While it was speculated the documents would reveal an Epstein client list,many of the names featured in the unsealed documents were widely reported former associates of the late financier,including former US president Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew. The first documents included emails,transcripts of depositions and legal filings.
Ties to Epstein have led to career downfalls for former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley and Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and have tarnished the reputations of billionaires Bill Gates,Leslie Wexner and many other prominent men. All have denied knowing about or participating in inappropriate conduct with Epstein.
Much of the newly unsealed material includes transcripts of depositions that have been previously detailed in other cases.
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That includes testimony from Epstein’s former butler,Alfredo Rodriquez,who recalled paying cash to young girls who visited Epstein’s property in Palm Beach,Florida,and Johanna Sjoberg,whoclaimed Prince Andrew placed a hand on her breast once at Epstein’s house.
Sjoberg testified that Epstein told her “Clinton likes them young,referring to girls”,according to one unsealed document. She also testified in a newly released deposition that she once met Michael Jackson at Epstein’s Palm Beach,Florida,home,but that nothing untoward happened with the late pop icon.
A spokesperson for Clinton cited a 2019 statement in which he denied knowing about or participating in inappropriate conduct with Epstein. In another document,a lawyer for Virginia Giuffre,the Epstein victim who sued Maxwell,said her client made no allegations of illegal actions by Clinton.