On Monday morning, the public was granted access to the fourth round of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s list. The notorious pedophile financier and sex offender committed suicide in prison before facing federal sex trafficking charges in 2019.
The 17 documents that were unsealed are part of a larger batch of thousands of pages that were released last week, with the final ones expected later Monday.
The documents are from a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre claimed that Epstein and Maxwell sexually abused her as a minor and that Maxwell lied about it.
The documents, including those that remain sealed, are expected to reveal nearly 200 names, including some of Epstein’s victims, powerful businessmen, politicians, and possibly other A-listers.
Jeffrey Epstein list: No new information in the fourth set of documents unsealed
The majority of the documents unsealed on Monday contained no new information, but more are expected to be released later that day.
The previous documents included information about how the documents were obtained for Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Maxwell.
Giuffre claimed that Maxwell and Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew. She sued Maxwell after he called her a liar.
One of the documents contained a list of keywords used to search Maxwell’s electronic devices for evidence. The list included names like “Clinton” and “Andrew” as well as words like “schoolgirl” and “gerbil”.
Bill Clinton, the former US president, was one of the prominent figures who had ties to Epstein, but he was never charged with any crime.
Other famous names mentioned in the documents include Michael Jackson, a singer, and David Copperfield, a magician. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges in December 2021 for providing Epstein with teenage girls. After being arrested for sex trafficking in July 2019, Epstein committed suicide in his cell a few weeks later.
Before the documents were made public, the names were written as variations of J Doe in court documents. Many of these names were already well-known to the public as Epstein’s associates before the unsealing.