Initial tranche of nearly 950 Epstein court documents released
Al Jazeera
Papers include names of dozens of powerful men who associated with financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The names of dozens of prominent men with alleged links to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been publicly released after court files that formed part of a 2015 case brought by one of Epstein’s main accusers were unsealed.
The depositions and statements were part of a long-settled defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who was once Epstein’s girlfriend.
Maxwell was jailed for 20 years in 2022 for sex crimes she committed with Epstein, who socialised with bankers, royalty and celebrities before pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. He died by suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
New York judge Loretta Preska ruled last month the documents could be unsealed, saying there was no legal justification for keeping them private.
The first tranche of documents – running to nearly 950 pages (PDF) – began to be released on Wednesday night. More papers are expected to be unsealed or unredacted in the coming days.
