What goes in a $20,000-a-night suite doesn’t always stay there — especially when there’s a hot tub, a private jet nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” and some very familiar names on the guest list.The New York Post has revealed that the infamous photo of Bill Clinton in a hot tub with a mystery woman dates back to a 2002 trip the former president took to Asia with Jeffrey Epstein and Dame Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Clinton came under fire for the racy photo while testifying before the House Oversight Committee on Friday, insisting he did “nothing wrong” and did not have sex with the woman whose face was obscured in the photo released as part of the Justice Department’s files on the sexual predator.
The shot that landed Bubba in hot water was taken in the Emperor Suite at Brunei’s Empire Hotel in 2002, a luxurious $20,000-a-night suite with a private elevator, pool, jacuzzi, steam room, sauna and theater, a Post analysis found.Clinton visited the oil-rich Southeast Asian nation a year after leaving office, as part of a work-related trip for the Clinton Foundation, the organization he founded after leaving the presidency, it was said at the time.
According to flight records released in court proceedings, he traveled on Epstein’s private sex plane, the Lolita Express, to Brunei in May 2002.Flight entries show that the Lolita Express plane — carrying Epstein, Maxwell, and their aide Sarah Killeen — picked up Clinton at a U.S. Naval Air Base in Japan on May 22, 2002, along with his chief adviser Doug Band, a person named Mike, and two women whose names were listed only as “Janice” and “Jessica.”The gang stopped in Hong Kong for an evening, then in Shenzhen, China for two nights, before landing in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on May 25.Clinton played golf and dined with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, an eccentric accused of hosting sex parties with underage girls and who donated $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Presidential Library through the foundation.On the same night that Clinton took a dip in the jacuzzi, he was also seen with Maxwell and the mystery woman in the pool, while playing golf on a big screen.Meanwhile, Epstein was photographed sitting at a piano wearing sweatpants.The full set of photos, which were part of one of the Justice Department’s files, show that the hot tub and pool were part of the same area.A source said that Clinton denied knowing the woman’s identity during her testimony before the House Oversight Committee this week. The former president has also repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
