Dec 20, 2023 at 6:51 AM Update: 34 minutes ago
A US judge has ordered the names of 180 people linked to controversial US businessman Jeffrey Epstein to be made public. The newspaper Miami Herald had requested the names be released.
This concerns the names of Epstein’s victims, associates and suspected accomplices. The American financier took his own life in 2019 while awaiting trial. He was tried for sexual abuse.
The judge in New York has ruled that his own court must publish the names within fourteen days. The names of minor victims remain unmentioned.
Some people have already been publicly linked to Epstein. For example, Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at the prestigious Harvard University, is mentioned in the judge’s order.
The names of the 180 people appear in court documents that are part of a settled civil lawsuit. It alleged that Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell had facilitated the sexual abuse of Virginia Giuffre. Epstein and Maxwell were a couple in the early 1990s and later worked together professionally for almost thirty years.
Epstein’s prosecution ended in suicide
Giuffre alleged in her lawsuit against Maxwell that he recruited her at the age of sixteen for years of “sexual servitude” to Epstein.
She also accused Maxwell and Epstein of directing her to have sex with several of their prominent acquaintances, most notably Britain’s Prince Andrew, between 2000 and 2002. The lawsuit was settled in May 2017, just before a trial was set to begin.
Maxwell was convicted in New York in December 2021 of trafficking underage girls for sex with Epstein. Last year she was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
Epstein was accused of raping young girls. His suicide in 2019 ended his persecution.
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2023-12-20 05:51:54
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