The donation showed off some of Epstein’s most elite connections, as he was publicly lauded as “brilliant” by then-Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, who would later help represent him when Epstein was accused of sex crimes in 2007. Epstein’s private plane took President Bill Clinton, actor Kevin Spacey, and comedian Chris Tucker to Africa to tour AIDS project sites. This was one instance of Epstein getting friendly with Clinton, as the former president would reportedly take several flights on Epstein’s private plane in 2002 and 2003, according to logs Gawker obtained in 2015.
His public association with Clinton seemed to be by design, as Epstein said in 2002 that his elite social circle was a  “collection” that he invested in. After years of fielding allegations of sexually abusing young girls, detectives in Palm Beach, Florida, acted on a tip in 2005 from a woman who said a wealthy man named “Jeff” had molested her step-daughter. A group of Jeffrey Epstein accusers on Wednesday told emotional, gut-wrenching stories of sexual abuse at the hands of the late convicted sex offender and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, raising pressure on lawmakers to back the release of all of the files in the Justice Department’s years-long Epstein investigation.
