Ex-Bill Clinton Aide Gave Feds Evidence on Ties to Epstein, Maxwell
Bill Clinton’s former body-man-turned-aide Doug Band has turned whistleblower in the federal sex trafficking investigation involving Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein — and provided Justice Department officials with evidence that could implicate his one-time boss.
The notoriously tight-lipped Band, 48, stunned Clintonworld
by agreeing to an interview with Gabriel Sherman for Vanity Fair‘s December
issue. In addition to detailing his ties to Epstein and Maxwell, he also
confirmed that the 42nd president of the United States visited Epstein at his
hedonistic compound in the Caribbean — known to many as “Pedophile Island.”
Clinton travelled to Little St. James With Epstein in
January 2003, according to Band — just a few months after the two men spent 10
days touring Africa.
The timing of Band’s interview was a bit confounding; it
landed a week after his juicy tell-all hit newsstands and he later announced
that he was stepping down from the consulting firm he founded to devote more
time to his family, teaching, and some private investing projects.
Radar has now learned that is was also around this time that
Clinton’s “bagman” for close to two decades spoke with criminal investigators
from the Southern District of New York.
This makes him the first Epstein/Maxwell associate who is
known to have cooperated with authorities in the most recent probes into the
accused pedophiles.
Band became fast friends with Epstein and Maxwell back in
2002, a time when he was at the height of his powers due to his role as the key
architect of Clinton’s carrier post-White House.
Band first showed up on Epstein’s flight manifest in March
of that year, when he flew from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to London
with his boss, Epstein, Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, and three secret service agents.
Kellen would later be identified as both a recruiter and a
victim of Epstein, but unlike most victims, she was over the age of 18 when she
first met the pedophile.
The same group returned to JFK two days later on the private
jet, infamously called the “Lolita Express.”
They were joined for that trip by an additional seven secret
service agents and Band’s one-time girlfriend, British supermodel Naomi
Campbell.
Later, Band and Clinton flew around Asia with Epstein,
country hopping from Japan to Hong Kong, China to Singapore and to Thailand
over the course of four days.
The men did not stay on with Epstein as he then travelled to
Brunei, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Dubai. Kellen and Maxwell again joined the
men.
The most infamous of these trips however came in September
of 2002, when Band joined Epstein and Clinton as they made their way through
Africa.
Much has been made of the fact that Hollywood stars Kevin
Spacey and Chris Tucker were also on that trip, but it is likely the four other
guests who were of interest to federal prosecutors: Kellen, Cindy Lopez,
Chauntae Davies, and Andrea Mitrovitch.
Davies, though not underage, was another of Epstein’s
victims. She would eventually recruit her younger sister for the pedophile and
grew close to Clinton on the trip as evidenced by a photo of her provicing the
former leader of the free world with a shoulder massage during an airport
layover.
Mitrovitch was a ballerina who was in her very early
twenties, at the time. She too made a memorable impression on Band and his
boss, as just a few years later she went on to work with her new friends at the
Clinton Foundation.
Lopez was the youngest of the four women on the trip, and
would become a fixture on Epstein’s flight manifests in the years after this
trip.
Band has claimed that he spent years begging the Clintons to
cut ties with Maxwell after Epstein’s arrest, but to no avail. He also has no issue cozying up to Maxwell at
a party on Valentine’s Day 2007 in New York.
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