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The death of accused sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the summer of 2019 aroused significant public intrigue around private documents that would reveal the names of high-status figures who may have visited his private island.
Epstein allegedly hosted some of the world’s wealthiest and most famous people on his private island, including Bill Gates, the Duke of York Prince Andrew, former president Bill Clinton, and many others. These allegations were supported by Epstein’s now-convicted business partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, who testified in 2021 that she had been trafficking underage females to the island to have sexual relations with these high-profile guests. The trafficked girls were also known to have performed “massages” on the visitors to the island.
Now, the website CourtListener, which is operated by the non-profit Free Law Project, is expected to make 40 documents, which reveal the names of over 180 of Epstein’s clients, publicly available in the coming days.
Judge Loretta Preska from the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York had scheduled a release date of January 1 for the names of those listed on Epstein’s client list.
The source of these documents is a former lawsuit against Epstein that began in 2015 and ended in 2017. Johanna Sjoberg was the focus of a 2016 testimony against the disgraced New York financier during that suit in which she recounted several conversations expected to be damning against many suspected clients.
In one document already released, Sjoberg recalled a conversation with Epstein about former president Bill Clinton, in which she said, “He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.”
Just this week, a spokesperson for Clinton reiterated his 2019 denial and asserted that it has now “been nearly 20 years since President Clinton last had contact with Epstein,” and that the former president had no knowledge of Epstein’s “terrible crimes.”
Further on in her deposition, Sjoberg clarified that she never provided a massage to Donald Trump, who had previously been photographed with Epstein and was suspected by some to be among the celebrities listed on the client list. From what we have seen thus far, Trump is not implicated in any wrongdoing associated with Epstein in the documents.
Other clients named in the documents so far have been Epstein’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Michael Jackson, and physicist Stephen Hawking, with a witness claiming that Hawking had engaged in an “underage orgy.”
American Daily Press will continue to monitor this story as more documents are released in the coming days.
Brandon Goldman is a contributor and Chief Development Officer for American Daily Press