The first of the more than 150 names of 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, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, and numerous others appeared in freshly unsealed court records as alleged associates of Epstein before his arrest and death in 2019.
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The Wednesday night release of more than 900 pages marked the first set of documents to be unsealed as part of a Dec. 18 court order, and more are expected to be released. Such filings include depositions from Epstein’s longtime associate, convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as alleged victim Virginia Giuffre, the plaintiff who sued Maxwell for defamation.
The main exhibit file listed as “Attachment 40,” which spans 19 pages, features dozens of high-profile names and short details about their alleged connection to Epstein or sex trafficking victims. Maxwell’s legal team claimed in that document that Andrew “has knowledge concerning [Giuffre’s] false statements to the press, in court pleadings, and in sworn testimony,” as well as events occurring between 1999 and 2002.
Other names that are referenced across the array of filings include French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel, hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, former Epstein scheduler Sarah Kellen, magician David Copperfield, attorney Alan Dershowitz, former Vice President Al Gore, and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Former President Donald Trump‘s name was raised in the same deposition in which Clinton was mentioned, and a witness testified that they did not ever see Trump at one of Epstein’s properties.
A short reference to Clinton in Attachment 40 specifies former FBI Director Louis Freeh “may have knowledge concerning travel of Bill Clinton.” A line about the former New Mexico governor claims he “may have knowledge” concerning the facts behind claims by an alleged victim against one of Epstein’s closest confidantes.
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 Maxwell, which was settled in 2017.
Notably, the Attachment 40 document included numerous unredacted cellphone numbers related to the names or related to people with information about the names and their alleged associations with Epstein. A few redactions remained in that key document.
A previously released document dated June 14, 2016, showed for the first time why Giuffre’s attorneys wanted a deposition from Clinton.
“In a 2011 interview, Ms. Giuffre mentioned former President Bill Clinton’s close personal relationship with Defendant and Jeffrey Epstein. While Ms. Giuffre made no allegations of illegal actions by Bill Clinton, Ms. Maxwell in her deposition raised Ms. Giuffre’s comments about President Clinton as one of the ‘obvious lies’ to which she was referring in her public statement that formed the basis of this suit,” the document said. “Apart from the Defendant and Mr. Epstein, former President Clinton is a key person who can provide information about his close relationship with Defendant and Mr. Epstein and disapprove Ms. Maxwell’s claims.”
Clinton’s name had previously appeared on manifests for Epstein’s private jet, on which he had taken four trips “in connection to the work of the Clinton Foundation,” a spokesperson for the former president said in 2019.
In a separate deposition, Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg said Andrew put his hand on her breast to pose for a photo with Epstein, Giuffre, and Maxwell.
Sjoberg also alleged there was a puppet in the photo that said “Prince Andrew” on it. Later in the deposition, Sjoberg claimed Epstein told her Clinton “likes them young” when referring to girls.
Clinton spokesman Angel Urena referred the Washington Examiner to a statement he previously put out in July 2019, in which he said Clinton “knows nothing about the terrible crimes” Epstein committed. The former president has not been accused of criminal activity in connection with Epstein, and his representatives did not object to the unsealing of the latest documents.
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 a previous filing from District Judge Loretta Preska. 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 Andrew and Clinton, among other high-profile figures.
None of the people mentioned in the documents were charged with crimes, and their inclusion in these records does not indicate wrongdoing. Preska previously said the information involving many of the listed people who were unsealed is “not salacious.”
The release of Epstein’s documents 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, who at times had a romantic relationship with Epstein, 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 collect many high-profile friends despite his depraved lifestyle, was charged with sex trafficking girls as young as 14 and sex trafficking conspiracy in Manhattan 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.
