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When the FBI arrested billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein on July 6, 2019, at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, disgusting revelations of his sex trafficking crimes surfaced.
So did his mysterious, monied world — populated by A-listers, politicians, and captains of industry.
Among the bizarre revelations was an oil painting hanging prominently in his Upper East Side townhouse.
Dubbed “Parsing Bill,” the colorful work by Australian artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid shows former President Clinton wearing a blue dress and red heels while lounging in the Oval Office.
“It was hanging up there prominently — as soon as you walked in — in a room to the right,” a source told The Post back in 2019. “Everybody who saw it laughed and smirked.”
Now — as a deluge of long-awaited documents, including names of more than 170 associates of the late sex trafficker Epstein, was released this week — an insider told The Post that the cheeky painting is symbolic of the relationship between Epstein and Clinton, 77.
“It does show how comfortable they were around each other to joke about something like that,” the insider told The Post. “Many in Clinton’s world are sycophantic, but they were close.”
(A Clinton insider sniffed: “The painting doesn’t indicate anything other than Epstein had bad taste in art.”)
Though he hasn’t been implicated in criminal activity, Clinton’s name appeared in the newly leaked documents — all filed in Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell — at least 73 times.
“[Epstein] said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” Epstein victim Joanna Sjoberg testified in 2016.
Asked for comment, Clinton spokesperson Angela Urena referred back to a 2019 statement which said Clinton hadn’t spoken to Epstein in “well over a decade” and “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago or those which he has been recently charged in New York.”
“[Epstein] said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” Epstein victim Joanna Sjoberg testified in 2016.
When it comes to uncovering exactly how the two men met, Clinton world insiders are quick to pass the buck.
While one very well-placed source told The Post that socialite Lynne de Rothschild — a Hillary Clinton fundraiser — introduced Epstein to Clinton, she denied this and suggested it was “well established” that “Ghislaine had introduced Epstein to the Clintons through some White House furnishings fundraiser.”
According to visitor logs, Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times, beginning shortly after Clinton was sworn into office in 1993.
Keep up with The Post’s live blog on the revelations about Epstein’s associates revealed in the newly released documents here.
Photos show the two with Maxwell — Epstein’s right-hand woman and onetime girlfriend, now serving 20 years for child sex trafficking and other offenses in connection to Epstein — at a 1993 event for donors to the White House Historical Association.
According to the Daily Beast, Epstein gave $10,000.
In 2006, Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to Vanity Fair.