A new wave of court documents released this week about the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein names several prominent celebrities.
Roughly 40 documents were released Wednesday and Thursday pertaining to a 2015 lawsuit filed against Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, by alleged victim Virginia Giuffre. The documents revealed new information about some celebrities who had already been rumored in previous leaks and documents to have been associated with Epstein.
One newly released document revealed allegations that an underage girl identified as “Jane Doe 3” was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew, Duke of York, on several occasions, including in an underage orgy. The girl was allegedly “forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations.” This included sex “on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other underaged girls).”
Prince Andrew has consistently denied allegations of sexual wrongdoings at Epstein’s properties.
Former President Bill Clinton was also mentioned by an Epstein victim in sworn testimony.
“[Epstein] said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” the alleged victim, Johanna Sjoberg, claimed.
Sjoberg also mentioned former President Donald Trump in her testimony. She claimed Epstein spoke about Trump and suggested they go to his Atlantic City casino.
“Great, we’ll call up Trump, and we’ll go to … the casino,” Epstein said, according to Sjoberg, when his private jet was rerouted.
Sjoberg did not directly accuse Clinton or Trump of any wrongdoing.
Another newly released document revealed an email from Epstein to Maxwell that directed her to offer a “reward” to Giuffre and her friends if they helped debunk a rumor that Stephen Hawking participated in “an underage orgy” in the Virgin Islands.
“You can issue a reward to any of virginias friends acquaionts family [sic] that come forward and help prove her allegations are false,” the email read.
Sjoberg said she met Michael Jackson but did not provide him a “massage” as she did with other clients. She also said she met magician David Copperfield, who she described as a friend of Epstein. Copperfield, she said, performed magic at a dinner and asked her if she was aware that “girls were getting paid to find other girls.”
Prince Andrew was the only celebrity mentioned accused of wrongdoing.
Epstein allegedly committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial.
