About 950 pages of court docket paperwork figuring out associates of financier and intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein had been made public on Wednesday.
What’s the Jeffrey Epstein record?
Included within the unsealed papers are the names of about 150 Epstein associates. The paperwork had been filed as a part of Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation lawsuit in opposition to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s co-conspirator in his sexual abuse scheme. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2022. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting sex trafficking charges.
Giuffre is likely one of the ladies who sued Epstein for abusing them at his houses in Florida, New York, the USA Virgin Islands and New Mexico. She stated she was pressured into having intercourse with males in Epstein’s social orbit.
Different paperwork had been unsealed by the court docket from 2019 to 2022.
Final month, a decide listed in a 50-page doc about 180 individuals — below pseudonyms — ordering that their identities be made public inside 14 days of the order. Some people have objected to the disclosure of their identities within the case.
The inclusion of a reputation on the record doesn’t point out there are any allegations in opposition to the person.
Here’s a nearer have a look at a few of the names within the latest paperwork:
Prince Andrew
The paperwork unsealed on Wednesday have revealed sexual assault allegations in opposition to the British royal.
Johanna Sjoberg, who is likely one of the many ladies who’ve accused Epstein of sexual abuse, stated Andrew put his hand on her breast in Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2001.
This was whereas he was taking a photograph with Sjoberg and Giuffre. Maxwell and Epstein had been current whereas this photograph was taken. Sjoberg stated the photograph additionally included a puppet that stated “Prince Andrew” on it.
The incident, which has been beforehand reported by different media shops and which Andrew has denied, was in an preliminary trove of beforehand redacted paperwork that in any other case revealed few new particulars in regards to the extent of Epstein’s alleged intercourse trafficking actions.
Sjoberg was recruited to work for Epstein by Maxwell, who had been his girlfriend within the early Nineteen Nineties earlier than they turned skilled collaborators and accomplices in intercourse crimes for nearly three a long time.
Whereas Sjoberg was employed as an assistant when she was a 20-year-old school scholar, she was rapidly become a therapeutic massage therapist and was sexually coerced whereas she labored for Maxwell and Epstein from 2001 to 2006.
Giuffre, now 38, accused Andrew of sexually abusing her 20 years in the past when she was 17, an allegation the prince referred to as baseless. The case was settled in 2022.
In line with the paperwork, Sjoberg stated she witnessed Giuffre, then 17, in Epstein’s New York mansion with Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell. She additionally stated she believes what Giuffre has stated about Andrew and Epstein sexually abusing her.
Alan Dershowitz
Harvard Legislation Professor Alan Dershowitz is well-known for his work in US felony regulation. The paperwork pertaining to him embody allegations made by an unnamed girl, Jane Doe #3.
Jane Doe #3 stated Epstein “required” her to have sexual relations with Dershowitz on a number of events when she was a minor.
Dershowitz additionally performed a big function in negotiating an settlement that offered immunity from federal prosecution within the Southern District of Florida not just for Epstein but in addition for “any potential co-conspirators of Epstein”, the paperwork say.
Epstein’s housekeeper Juan Alessi testified that Dershowitz would typically go to Epstein’s Florida mansion to get massages.
One other one in all Epstein’s family staff, Alfredo Rodriquez, stated the lawyer could be current at Epstein’s residence with out his household and within the presence of women.
Dershowitz stated in an interview with Fox Information on Wednesday that Jane Doe #3 misidentified him, and he denied ever assembly her. He prompt he was the sufferer of the MeToo motion’s “hypocrisy”, accusing “radical feminists” of specializing in Epstein and his associates whereas not “condemning Hamas”, the Palestinian armed group.
Jean-Luc Brunel
Jean-Luc Brunel was a French mannequin scout who was awaiting trial on costs that he raped underage ladies when he dedicated suicide in a Paris jail in 2022.
Giuffre was among the many ladies who had accused Brunel of sexual abuse. She stated Maxwell despatched her to many locations to have intercourse with Brunel. The paperwork additionally say Brunel would exploit underage ladies from deprived backgrounds by providing them modelling jobs however would then carry them to the US and “farm them out to his associates, particularly Epstein”.
In line with the paperwork, Jane Doe #3 accused Epstein of trafficking her to Brunel, who was Epstein’s shut journey companion. She stated she was additionally compelled to look at Brunel, Maxwell and Epstein sexually assaulting underage ladies.
Rolling Stone journal revealed a report on Tuesday a couple of latest Los Angeles lawsuit by which a brand new girl accused Brunel of holding her hostage at a Canadian property so she may very well be sexually abused by a number of males when she was 18.
David Copperfield
Sjoberg testified to assembly American magician David Copperfield at one in all Epstein’s homes. She added that she noticed him to be a good friend of Epstein’s. She additionally recalled a lady at that dinner who she thought regarded like she was of high-school age.
Sjoberg stated Copperfield requested her if she knew that “ladies had been getting paid to search out different ladies”, referring to the recruitment of girls by Epstein and Maxwell as “therapeutic massage therapists”.
Invoice Clinton
Former US President Invoice Clinton can be talked about within the court docket paperwork.
Whereas Sjoberg stated she didn’t meet Clinton, she testified that Epstein stated to her: “Clinton likes them younger,” apparently referring to women. Whereas Giuffre had talked about earlier that Clinton and Epstein had an in depth relationship, she didn’t accuse him of any unlawful motion.
Clinton has repeatedly rejected all allegations that he was concerned in something illegal and has stated he had no interactions with Epstein for a number of years previous to the financier’s arrest.
Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump can be talked about within the paperwork however not accused.
Sjoberg talked about an incident when she left with Epstein, Giuffre and some others on a aircraft from Palm Seaside, Florida, in 2001.
When the aircraft was unable to land in New York resulting from a storm, they needed to land in Atlantic Metropolis and went to one in all Trump’s casinos. Since Giuffre was underage on the time, Sjoberg was requested if she was allowed into the on line casino.
“I didn’t know something about how previous you needed to be to gamble legally. I simply knew she couldn’t get in due to an ID challenge, so she and I didn’t gamble,” Sjoberg answered.
Stephen Hawking
The late physicist’s identify was talked about in an electronic mail despatched by Epstein to Maxwell in January 2015. On this electronic mail, Epstein informed Maxwell to “challenge a reward” to any of Giuffre’s associates, household and acquaintances to come back ahead and disprove Giuffre’s allegations, together with in opposition to Hawking.
“the strongest is the clinton dinner, and the brand new model within the virgin isalnds that stven hawking partica-ted in an underage orgy,” the e-mail stated.
Michael Jackson
Sjoberg stated she noticed the late singer at Epstein’s residence. When she was requested if she gave him a therapeutic massage, she stated no.
Extra names to come back
Not all of the paperwork have been unsealed. The decide hasn’t set a goal for when all the paperwork needs to be made public, however extra paperwork are anticipated to come back out within the subsequent few days. Legal professionals for one particular person, Doe 107, wrote to the decide, arguing they might face victimisation of their residence nation and requested time to submit grounds for his or her identify to stay sealed.
