Fact Check: Is photo showing Epstein accuser Chauntae Davies giving Bill Clinton a shoulder massage real?

WASHINGTON, DC: A viral photo making the rounds on social media shows former President Bill Clinton grinning as he gets a shoulder rub from Chauntae Davies, a Jeffrey Epstein accuser.

The shot was first published by the Daily Mail on August 18, 2020, and shows a then-22-year-old Davies massaging Clinton’s shoulders while he sits in a chair during a pit stop at a small airport in Portugal back in 2002.

Davies says the massage went down during a humanitarian trip to Africa aboard Epstein’s infamous private jet — a trip that also included Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker.

Fact Check: Photo of Chauntae Davies giving Bill Clinton a shoulder massage is real

For those wondering, the photo is indeed real, fact-checking outlet Snopes confirmed.

Davies isn’t accusing Clinton of anything. In fact, she told the Daily Mail, “Although the image looks bizarre, President Clinton was a perfect gentleman during the trip and I saw absolutely no foul play involving him.”

Davies, who worked as an air stewardess on the flight, said she was “shocked” when Clinton boarded. “He was charming and sweet,” she said.

According to Davies, Clinton was feeling stiff from dozing off in his chair. That’s when Epstein’s now-jailed partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell stepped in.

“Ghislaine chimed in to be funny and said that I could give him a massage,” Davies recalled. “Everyone had a little chuckle, but Ghislaine, in her prim British accent, insisted and said I was good. The President then asked me, ‘Would you mind giving it a crack?’”

Trip of a lifetime before the nightmare resumed for Chauntae Davies 

Chauntae Davies recounted how she ended up on that flight in the Netflix docuseries 'Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich', released just months before the photo surfaced.

“I went from being just the masseuse to being asked to be a personal assistant on this trip,” she said. “I was blinded by the opportunity of it... To go to Africa was like a dream come true.”

She flew from LA to New York, then boarded Epstein’s jet. “The plane was ready on the tarmac when I got there... Then our guests arrived. It was Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker. I was blown away, like Oh my God, it was surreal,” Davies shared. 

The trip, she said, was tied to Clinton’s AIDS awareness work.

“This trip to Africa is probably the single most amazing moment of my life,” Davies noted. “And I remember having this false belief that the abuse had stopped because nothing had happened in Africa. Thinking that maybe it just wasn’t going to happen anymore.”

However, that illusion didn’t last. “But after the Africa trip, the abuse started all over again, and it never stopped after that,” Davies recalled. 

She has accused Epstein of sexually assaulting her repeatedly for four years until she escaped in 2005.

Bill Clinton’s Jeffrey Epstein ties keep creeping back

Bill Clinton’s name has long popped up in connection with Jeffrey Epstein — and it didn’t stop with that massage photo.

New lawsuit documents were unsealed in January last year, reviving scrutiny around the former president’s links to the disgraced financier.

According to a Fox News report from 2016, unverified FAA flight logs show Clinton flew on Epstein’s private plane at least 26 times. But Clinton’s camp has said that number’s way off.

In 2019, spokesperson Angel Urena posted on X (formerly Tiwtter) that Clinton only took four flights on Epstein’s jet.

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