The “House of Cards” actor, whose career dwindled amidst numerous sexual assault allegations in 2017, claimed Tuesday he didn’t know Epstein, nor his since-convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell when he boarded Epstein’s private jet for the 2002 trip.
“I didn’t want to be around this guy because I felt he put the president at risk on that trip to South Africa because there were these young girls,” the actor said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” “We were like, ‘Who is this guy?’”
When host Piers Morgan asked Spacey to clarify, he said, “There were young girls on those flights.”
Spacey was accused of child molestation in 2017. The actor’s private dealings became public when Epstein’s flight logs were recently authenticated, and Spacey’s name was found alongside Clinton’s.
Spacey claimed Tuesday that he had no idea who Epstein was when he boarded his plane as part of an “eight-day humanitarian trip” regarding AIDS prevention and awareness in 2002, as he “had become friends” with Clinton before accepting.
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“In 2015, I started seeing reports online, things on my Twitter account that I had flown to this guy Jeffrey Epstein’s island and I had abused young girls,” he told Morgan. “If you’d asked me in 2015 … did I know a guy named Jeffrey Epstein, I probably would’ve said, ‘No.’”
Spacey claimed he’s “since been able to go back and find out” that the airplane used in 2002 “was owned by Jeffrey Epstein” and that he and “this Maxwell woman” were on “some of those flights,” but that he “didn’t know him” and “never spent any time with him.”
Spacey added, “I was with the Clinton Foundation people. That’s who I was with.”
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