- A former mannequin with ties to Jeffrey Epstein was questioned about Bill Clinton’s safety advisor, court docket docs present.
- Adriana Ross was requested in a deposition whether or not Clinton’s safety advisor tipped Epstein off a couple of raid.
- “He called the house within three weeks of the search warrant being executed. Did he tip off Jeffrey Epstein?” Ross was requested.
An ex-model accused of being a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein’s was requested throughout a deposition by attorneys for one of many intercourse offender’s accusers whether or not former President Bill Clinton’s nationwide safety advisor had tipped off Epstein a couple of federal raid, in response to newly unsealed court docket paperwork.
During the 2010 deposition, legal professionals for Virginia Giuffre, one in every of Epstein’s victims, questioned former mannequin Adriana Ross about Samuel Richard “Sandy” Berger, the highest nationwide safety aide underneath the Clinton administration.
Ross was requested who Berger was and whether or not he was a “close friend” of Epstein’s, in response to the court docket paperwork.
“That’s somebody else that was affiliated with Bill Clinton at one point in time, correct?” Ross was questioned.
“He called the house within three weeks of the search warrant being executed. Did he tip off Jeffrey Epstein?” Ross was requested, the court docket papers present. For every query, Ross replied, “I refuse to answer.”
Berger died in 2015. A consultant for former President Bill Clinton did not instantly touch upon questioning involving Berger.
The trade occurred within the pages of unsealed court docket paperwork that adopted a coversheet introducing Ross’s 2010 deposition, although many pages of that deposition gave the impression to be excluded or out of order within the information.
Ross, who’s from Poland, has been accused of aiding Epstein in his sex-trafficking operation. She has by no means been charged with a criminal offense, however was named as an unindicted “possible co-conspirator” in Epstein’s non-prosecution settlement when he pleaded responsible to solicitation in Florida.
In the 2010 deposition, Ross repeatedly invoked her fifth Amendment proper and declined to reply questions.
The court docket paperwork have been unsealed on Friday as a part of a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by Giuffre in opposition to longtime Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell.
A US district court docket decide unsealed tons of of paperwork stemming from the lawsuit this week.