A New York judge ordered this Release of more than 2,000 document pages in connection with the case of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of pedophilia and child trafficking. The documents released by CNN television – the first to be made public in connection with the aforementioned case – could contain up to 200 names, including Epstein's accusers, prominent businessmen and political figures.
The case is based on a victim's complaint
These reports are part of a 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre vs. Ghislaine MaxwellEpstein's ex-girlfriend, who is said to have participated in the abuse of minors.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on charges of sexually abusing and trafficking dozens of girls. in the early 2000s; According to the US Department of Justice, the billionaire took his own life by hanging himself in his New York prison cell in August 2019 after a series of “negligences and omissions.”
Which names appear in the documents?
The New York judge herself warned last December that most of the information was contained in the documents that have now been released had already been announced previously and that the fact that certain people appeared in the documents did not mean that they were involved in Epstein's criminal activities.
Specifically, the names already announced are part of the testimony of another alleged victim of the tycoon's sexual exploitation network, Johanna Sjoberg, who was involved in the human trafficking network from 2001 to 2006 and that has provided previously unknown details.
Among the names that appear are the following:
- Bill Clinton
- Donald Trump
- Prince Andrew
- Stephen Hawking
- Michael Jackson
- David Copperfield
No new details are known yet
El Confidencial tells this about Prince AndrésEpstein's partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, He asked Joanna go to a closet: “He said come with me. We went to a closet and grabbed the doll with Prince Andrew's name on it. Then I sat on Andrew's lap, they took the doll's hands and placed them on Virginia's chest and Andrew placed his on mine.” .
The possible involvement of Isabel II's third son was already known.which is why his royal privileges were revoked two years ago.
Clinton “liked young girls”
Johanna Sjoberg also says that Epstein had a “relationship” with former US President Bill Clinton and that he said that “he liked young women, girls.” He also mentions former President Donald Trump when he says that Epstein made an unplanned stop in Atlantic City, New Jersey one day and told them should pay a visit to a casino there Trump card had there.
Although both former presidents were photographed with Epstein or his entourage, no connection to the financier's criminal conspiracy has been proven.
Stephen Hawking's “Orgy”
Another name mentioned is that of the physicist Stephen Hawking, in documents in which Epstein urged Maxwell to offer Virginia Giuffre's friends money to contradict their versions. He referred to two specific statements: that Bill Clinton was on his island and that Stephen Hawking took part “in an orgy with minors”something for which there is no evidence either.
Two new names
Michael Jackson and David Copperfield They are the only two new names that appear in the released information. Sjoberg said he met the King of Pop at the financier's Palm Beach mansion and the magician at another of his homes.