Full listing of names revealed in Jeffrey Epstein courtroom paperwork

The identities of dozens of well-known figures linked  to Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in courtroom papers unsealed within the US in a single day.

The information are a part of a defamation case introduced in opposition to Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving 20 years in jail for intercourse trafficking underage ladies to him.

She was sued by Virginia Roberts, now referred to as Virginia Giuffre, who claims she was pressured to have intercourse with the Duke of York three time in 2001 when she was 17 – claims the duke vehemently denies.

High-profile folks comparable to Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Al Gore, Kevin Spacey and Stephen Hawking had been all included in proof filings. 

Some had been associates, mates or victims of Epstein. Others had been named in proof by witnesses who stated that they had no hyperlinks to the paedophile in any respect.

The names of greater than 170 folks are actually set to be made public following a US choose’s order final month, with the primary tranche of paperwork launched final evening. 

They are set to be releases on a rolling foundation this week.  However inclusion of a reputation doesn’t essentially imply they had been accused of any wrongdoing, with some names merely put to witnesses who denied assembly them.

Who is called within the Epstein listing? And what do the courtroom paperwork say about them?

Prince Andrew 

Today it emerged that considered one of Epstein’s alleged intercourse slaves, recognized solely as Jane Doe 3, claimed that she was advised to have intercourse with Prince Andrew throughout an orgy on Epstein’s island, Little Saint James, within the US Virgin Islands.

A 2014 courtroom submitting alleges that she was ‘pressured to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical places.’ She claims this occurred ‘in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell’s residence), in New York, and on Epstein’s non-public island within the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with quite a few different under-aged ladies).’

The newly unsealed docs declare Epstein advised Jane Doe 3 to ‘give the Prince no matter he demanded’. Jane Doe 3 claims that Ghislaine Maxwell ‘facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual abuse by appearing as a ‘madame’ for Epstein’.’

The unsealed paperwork embody the transcript of Virginia Giuffre being questioned over the whereabouts of the {photograph} exhibiting her with the Duke of York.

Asked throughout her deposition in 2016 the place the image was, she stated: ‘I in all probability nonetheless have it. It’s not in my possession proper now.’

Ms Giuffre added it could have been in storage packing containers at her mom and father in-law’s in Sydney, Australia.

She additionally stated paperwork associated to the case could have additionally been within the storage packing containers which had been ‘filled with Nerf weapons, my youngsters’ toys, images.’

During the deposition, Ms Giuffre stated she had given the image to the FBI in 2011 however had final seen it earlier than she packed up her house to to migrate to Australia from Colorado.

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg shed new gentle on an April 2001 journey to New York wherein she stated Prince Andrew touched her breast whereas they posed for a photograph at Epstein’s Manhattan city home.

In the testimony, a few of which appeared as excerpts in earlier courtroom filings, Sjoberg stated she and Virginia Giuffre had flown with Epstein to New York on his non-public jet. Ghislaine Maxwell and Andrew had been stated to have met them there.

At one level, she testified, Maxwell referred to as her to an upstairs closet the place they pulled out a puppet of Andrew that had been made for a tv program.

‘It appeared like him,’ Sjoberg stated. ‘And she introduced it down and offered it to him; and that was an excellent joke, as a result of apparently it was a manufacturing from a present on BBC.’

‘And they determined to take an image with it, wherein Virginia and Andrew sat on a sofa. They put the puppet on Virginia’s lap, and I sat on Andrew’s lap, they usually put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, they usually took a photograph.’

The reference is believed to narrate to Andrew’s Spitting Image puppet. Buckingham Palace beforehand stated the allegations had been ‘categorically unfaithful’.

Among the unsealed paperwork seems to be an e mail despatched by Ghislaine Maxwell mentioning the Duke of York.

The message was despatched from the e-mail handle [email protected] to Philip Barden and Ross Gow in January 2015.

It reads: ‘I’ve already suffered such a horrible and painful loss over the previous few days that I am unable to even see what life after press hell even appears like – statements that do not handle all simply result in extra questions … what’s my relationship to Clinton? Andrew on and on.’

Andrew stepped down from public life after the furore over his friendship with Epstein and paid thousands and thousands to settle a civil sexual assault case to Giuffre, a lady he claimed by no means to have met.

The duke was forged out of the working monarchy and not makes use of his HRH fashion after Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. Andrew has at all times denied the claims.

Bill Clinton

There are additionally mentions within the paperwork of Jeffrey Epstein’s previous friendship with former US president Bill Clinton – who shouldn’t be accused of any wrongdoing.

Jeffrey Epstein claimed Bill Clinton ‘appreciated them younger’, Johanna Sjoberg advised legal professionals.

Deposition paperwork present Ms Sjoberg was requested if she knew the previous US president was a good friend of Epstein.

Ms Sjoberg stated: ‘I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton.

