Release of Epstein’s court records reveals details about high-profile contacts
Kaelan Deese
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The first names of more than 150 people allegedly associated with the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein were released by a court on Wednesday.
Names including former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson appear in freshly unsealed court records as connections to Epstein before his arrest and death in 2019.
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One document alleged that Prince Andrew “has knowledge concerning Plaintiff’s false statements to the press, in court pleadings, and in sworn testimony as well as the events of 1999-2002.”
Another revealed that Richardson “may have knowledge” concerning the facts behind claims by an alleged victim against one of Epstein’s closest confidantes.
Notably, the document included numerous unredacted cellphone numbers related to the names or related to people with information about the names.
The names were part of unsealed court filings sought in a five-year legal fight waged by the Miami Herald to release information within alleged victim Virginia Giuffre‘s defamation lawsuit against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, which was settled in 2017.
The Wednesday night release marked the first set of documents to be unsealed as part of a Dec. 18 court order, and more are expected. Such filings include depositions from Maxwell and Giuffre.
Two people whose names remain sealed are appealing the decision, including a person described as “Doe 110,” an individual whose “name and association with Epstein has been widely publicized by the media,” according to the judge. That person’s appeal remains pending, a judge said in a court filing on Wednesday.
The other individual is known as “Doe 107,” a woman who argues she “faces a risk of physical harm in her country of residence.” The unnamed Doe has been told to provide additional information to support her case by Jan. 22.
Ahead of the disclosure of Epstein’s associate list, court records indicated most of the people on the list have already had their association with Epstein publicly reported in the media or in court. Such figures widely expected to be referenced on the list ahead of its release were Prince Andrew and Clinton, among other high-profile figures.
District Judge Loretta Preska, the presiding judge over the case, said the information involving many of the listed people that were unsealed is “not salacious.”
The release of Epstein’s associates was highly anticipated online, with searches about the disgraced financier’s list trending on X, formerly known as Twitter, and on Google and Yahoo’s top search lists.
Maxwell was found guilty by a New York jury in 2021 on conspiracy and trafficking charges related to Epstein, a longtime associate and sometimes romantic partner, and for her role in abuse of underage girls for nearly 10 years.
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Epstein, the financier who faced an onslaught of accusations of sexual abuse of girls and who was able to garner an array of high-profile friends despite his depraved lifestyle, was charged with sex trafficking girls as young as 14 and sex trafficking conspiracy in Manhattan back in August 2019.
Shortly after he was imprisoned, he was found unresponsive in his New York City prison cell on Aug. 10, 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.