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Bill Clinton Advisor Linked To Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead With Gunshot Wound To The Chest—But His Death Was Ruled A Suicide

Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton have long been suspected to have close ties, and a Clinton aide who also had ties to Epstein was found dead in May 2022 under mysterious circumstances. His death has now been ruled a suicide.

By Gina Florio2 min read
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Jeffrey Epstein was a financier and mysteriously rich man who had a private jet (nicknamed Lolita Express) that carted famous politicians and celebrities to his private island where they allegedly participated in sexually explicit behavior that involved minors. Ghislaine Maxwell was famously part of his sex trafficking ring and she is currently serving 20 years in prison. Epstein was found dead in 2019 in his jail cell, just one month after he was indicted on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide, but many speculate that it was coordinated and carefully planned. Epstein's close ties to Bill Clinton have long made people wonder what their relationship really involved. Things get even more mysterious when you consider the death of Mark Middleton in May 2022, who was an advisor to Clinton during his presidency that signed Epstein into the White House on multiple occasions.

Death of Bill Clinton Advisor, Who Was Linked to Jeffrey Epstein, Ruled a Suicide

Mark Middleton was a special advisor to Clinton in the White House in the 1990s and was also assistant to Thomas McLarty, Clinton's chief of staff. Middleton was also someone who flew on Epstein's jet and is even recorded signing Epstein into the White House 7 out of the 17 times he visited the White House. Most of these visits were in the West Wing. In February 1995, Middleton left his position in the White House and allegedly made himself an international deal-maker, according to the Daily Mail.

In recent years, Middleton was back in his home state of Arkansas, where he was working for his family's HVAC business, far away from the world of politics that he was involved in at the White House. Reportedly, he was suffering from depression in the last months of his life.

In May 2022, Middleton, 59, was found dead at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas, about an hour outside of Little Rock. The property is owned by an anti-poverty nonprofit organization called Heifer International. According to the Perry County Sherriff's Deputy Jeremy Lawson, who was called to the ranch by an employee named Samantha McElroy, Middleton was found near the back of the property near a tree after McElroy found Middleton's abandoned BMW SUV.

"Upon reaching the back of the cottage she pointed towards the rear of the property and asked if that was a person," Lawson said. "I could see what at first appeared to be a man sitting near a tree, as my eyes focused better, I could see a rope of some type going from the tree limb to the male."

"I could see that he had a gunshot wound to the chest and that he had a knot tied in an extension cord that was around his neck and it was attached to the limb directly above him," he said. It was clear to Lawson that Middleton was dead.

After searching Middleton's vehicle, they found three boxes of buckshot and a gun case, but no weapon. His death was ruled as a suicide, which leaves many people confused considering there was no weapon found.

This is certainly not the first person in Clinton's circle who has been found dead under strange circumstances. 57 people who were once linked to the Clintons have been found dead and many of their deaths were ruled as suicides, even though the details don't clearly point to a suicide.

Ron Brown was a former DNC chairman who was said to have died in a plane crash, but there were injuries found on his skull that were consistent with gunshot wounds. Brown was being investigated at the time and supposedly was about to make a deal with prosecutors. Former head of the UN General Assembly, John Ashe, was found dead from a crushed windpipe while he was lifting weights at home. James Milan was decapitated—but the coroner claimed his death was due to "natural causes." A young woman who was a former White House intern was allegedly planning to release details of sexual harassment, and she was mysteriously killed. The list goes on and on.

Middleton seems to be the latest person added to this list. He leaves behind a wife and two daughters, 18 and 20.