Disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein secretly recorded Prince Andrew and different guests to his twisted island having intercourse, in response to claims in newly unsealed courtroom paperwork.
Richard Branson and Bill Clinton had been two different huge names that had been covertly recorded, claims Sarah Ransome, one in all Epstein’s victims. She mentioned her “friend” could be filmed having intercourse with the boys by the paedophile American financier.
Her feedback come from her emails to the press, launched as a part of a 2015 civil defamation swimsuit introduced by Virginia Roberts Giuffre towards British socialite and former Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
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The unsealing this week stems from a December 18, 2023, courtroom order from the decide overseeing the lawsuit.
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Ransome, who gave a sufferer affect assertion forward of Maxwell being despatched to jail for intercourse trafficking, beforehand admitted that she had invented the tapes to attract consideration to Epstein’s conduct, and to make him consider that she had “evidence that would come out if he harmed me.”
The emails had been to columnist Maureen Callahan in 2016, earlier than she admitted to the New Yorker in 2019 that she fabricated her story. They had been included by legal professionals appearing for Alan Dershowitz in a bid to indicate that Ransome was “not credible” as a witness.
In the newly public information, Ransome added that “Epstein was not seen in any of the footage,” as “he was clever like that!”
She mentioned an entire host of males, together with former US President Donald Trump, had intercourse along with her buddy – who she didn’t declare to be underage.
“She confided in me about her casual ‘friendship’ with Donald,” Ransome mentioned.
Ransome added that she had obtained a maintain of copies of the movies from her buddy and backed them up and despatched them to “secure” areas all through Europe.
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She mentioned she and the buddy reported the footage to police in 2008 however they “did nothing” and the ladies had been left “humiliated”.
“My friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filmed on each separate occasion,” she reportedly wrote within the emails to Callahan.
“I eventually managed to persuade her to send me some of the video footage which she kept, implicating all three all men.”
In later emails to Callahan she then drastically retracts her claims, fearing reprisals. “Only bad things will happen as a consequence of me going public,” she mentioned.
Prince Andrew has strenuously denied any wrongdoing.
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Sky News reported that on behalf of Sir Richard Branson, a Virgin Group spokeswoman mentioned: “In a New Yorker report published in 2019, Ransome admitted that she had ‘invented’ the tapes.
“We can verify that Sarah Ransome’s claims are baseless and unfounded.”
Ransome reportedly told the title that she had invented the tapes. That was after she told the New York Post in 2016 that she had such videos of half a dozen prominent people, but couldn’t produce them when asked.
The Daily Star has contacted the Clinton Foundation for a comment on behalf of Mr Bill Clinton.
The latest release of 17 unsealed documents follows thousands of pages already unsealed last week.
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