05 January 2024 , 01:02
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A second wave of Jeffrey Epstein documents is being unsealed, with an additional 300 pages of legal files set to be released.
The upcoming batch of files is expected to contain 19 documents, totalling around 300 pages. These eagerly awaited court documents, previously sealed, are related to Jeffrey Epstein and mention several high-profile individuals. The documents were half as many as the over 40 already released earlier on Wednesday.
Among the big names already mentioned are Michael Jackson, Prince Andrew, and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as politicians Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. The records also include many of Epstein's accusers, members of his staff who shared their stories with tabloid newspapers, witnesses from Maxwell's trial, individuals mentioned briefly during depositions but not accused of anything scandalous, and those who investigated Epstein, including prosecutors, a journalist, and a police detective.
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Paedophile sex offender Jeffrey Epstein pictured with former president Bill Clinton (Enterprise News and Pictures)The Duke of York was mentioned by name 67 times in the much-anticipated unsealed documents naming alleged associates of paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The announcement to release the documents sparked rumours of a list of "clients" or "co-conspirators."
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The people listed were those named as associates of Epstein and there is no suggestion those listed either knew about his crimes or participated in any criminal behaviour. The judge who made the decision stated in December that she was ordering the records to be released because much of the information within them is already public knowledge.
Bill Clinton and the UK's Prince Andrew are among high-profile figures named in US court papers (Bav Media)Among the names are former director of the FBI Louis Freeh; politicians Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump; and actors Cate Blanchett, Naomi Campbell, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bruce Willis. Also mentioned are the late physicist Stephen Hawking and magician David Copperfield.
Jeffrey Epstein was a billionaire known for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and academic stars. He was initially arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex.
Jeffrey Epstein killed himself before he was questioned in a court room (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
The billionaire and his girlfriend were on trial for soliciting young girls for sex, with girlfriend Ghislane Maxwell sentenced to prison time (Corbis via Getty Images)Epstein, took his own life in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges in a Paris prison cell, was accused of grooming and raping underage girls at the property.
The documents being unsealed are part of a 2015 lawsuit filed against Ghislaine Maxwell by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre. She is one of dozens of women who sued Epstein saying he had abused them at his homes in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New Mexico.
It was during Maxwell's criminal trial two years ago that Epstein's victims, some of whom aspired to be models or artists, described how he dropped the names of his famous and influential friends to suggest that he was the victims' ticket to reaching their dreams.
Maxwell, 62, was convicted of sex trafficking charges and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.