News batches of documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse were released on Friday afternoon. The additional documents, totaling more than 1,00 pages, add to the more than 1,200 pages already unsealed on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, the first release of which prompted an online frenzy that crashed a website hosting the documents. The documents unsealed on Friday do not appear to include new revelations about Epstein’s sex trafficking or his high-profile associates’ alleged involvement. They include still more deposition excerpts from Ghislaine Maxwell – Epstein’s procurer – and Johanna Sjoberg, one of the late financier’s many accusers. The filings also include paperwork over the production of documents related to Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Maxwell. Giuffre accused Maxwell and Epstein of trafficking her to the British royal Prince Andrew; she filed suit over Maxwell’s denials of these allegations. Among the documents was a list of search terms for Maxwell’s electronics as part of the evidence-gathering process; they included names such as “Clinton”, “Andrew”, and nouns such as “schoolgirl” and “gerbil”. Clinton was also among the high-profile men with whom Epstein associated; he is not accused of wrongdoing. In addition to Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, other high-profile names included in the documents so far include the singer Michael Jackson and the illusionist David Copperfield. Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking and similar charges for procuring teenage girls for Epstein. He killed himself in jail several weeks after his July 2019 arrest for sex trafficking. Before the unsealing, the names were listed in court papers as variants of J Doe. Many of the names are people who had been publicly identified as Epstein associates prior to this unsealing.
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