The Post exclusively obtained a photo of former President Bill Clinton and his wedding guests in Morocco in 2002 — Chelsea Clinton, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. (Credit: New York Post)
“How many times in your life have you been invited as a guest of a guest at a wedding?”
The request was seen by members of Clinton’s own team as rude and has been a subject of discussion in Democratic circles for more than two decades.
The account is surfacing as Clinton downplays his ties to Epstein — and as the Justice Department faces a congressionally mandated Friday deadline to release files on the financier’s crimes, which were not publicly known at the time of the Moroccan king’s wedding.
A second source said the 42nd president’s staff “insisted” and “pushed” to bring Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking conspiracy and other offenses, and Epstein, who died in jail in August 2019 while awaiting his own trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. (Read more: New York Post, 12/18/2025)
From NY POSTcast: Former President Bill Clinton shocked his own aides ahead of Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s 2002 wedding by demanding to bring two unrelated plus-ones — the now-notorious Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Subscribe here: https://t.co/rB9zPsP77U pic.twitter.com/vfIqYfq7XS
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