List of people ‘linked to Jeffrey Epstein’ made public

List of people ‘linked to Jeffrey Epstein’ made public

President Bill Clinton Donald Trump vice president Al Gore the pop star Michael Jackson and the British astrophysicist Steven Hawking just some of the famous names among a list of 150 revealed overnight in newly unsealed court papers linked to the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein none of them

Have been accused of any wrongdoing in the documents but their names appeared in a vast 943 page Trove of evidence released from a past civil case involving the alleged Epstein victim Virginia jeffra jefra was just 17 when she claimed she was trafficked to Epstein’s Florida mansion

In Palm Beach by his then girlfriend the British socialite galain Maxwell who is now serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the affair jefra alleges she was sexually assaulted there and at Epstein’s other properties in New York and on an island in the Caribbean along

With dozens of other girls despite the fact jefra settled her defamation case with Maxwell in 2009 it’s taken years to get the court documents and details released this latest batch is another crucial part of that effort but her lawyer says there are still thousands of other pages to be unsealed it shows you

The people that were in his Circle and why that’s relevant because all of those people were helping enable the trafficking operation but some of the big names that are being talked about today that’s not to imply that these people were the enablers isn’t it more about the fact that Epstein was enabled

To just carry on living the lifestyle that he did Epstein would never have been able to do this without the support of the individuals around him and is that because you think if you were just anywhere in his orbit it should have been obvious to you that something was

Wrong absolutely I think that people sat silent for years and years years and years and this is only a fraction of the record that’s within the court files some of the documents released contain details of a previously reported encounter between another alleged victim of Epstein johannna scherg who describes

A moment involving prince Andrew and Virginia jefra and a puppet of the prince believed to be from the show’s spitting image she said they decided to take a picture with it in which Virginia and Andrew sat on a couch they put the puppet on Virginia’s lap and I sat on

Andrew’s lap and they put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast and Andrew put his hand on my breast and they took a photo Buckingham Palace has previously called the allegation categorically untrue and prince Andrew has always maintained he never even met Virginia jefra and in 2022 the prince settled a

Lawsuit that she brought against him with no admission of any wrongdoing not likewise President Clinton whose name was mentioned 70 times in the unsealed papers has said he knows nothing about Epstein’s crimes as has Donald Trump and remember there are no specific allegations about anyone else named in the latest documents the biggest

Revelation perhaps that some of the world’s biggest stars and politicians fraternized with Jeffrey Epstein and that it’s taken more than a decade for their names to formally be released with thousands of other documents still to come Javon Kennedy earlier I spoke to the lawyer Spencer Ken in Florida who’s

Represented several of Epstein’s victims and to Anna whitelock who’s professor of history of modern monarchy at London City University I started off by asking Mr Ken what this latest news means for the victims my clients have been fighting for over 16 years now for the full story

To be disclosed so so it’s a significant step in the right direction this is not the end though there’s a lot more information that really needs to come out and needs to be disclosed but again allowing the public to see the people that were in Jeffrey Epstein and Galen

Maxwell’s orbit is very important so that people can judge for themselves whether they did something wrong or didn’t from what I’ve seen and what I’ve been reading there were no big new allegations or Revelations were you disappointed by that no in fact fact the judge said as much in her order before

Releasing the materials that one of the reasons why she favored releasing these materials was the fact that these people were already in the public domain people had already talked about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein and prince Andrew and others this is not a

List of individuals per se people have been talking about a release of a list this is normal Court filing that merely mention people’s names so it not so therefore why has it been so difficult do you think for this information to be released well I I think it’s been

Difficult because a lot of the people that are identified in these documents did not want to be identified with Jeffrey Epstein in the same breath you know for example this uh release of information gives us a little bit of color behind the relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and prince Andrew and

How close they were or Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton and how close those relationships were it’s important to say in this that all of those people that have been mentioned say that they deny any wrongdoing at all prince Andrew um has said that before and also uh that’s

Been a statement from Buckingham Palace Anna I just wanted to bring you in here prince Andrew is named in these new documents he’s accused of groping a woman which he denies but what does this do for his reputation I think in many ways it doesn’t do further damage uh in

That so much damage has already been done I think people have made up their minds about prince Andrew and although he was with the royal family at sanum he’s very much there as a a member of the family and not a working Royal it just again really brings to the for this

Very torty business that just won’t go away for the royal family and of course it was an issue that a devoted mother had to deal with the late Queen now of course Charles is having to deal with it as Andrew’s uh elder brother what do you think he’ll be saying behind

Closed doors and what do you think the family really think about what’s going on in a sense he’s a problem that won’t go away for Charles but he absolutely I think will have no quals about keeping him at a distance and the fact that the palace are not speaking for him uh is

What you would expect because he’s not a working role but I think also speaks volumes about the fact that he is now at a distance uh and they are trying to keep that distance from him he’s not a working Royal but many in the public will see him as still having titles

Still having many of the trappings of being within the royal family he’s still a Duke of York so do you think there’ll be more calls to remove more of this kind of furniture from him yes I think probably there will be further calls I mean you know his presence is just

Incredibly toxic and undermining for anything that King Charles might try to do to modernize the monarchy to try and engage it with a wider demographic um and so yes perhaps there will be further calls for Andrew to be stripped of all remaining titles Andrew will of course

Feel that you know the fact that he is no longer able to represent uh the monarchy and be a working role is is punishment enough and Spencer I just wanted to get a word from you what are days like this like for people that you represent just having to see all of this

Information come up again I just wonder what it’s like for them well thank you and for even asking because I think that gets forgotten in the greater story of the perpetrators here are the victims there are literally tens if not hundreds of victims that are out there that were abused by Jeffrey

Epstein and to see these stories repeatedly in the news obviously brings up awful thoughts these young women are now in their 20s some in their early 30s and have moved on with their lives and unfortunately this is an awful part of their past but having said that it is

Comforting to know that the people in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit are now being held to account for their behavior finally Spencer Ken Anna white loock thank you very much much indeed for your time thank you thank you

Prince Andrew and the former US president Bill Clinton are among a number of high profile figures whose names featured in newly released court files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Both have previously denied any wrongdoing. Around 900 pages of documents have been unsealed as part of an old case brought in New York against Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

But so far no major new allegations have emerged. Our Washington correspondent Siobhan Kennedy reports.
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