Long before former actor and current weirdo Kevin Spacey was named in the newly-released court filings detailing late, disgraced financier Jeffery Epstein’s associates, colleagues and victims, it appears he was no stranger to the billionaire.


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Back in 2020, the House of Cards alum, who was initially accused of sexual misconduct at the height of the #MeToo movement, found himself in even more hot water after a photo depicting him and Epstein’s associate, convicted sex offender, Ghislaine Maxwell, sitting on Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s coronation thrones.



The snap was taken while the pair accompanied former President Bill Clinton on a private tour of London’s Buckingham Palace in 2002, a visit coordinated by the disgraced Duke of York, Prince Andrew.


Epstein, who (allegedly) died by suicide in 2019 shortly before his trial, was believed to not have partaken in the now-infamous tour, yet the same could not be said when the financier flew Spacey, Clinton, and comedian Chris Tucker to Africa on his Boeing 727 that same year. 



During the week-long trip, which spanned Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa, Epstein “got an intellectual kick out of engaging African finance ministers in theoretical chit chat about economic development,” as his presidential pal spoke with fellow leaders about HIV/AIDS policy, per a 2002 New York Magazine profile on the former financier.


Though Spacey has long remained tight-lipped about his experience on the trip, he ultimately addressed it in October 2022, while testifying during his civil sexual assault trial.  


“I was now being talked about as if I knew Jeffrey Epstein, as though I was some important and powerful friend of his, and because I’d been on this airplane, I had actually flown to what was being called Pedo Island,” the actor told the New York City court while addressing the speculation surrounding their closeness, per Law And Crime. “And while it is true that I met Jeffrey Epstein on that trip, I never saw him again, and I have never been to any island.”



Despite this denial — and the fact that Spacey’s name appears once in the document, in which Swedish swimmer and alleged Epstein victim Johanna Sjöberg stated that she had never met the actor during a newly unsealed deposition — it’s unclear whether Spacey is telling the truth. 


But who knows — maybe the former Netflix star will have a change of heart, coming clean during his next sitdown with Tucker Carlson.