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Six key revelations in unsealed paperwork
Many of you may be waking as much as the information that paperwork linking the associates of Jeffrey Epstein have been launched.
If you’re simply becoming a member of us, here’s what occurred in a single day:
- Prince Andrew has been named, with Epstein sufferer Johanna Sjoberg accusing the duke of touching her breast. The duke can be accused of collaborating in an ‘underage orgy’ on Epstein’s island.
- Former US president Bill Clinton was talked about in Johanna Sjoberg’s interview underneath oath. She says Epstein informed her Clinton ‘likes them younger, referring to ladies.’
- Epstein denied that physicist Stephen Hawking had taken half in ‘an underage orgy’ on his island.
- Donald Trump additionally options within the court docket file however Sjoberg claims she by no means massaged him and he was by no means seen at any of Epstein’s properties.
- Michael Jackson visited Epstein at his Palm Beach residence however Sjoberg didn’t therapeutic massage the late King of Pop.
- Magician David Copperfield had dinner with Epstein and requested Sjoberg if she knew ladies have been getting paid to search out different ladies.
Bill Clinton knew nothing about Epstein’s ‘horrible crimes’, spokesperson says
Former US President Bill Clinton has as soon as once more denied having data of Epstein’s intercourse trafficking ring.
Clnton’s spokesman issued an announcement in 2019 saying he knew ‘nothing in regards to the horrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded responsible to in Florida some years in the past, or these with which he has been lately charged in New York’.
The president’s camp yesterday reiterated that denial, in a assertion to CNN, including that’s has been ‘almost 20 years since President Clinton final had contact with Epstein’.
Clinton has not been accussed of any wrongdoing associated to the financier.
Ghislaine Maxwell ‘maintains innocence’ as court docket paperwork are unsealed
Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell issued an announcement on Wednesday as the primary batch of unsealed paperwork have been launched.
‘She has constantly and vehemently maintained her innocence,’ her attorneys informed CNN Business.
Will extra names be launched?
- Judge delayed the unsealing of two of the Jane Does till January 22
REBECCA ENGLISH: ‘Further embarrassment for Prince Andrew’
Jimmy Kimmel was not named in Epstein paperwork
Before the paperwork have been launched, misinformation about what was in them abounded.
Social media customers wrongly claimed that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s title would possibly seem within the paperwork, spurred by a crack New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made Tuesday on ESPN’s ‘The Pat McAfee Show.’
Kimmel mentioned in a response on X that he had by no means met Epstein and that Rodgers’ ‘reckless phrases put my household in peril’. He threatened to sue the four-time NFL MVP as he branded him an ‘a**gap’.
Kimmel’s long-standing beef together with his NFL nemesis dates approach additional again than the quarterback’s controversial feedback on the Pat McAfee Show this week.
Newly launched court docket paperwork about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal he preferred to brag about telephone calls with a few of Hollywood’s largest stars.
Johanna Sjoberg, who alleges Epstein and his confederate Ghislaine Maxwell abused her within the late Nineties, mentioned the intercourse prison at one time name-dropped Oscar-winning Australian actor Cate Blanchett whereas receiving a therapeutic massage.
Ms Sjoberg made the declare whereas discussing her interactions with Epstein with lawyer Laura A. Menninger in Epstein sufferer Virginia Giuffre‘s lawsuit towards Maxwell.
‘I noticed one press report that mentioned you had met Cate Blanchett …?’ Ms Menninger, showing for Maxwell, requested Ms Sjoberg.
‘I didn’t meet them, no,’ Ms Sjoberg replied.
Today it emerged that considered one of Epstein’s alleged intercourse slaves, identified solely as Jane Doe 3, has claimed that she was informed to have intercourse with Prince Andrew throughout an orgy.
A 2014 court docket submitting alleges that she ‘pressured to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical places.’
The newly unsealed docs declare Epstein informed 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’.’
She claims this occurred ‘in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell’s residence), in New York, and on Epstein’s personal island within the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with quite a few different under-aged ladies).’
