American actor Kevin Spacey has confirmed that he was once on a plane with the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, former US President Bill Clinton, and a group of young girls.
Spacey disclosed this during a recent interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
According to Spacey, he flew to South Africa on Epstein's "Lolita Express" in 2002 for an eight-day humanitarian mission to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS.
"It was primarily to raise awareness and prevention for AIDS, particularly to help mothers with HIV get the medication they needed to prevent passing it on to their children," Spacey told Morgan.
However, the two-time Oscar winner denied spending any time with Epstein during the trip, claiming he was mainly working with the Clinton Foundation team.
"I’ve since learned who Epstein is and that the airplane we flew on for this humanitarian mission was owned by him," Spacey stated. "But I didn't know him. I have never spent any time with him."
He mentioned that while working with the Clinton Foundation on the trip, Epstein made him feel uneasy. "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," he recalled. "We were like, 'Who is this guy?'"
When Morgan asked if there were young girls on those flights, Spacey confirmed, "There were young girls on those flights, yeah," but did not elaborate further.
After Epstein's sex trafficking ring was exposed, reports suggested that Spacey had visited Epstein's Caribbean island, Little St. James. Spacey denied ever traveling to the island, stating, "There's a big difference between not remembering meeting some guy and some woman on a humanitarian trip and not remembering visiting someone's island."
He also addressed a controversial photograph showing him and Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell sitting on thrones at Buckingham Palace. Spacey explained that the photo was taken after the humanitarian trip when Clinton was invited to London by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to speak at a Labour Party conference. "The president asked if I wanted to go to Buckingham Palace to see Prince Andrew, and I said, 'Sure.' This Maxwell woman was just one of many people there," he added.
Spacey emphasized that he had no relationship with Maxwell or Epstein. "He's not my friend. I am not a confidant. I've never spent time with him."
During the interview, Spacey also discussed his current living situation, revealing that his home in Baltimore was being foreclosed and sold at auction. "I have to go back to Baltimore and put all my things in storage. I'm not quite sure where I’m going to live now," he said, noting that he had been living in Baltimore since 2012 while filming House of Cards.
When asked why his home was being sold, Spacey explained, "I can't pay the bills that I owe. I've come close to filing for bankruptcy a couple of times, but we've managed to dodge it so far."
Spacey revealed that he owed "many millions" of dollars in legal bills. He was fired from House of Cards in 2017 after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged, and he was later edited out of the movie All the Money in the World, with Christopher Plummer reshooting his scenes at the last minute.
Despite these challenges, Spacey won a US civil lawsuit after being accused of making an unwanted sexual advance at a party in 1986 and was acquitted last year at Southwark Crown Court after being accused of sexually assaulting four men between 2001 and 2013.
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