Bill and Hillary Clinton ordered to testify in Jeffrey Epstein investigation

Hillary and Bill Clinton (Image: Getty)

Former US Democrat president Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, have been ordered to give evidence as part of an investigation into billionaire paedophile Jeffery Epstein's criminal activities.

The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Bill, 78, and Hilary, 77, to submit depositions as part of an enquiry into Epstein's links to high-profile figures in the US and around the world. The Department of Justice (DoJ) has also been asked for files it holds from a separate sex trafficking investigation which is ongoing into Epstein, who committed suicide in jail in 2019.

The latter investigation by the DoJ has been a thorn in the side of Donald Trump's administration as the current US president has been accused by his MAGA support base of failing to release information from the files detailing his own involvement with Epstein.

Now a letter from the House Oversight Committee has turned the spotlight onto the Clintons. The note from committee outlines ties between Mr Clinton and Epstein, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell, who was the financier's fomer girlfriend who is now serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. Maxwell was recently moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas, having previously been held at a facility with stricter controls on inmates.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell (Image: Getty )

The Telegraph reports the committee letter to the Clintons states: "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 even pictured receiving a ‘massage’ from one of Mr Epstein’s victims.”

A subpoena cover letter to Mrs Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, continued: "Your family appears to have had a close relationship with both Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell."

The committee ordered Mrs Clinton to appear for a deposition on October 9 and the former president on October 14.

Bill Clinton was among a number of luminaries acquainted with Epstein, a wealthy financier, before the criminal investigation against him in Florida became public two decades ago. Clinton has never been accused of wrongdoing by any of the women who say Epstein abused them. Both the Clintons have denied any wrongdoing.

Donald Trump has said he had no prior knowledge of Epstein's crimes and said he had cut off their relationship before any allegations surfaced.

President Trump has upset some MAGA supporters by not releasing Epstein files (Image: Getty )

The House Oversight Committee has also subpoenaed eight former top law enforcement officials – including former attorneys general from the last three presidential administrations: Merrick Garland, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Alberto Gonzales.

The committee’s actions showed how even with lawmakers away from Washington on a monthlong break, interest in the Epstein files is still running high.

Trump has denied prior knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and claimed he cut off their relationship long ago, and he has repeatedly tried to move past the Justice Department’s decision not to release a full accounting of the investigation. But lawmakers from both major political parties, as well as many in the Republican president’s political base, have refused to let it go.

Rep. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the oversight committee, noted in letters to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the former officials that the cases of Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell “have received immense public interest and scrutiny.”

He said: “While the Department undertakes efforts to uncover and publicly disclose additional information related to Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell’s cases, it is imperative that Congress conduct oversight of the federal government’s enforcement of sex trafficking laws generally and specifically its handling of the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell."