Names in Jeffrey Epstein court documents unsealed

New
York
federal
court
documents
containing
previously
hidden

names
of
people
associated
in
some
way
with
the
late
notorious

sex
offender

Jeffrey
Epstein
began
being
unsealed
Wednesday
evening.

Many
of
the
more
than
150
people
named
in
the
civil
court
filings
that
are
in
the
process
of
being
released
have
previously
been
publicly
disclosed
as
connected
in
some
way
with
Epstein,
who
killed
himself
in
2019
after
being
arrested
on
federal
child
sex
trafficking
charges.

They
include
victims
of
Epstein
who
testified
at
the
criminal
trial
of
his
procurer
and
former
girlfriend
Ghislaine
Maxwell.

The
documents
were
filed
in
connection
with
a
Manhattan
federal
court
lawsuit
by
Epstein
victim
Virginia
Giuffre
against
Maxwell.

The
fact
that
peoples’
names
appear
in
the
files
does
not
necessarily
mean
they
engaged
in
wrongdoing.

Only
Epstein
and
Maxwell
have
been
criminally
charged
in
connection
with
his
longstanding
abuse
of
girls
and
young
women
at
residences
in
New
York,
the
U.S.
Virgin
Islands,
and
elsewhere.

Among
the
documents
unsealed
Wednesday
was
a
deposition
taken
of
Giuffre
by
lawyers
for
that
suit
and
requests
to
take
other
depositions
of
other
individuals
by
her
lawyers.

One
such
request
details
how
Maxwell
in
her
deposition
was
unable
to
recall
details
about
Epstein’s
contacts
with
Britain’s
Prince
Andrew
and
former
President

Bill
Clinton,
who
both
had
been
friends
of
the
pedophile.

Andrew
in
February
2022
agreed
to
settle
out
of
court
a
lawsuit
filed
by
Giuffre
accusing
him
of
sexually
assaulting
her
when
she
was
under
the
control
of
Epstein
and
Maxwell.
Andrew
has
long
denied
her
allegations,
but
his
reputation
has
been
wrecked
because
of
them
and
because
of
his
connection
to
Epstein.

Another
Epstein
accuser,
Johanna
Sjoberg,
in
a
deposition
unsealed
Wednesday,
was
also
asked
about
Clinton
by
Giuffre’s
lawyer.

“Did
Jeffrey
ever
talk
to
you
about
Bill
Clinton?”
Giuffre’s
attorney
asked

Sjoberg
responded,
“He
said
one
time
that
Clinton
likes
them
young,
referring
to
girls.”

Sjoberg
was
asked
if
she
ever
massaged

Donald
Trump,
the
former
president,
who
at
one
point
was
friends
with
Epstein.

On
one
occasion,
she
testified,
she
was
on
a
plane
with
Epstein,
Maxwell
and
Giuffre
that
landed
in
Atlantic
City,
where
Trump
had
casinos,
after
the
plane’s
pilots
said
they
could
not
land
in
New
York.

“Jeffrey
said,
Great,
we’ll
call
up
Trump
and
we’ll
go
to
—
I
don’t
recall
the
name
of
the
casino,
but
—
we’ll
go
to
the
casino,”
Sjoberg
said.

Sjoberg
also
testified
about
an
incident
involving
Prince
Andrew
at
Epstein’s
home
in
Manhattan,
when
Maxwell
went
to
a
closet
and
pulled
out
a
puppet
of
Andrew,
and
then
brought
it
to
where
the
prince
was
sitting
with
Giuffre
on
a
couch,
and
someone
suggested
taking
a
photo.

“And
so
Andrew
and
Virginia
sat
on
the
couch,
and
they
put
the
puppet,
the
puppet
on
her
lap,”
Sjoberg
testified.
“And
so
then
I
sat
on
Andrew’s
lap,
and
I
believe
on
my
own
volition,
and
they
took
the
puppet’s
hands
and
put
it
on
Virginia’s
breast,
and
so
Andrew
put
his
on
mine.”

Sjoberg
elsewhere
testified
that
the
magician
David
Copperfield
was
at
a
dinner
at
Epstein’s
residence
and
that
there
was
another
young
girl
present.

Sjboberg
said
Copperfield
“questioned
me
if
I
was
aware
that
girls
were
getting
paid
to
find
other
girls.”

