New Epstein Files Reveal 187 Names Linked to Trafficking Conspiracy

US Judge Loretta Preska recently ruled that documents naming associates of Jeffrey Epstein, who ran a sex trafficking ring with associate Ghislaine Maxwell, be unsealed and made public.

The names of nearly 200 people linked to Epstein during his years of child sex abuse have now been named, including Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, and Stephen Hawking. Buckingham Palace has denied the allegations against Prince Andrew, while Clinton has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. Flight logs that have been made public confirm that Clinton made four trips on Epstein’s plane for charity work but never visited his island.

In one document, a woman named Johanna Sjoberg claimed that Prince Andrew touched her breast while sitting on a couch inside the US billionaire’s Manhattan apartment in 2001. Ms Sjoberg’s deposition made reference to a puppet being placed on Ms Giuffre’s breast at the same time, believed to be Andrew’s Spitting Image puppet. During the same interview, Ms Sjoberg also said Epstein had told her that former President Bill Clinton ‘likes them young, referring to girls’.

Following the release of documents, Virginia Giuffre, one of the paedophile financier’s victims, posted to X, noting one site where the files were being released had crashed.

The names of the associates were previously redacted, replaced with ‘John Doe’ or ‘Jane Doe’ in public records of the case. The documents include an email from Epstein to Maxwell, in which he 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 read: ‘You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false. The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.’

Also published among the court documents as part of Ms Giuffre’s civil claim against Maxwell was the transcript of the socialite’s videotaped evidence given under oath.

During her interview, known in the US as a deposition, Maxwell claimed she could only recall Prince Andrew on Epstein’s island once. Andrew stepped down from public life after the furore over his friendship with Epstein and paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case to Ms Giuffre, a woman he claimed never to have met.

The duke was cast out of the working monarchy and no longer uses his HRH style after Ms Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. Epstein died while in prison in 2019 charged with child sex trafficking.

Judge Loretta Preska said many of the individuals have already been identified, either in media reports or in the trial which convicted Ghislaine Maxwell of child sex trafficking. Statements made by Maxwell to the defamation case, which was settled in 2017, helped lead to the later criminal trial against her.

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’.

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