‘I didn’t know they had been mates till I learn the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa collectively.’

Asked if Epstein had ever talked in regards to the former president, Ms Sjoberg stated: ‘He stated one time that Clinton likes them younger, referring to women.’

Other mentions included authorized arguments over whether or not Virginia Giuffre ought to be allowed extra time to depose potential witnesses, together with Clinton.

Giuffre by no means alleged he was concerned in unlawful habits, however her attorneys stated the previous president was a ‘key one that can present details about his shut relationship’ with Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein.

Maxwell’s attorneys countered that Clinton testimony was not related.

Donald Trump 

Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg stated she and Virginia Giuffre had flown with Jeffrey Epstein to New York on his non-public jet.

On the way in which to New York, Sjoberg testified, Epstein’s jet diverted to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and spent just a few hours at considered one of Donald Trump’s casinos, due to unhealthy climate.

Upon listening to the change of plans, Sjoberg recalled Epstein saying, ‘Great, we’ll name up Trump and we’ll go to’ the on line casino. Sjoberg wasn’t requested in the event that they’d met up with Trump that evening. Later in her testimony, she stated she was by no means requested to provide Trump a therapeutic massage.

Trump beforehand stated that he as soon as thought Epstein was a ‘terrific man,’ however that they later had a falling out.

In her deposition, Giuffre stated the summer season she turned 17, she was lured away from a job as a spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership to change into a ‘masseuse’ for Epstein – a job that concerned performing sexual acts.

Stephen Hawking 

Jeffrey Epstein was able to reward considered one of his sufferer’s mates if they may ‘show her allegations false’ – together with that Professor Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy, the courtroom paperwork revealed.

An e mail from Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed he was content material for her to ‘concern a reward’ to any of Virginia Giuffre’s mates to counter her claims, shortly after she filed a civil declare within the US in 2015.

The e mail learn: ‘You can concern a reward to any of Virginia’s mates, acquaints, household that come ahead and assist show her allegations are false.

‘The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the brand new model within the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.’

Hawking died in 2018 aged 76. 

David Copperfield 

In her May 2016 deposition, Jeffrey Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg described going to a dinner at considered one of Epstein’s properties additionally attended by magician David Copperfield.

She stated Copperfield did magic methods earlier than asking if she was conscious ‘that ladies had been getting paid to seek out different ladies.’ 

One of the important thing allegations in opposition to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell was that a number of the ladies he paid for intercourse acts then acted as recruiters to seek out him different victims. 

Sjoberg stated Copperfield was no more particular about what he meant.

A publicist for Copperfield has not but responded to requests for remark.

Michael Jackson

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg testified within the newly-released deposition that she as soon as met Michael Jackson at Epstein’s house in Palm Beach, Florida.

But she added that nothing untoward occurred with the late pop icon.

Jackson died in Los Angeles aged 50 in June 2009. 

Tom Pritzker 

In her deposition, Virginia Giuffre stated she had intercourse with a number of politicians and monetary leaders.

Giuffre’s deposition named a number of outstanding figures who’ve beforehand denied her allegations of wrongdoing, together with billionaire US businessman Tom Pritzker.

A spokesperson for Pritzker stated the businessman ‘continues to vehemently deny’ the allegation.

Alan Dershowitz 

In 2022, Virginia Giuffre withdrew an accusation she had made in opposition to Jeffrey Epstein’s former legal professional, legislation professor Alan Dershowitz, saying she ‘ could have made a mistake ‘ in figuring out him as an abuser.

According to one of many paperwork, Epstein allegedly pressured a lady named as Jane Doe #3, who was a ‘minor’ on the time, to ‘have sexual relations’ with Dershowitz. 

It additionally claimed: ‘In addition to being a participant within the abuse of Jane Doe #3 and different minors, Dershowitz was an eye-witness to the sexual abuse of many different minors by Epstein and a number of other of Epstein’s co-conspirators.’

But Dershowitz stated in a press release to People: ‘The girl who initially accused me subsequently said that she could have misidentified me and she or he withdrew her lawsuit in opposition to me.’

The high-profile lawyer supported the discharge of the paperwork.

He advised NewsNation: ‘I would like the whole lot out, each doc, every bit of paper, half-truths or lies, and I wished them out for private causes as a result of I do know that they’d show what I’ve stated from day one, that I did nothing fallacious.

‘There are some individuals who could also be ashamed of the truth that they frolicked with Epstein however bear in mind lots of people frolicked with Epstein earlier than he was convicted.

‘Presidents of Harvard, deans, Nobel high quality scientists, he was very properly considered at first.’

Frédéric Fékkai

Celebrity hair stylist Frédéric Fékkai was named within the courtroom paperwork, though it’s unclear what relationship – if any – he had with Jeffrey Epstein.

