Dozens of high-profile names including royalty, politicians, and famous scientists appear in a massive batch of previously sealed court documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein. These files were released late Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
The documents come from accuser Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation lawsuit against Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Inside the files, you’ll see references to major figures such as Prince Andrew, former President Bill Clinton, and scientist Stephen Hawking.
The long list of well-known names shows Epstein’s double life a powerful financier on the surface who used his wealth and connections to exploit young women.
In total, 215 newly unsealed documents nearly 5,000 pages were released between January 3 and January 9. They mention more than 170 people tied to Epstein, including victims and former employees.
Many of these records had come out before but were heavily redacted.
Before the release, people online speculated about which celebrities might be named. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, for example, wasn’t included in the documents but still had to defend himself from online trolls before the files went public.
Prince Andrew
Besides Virginia Giuffre’s claim that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was underage, the documents also include other allegations about the disgraced royal.
One claim says he allegedly took part in an “underage orgy.”
Virginia Giuffre (center) claims Prince Andrew had sex with her when she was a minor.
One woman, identified in court records as “Jane Doe 3,” testified that she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was a minor.
According to a 2014 court filing, she said this happened in three different places at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London apartment, at an unknown location in New York, and on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
She also claimed that one incident on the island involved an encounter with several other underage girls.
The filing also claims Epstein told the “sex-slave” to “give the Prince whatever he demanded.”
Another Epstein accuser, Johanna Sjoberg, said in her own deposition that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they were posing for a photo on a couch at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2001.
In that same photo, Sjoberg testified the royal also groped Giuffre’s breast with a puppet that looked like him.
Epstein’s former butler, Juan Alessi, claimed Andrew received “daily” massages when he “spent weeks” at his boss’ Palm Beach, Florida, mansion, according to the documents.
In the wake of the documents’ revelations, the anti-monarchy group Republic reported Prince Andrew to London’s Metropolitan Police and demanded a renewed investigation.
“It’s simple — the royals should not be above the law. Accusations of criminality should always be investigated thoroughly. THAT’S WHY THE MET MUST ACT,” the group posted on X. The Met has not commented on the request.
Both Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace have repeatedly denied all allegations against him.
Bill & Hillary Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton’s name appears 73 times in the newly released papers, the Independent noted but he is not implicated in anything illegal.
Former President Bill Clinton was a known associate of Epstein’s.
In her 2016 testimony, Johanna Sjoberg said Epstein once told her that Clinton “likes them young,” referring to girls.
Clinton who flew on Epstein’s private jet several times has denied knowing anything about Epstein’s crimes.
Newly unsealed documents also include a claim that the former president allegedly went into the Vanity Fair newsroom and “threatened” staff not to publish stories about sex-trafficking allegations against his “good friend,” Epstein.
This claim came from accuser Virginia Giuffre in a 2011 email exchange with Daily Mail journalist Sharon Churcher.
Several documents also mention Giuffre’s allegation that Maxwell told her she had flown Clinton to Epstein’s private island by helicopter. Churcher later reported that Giuffre was on that flight too but Giuffre clarified in a May 2016 deposition that this was incorrect.
She said the story was taken out of context and explained that Maxwell often made exaggerated claims.
In her own deposition, Maxwell dismissed the allegation as “another one of Virginia’s lies.” However, she did admit that she had flown with Clinton on Epstein’s plane.
Later in the testimony, Maxwell was shown flight logs that included Clinton’s name.
In June 2016, Judge Robert Sweet denied Giuffre’s legal team request to depose Clinton in her case against Maxwell, saying they hadn’t proven his testimony was relevant.
Court records also show that Clinton’s name along with initials for both him and Hillary Clinton appeared on a list of search terms Maxwell’s team was asked to use when reviewing emails and files.
The terms included “Clinton,” “BC,” “HC,” and “HRC.”
Giuffre’s lawyers also requested any communications between Maxwell and Bill or Hillary Clinton as part of the evidence discovery process.
Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump appeared at least four times in the unsealed documents.
Epstein also rubbed shoulders with Donald Trump.
In her deposition, Johanna Sjoberg said Epstein once called Donald Trump when Epstein’s private jet was diverted from New York City to Atlantic City, New Jersey. Epstein suggested they visit one of Trump’s casinos.
Sjoberg testified that Epstein said, “Great, we’ll call up Trump and we’ll go to the casino.” She said she couldn’t remember which casino he meant.
She also made it clear that she never gave Trump a massage.
In her own deposition, Virginia Giuffre said she was recruited to work as a masseuse for Epstein when she was 17. At the time, she was working as a spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Alan Dershowitz
Epstein allegedly forced Jane Doe 3 to “have sexual relations” with his lawyer, former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, when she was a “minor,” according to claims in the documents.
The alleged incidents took place “not only in Florida but … on private planes, in New York, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” one filing stated, adding that Dershowitz also was an “eye-witness to the sexual abuse of many other minors.”
Epstein allegedly forced Jane Doe 3 to “have sexual relations” with his lawyer, former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, when she was a “minor,” according to claims in the documents.
In a newly unsealed 2011 email, journalist Sharon Churcher reminded Virginia Giuffre about Alan Dershowitz being part of Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle.
