Nearly 200 names that had previously been redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell have been made public on orders of a federal judge in New York.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered their release in December but gave the Jane and John Does two weeks in case they wanted to appeal.
The names were unveiled in a series of 40 documents that have been posted to the docket without previous redactions that hid big names including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Clinton’s estranged longtime aide Doug Band, Prince Andrew, the late former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, and the French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who like Epstein died while awaiting trial.
Epstein had many high-profile connections, including former U.S. presidents, foreign prime ministers and Britain’s Prince Andrew, as well as Hollywood stars, leading academics, people in the modeling and fashion industries and other public figures. Some of the names were previously known through other means despite having been withheld from the public’s eye in the lawsuit.
Many of the names belong to people who have not been accused of wrongdoing, including Clinton, who also declined to ask the court to have his name remain sealed.
A spokesperson for Clinton also denied claims in one of the documents that alleged the former president and Epstein had a “close personal relationship.”
Other names unsealed Wednesday included billionaire Glenn Dubin and his former private chef Rinaldo Rizzo. Previously released documents revealed that Rizzo claimed Epstein and Maxwell once visited Dubin’s house with a disoriented, 15-year-old Swedish girl who told him the couple asked her for sex and that her passport had been taken. Others mentioned include Tony Figueroa, Limited Brands founder and former Victoria’s Secret CEO Lex Wexner, and Epstein accusers such as Johanna Sjoberg and Annie Farmer.
A notable new name is David Copperfield – who was himself accused of sexually assaulting a teen model and is described in the documents as a friend of Epstein.
Sjoberg, according to a deposition in the lawsuit claimed that Epstein once told her “Clinton likes them young, referring to girls” and that Copperfield, a friend of Epstein’s, “did some magic tricks” at dinner.
Sjoberg also brought up Trump, claiming that Epstein once claimed he’d call the billionaire businessman when his helicopter had to be rerouted to Atlantic City because it couldn’t land in New York. She also stated she had never given massages to Trump, the director George Lucas or Marvin Minsky, a renowned computer scientist who died in 2016.
Bombshell new Jeffrey Epstein documents have further revealed the pedophile’s relationship with Bill Clinton, with one of Epstein’s victims claiming Epstein told her ‘Clinton likes them young’ – and another document suggesting Ghislaine Maxwell may have had a relationship with Clinton’s aide.
Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was questioned under oath about her relationship with Epstein and his associates. The testimony was part of a 2015 defamation case filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.
One May 2016 document – a request for permission from the judge to take more depositions – includes detail of testimony already taken by Johanna Sjoberg, who was recruited at the age of 20 to work as a massage therapist.
Sjoberg was recruited on a college campus, had no massage training, and said she was forced to perform sex acts on Epstein.
Sjoberg told the lawyers in 2016 that Epstein told her ‘Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.’
Other details in the trove of documents include how Epstein emailed Maxwell to insist that Stephen Hawking did not participate in an underage orgy on his Caribbean Island in 2006.
Hawking, the celebrated wheelchair-bound physicist who died in March 2018 aged 76, was among the guests at a barbecue during a conference on the island sponsored by Epstein.
Another of the documents, arguing that Maxwell should be forced to sit for further testimony, reveals that Maxwell under oath said she ‘did not recall’ being in London with Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew – despite photographs showing the three together.
The documents also show Maxwell confirming that Bill Clinton dined on Epstein’s private jet, while traveling around the world, and denying that the former president ever visited Epstein’s Caribbean Island, Little St James.
Maxwell, in the April 2016 deposition, is asked about her travels with Epstein and Bill Clinton – who Epstein is known to have visited several times at the White House.
‘The allegation that Clinton had a meal on Jeffrey’s island is 100 percent false,’ Maxwell said.
‘I’m sure he had a meal on Jeffrey’s plane.’
She said she did not know how many times Clinton had flown on Epstein’s plane.
Maxwell was also asked about her relationship with Doug Band – a lawyer, who helped rebuild Clinton’s image in his post presidency following the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Band worked in Clinton’s White House Counsel’s office and served as Deputy Assistant to the President before becoming his chief advisor from 2002 to 2011.
With Band’s help, Clinton fashioned a new role for his post presidency with his Clinton Global Initiative which donated millions to good causes.
Yet Band was also with Clinton during some of his encounters with Epstein and was on the infamous 2002 trip to Africa about the pedophile’s private jet where the passengers included Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker.
Photos from the trip show Clinton getting a massage from Chauntae Davies, an Epstein victim who worked as a flight attendant on the jet, nicknamed the ‘Lolita Express’.
Afterwards Clinton called Epstein a ‘highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science’.
Maxwell is asked if she knows Band, and replies: ‘I do’ – adding that she knew him thanks to his work with Clinton.
Asked if she ever had a relationship with Band, she replies: ‘We are talking about adult consensual relationships, it’s off the record.’
When pressed on the relationship, Maxwell says the lawyer must define the term ‘relationship’.
‘What do you mean by romantic?’ Maxwell asks. ‘I was friends with Doug but you are suggesting something more so I want to be clear what you are actually asking me.’
The lawyer, Sigrid McCawley, replies: ‘You defined it. You said you were friends with him. If that’s what you were that’s all I need to know.’
The long-anticipated ‘list’ of 187 previously unknown Jeffrey Epstein associates was finally revealed on Wednesday.
The files were made public by the Southern District of New York after the deadline for appeals passed, around 6:30pm Wednesday night.
Investor Glenn Dubin is the first name to appear, in a transcript of a taped depostion with Ghislaine Maxwell where Maxwell was asked if Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg had ever been asked to massage Dubin.
Maxwell answered: ‘I don’t believe, I have no recollection of it.’
Many were already linked to Epstein and some are the names of previously identified victims.
Three people filed appeals and one has been granted – that of Jane Doe 107. Another – filed by John Doe 110 – is under review.
Doe 110 is said to have been widely associated with Epstein in the past, but filed a last minute request to stay anonymous.
They are described in court documents as an ‘alleged Epstein affiliate’.
The names were all redacted in a 2015 lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell.
The case was settled in 2017 but the names remained secret until now.
Judge Loretta Preska finally agreed to unseal the documents in December last year, ruling there was no longer a legal need to keep the names hidden.
Some have been calling for their release for months.
Among them is Alan Dershowitz, a former Epstein associate who says releasing the documents puts all the information into the public forum and ‘proves’ he did nothing wrong.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who in June 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for her role in the sex trafficking ring, has ‘nothing to say’ about the files, according to her attorney, Arthur Aidala.
Aidala however said the papers may disappoint many, who think they will reveal a conspiracy or previously-unknown names.