In a deposition in May 2016 regarding Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg, she was requested by legal professional Sigrid McCawley: ‘Did you ever hear or observe Jeffrey speaking on the telephone about Frédéric Fékkai?’

‘I heard him name somebody, and say, Fékkai is in Hawaii,’ Sjoberg responded over the objection of the Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal professional Laura Menninger. ‘Can we discover some ladies for him?’

‘And what was your response to that?’ McCawley requested.

‘Well, I used to be massaging and I did not have a response,’ Sjoberg replied. ‘I attempted to stay reactionless the entire 5 years.’

Fékkai has not but commented on the claims.

Leslie Wexner

Another title showing within the paperwork was Leslie Wexner, a former enterprise companion of Jeffrey Epstein who based L Brands, a retail empire that included Victoria’s Secret.

He was referred to when Ghislaine Maxwell was requested if she offered a lady with an outfit of a sexual nature to put on for Wexner.

‘Categorically no,’ Maxwell replied. ‘You did get that, I stated categorically no.’

She additionally denied that she had communicated with Wexner in regards to the lawsuit.

Wexner beforehand stated in a letter to his staff that that he ‘was by no means conscious of the criminality’ that Epstein was charged over.

Glenn Dubin 

Virginia Giuffre claimed she was pressured into having intercourse with males in Jeffrey Epstein’s social orbit, together with the billionaire hedge fund Glenn Dubin, amongst others.

She stated she additionally had intercourse with different political leaders whose names she couldn’t bear in mind.

All of these males, together with Dubin, stated her accounts had been fabricated. 

Dubin has not but commented on the paperwork.

Jean-Luc Brunel 

The paperwork title many public figures recognized to have related to Jeffrey Epstein over time, however whose relationships with him have already been properly documented elsewhere, in keeping with the choose.

One of them is Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent near Epstein who was awaiting trial on costs that he raped underage ladies when he killed himself in a Paris jail in 2022.

Virginia Giuffre was among the many ladies who had accused Brunel of sexual abuse. His title was peppered all through the paperwork launched at present.

The paperwork present that Giuffre stated throughout a 2016 deposition that she had been advised by Ghislaine Maxwell to have intercourse with a number of males.

After asking Giuffre in flip about every of the lads, Laura Menninger, a lawyer who was a part of Maxwell’s authorized crew on the time, requested: ‘Other than Glenn Dubin, (redacted), Prince Andrew, Jean Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, one other prince, the massive lodge chain proprietor and Marvin Minsky, is there anybody else that Ghislaine Maxwell directed you to go have intercourse with?’

Ms Giuffre replied: ‘I’m positively certain there’s. But can I bear in mind all people’s title? No.’

Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak, the previous Israeli prime minister, is claimed to have met with Jeffrey Epstein on numerous events.

The politician was allegedly an everyday visitor of Epstein’s at his Upper East Side townhouse and in addition flew on Epstein’s jet.

In her deposition, Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg denied ever assembly Barak.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal in April final 12 months, Barak accepted that he met with Epstein whereas in New York and that Epstein ‘typically introduced different fascinating individuals, from artwork or tradition, legislation or science, finance, diplomacy or philanthropy.’

But he insisted that he by no means met Epstein ‘with ladies or minors, and even grownup ladies in improper context or behaviour’.

Kevin Spacey 

Kevin Spacey was additionally talked about within the paperwork as soon as, wherein Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg denied assembly him.

Sjoberg was requested by an legal professional: ‘I could have already requested you, however have you ever met Kevin Spacey?’ She replied: ‘No’.

Separately, in July final 12 months, Oscar-winning actor Spacey was cleared at Southwark Crown Court in London of a string of alleged intercourse assaults on youthful males which had been stated to have taken place between 2001 and 2013.

Bill Richardson

Virginia Giuffre’s deposition named a number of outstanding figures who’ve beforehand denied her allegations, together with the late New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

She stated Ghislaine Maxwell requested her to provide Mr Richardson a therapeutic massage however added: ‘I do not know dates.’

Giuffre added: ‘I am unable to inform you the place we had been. I do know the place I used to be despatched to. I do not know the place we had been when she advised me to do this.’

Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg was additionally requested whether or not she had met Governor Richardson.

She replied: ‘Hmm, I need to say that he was supposed to come back to dinner after we had been in New Mexico. I do not know if I met him. I imagine that he and Ghislaine had dinner separate from myself.’

Mr Richardson died aged 75 in September final 12 months.

Al Gore 

Former Vice President Al Gore, who served beneath Bill Clinton, was additionally among the many well-known names talked about within the paperwork.

He was referred to relating to supplies that Ghislaine Maxwell sought from Virginia Giuffre earlier than trial within the civil defamation lawsuit.

The doc stated Maxwell requested Giuffre to supply any images or movies that she had that confirmed with numerous high-profile folks, together with Gore.

