Epstein documents to be released this month
The identities of dozens of people linked to Jeffrey Epstein are expected to be revealed as soon as this week, potentially removing a cloak of anonymity that had shielded much of the accused sex trafficker’s prominent network of friends and business partners from public scrutiny.
In late December, a U.S. judge ordered the public disclosure of more than 150 people mentioned in court documents related to Epstein, the billionaire financier who took his own life in August 2019 in a federal lockup in Manhattan as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. Epstein’s associate and former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, 61, is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted in December 2021 of helping Epstein recruit and sexually abuse underage girls.
The documents being unsealed are part of a lawsuit filed against Maxwell in 2015 by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre. She is one of the 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. Giuffre’s lawsuit against Maxwell was settled in 2017, but the Miami Herald went to court to access court papers initially filed under seal, including transcripts of interviews the lawyers did with potential witnesses.
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Who’s on the Jeffrey Epstein list?
The truth is less scandalous: There is no such list. The great majority of the people whose names appear in the documents are not accused of any wrongdoing.