Churcher wrote, “Don’t forget Alan Dershowitz… Epstein’s buddy and lawyer — good name for your pitch.” She also mentioned his connection to Claus von Bülow, who was convicted and later acquitted of attempting to murder his wife, Sunny von Bülow.
Churcher added that people suspected Dershowitz but admitted there was no proof. She suggested Giuffre may have met him while he was around Epstein.
Three years later, in December 2014, Giuffre accused Dershowitz of sexually abusing her during the time she was involved with Epstein. However, she later withdrew those claims, saying she may have made a mistake in identifying him.
In her May 2016 deposition, Johanna Sjoberg denied Giuffre’s allegation that she had sex with Dershowitz in the back of a limousine while Epstein and Giuffre were present. She said she would have remembered if that had happened.
Dershowitz, now 85, has denied all wrongdoing. He also defended himself and others linked to Epstein, saying people might question their judgment but shouldn’t assume accusations are true without evidence.
Stephen Hawking
An unsealed email shows that Jeffrey Epstein offered a reward to people connected to Virginia Giuffre — including her friends, acquaintances, and even family members. He wanted help proving that her allegation involving physicist Stephen Hawking attending an orgy was false.
The email exchange between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell discussed this effort.
Epstein’s emails mentioned a possible reward to deny claims that Professor Stephen Hawking participated in an orgy.
A January 2015 email said that Giuffre’s most serious claim “is the Clinton dinner, and the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.”
Stephen Hawking known for his brilliant work and his battle with early-onset ALS, which was shown in the Oscar-winning film The Theory of Everything died in 2018 at age 76.
Al Gore
Maxwell’s attorneys requested Giuffre provide photos or videos of herself with several high-profile people including former Vice President Al Gore.
Sjoberg denied ever meeting Gore in her testimony.
Giuffre’s team objected to the motion on the grounds that such documents were in “custody and control” of Maxwell and Epstein, the unsealed paper showed.
Sjoberg also denied ever meeting Gore in her testimony.
Tipper Gore
Al Gore’s wife, Tipper, was also seen on Epstein’s private island, according to Giuffre’s deposition in a since-dropped case against Dershowitz, which was part of the cache of documents revealed in her 2015 defamation case against Maxwell.
The accuser said she had only seen the Gores at a dinner, chatting to each other.
Neither has ever publicly addressed their alleged relationship with Epstein.
Sarah Ferguson
Sarah Ferguson was named in a 2009 deposition by Juan Alessi, who was the housekeeper at Epstein’s Florida mansion from 1991 to 2002.
While her ex-husband Prince Andrew allegedly “spent weeks” getting “daily massages” at the luxe lair, Alessi said he believes the Duchess of York only visited the property once and “for a short period of time,” according to the documents.
Leslie Wexner
During her deposition, Maxwell denied giving a woman an outfit of a sexual nature to wear for Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s financial adviser and one-time business partner.
Maxwell also said she had not communicated with the billionaire L Brands founder — whose ties with Epstein date back to the 1980s — about Giuffre’s lawsuit.
In the third trove of documents released Friday, Wexner’s wife, Abigail, was name-checked on what appeared to be a notepad or list from Epstein’s Palm Beach home.
Abigail Wexner wanted to talk about something “private,” the handwritten note read.
New transcripts from Maxwell’s testimony that were released on Friday also revealed that the British socialite confirmed that she knew Epstein.
She denied, however, knowing whether Epstein accuser Maria Farmer was ever at Wexner’s Ohio property.
In her own testimony, Sjoberg denied meeting the Victoria’s Secret mogul.
Wexner has said he “was never aware of the illegal activity” Epstein was accused of committing.
Chelsea Clinton
Instead of giving a deposition in a civil suit filed against her sick beau, Maxwell attended the wedding of former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, according to a trove of court documents unsealed Friday.
The socialite initially agreed to be deposed after she was subpoenaed in 2009 for Guiffre’s case, the alleged victim’s lawyers wrote in the 2016 motion.
“At the eleventh hour Maxwell’s attorney informed plaintiff’s counsel that Maxwell’s mother was very ill and that consequently Maxwell was leaving the country with no plans to return,” the filing states.
Given the purported circumstances, her deposition was canceled.
Despite Maxwell saying she was in the UK due to her mother’s ill health, the sex trafficker appeared as one of 400 guests at Chelsea Clinton’s lavish 2010 wedding in upstate New York.
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However, the now-convicted sex trafficker was photographed watching from the crowd of 400 as former President Bill Clinton walked his daughter down the aisle during the lavish ceremony.
“Maxwell was photographed at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in Rhinebeck, New York, confirming the suspicion that she was indeed still in the country and willing to say anything to avoid her deposition,” the filing states.
The claims were made in a 2016 motion asking that Maxwell’s request to conceal her financial assets be denied, arguing that the money proves she was deeply tied to Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.
Bill Richardson
Giuffre testified that Maxwell sent her to have sex with late New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, according to the documents.
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Giuffre testified that Maxwell sent her to have sex with late New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, according to the documents.
Sjoberg also recalled hearing about the Democrat being part of Epstein’s circle.
