The image of a painting of Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, wearing a blue dress and red high heels returned to the spotlight, with the release of thousands of documents and photographs from the Epstein files. The painting was displayed in the office of Jeffrey Epstein’s home in New York.
The work is by Australian artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid, who created it for a final year project while a student at the New York Academy of Art, and is included in the archives of Jeffrey Epsteinreleased Friday night, December 19, by the US Department of Justice.
In these new files, the image of Bill Clinton recurs, but does not introduce anything new into the process. His connection to Epstein was known. Bill Clinton himself publicly admitted to regretting having met Epstein.
A spokesperson for the former US president stated that Clinton made four trips on Epstein’s private plane between 2002 and 2003. However, North American media reported the existence of records of 26 trips.
Bill Clinton denies any wrongdoing regarding Epstein. He was also not the subject of any charges.
In memories Citizen: My Life After the White Housepublished in 2024, Clinton wrote that “traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of subsequent scrutiny. I wish I had never met him.”
The work of Petrina Ryan-Kleid, known as Parsing Bill and dated 2012, it was intended to be a political satire.
These new files that were made public – the largest volume in the last 20 years – still fall short of what was demanded in Congress, in November, which was the complete disclosure of the files.
In this batch, many expected images and documents to appear showing Donald Trump, current president of the USA. But that wasn’t the case. No images, no documents.
It should be noted that it is not because a name or an image appears in these files that any type of crime was committed.
Remember that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in August 2019, shortly after being arrested on sex trafficking charges.
The US Department of Justice estimates that the remaining material, with information on more than 1,200 victims and family members, will take more than two weeks to be published.