The federal court in New York on Wednesday night unsealed documents related to disgraced financier and sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as the first in a series of steps to reveal 150 names in the lawsuit Virginia Giuffre filed against his former lover Ghislaine Maxiwell.
The Epstein documents, which were unsealed and made public in the past few days, did not provide the smoking-gun that many had hoped. This is according to Neama Rahmani who is a Los Angeles based former federal prosecutor. There was no definitive list as to who visited Epstein’s infamous island. However, there was enough information to bring down some powerful people.
More documents will be released in the future.
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In a photo released by U.S. Department of Justice, Jeffrey Epstein and Sarah Kellen pose next to Epstein’s personal jet. This is one of the many photos that were unearthed in Ghislaine Maxiwell’s trial for sex-trafficking in the Southern District of New York. She was found guilty of working with Epstein in order to sexually abuse children and was sentenced to 20 year in prison by 2022.
Five revelations are revealed in the first batch of files that were unsealed:
Johanna Sjoberg was Epstein’s former masseuse and she made a number of eye-catching claims in her deposition.
Bill Clinton gets a massage in 2002 from Chauntae Davis at a small Portuguese airport during a fuel-stop for Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727, which was headed for Africa.
Sigrid McCawley asked Sjoberg, one of Giuffre’s lawyers, if she was aware that Epstein had a close friendship with the former president.
She said, “I knew that he was in contact with Bill Clinton.” “I didn’t know they were close friends until I saw the Vanity Fair story about them traveling to Africa together.”
“Has Jeffrey ever talked to you about Bill Clinton?” McCawley questioned.
Sjoberg stated that Clinton liked girls when they were young.
Clinton was not accused of any wrongdoing relating to Epstein, and his spokesperson noted that he could have objected to the unsealing his name but didn’t.
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Angel Urena denied in the documents the claim that Clinton and Epstein were involved personally.
Rahmani claimed that Sjoberg’s memory of Epstein making comments about Clinton was the “biggest explosive” in the document dump on Wednesday, but it was also “very hearsay.”
Giuffre’s family and friends were offered a’reward’ to disprove the allegations she made
In an email filled with typos, Epstein wrote to Maxwell that he could offer a reward for any of Virginia’s friends or family members who would come forward to prove that her accusations were false.
Jeffrey Epstein photographed in Cambridge, Massachusetts September 8, 2004. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis/Getty Images)
He wrote that “the strongest” claims were “the clinton meal” and the bizarre claim that famed physicist Stephen Hawking took part “in a underage orgy.”
Hawking, who suffered from a debilitating disease known as amyotrophic laminar sclerosis , died in 2018.
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David Copperfield ‘did magic tricks’ at Epstein dinner
Sjoberg referred to Epstein as Epstein’s friend, David Copperfield. Copperfield was accused himself of sexually abusing a teenage model.
David Copperfield poses in a photograph after holding a press conference to launch his first Australian tour in 10 years, and the associated national tour at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, on August 6, 2009. In Brisbane, Australia. (Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)
She claimed that he performed “magic tricks” at Epstein’s house, and then said that he had asked her whether she knew about “girls getting paid to find girls” for a sex trader.
She said that he did not elaborate.
Copperfield has not been accused of any wrongdoing relating to his Epstein connections, nor did he immediately respond when Fox News Digital asked for a comment.
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Prince Andrew and “the incident in New York where the puppet was involved”
Sjoberg also alleges in her unsealed deposition that Prince Andrew groped his victim while she sat on his lap holding a puppet of Prince Andrew from the BBC TV show “Spitting Image.”
A photo from 2001, which was in the court files, shows Prince Andrew with an arm around Virginia Giuffre’s waist. She is 17 years old. Ghislaine Maxiwell is pictured on the right.
She recalled the meeting with the British royal at Epstein’s New York City home.
She said, “At some point, Ghislaine asked me to come up, and together we opened a cupboard and took out the puppet caricature of Prince Andrew and brought it downstairs.” “It was then that I realized who it was. There was a tag on the puppet which said, ‘Prince Andrew.’
Someone then took a picture of Sjoberg and Giuffre with Prince Andrew, the puppet, and Sjoberg.
Sjoberg explained, “They placed the puppet on Virginia’s lap and I sat in Andrew’s lap.” “And then they put the hand of the puppet on Virginia’s chest, while Andrew placed his hand on mine, and took the picture.”
Prince Andrew settled with Giuffre’s lawsuit in 2022, for an undisclosed amount. He has denied meeting her but an infamous photo shows him with Maxwell at the corner and his arm around her hip. She accused him of having sexual relations with her while she was still underage.
The allegation of the prince having a sexual relationship with several girls “in an orgy” was resurfaced in other documents that were unsealed on Wednesday.
Although allegations against Prince Andrew were reported in the past Rahmani called this new transcript “another black eye for the royal family and the prince.”
The prince denied any wrongdoing, but was relieved from his royal duties due to his connections with Epstein.
Epstein boasts of knowing Trump
Sjoberg, an ex-Epstein “masseuse”, also brought up Donald Trump. She claimed that Epstein had once said he would call the billionaire when his flight was rerouted from New York to Atlantic City, because it could not land in New York.
Former model Melania Knauss and Donald Trump, the American real estate developer, pose with Jeffrey Epstein (financier and future convicted sex offenders) and Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite, at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida on February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images).
She said, “So as we sat there, the pilots told to me to go back to him and tell him we couldn’t land in New York but that we would have to land at Atlantic City.” Jeffrey said that it would be great if we called up Trump, and went to the casino. I can’t remember the name.
Rahmani stated that “although Trump was mentioned, there are no allegations of him engaging in sexual activity. He came out unharmed, at least in relation to the first batch of documents unsealed.”
Trump has not been accused of Epstein-related wrongdoing. Sjoberg also said that she was never asked for sexual contact and had never given him a body massage.
Trump told reporters that he had a fallout with Epstein a long time before.
The former president continued, “I wasn’t a fan.
Onboard Epstein’s private plane, the Lolita Express, are Jeffrey Epstein, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Ghislaine Maxiwell. This is one of the many photos that were unearthed in Maxwell’s trial for sex-trafficking in the Southern District of New York. She was found guilty of working with Epstein in sexually abusing minors and was sentenced to 20 year in prison by 2022.
The documents released on Wednesday do not seem to include any allegations of misconduct against anyone named within the orbit of the sex peddler, other than Epstein, Maxwell, and Prince Andrew. In the next few days, more files will be made public. They are likely to include the names of people who the judge has identified as defendants in Epstein lawsuits.
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Rahmani stated that the allegations contained in the first set of documents were largely hearsay or innuendo. “That’s good enough for a court of public opinion but not enough to hold the other alleged perpetrators criminally or civilly responsible for sexual abuse.”
Fox News’ Houston Keene, Jamie Joseph and this report were contributed by Jamie Joseph.