Second set of Jeffrey Epstein court filings unsealed in New York

A
second
batch
of
court
filings
related
to
sex
predator

Jeffrey
Epstein
were
unsealed
in

New
York
on
Thursday.

The
release
comes
a
day
after
the
first
group
of
more
than
three
dozen

court
filings
were
unsealed,
making
public

names
of
people
associated
with
Epstein,
a
money
manager
who
accumulated
a
fortune
in
excess
of
$500
million
at
the
time
of
his
death
by
suicide
in
2019.

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

The
new
filings
Thursday
comprise
19
exhibits,
totaling
327
pages
of
previously
sealed
court
documents
that
were
docketed
in
a
Manhattan
federal
court
lawsuit
filed
by
Epstein
victim
Virginia
Giuffre
against
Epstein’s
procurer,
Ghislaine
Maxwell.
That
case
was
settled
out
of
court
in
2017.

Names
mentioned
in
the
new
documents
include
Doug
Band,
a
former
aide
to
ex-President
Bill
Clinton,
Yucaipa
Companies
co-founder
Ron
Burkle,
the
journalists
Vicky
Ward
and
Sharon
Churcher,
and
Eva
Dubin,
who
is
the
wife
of
billionaire
Glenn
Dubin.

A
spokesperson
for
Glenn
Dubin
on
Wednesday
told
NBC
News
that
he
“strongly
den[ies]
these
allegations”
that
Giuffre
was
direct
to
have
sex
with
him,
calling
them
unsubstantiated
statements.
CNBC
has
requested
comment
from
Ward,
Burkle,
and
Band.

Churcher
told
CNBC
she
had
not
seen
the
document
released
Thursday,
which
related
to
Maxwell’s
attempt
to
subpoena
her
because
of
her
reporting
on
Giuffre.
Maxwell’s
lawyer
had
argued
that
Church
was
not
acting
as
a
journalist
but
as
a
friend
to
Giuffre
in
her
dealings
with
her.

“I’m
a
professional
journalist
and
throughout
this
saga
the
only
input
I’ve
had
to
this
saga
is
as
a
journalist,”
Churcher
said.
She
added,
referring
to
Giuffre,
that
“I
have
huge
admiration
for
her
character
in
this.”

Clinton
himself
is
mentioned
in
the
new
documents,
and
he
was
previously
mentioned
by
name
in
the
first
tranche
of
filings
unsealed
Wednesday.

A
spokesman
for
Clinton,
when
asked
for
comment
by
NBC
News,
referred
to
a
statement
issued
in
2019
that
said
he
“knows
nothing
about
the
terrible
crimes
Jeffrey
Epstein
pleaded
guilty
to
in
Florida
some
years
ago,
or
those
with
which
he
has
been
recently
charged
in
New
York.”

The
same
statement
in
2019
said
that
Clinton
had
not
spoken
to
Epstein
“in
well
over
a
decade.”

The
documents
include
details
from
a
Florida
police
detective
of
how
Epstein
and
Maxwell
recruited
young
women
to
be
abused.
The
detective
says
in
a
filing
that
he
learned
of
30
victims
of
Epstein
in
his
probe
in
the
mid-2000s.

Other
people
were
mentioned
by
name
in
the
context
of
potentially
having
insight
into
the
relationship
between
Epstein
and
Maxwell. 

Epstein
killed
himself
in
2019,
a
month
after
being
arrested
on
federal
child
sex
trafficking
charges.

The
British
socialite
Maxwell
is
serving
a
20-year
federal
prison
sentence
for
charges
related
to
recruiting
and
grooming
young
women
to
be
sexually
abused
by
her
former
boyfriend
Epstein.