Jeffrey Epstein kept a bizarre painting of Bill Clinton on prominent display in his New York townhouse, it was reported on Thursday.
Epstein’s $77 million (£63.5m) home in the Upper East Side – the largest private home in the City, with 40 rooms over seven floors – was described by the young girls he allegedly abused as being full of surreal and intimidating art.
Among the most unusual of works is an oil painting of Mr Clinton, dressed in a blue dress similar to the infamous one worn by Monica Lewinsky, and wearing red stilettos.
Mr Clinton is shown lounging in a chair in the Oval Office, and leering at the camera.
The painting was spotted by a visitor to the house in October 2012.
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Some speculated that Epstein’s decision to hang the ghoulish painting was in response to his being “dumped” by his former friend.
Epstein was known for his eyebrow-raising tastes in furnishings.
A life-size female doll, hanging from a chandelier, greeted his guests as they arrived.
At the bottom of the staircase is a chess board, with each of its customized figurines modelled after one of his staffers and “dressed suggestively,” a visitor told The New York Times.
The entrance hall as decorated with “row upon row of individually framed eyeballs, imported from England,” Vanity Fair reported in 2003.
The same article described how Epstein kept a stuffed black poodle in his study, placed on top of a grand piano.
“I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog,” Epstein told the magazine.
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