20/08/2020 This man is the model behind Epstein’s bizarre Clinton painting

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This man is the model behind Epstein’s bizarre Clinton painting

By Jackie Salo August 20, 2019 | 6:21pm | Updated

Christophe Nayel posing for "Parsing Bill" by Petrina Ryan-Kleid.

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He’s de nitely not Je ery Epstein’s type.

The model who posed for the infamous painting “Parsing Bill” says he can’t believe the artwork wound up on Epstein’s walls
— making him one more person forced to hang around the wealthy pedophile’s home without their consent.

“I was absolutely stunned to nd out that Epstein bought the painting during a major event at the school,” Christophe Nayel
told artnet news.

Nayel donned the blue dress and red heels in 2012 as he posed for Australian artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid, who created the
work at the New York Academy of Art.

The painting was later sold at a fundraising auction for the school, according to the report, and wound up displayed at
Epstein’s Upper East Side home.
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Ryan-Kleid told artnet that the dress and shoes were a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. She also said she made
the work as part of a series commenting on US politics that included a separate picture of George W. Bush playing with
blocks.

“It was just a silly school artwork that was supposed to show, pictorially, the messages we are bombarded with in regards to
these presidents,” she told the art site.

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“As with most of my paintings, I had completely lost track of this piece when it was sold seven years ago,” she said. “So it
was a complete surprise to me to learn yesterday that it wound up in Epstein’s home.”

As for Nayel, knowledge that the picture wound up in the home of New York’s creepiest man didn’t phase him. He
expressed happiness that last week’s revelations of the painting’s location gave him the opportunity to show o his legs to a
wide audience.

“In the news and out of the shadow!” he wrote on Facebook after the painting made waves.

Sources told The Post the eccentric artwork was prominently displayed by Epstein before his arrest on sex charges and his
apparent suicide on Aug. 10.

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