Epstein
was
known
to
receive
sexual
massages
from
girls
and
young
women,
some
of
whom
had
been
recruited
by
other
women
for
that
purpose.

In
Maxwell’s
deposition,
which
was
filed
Wednesday,
she
was
asked
about
the
billionaire
Glenn
Dubin,
a
co-founder
of
the
Highbridge
Capital
hedge
fund.

“Did
you
ever
instruct
[Giuffre]
to
have
sex
with
Glenn”
Dubin,”
Giuffre’s
lawyer
asked
Maxwell.

Maxwell
replied:
“I
have
never
instructed
Virginia
to
have
sex
with
anybody
ever.”

Dubin’s
spokesman
in
2019
denied
claims
by
Giuffre
that
Maxwell
had
ever
instructed
her
to
have
sex
with
him.

Also
mentioned
in
documents
unsealed
Wednesday
was
the
late
modeling
agent
Jean-Luc
Brunel,
Epstein’s
one-time
lawyer
Alan
Dershowitz,
and
the
late
former
New
Mexico
Gov.
Bill
Richardson.

Judge
Loretta
Preska
ordered
the
unsealing
in
mid-December.

Preska
has
granted
a
30-day
extension
barring
the
disclosure
of
two
names,
including
a
woman
identified
as
Doe
107
to
review
her
claim
that
she
faces
a
risk
of
physical
harm
in
her
home
country
if
her
identity
is
publicly
revealed.

Maxwell
is
serving
a
20-year
federal
prison
sentence
on
charges
related
to
recruiting
and
grooming
young
women
to
be
abused
by
Epstein.

In
a
statement
Wednesday,
Giuffre’s
lawyer
Sigrid
McCawley
said
that
since
2019,
when
Epstein
was
arrested
and
a
federal
appeals
court
issued
a
ruling
about
access
to
the
court
documents,
“The
public
has
wondered
and
many
have
rightly
demanded
to
know
how
Epstein
operated
his
vast,
global
sex
trafficking
enterprise
and
got
away
with
it
for
decades.”

“Questions
of
who
enabled
and
facilitated
him
and
who
participated
in
an
operation
that
resulted
in
unspeakable
harm
and
devastation
to
the
lives
of
countless
girls
and
young
women
quickly
surfaced. 
Some
of
those
questions
have
been
answered;
many
have
not,”
McCawley
said.
“Some
justice
for
the
survivors
has,
indeed,
been
achieved;
not
nearly
enough
as
hoped
for
and
deserved. The
public
interest
must
still
be
served
in
learning
more
about
the
scale
and
scope
of
Epstein’s
racket
to
further
the
important
goal
of
shutting
down
sex
trafficking
wherever
it
exists
and
holding
more
to
account. 
The
unsealing
of
these
documents
gets
us
closer
to
that
goal.”

On
Tuesday,
New
York
Jets
quarterback
Aaron
Rodgers,
during
an
interview
on
ESPN’s
“The
Pat
McAfee
Show,”
said
in
regard
to
the
list
of
names,
“There’s
a
lot
of
people,
including
Jimmy
Kimmel
are
really
hoping
that
doesn’t
come
out.”

“I’ll
tell
you
what,
if
that
list
comes
out,
I
definitely
will
be
popping
some
sort
of
bottle,”
Rodgers
said.

Kimmel,
the
host
of
ABC’s
“Jimmy
Kimmel
Live!”
show,
quickly
fired
back
at
Rodgers
in
a
tweet
on
the
social
media
site
X,
suggesting
he
would
sue
the
football
player
if
he
persisted
in
implying
Kimmel
had
a
connection
with
Epstein.

“Dear
A——-:
for
the
record,
I’ve
not
met,
flown
with,
visited,
or
had
any
contact
whatsoever
with
Epstein,
nor
will
you
find
my
name
on
any
‘list’
other
than
the
clearly-phony
nonsense
that
soft-brained
wackos
like
yourself
can’t
seem
to
distinguish
from
reality,”
Kimmel
wrote
in
the
tweet.

“Your
reckless
words
put
my
family
in
danger.
Keep
it
up
and
we
will
debate
the
facts
further
in
court.”

McAfee
apologized
Wednesday
on
his
show
for
“being
part
of”
Rodgers’
comments.

–
Additional
reporting
by
CNBC’s



Dawn
Giel