Jeffrey Epstein had explosive info that would have ‘derailed’ the 2016 election, his brother claims
Mark Epstein, a New York-based property developer youthful than Jeffrey by 18 months, mentioned his brother by no means offered particulars.
Mark, 69, mentioned: ‘Here’s a direct quote: “If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.” That’s what Jeffrey informed me in 2016.’
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate within the 2016 race, was not identified to spend time with Jeffrey Epstein, however her husband was a good friend from no less than 1993.
The pedophile financier made no less than 17 visits to the White House, presidential logs present, and Bill Clinton additionally flew on Epstein’s personal jet – making journeys to Europe, Asia and Africa in 2002 and 2003.
Professor Stephen Hawking has additionally been named within the newly launched court docket paperwork.
An e-mail from Epstein to Maxwell on January 12, 2015, reveals the paedophile asking his former girlfriend to attempt to discover any of Virginia Giuffre’s mates or household who will assist show her allegations have been unfaithful.
Epstein wrote: ‘You can challenge 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.’
Professor Hawking visited Epstein’s notorious island in 2006 throughout convention.
It is unclear why he was on the island – or why Epstein wished to disprove the orgy allegation, though the twisted financier was identified to ask well-known figures he admitted to get pleasure from his hospitality.
Hawking, who died in 2018 aged 76, is pictured attending a barbecue and taking a submarine tour of the ocean mattress off the island, reported The Telegraph.
The convention was reportedly funded by Epstein on the neighboring island of St. Thomas.
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The bombshell new Epstein paperwork declare that the previous US president ‘likes them younger’, in line with Johanna Sjoberg.
Ms Sjoberg has mentioned she was recruited on a university campus on the age of 20 to work as a therapeutic massage therapist with none coaching by Ghislaine Maxwell.
She mentioned she was pressured to carry out intercourse acts on Epstein.
Ms Sjoberg mentioned that Epstein informed her ‘Clinton likes them younger, referring to ladies.’
Clinton has lengthy sought to minimize his affiliation with Epstein, however admitted touring on his personal airplane.
On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Clinton informed CNN that he knew nothing of Epstein’s ‘horrible crimes’ throughout their friendship, including that it has ‘been almost 20 years since Clinton final had contact with Epstein.’
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What do the paperwork say about Prince Andrew?
Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg mentioned Prince Andrew put his hand on her breast to pose for a photograph with the financier, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell.
In depositions, she has described how in March 2001, when she was 21, she was summoned to Epstein’s New York mansion the place she discovered that ‘Prince Andrew was there and a few different ladies my age’, together with Giuffre.
‘Andrew was very charming,’ Ms Sjoberg mentioned. ‘She (Maxwell) got here down with a gift for him – a latex puppet of him from Spitting Image.’
Ms Sjoberg added that Andrew had thought the puppet was ‘humorous as a result of it was him’.
She mentioned in a deposition: ‘I simply bear in mind somebody suggesting a photograph and so they informed us to get on the sofa. And so Virginia (Roberts) and Andrew sat on the sofa and so they put the puppet on her lap.
‘And so I sat on Andrew’s lap, I consider of my very own volition, and so they took the puppet’s arms and put it on Virginia’s breast and so Andrew put his on mine.’
It was all accomplished in ‘a joking method’ and ‘everyone laughed,’ Ms Sjoberg mentioned. ‘Ghislaine… had a really soiled sense of humour’.
Buckingham Palace has beforehand denied the allegations.
Andrew has been stripped of most of his royal titles resulting from his affiliation with Epstein.
Why have the paperwork been launched?
The case was settled in 2017, however Giuffre – and lots of others – have lengthy referred to as for the names to grow to be public.
Giuffre is likely one of the dozens of girls who sued Epstein saying he had abused them at his houses in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New Mexico.
She mentioned the summer season she turned 17, she was lured away from a job as a spa attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership to grow to be a ‘masseuse’ for Epstein – a job that concerned performing sexual acts.
U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska, who evaluated the paperwork to determine what needs to be unsealed, mentioned 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.
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Prince Andrew and former US president Bill Clinton are among the many high-profile figures who’ve been named in newly launched US court docket paperwork figuring out associates of intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein which have been made public final evening.
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