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A 2002 photo accurately depicts 22-year-old Chauntae Davies, an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, giving former President Bill Clinton a shoulder massage.
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In November 2025, the U.S. Justice Department announced it would investigate any ties between Democratic former President Bill Clinton and the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein — a sex offender who died by suicide in 2019 while held on federal charges of trafficking minors for sex — per President Donald Trump’s request.
A spokesperson for Clinton said a trove of Epstein emails — which the House Oversight Committee released on Nov. 12 — proved “Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing” (archived).
Amid the rumors surrounding Clinton’s ties to Epstein, an image resurfaced of the former president appearing to receive a shoulder massage from one of Epstein’s accusers, Chauntae Davies. It spread on multiple platforms, including X (archived), Reddit (archived) and Threads (archived).
The image is authentic. On Aug. 18, 2020, British tabloid the Daily Mail published two photos depicting Clinton smiling as a young blond woman kneels behind him on a chair, giving him a shoulder massage.
The woman in the photo is Davies, then 22. According to Davies, Epstein raped and sexually assaulted her repeatedly for four years before her escape in 2005. This photo of Davies with Clinton was taken in 2002.
(Image via Daily Mail.com)
According to a Google reverse-image search, the earliest internet record of the photo above is from the 2020 article in the Daily Mail. The second image that accompanies the above photo is of the same subject matter, just more zoomed in and less focused.
The image does not appear to be AI-generated or altered. We ran the original Daily Mail image through two separate AI-detection services, and both came back with scores indicating the chances of AI-generation were low. Hive was the lower of the two, with a 0.0% chance that the image was AI-generated, as seen below. Illuminarty said there was a 6% chance the image was AI-generated. (Software that detects AI-generated content is not always accurate and should be treated with some skepticism.)
According to the 2020 Daily Mail article, the photo was taken during a refueling stop at a small airport in Portugal en route to Africa for a humanitarian trip spanning multiple countries in September 2002 during which Clinton was going to be raising awareness for AIDS.
Regarding Clinton himself, Davies reportedly said the former president was a “perfect gentleman.” Her comments about Clinton in the Daily Mail article were as follows (emphasis ours):
Davies acted as an air stewardess on the flight and described being shocked when Clinton boarded the plane, saying he was “charming and sweet.”
Davies, now in her early 40s, said of the massage pictures: “Although the image looks bizarre, President Clinton was a perfect gentleman during the trip and I saw absolutely no foul play involving him.”
She explained the massage happened when “we had a stop-over for the jet to refuel and while we were in the terminal the ex-President was complaining of stiffness from falling asleep in his chair.”
“Ghislaine chimed in to be funny and said that I could give him a massage.”
“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.”’
“Ghislaine” is British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime romantic and criminal partner of Epstein who was at the time of this writing serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking and other criminal sexual activities involving minors.
In the limited Netflix series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” which came out approximately three months before these photos were released, Davies recalled the trip:
I went from being just the masseuse to being asked to be a personal assistant on this trip. So I was blinded by the opportunity of it. I hadn’t gone anywhere really, and to go to Africa was like a dream come true. I flew from L.A. to New York, the plane was ready on the tarmac when I got there, and I took a seat. Then our guests arrived. It was Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. I was blown away, like oh my God, it was surreal. The trip was about the AIDS organization that Clinton had started. This trip to Africa is probably the single most amazing moment of my life, 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. But after the Africa trip, the abuse started all over again, and it never stopped after that.
Unverified flight logs filed with the FAA indicate Clinton flew on Epstein’s jet at least 26 times, according to a report published by Fox News in 2016. In 2019, however, Clinton’s spokesperson claimed on X that the former president had taken only four flights on Epstein’s jet.
Both Epstein and Maxwell were guests at the White House during Clinton’s tenure on multiple occasions, as we’ve previously reported.
We reached out to both Clinton’s foundation and Davies seeking comment regarding the photos when we original reported on their authenticity in January 2024, and will update this story if we receive a response from either party.
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