Sjoberg said she had never met Clinton and never saw him on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean. There is no mention of wrongdoing in the document, and the questioning moves on. “He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” the deposition reads. A spokesperson for Dubin in 2019 and again Wednesday said he “strongly den these allegations” and described them as unsubstantiated statements.įormer presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump also were mentioned in depositions, none of which included allegations of wrongdoing. Giuffre said in a deposition that at different times she was directed to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew, another prince, the unnamed owner of a large hotel chain and Glenn Dubin, a billionaire hedge fund manager, according to a transcript.Ī request for a response from Andrew has not been returned, but he has strenuously denied the claim previously. Still, the materials laid out the extent of Epstein’s orbit, with details provided in depositions from Giuffre and another woman, Johanna Sjoberg, who said she was recruited by Maxwell as a massage therapist while she was attending Palm Beach Atlantic College in 2001. Most of the contents of the documents of Thursday's release were well-known and do not implicate new third parties.ĭozens of documents were released Wednesday, with much of the information and names already known from prior public records and interviews. In total, the hundreds of pages of unsealed documents - which are the latest to attract online conspiracy theorists in the wake of Epstein’s 2019 death - are expected to make public the names of more than 150 people connected to or mentioned in legal proceedings related to Epstein and his network, which prosecutors said involved luring underage girls and young women to engage in sex acts with powerful men.Įpstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell while facing charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy. The disclosure is part of a settled lawsuit first filed in 2015 against British socialite and Epstein confidant Maxwell by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who said she was a victim of sex trafficking and abuse when she was a teenager in the early 2000s. The descriptions of how women were recruited contained in the documents is consistent with what was testified to at Maxwell’s criminal trial. Nineteen exhibits totaling 327 pages of previously sealed documents were released Thursday by a federal court in New York. Some complied and some didn’t," Recarey said. "Each of the victims that went to the home were asked to bring their friends to the home.
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