The second in an avalanche of long-sealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein was filed Thursday.
The newly unsealed trove of files was dropped a day after the first batch of more than 40 court documents were made public. It included dozens of wealthy and powerful celebrities who had interacted with or collaborated with the deceased pedophile.
So far, a long list of celebrities, from Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton to the late scientist Stephen Hawking, have already been mentioned in the files released late Wednesday.
More documents are expected to be filed Friday and possibly Monday, bringing the total to 240, naming more than 170 Epstein associates, former employees and victims, officials said. has been done.
Last month, Manhattan federal judge Loretta Preska ordered the release of an entire cache of documents that Epstein's accuser Virginia Giuffre had filed against the sex offender's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, who died in 2015. This is part of the settlement of a defamation lawsuit.
Thousands of pages of documents in the lawsuit had already been made public, but some sections and names had been redacted due to privacy concerns.
Among the claims contained in Wednesday's document dump was an allegation that Prince Andrew took part in an “orgy of minors.”
One woman, identified only as “Jane Doe 3,” testified in a 2014 deposition that she was “forced to have a sexual relationship with this prince when she was a minor.” That includes Maxwell's London apartment, New York and “Epstein's private island.” in the U.S. Virgin Islands (having an orgy with numerous other underage girls).”
Another Epstein victim, Johanna Sjoberg, who worked as a masseuse for the financier, said in a 2016 deposition that she sat on Epstein's lap in 2001 at his Manhattan townhouse. The royal, who was sitting on Epstein's lap, said he groped her breasts.
Elsewhere in the same deposition, Mr. Shoberg also said that Mr. Epstein once said that former President Bill Clinton “liked them young,” and that the late sex offender once said that he was a New Jersey resident. He also testified that he once suggested parking a private jet at one of former President Donald Trump's casinos in Atlantic City.
Sjoberg said she had met Michael Jackson at Epstein's Palm Beach, Fla., home and that nothing bad had happened to the late pop icon.
According to the filing, she testified about attending dinner parties at Epstein's home where magician David Copperfield performed magic tricks and that “girls were being paid to find other girls.” He asked her if she knew about it.
Apart from the disgraced British royal family, no other prominent figure has been accused of wrongdoing.
