Bill Clinton‘s 80th birthday is the gift that keeps on giving… Clinton Foundation.
The 42nd POTUS turned 80 on Aug. 19, and we exclusively hear that his actual party was an intimate affair for about 50 guests at the Hamptons home of Democratic billionaire mega-donor Alex Soros and Huma Abedin, the former top Hillary Clinton aide.
The Clinton dinner at the couple’s estate — where Soros and Abedin married last year — was a hush-hush affair. But one guest told us, “It was a beautiful event at Huma and Alex’s home.” (Reps for Soros and Clinton did not comment.)
The party was just one of the many 80th celebrations for birthday boy Bill. “They’re having birthday parties and events all over the country as a fundraising vehicle,” said one Democrat insider.
The fundraising events will include a party reuniting Clinton administration alumni during the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative this month in NYC.
“If you are a politician who does not politically monetize your decades — as you turn 50, 60, 70, 80 — you’re not doing it right,” said one political veteran of the drive for foundation funds as Clinton hits the big 8-0 milestone. “You only have every 10 years. No one cares when you turn 71. So every decade, you only have a few bites of the apple to get that good crunch.”
Added the political strategist: “It’s not about candles — it’s about fire, baby! Bill Clinton’s turning 80 and you’re a moron if you don’t squeeze the lemon and the rind.” The source lamented: “That’s the difference between the old Democrats and new loser Democratic party: utility. They have that Boomer brain.”
Indeed for Bill’s 70th, he had a glitzy fundraising bash at the Rainbow Room with performances by Wynton Marsalis, Jon Bon Jovi and Barbra Streisand, where major donors were asked to fork over $250,000 to be chairs of the event.
Clinton left the White House at age 55, and also had a giant Clinton Foundation fundraiser for his 60th in Toronto. Stars including Bon Jovi, Tim McGraw, Sarah McLachlan, James Taylor, Billy Crystal, Josh Groban, Kevin Spacey and Clarence Clemons performed in tribute.
But some Dem sources said that making the alumni party this month a fundraiser during the Clinton Global Initiative confab is leaving some former White House staffers feeling a bit, well, poor.
“It’s a very Obama thing,” said a former Clinton staffer, “the ‘you have to pay to attend’ kind of thing. The Clintons are not the Obamas — they like being around the people who helped them get where they were.”
The insider added, “I don’t think [celebrating his 80th] is out of the norm,” to raise funds for the foundation. “But doing some sort of CGI event for Clinton alumni and staff? It’s like, ‘C’mon… I’m still doing government service! I’m still in it!’ Plenty of people made plenty of money [after leaving the White House] and have no problem. But for people who are still doing service? That’s a lift.”
