Court filings containing more than 100 contact names linked to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were unsealed on Wednesday afternoon.
Over 900 pages of partially censored documents were released.
A great deal of the information has already been reported. Many of the people whose names were mentioned have not been accused of any misdeed.
The documents include a list of 185 people labeled anonymously as John or Jane Doe, beginning with J. Doe #3 and ending with J. Doe #187. Some of the names are mentioned twice.
A small number of people on the list are minors or sexual assault victims. The judge clarified that those names will not be revealed.
It was mentioned in the court record that the documents for the people in the 107th and 110th slots on the list will not be released right away. One had been given an extension until January 22 for her appeal regarding the release. The other person’s appeal is still under review.
While these documents do not reveal a confirmed list of associates, the names were expected to include some that were mentioned in the flight logs of Epstein’s private jet. The late sex offender frequently used this jet, which was nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” to fly to his private island in the Caribbean.
Those manifests and additional documents, including Epstein’s private calendar, had previously been revealed to the public in different ways such as through legal proceedings or public records requests.
Many people who had business or social ties with the deceased sex trafficker denied any illegal activities or having been involved in his activities.
The revelation of these names comes from a now-settled defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre in 2015. She accused the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of encouraging the abuse she received from Epstein.
A jury in New York found Maxwell guilty in 2021 for conspiracy and trafficking charges connected to Epstein and for her decade-long involvement in the sexual abuse of underage girls.
Epstein was Maxwell’s longtime friend, and, on occasion, her romantic partner.
The documents released by the court bring up well-known individuals like Prince Andrew, whose connections with Epstein were reported extensively in the past.
The prince settled a lawsuit back in early 2022 with Giuffre.
She accused him and Epstein of abusing her when she was a teenager. Prince Andrew denied her accusation.
“Prince Andrew regrets his association with Epstein, and commends the bravery of Ms. Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others,” the prince’s attorneys declared in a court filing made at the time.
A deposition made by Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein’s victims, in the suit mentions prior accusations. She claimed that she had been assaulted by Prince Andrew in 2001 when she had been 21-years-old.
Buckingham Palace previously labeled Sjoberg’s accusations against Prince Andrew as false. The unsealed documents consist of questions directed to Maxwell and surrounding the victim.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was also mentioned in the court documents. Epstein described him as “a good friend,” according to an anonymous accuser in 2019.
Clinton was even mentioned in the manifests for Epstein’s private jet, on which he claimed to have taken four trips connected to the work of the Clinton Foundation. He has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
A spokesperson for the ex-president clarified that it has been almost 20 years since Clinton last contacted Epstein. Clinton has denied knowing anything about Epstein’s crimes.
Clinton was brought up in Sjoberg’s deposition. She had not accused him of any crime, but she stated that Epstein told her about Clinton’s fondness for younger women.
Another document showed Maxwell said that Clinton did not eat on Epstein’s island and that she has “no idea” how many times he flew on Epstein’s plane.
It was mentioned in the filing that Maxwell’s team tried to disprove an article by journalist Sharon Churcher of the Daily Mail. She detailed a dinner on Epstein’s Little St. James island that Clinton reportedly attended not too long after leaving office.
“Former FBI Director Louis Freeh submitted a report wherein he concluded that President Clinton ‘did not, in fact, travel to, nor was he present on, Little St. James Island between January 1, 2001 and January 1, 2003,'” Maxwell’s team asserted.
The team then stated that the Secret Service assigned to Clinton would have had to file travel logs.
In December 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was discovered to have given false information regarding his relationship with Epstein.
Christina Oxenberg, a close friend of the Kennedys, revealed that Kennedy and Epstein took two private jet trips in the 1990s alone. Kennedy originally claimed that he brought his wife and children with him.
Oxenberg mentioned that Kennedy was close with Maxwell and that she arranged one of the trips.
The order to unseal these court documents had previously been made by U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Preska in December 2023. She affirmed that there was no lawful reason to keep the names in the records hidden.
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