Forty court documents containing information on associates of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – including former United States presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton – have been made public, which were unredacted as part of a Dec 18 court order.
The newly released documents named Trump and Clinton on multiple occasions but at no point accuse either of any wrongdoing.
United States judge Loretta Preska ordered that the court filings in a lawsuit brought Ghislaine Maxwell by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre must finally be unsealed and the names of up to 200 "John and Jane Does” unredacted. Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation in 2015 after she branded her a liar over her claims that she was sexually abused as a minor.
The suit was settled in 2017 but the names have remained under lock and key – until now.
In last month’s ruling, judge Preska found that there was no legal justification to keep the names in the documents redacted, paving the way for several famous figures to find themselves tied to the notorious disgraced financier. As well as the unmasking of Epstein’s associates, the documents will shed further light on Epstein’s decades-long campaign of abuse and sex-trafficking.
Notably, every individual named in the list is not accused of wrongdoing. The people whose names were revealed include sex abuse victims, litigation witnesses, Epstein’s employees, and people with just a passing connection to the scandal. Some names were redacted.
Here are among the major big names unsealed:
- Ghislaine Maxwell
- Virginia Lee Roberts Giuffre
- Kathy Alexander
- Miles Alexander
- James Michael Austrich
- Philip Barden
- REDACTED
- Cate Blanchett
- David Boies
- Laura Boothe
- Evelyn Boulet
- Rebecca Boylan
- Joshua Bunner
- Naomi Campbell
- Carolyn Casey
- Paul Cassell
- Sharon Churcher
- Bill Clinton
- David Copperfield
- Alexandra Cousteau
- Cameron Diaz
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Alan Dershowitz
- Dr. Mona Devanesan
- REDACTED
- Bradley Edwards
- Amanda Ellison
- Cimberly Espinosa
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Annie Farmer
- Marie Farmer
- Alexandra Fekkai
- Crystal Figueroa
- Anthony Figueroa
- Louis Freeh
- Eric Gany
- Meg Garvin
- Sheridan Gibson-Butte
- Robert Giuffre
- Al Gore
- Ross Gow
- Fred Graff
- Philip Guderyon
- REDACTED
- Shannon Harrison
- Stephen Hawking
- Victoria Hazel
- Brittany Henderson
- Brett Jaffe
- Michael Jackson
- Carol Roberts Kess
- Dr. Karen Kutikoff
- Peter Listerman
- George Lucas
- Tony Lyons
- Bob Meister
- Jamie A. Melanson
- Lynn Miller
- Marvin Minsky
- REDACTED
- David Mullen
- Joe Pagano
- Mary Paluga
- J. Stanley Pottinger
- Joseph Recarey
- Michael Reiter
- Jason Richards
- Bill Richardson
- Sky Roberts
- Scott Rothstein
- Forest Sawyer
- Doug Schoetlle
- Kevin Spacey
- Cecilia Stein
- Mark Tafoya
- Brent Tindall
- Kevin Thompson
- Donald Trump
- Ed Tuttle
- Emma Vaghan
- Kimberly Vaughan-Edwards
- Cresenda Valdes
- Anthony Valladares
- Maritza Vazquez
- Vicky Ward
- Jarred Weisfeld
- Courtney Wild
- Bruce Willis
- Daniel Wilson
- Andrew Albert Christian Edwards, Duke of York
Epstein had allegedly sexually assaulted multiple teenage girls with some being as young as 14 years old, prosecutors have said. He committed the crimes at his homes in Manhattan; Palm Beach, Florida; and his private island near St. Thomas.
In 2019, federal prosecutors charged him with one count of sex trafficking conspiracy and one count of sex trafficking with underage females. Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug 10 the same year inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, where he was confined ahead of a pending trial for allegedly recruiting dozens of teen girls to engage in sexual acts with him and his friends. Epstein was found with a noose made out of a bedsheet and the authorities ruled the death a suicide.
He was facing up to 45 years in prison if he was convicted. Following his death, the charges were dropped.
Since the 66-year-old’s death, speculation ran rampant that Epstein did not kill himself and was instead assassinated, despite authorities ranging from the medical examiner to former US attorney general Bill Barr have publicly declared that Epstein did take his own life.
His partner Maxwell, who was also involved in the crimes, is now serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in December 2021. She was accused of helping Epstein recruit and sexually abuse minor girls.
Meanwhile, a witness interviewed as part of a lawsuit involving alleged sex trafficking by Epstein said that they never saw Trump at the convicted sex criminal’s home or private island, according to a new court filing.