for information regarding her connection to the Clinton Foundation, claiming that such a request is 'clearly intended to harass and embarrass her,'” the court documents say.

'Nothing could be further from the truth.'

Roberts-Giuffre's lawyers say Maxwell plans to claim she lied about her meeting with Bill Clinton.

They suggest that Maxwell might try to protect Bill Clinton because his foundation financially supports Maxwell.

“It is the defendant's intention to argue at trial that Ms. Giuffre made false statements about various interactions with former President Bill Clinton,” Roberts-Giuffre's legal team said.

“If Defendant (or any of her organizations) receives funding from the Clinton Foundation, that would obviously be a clear motive for her to provide dissenting testimony on this subject.

'Mrs. Giuffre has the right to investigate this clear possibility of bias by obtaining information about the financial ties between Defendant and the Clinton Foundation.”

There has never been any evidence that the Clinton Foundation funded Maxwell or any other private individual.

Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton are accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Maxwell and Epstein.

Bill Clinton traveled on Epstein's private jet four times and said the flights were related to his work for the Clinton Foundation.

The former president, now 77, has long maintained that his connections to Epstein were professional.

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 against Maxwell by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts — paint a different picture, showing that they are close personal friends, and Epstein accuses Clinton of “she to be found 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 Bill 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 first batch of documents released Wednesday — 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 crucial mistake by his brother because it suddenly thrust his activities into 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.