The long-awaited release of the first round of documents relating to sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein revealed several high-profile names.
The documents indicated that some prominent figures were involved in the sexual abuse of minors, and the mention of others largely cleared them of wrongdoing. None of the people mentioned in the documents were charged with crimes. In all, about 90 figures were named, including the accusers, with four being redacted.
Here are six of the most prominent names mentioned in the documents, including those not accused of wrongdoing.
Former President Bill Clinton
Clinton was one of the most prominent figures in the documents, with his name mentioned 73 times. He was not accused of any wrongdoing, but one of the accusers, Johanna Sjoberg, testified that Epstein told her the former president “likes them young” when referring to girls.
When reached for comment on Wednesday, Angel Urena, Clinton’s spokesman, referred the Washington Examiner to a statement he 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.
Prince Andrew
Claims against Prince Andrew, subject to public scrutiny for several years, were further strengthened in the documents, with accusers directly accusing him of several instances of sexual abuse. In the most severe accusations, an accuser known as “Jane Doe #3” alleges she was forced to have sex with the British royal while she was underage, including in one instance as part of an underage orgy.
“Jane Doe #3 was forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations: in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell’s apartment), in New York, and on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls),” the filing read. “Epstein instructed Jane Doe #3 that she was to give the Prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse.”
Prince Andrew has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz
Dershowitz was one of the people most named of the accused in the documents, with his name coming up 137 times. According to one of the victims, Epstein forced the underage girl to have sexual relations with Dershowitz numerous times.
“One such powerful individual that Epstein forced then-minor Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with was former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a close friend of Epstein’s and well-known criminal defense attorney,” the filing read. “Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with Dershowitz on numerous occasions while she was a minor, not only in Florida but also on private planes, in New York, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.”
Dershowitz vehemently denied any wrongdoing and claimed the release of further documents would vindicate him.
“In my case, my false accuser admitted that she may have mistaken me for somebody else and misidentified me. But there are other instances of other people who may have been wrongly accused, and it’s important that all the documents can come out,” he said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “That’s why right from the beginning, I have asked for every document to be released, and the judge has not accepted that. She has released only some but not all the documents. And the public is entitled to see everything.”
Alan Dershowitz is on the Jeffrey Epstein list and accused by Jane Does #3 of sexual assault when she was a child.
– Dershowitz, however, wants a list of all these “radical feminists” who pushed for the Epstein list, and he wants to know if they have condemned Hamas pic.twitter.com/Q4iMqMq1aP— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) January 4, 2024
Former President Donald Trump
Trump was one of those cleared of any wrongdoing in the documents but was mentioned in four instances. In two instances, he was named in relation to his casinos. In the other two, a witness said she never saw or massaged the former president.
Trump’s representatives did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
Stephen Hawking
The renowned astrophysicist was named ambiguously in the documents, based on an email from Epstein to now-convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, in which he offered a reward for anyone who could disprove that Hawking participated in an “underage orgy.”
“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,” he wrote.
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Michael Jackson
While Jackson was not directly implicated in any sexual abuse, a witness said she saw the pop star at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence. Though she met him while she was with Epstein, she said she did not give Jackson a massage.
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.
