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I'm proud to cover Israeli arts and culture for The Times of Israel. My beat shows 'the other side' of life here, with inspiring artists of all stripes -- musicians, painters and writers, chefs and winemakers, filmmakers and screenwriters. The bizarre picture, which was prominently on display in a room at the Upper East Side house of the deceased millionaire, was seen by several visitors to the house. It was one of several bizarre art pieces that Epstein, 66, kept in his $56 million mansion. A woman who visited the Epstein residence before his July arrest confirmed the existence of the Clinton painting to the Daily Mail. Conspiracy theories have circulated online surrounding Epstein's apparent suicide, including some that imply former President Bill Clinton was linked to Epstein's death.
The convicted pedophile also had a taxidermied tiger and poodle, a mannequin hanging from the ceiling — dressed in a wedding gown — and a $5.6 million painting of a woman cupping her bare breast. Both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were photographed partying with Epstein in the 1990s. Recently released private flight logs show Clinton, who was Epstein’s friend, rode on Epstein’s private jet, the Post reported.
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It turns out the painting Americans can never un-see started life as a school project. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. "The Clintons hate the portrait. They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery. They're putting a lot of pressure on them," Shanks said, though a spokeswoman from the National Portrait Gallery denied the claim the newspaper contacted them. The content of this site has been restored on a non-profit basis to preserve knowledge and serve as a historical archive.
They were “imported from England.” Also in the entranceway, he had a chess board with figurines modeled in the image of his staff, per the New York Times. They were “dressed suggestively.” There was a stuffed dog in his study perched on a piano, according to Ward again. Of it, he would tell visitors, “No decorator would ever tell you to do that.
‘Parsing Bill’ was by artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid
So it was a complete surprise to me to learn yesterday that it wound up in Epstein’s home. Epstein was facing charges of sex trafficking that stemmed from activities over a period of three years in the early 2000s. He served a 13-month prison sentence in Florida in 2008 after he was charged with similar offenses and was forced to register as a sex offender. His attorneys unsuccessfully lobbied for bail and house arrest on the new charges, but a federal New York judge declared him a flight risk and a danger to the community. According to the artist’s LinkedIn profile, she now works as a marketing communications director for the Manhattan-based pricing software company Tarifica. The other stuff in Epstein’s house is a little more tricky to acquire, and might be even more cursed.
According to photos obtained by the Daily Mail Epstein had a picture of Bill Clinton wearing Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress in Oval Office in his Manhattan Mansion. The anonymous source told The Daily Mail she was shocked to see the bizarre portrait, prompting her to take a photo of the painting in 2012. As The New York Post noted, Ryan-Kleid exhibited her portrait of Clinton when she graduated from the New York Academy of Art in 2012. On the online art gallery, Saatchi, the original is described as an “oil on canvas” painting, and The Post‘s source (it’s unclear if it’s the same person who spoke with The Mail) said the version in Epstein’s home was also done with oil. As with most of my paintings, I had completely lost track of this piece when it was sold seven years ago.
The Guardian reported that he flew on Epstein's private plane, also known as the "Lolita Express," although Clinton has denied being close to the disgraced financier. Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr stands before a crowd of reporters and photographers outside the Justice Department and answers questions about his investigation into President Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky, Washington DC, January 22, 1998. President Bill Clinton shakes his finger as he denies improper behavior with Monica Lewinsky, in the White House Roosevelt Room. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," Clinton said as first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton stood, watching. A visitor reveals a bizarre image found inside the pedophile's $56m lair and they are strange. This is for people who would like all NationandState.com posts delivered to their email.
It featured Clinton wearing a blue dress and red heels, reclining on a chair in the Oval Office and pointing at the viewer, Uncle Sam style. If you’re wondering where on earth Epstein got such a thing, the painting was done by an Australian artist named Petrina Ryan-Kleid . The painting in question is called ‘Parsing Bill’, and was created by artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid. It apparently depicts former US president Bill Clinton lounging in the Oval Office in a blue dress and red heels, and Epstein allegedly had the artwork hanging in his private home.
The source who allegedly took the photo told MailOnline they were visiting Epstein’s house to discuss a business proposal, and caught sight of the painting through an open door. Jeffrey Epstein apparaently had a portrait of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress and sporting red high heel shoes in his his Manhattan mansion. Ryan-Kleid did not recall having sold the painting to Epstein, specifically, and said she first heard about any potential link to the financier from a family member who had read the August 2019 news reports mentioned above. As such, she was not able to offer corroboration for those reports, or for claims that Epstein had once had the painting in his home, or that the photograph published by the Daily Mail was in fact taken at Epstein’s apartment. Snopes spoke to the artist behind the painting, who could not corroborate August 2019 news reports that cited anonymous sources. News outlets were able to connect the Clinton image back to Ryan-Kleid because she had posted it to the Saatchi Art website, which allows artists to sell prints of artworks directly to consumers.
"I had no idea who the buyer was at the time," Ryan-Kleid told the outlet. "As with most of my paintings, I had completely lost track of this piece when it was sold. So it was a complete surprise to me to learn yesterday that it wound up in Epstein's home." The artist told the New York Post on Thursday that the original painting, dubbed "Parsing Bill," was sold to an attendant at a fundraiser her school put on at the Tribeca Ball seven years ago. 18 – Paul Wilcher – Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 “October Surprise” was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993, in his Washington DC apartment had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death. Correctional officers at the New York City prison housing, MCC, didn’t check in on Jeffrey Epstein for hours leading up to his apparent suicide on Saturday after his cellmate was transferred for reasons that were not immediately clear, according to DLM on Monday. Authorities now want to know who was behind the post, which contained medically accurate details about the financier and accused sex trafficker, reports NBCNews on Tuesday.
Unless there’s a one-off cell with a camera pointing inside — and we’re told there have been rare situations where this is the case — the time and manner of his death may never be captured. The New York City Fire Department, for its part, has determined that the information in the post did not come from its records, a department spokesperson told NBC News. Fire officials reviewed the post on 4chan, a forum popular with internet trolls and people in the so-called alt-right movement.