But Giuffre’s attorneys stated she objected as a result of any such alleged images had been within the ‘custody and management’ of Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.

While Guiffre beforehand claimed that Mr Gore travelled on Epstein’s non-public airplane, a photograph of Gore and Giuffre has by no means been launched.

Gore has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

George Lucas 

Star Wars creator George Lucas was additionally named within the paperwork, though with no suggestion of any wrongdoing.

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg was requested in May 2016 whether or not she had ever met or given massages to numerous high-profile celebrities together with Lucas.

But she denied having executed so – and that was the one point out of Lucas within the doc.

Who was paedophile Jeffrey Epstein? What was he accused of? How did he die?

A millionaire recognized for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and educational stars, Epstein was initially arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14-year-old lady for intercourse.

Dozens of different underage ladies described related sexual abuse, however prosecutors in the end allowed the financier to plead responsible in 2008 to a cost involving a single sufferer. He served 13 months in a jail work-release program.

Some well-known acquaintances deserted Epstein after his conviction, together with former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, however many didn’t. 

Epstein continued to mingle with the wealthy and well-known for an additional decade, typically by way of philanthropic work.

Reporting by the Miami Herald renewed curiosity within the scandal, and federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein in 2019 with intercourse trafficking. 

He killed himself in jail whereas awaiting trial.

The US legal professional in Manhattan then prosecuted Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, for serving to recruit his underage victims. She was convicted in 2021 and is serving a 20-year jail time period.

What are the data about? Why have they been launched? 

The paperwork being unsealed are a part of a 2015 lawsuit filed in opposition to Maxwell by considered one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre. 

She is among the dozens of girls who sued Epstein saying he had abused them at his properties in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New Mexico.

Giuffre stated the summer season she turned 17, she was lured away from a job as a spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership to change into a ‘masseuse’ for Epstein – a job that concerned performing sexual acts.

Giuffre additionally claimed she was pressured into having intercourse with males in Epstein’s social orbit, together with Britain’s Prince Andrew, the previous New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell and the billionaire Glenn Dubin, amongst others. All of these males stated her accounts had been fabricated.

Giuffre settled a lawsuit in opposition to Prince Andrew in 2022. That identical 12 months, Giuffre withdrew an accusation she had made in opposition to Epstein’s former legal professional, the legislation professor Alan Dershowitz, saying she ‘ could have made a mistake ‘ in figuring out him as an abuser.

Giuffre’s lawsuit in opposition to Maxwell was settled in 2017, however the Miami Herald went to courtroom to entry courtroom papers initially filed beneath seal, together with transcripts of interviews the legal professionals did with potential witnesses.

About 2,000 pages had been unsealed by a courtroom in 2019. Additional paperwork had been launched in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

The batch presently being launched accommodates round 250 data that sections that had been blacked out or had been sealed completely due to issues in regards to the privateness rights of Epstein’s victims and different folks whose names had come up through the authorized battle however weren’t complicit in his crimes.

Only round 40 of these paperwork had been made public Wednesday. More might be launched within the coming days.

What else can we count on to see within the coming days? 

U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska, who evaluated the paperwork to determine what ought to be unsealed, stated in her December order that she was ordering the data launched as a result of a lot of the data inside them is already public.

Some data have been launched, both partly or in full, in different courtroom circumstances.

The folks named within the data embody a lot of Epstein’s accusers, members of his employees who advised their tales to tabloid newspapers, individuals who served as witnesses at Maxwell’s trial, individuals who had been talked about in passing throughout depositions however aren’t accused of something salacious, and individuals who investigated Epstein, together with prosecutors, a journalist and a police detective.

There are additionally boldface names of public figures recognized to have related to Epstein over time, however whose relationships with him have already been properly documented elsewhere, the choose stated.

One of them is Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent near Epstein who was awaiting trial on costs that he raped underage ladies when he killed himself in a Paris jail in 2022. Giuffre was among the many ladies who had accused Brunel of sexual abuse.

His title was peppered all through the paperwork launched Wednesday.

Clinton and Trump each issue within the courtroom file, partly as a result of Giuffre was questioned by Maxwell’s legal professionals about inaccuracies in newspaper tales about her time with Epstein. One story quoted her as saying she had ridden in a helicopter with Clinton and flirted with Trump. Giuffre stated neither of these issues truly occurred. She hasn’t accused both former president of wrongdoing.

The choose stated a handful of names ought to stay blacked out within the paperwork as a result of they’d establish individuals who had been sexually abused. The Associated Press doesn’t usually establish individuals who say they’re victims of sexual assault until they determine to inform their tales publicly, as Giuffre has executed.

When will all of the paperwork be launched? 

The choose hasn’t set a goal for when all the paperwork ought to be made public, however extra paperwork are anticipated to come back within the subsequent few days.