New York Post

Bubba’s ‘intimate’ dinner with G-Max

- By KATE SHEEHY

Bill Clinton secretly met socialite-turned-accused sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell for an “intimate” dinner in 2014 — well after allegation­s that she and perv pal Jeffrey Epstein had abused at least one teen, a report said Tuesday.

The former president joined Maxwell — who is now cooling her heels in a Brooklyn jail cell on charges involving the alleged sex abuse of young women — and a small group of friends for the meal in Los Angeles after a celebrity gala that February, sources told the Daily Beast.

“This is an intimate dinner with Clinton in LA,” an aghast source told the Web site.

“Think of all the people [Clinton] knows in LA — and Ghislaine gets to attend.”

Another source added that the Clinton camp was relieved that news of Maxwell at the dinner didn’t get out at the time.

A spokesman for Clinton declined to comment to the Web site other than to point to a statement issued by the former president’s team last year that said, “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York.”

Reports of Epstein’s sick antics involving underage girls and young women — and Maxwell’s alleged role involving at least one accuser — had already been around for several years before Clinton had dinner with the fallen British socialite.

Police began investigat­ing Epstein in 2005 when a 14year-old girl said she gave him a massage for money — and other young women came forward to say he would lure them into paid sexual encounters.

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for sex in Florida and eventually did 13 months behind bars.

He committed suicide in a Manhattan jail last year while awaiting trial on federal sex-traffickin­g charges.

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