⁍ Posts appeared on Facebook claiming to show Wallace with Jeffrey Epstein.

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⁍ Some users say the image was taken on Little St. James, the private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands once owned by Epstein.

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⁍ Both claims are false: the image shows Wallace vacationing with actor George Clooney in Italy in 2012.

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– After Fox News anchor Chris Wallace moderated the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, posts appeared on Facebook claiming to show Wallace with Jeffrey Epstein, the late disgraced financer who pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges involving dozens of underage girls in 2019. Some users say the image was taken on Little St. James, the private island in the US Virgin Islands once owned by Epstein. Both claims are false: the image shows Wallace vacationing with actor George Clooney in Italy in 2012. In 2012, Wallace and his wife Lorraine Martin Smothers joined Clooney and his then-girlfriend StacyKeibler on a vacation at Clooney’s home in Northern Italy’s Lake Como. A Politico clip of Wallace describing the trip can be seen here, with the image appearing around the 25-second mark. Describing their time as “great food, great wine, and great talk,” Wallace said that he and Clooney, an outspoken liberal, “could disagree agreeably” and both found that the “demonization of the other side is a very unhealthy thing in our politics today.”