“I want to say that he was supposed to come to dinner when we were in New Mexico. I don’t know if I met him. I believe that he and Ghislaine had dinner separate from myself,” she said in her deposition.
Richardson died in September at age 75.
Jean-Luc Brunel
One of the men Maxwell ordered Giuffre to have sex with was Epstein’s close friend, French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel, Giuffre testified in 2016.
One of the men Maxwell ordered Giuffre to have sex with was Epstein’s close friend, French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel, Giuffre testified in 2016.
Sjoberg also recalled meeting Brunel at Epstein’s Palm Beach house, but testified that she did not have sex with him.
Brunel died by suicide in December 2020 while in a Parisian prison on charges of raping underage girls.
Marvin Minsky
In her 2016 deposition, Giuffre claimed that Maxwell ordered her to have sex with computer scientist and AI pioneer Marvin Minsky.
Minsky — who received a $100,000 grant from Epstein in 2002, according to Nature magazine — died in 2016 at age 88.
Michael Jackson
Sjoberg claimed to have met pop icon Michael Jackson at Epstein’s Palm Beach home.
One Epstein accuser said she met Michael Jackson while part of his entourage.
She denied ever massaging Jackson — who died in 2009 at age 50.
David Copperfield
Sjoberg described magician David Copperfield performing tricks at a dinner at one of Epstein’s homes.
Magician David Copperfield came to dinner at Epstein’s house, one accuser said.
“He questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls,” she added, noting that the illusionist did not specify what he meant.
Tom Pritzker
In her 2016 deposition, Virginia Giuffre said she had sex “once” with Tom Pritzker, the heir to the Hyatt hotel chain.
A spokesperson for Pritzker who is estimated to be worth $6.2 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index said he “vehemently denies” the allegation.
Glenn Dubin
“Ghislaine told me to go to Glenn Dubin and give him a massage, which means sex,” Giuffre said of her encounter with the investor.
Virginia Giuffre testified that Ghislaine Maxwell sent her to give hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin an erotic massage after she finished her “training” as part of Epstein’s entourage.
Giuffre said, “Ghislaine told me to go to Glenn Dubin and give him a massage, which means sex.”
Dubin’s wife, former Miss Sweden Eva Andersson-Dubin, dated Epstein for several years. In April 2016, Maxwell testified that she and Andersson-Dubin were friends, according to newly released records.
Maxwell was also confronted with testimony from the Dubins’ butler, Ricardo Rizzo, who said Maxwell once brought a distressed 15-year-old girl to their house.
In her own deposition, Johanna Sjoberg recalled giving massages to both Dubin and Andersson-Dubin, but said “there was nothing sexual” about those encounters.
The Dubins denied Giuffre’s claims in a 2019 Vanity Fair article. A spokesperson told The Post on Thursday: “The Dubins strongly deny these allegations, as we first said in Vanity Fair in 2019, when these unsubstantiated statements first surfaced as part of this same civil court proceeding.”
Frédéric Fékkai
Epstein may have procured women for French celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fékkai, Sjoberg claimed in her deposition.
“I heard [Epstein] call someone, and say, ‘Fekkai is in Hawaii. Can we find some girls for him?’” Sjoberg explained.
Sjoberg denied ever meeting former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak during her time with Epstein.
Ehud Barak
In her deposition, Sjoberg denied ever meeting former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak during her time with Epstein.
Last spring, the high-flying politician admitted to the Wall Street Journal that he hobnobbed with Epstein in New York, but claimed he never met the businessman “with girls or minors, or even adult women in improper context or behavior.”
Chris Tucker
“Rush Hour” star Chris Tucker was name-dropped in one of Ghislaine Maxwell’s depositions that was unsealed Friday.
When attorneys presented Maxwell a flight log from Epstein’s private plane, Tucker, now 52, appeared on the list of names.
Kevin Spacey
Sjoberg denied crossing paths with actor Kevin Spacey, who was acquitted in July of several charges related to alleged sexual attacks on younger men between 2001 and 2013.
Sjoberg denied meeting Kevin Spacey in Epstein’s company.
The “American Beauty” star was named on a flight log that attorneys read to Maxwell during her deposition, the Friday document dump revealed.
George Lucas
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas was mentioned once in the new documents — when Sjoberg denied meeting the film titan in Epstein’s circle.
Naomi Campbell
Giuffre testified in 2016 that Maxwell sent her to have sex with “the owner of a large hotel chain in France around the time of Naomi Campbell’s birthday party,” though she did not specify the year.
Photos previously emerged of Giuffre standing near Campbell on a yacht in the French Riviera in 2001.
Sjoberg said she did not meet the British supermodel in her own deposition.
Campbell said in 2019 that she had occasionally socialized with Epstein, but that she was not close with him and that his actions were “indefensible.”
Leonardo di Caprio, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz and Bruce Willis
As part of her deposition, Sjoberg was asked about press reports that she’d met certain Hollywood stars including Cate Blanchett and Leonardo DiCaprio during her time with Epstein.
She denied meeting them, but said Epstein had bragged to her about having the celeb connections while she was giving him massages.
