January 4th 2024.
It is now public knowledge that nearly 200 people linked to Jeffrey Epstein have been named in a 2017 court case. The names of these associates were previously redacted, replaced with ‘John Doe’ or ‘Jane Doe’ in the public records of the case. Among the identified individuals are Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, and Stephen Hawking.
The names were recently revealed after US Judge Loretta Preska ruled last month that documents naming the individuals be unsealed and made public. This case was brought by Virginia Giuffre, who was abused by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell as a teen.
One of the documents was a deposition given by Johanna Sjoberg, a woman who claimed that Prince Andrew touched her breast while sitting on a couch inside Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2001. This deposition also made reference to a puppet being placed on Virginia Giuffre’s breast at the same time - believed to be Andrew’s Spitting Image puppet. Buckingham Palace has stated that these allegations are ‘categorically untrue’.
In the same interview, Sjoberg also said that Epstein had told her that former President Bill Clinton ‘likes them young, referring to girls’. She also claimed to have met Michael Jackson and famous magician David Copperfield at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion. She stated that Copperfield had attended dinner at one of Epstein’s homes and ‘did some magic tricks’. When asked if Copperfield inquired whether the girls were teenagers or underage, Sjoberg said ‘He did not’.
Another document, an email from Epstein to Maxwell, showed that Epstein was content for her to ‘issue a reward’ to any of Virginia Giuffre’s friends to counter her claims, shortly after she filed a civil claim in the US in 2015. The email mentioned a Clinton dinner and a version in the Virgin Islands where Stephen Hawking was said to have participated in an underage orgy.
Also published among the court documents was the transcript of the socialite’s videotaped evidence given under oath. During her interview, Maxwell claimed she could only recall Prince Andrew on Epstein’s island once. When asked if any girls under the age of 18 were present on that one occasion, Maxwell replied ‘There were no girls on the island at all. No girls, no women, other than the staff who work at the house.’
In other documents, Maxwell could be seen sending an email in January 2015, shortly after a civil claim had been filed against her, in which she described herself as ‘out of my depth’. She also mentioned that statements that don’t address all just lead to more questions.
The legal deadline for raising objections to names being revealed expired at midnight local time on Monday. The judge presiding over the case concluded that Giuffre was ‘a victim of sustained underage sexual abuse’ and had given factual evidence showing ‘Maxwell assisted and participated in Giuffre’s trafficking’.
Ultimately, the documents and statements which were released helped lead to the criminal trial against Maxwell. Epstein died while in prison in 2019 charged with child sex trafficking. He strenuously denies any wrongdoing.
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