Tag Archives: Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein Victim Email: Trump Had Sex With “Many Girls”

The Daily Mail reports: In the latest dump of papers – made public on Monday – are emails sent by Epstein victim Sarah Ransome to DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan in 2016. At the time, Callahan worked for The New York Post and was reporting on Epstein. Ransome claimed in those emails that Trump had sex with ‘many girls’, including a …

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Epstein List Released Despite Earlier Report Of Delay

The Guardian reports: Numerous documents identifying associates of notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been made public on Wednesday. These associates’ just-unsealed names were contained in court documents filed as part of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell. Prior to the unsealing, the names were listed in court papers as variants of J Doe. Many of the names …

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Release Of Epstein List Delayed Until At Least Jan. 22

NewsNation reports: The release of more than 150 names mentioned in court documents from a civil case filed by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims was postponed. The documents won’t be made public until at least Jan. 22, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York confirmed to NewsNation. The delay comes after a judge granted a 30-day …

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Judge To Unseal Huge List Of People Linked To Epstein

The Messenger reports: The names of nearly 200 people connected to pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are likely to be unsealed in the New Year, according to ruling by a federal judge on Monday. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered that sealed names and material related to 177 people be publicly filed in 14 days, according to court filings. That …

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Trump: Jeffrey Epstein “Probably Committed Suicide”

The Hill reports: Tucker Carlson brought up former Attorney General William Barr in unusual fashion, raising a report he wrote about the death of Jeffrey Epstein in prison. Carlson questioned why Barr wrote in his biography that Epstein likely killed himself, a nod to conspiracy theories that Epstein was killed in prison. Trump said he did not know, but he …

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JPMorgan Settles Suit With Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein

The New York Times reports: JPMorgan Chase on Monday reached a tentative settlement with sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier, after weeks of embarrassing disclosures about the bank’s longstanding relationship with him, said the bank and lawyers for the victims. The proposed deal would settle a lawsuit filed last November in Manhattan federal court by an unidentified …

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Epstein’s Accusers Sue Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase

The Wall Street Journal reports: Women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse are suing Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase, saying the banks facilitated Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking operation and ignored red flags about their wealthy client. The two lawsuits seek class-action status and unspecified financial damages. They were both brought by lawyers that have represented many of the late financier’s …

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Ghislaine Maxwell Gets 20 Years On Trafficking Charges

The New York Post reports: Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 in prison Tuesday for her role in helping powerful pedophile Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls, capping off a dramatic fall from grace for the British socialite turned-convicted sex-trafficker. Maxwell’s sentencing marked the end of the federal criminal proceedings against her in the Southern District of New York, where she …

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WSJ: Epstein’s Private Islands Go On Sale For $125M

The Insider reports: Two private islands in the Caribbean owned by late financier Jeffrey Epstein are hitting the market for $125 million. The news was reported on Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal, which verified the listing with an attorney for the Epstein estate and the islands’ listing agents. Little St. James — believed to have been Epstein’s primary residence …

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Prince Andrew Confidentially Settles Abuse Lawsuit

The New York Times reports: Prince Andrew, the disgraced second son of Queen Elizabeth II, has settled a lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, a woman who had accused him of raping her when she was a teenage victim of Andrew’s friend, the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new court filing in Manhattan on Tuesday. The amount that …

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Ex-HRH: Queen Strips Prince Andrew Of Military Titles

The Huffington Post reports: Prince Andrew has been officially stripped of his military affiliations and royal patronages, Buckingham Palace said in a statement released on Thursday. “With The Queen’s approval and agreement, The Duke of York’s military affiliations and Royal patronages have been returned to The Queen,” the breaking statement said. The major announcement comes just one day after a …

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Maxwell Seeks New Trial After Comments By Juror

ABC News reports: Defense attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell want a new trial following post-verdict comments made by one of the jurors who helped convict Maxwell of sex trafficking crimes, according to a court filing Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, federal prosecutors in New York asked a judge to oversee an inquiry after the juror granted multiple media interviews in the last two …

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Feds Formally Drop Case Against Epstein’s Jail Guards

Law & Crime reports: The day after a federal jury convicted Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking and other crimes, the government formally recommended disposing of the prosecution of two guards on duty the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death. Indicted in November 2019, Metropolitan Correctional Center guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas each faced charges of falsifying records and conspiracy for …

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BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell Guilty On Five Counts

USA Today reports: Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite charged with recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by the financier Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict is expected to be announced shortly in the New York City courtroom where Maxwell has been on trial since late November. Deliberations began Dec. 20, …

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DOJ To Shutter Decrepit NYC Jail That Housed Epstein

Gothamist reports: The Department of Justice will close an infamous federal jail in Lower Manhattan, at least temporarily, in an effort to address brutal and decrepit conditions that have long plagued the facility. Human rights experts, public defenders, and judges have long criticized the MCC for exposing defendants to harrowing conditions, including filth, vermin, a lack of medical care, and …

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Epstein Accuser Sues Prince Andrew For Sexual Assault

The Wall Street Journal reports: One of Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime accusers filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew Monday, taking accusations that he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 to a formal venue. Lawyers for Virginia Giuffre filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, where Epstein was charged criminally with sex trafficking a month before he killed himself in August …

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BOOK: How Ken Starr Protected Epstein From The Feds

The Guardian reports: Ken Starr, the lawyer who hounded Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, waged a “scorched-earth” legal campaign to persuade federal prosecutors to drop a sex-trafficking case against the billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein relating to the abuse of multiple underaged girls, according to a new book. In Perversion of Justice the Miami Herald reporter Julie K …

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Book: Trump Mulled Pardon For Epstein’s Alleged Pimp

The Insider reports: Donald Trump took a “sudden interest” in Ghislaine Maxwell’s case as he was considering who to pardon in the final week of his presidency, journalist Michael Wolff alleges in a new book. Maxwell, a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, to which she has pleaded not guilty. Epstein died in jail last …

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Dershowitz Sues Netflix Over Portrayal In Epstein Doc

The Hill reports: Attorney Alan Dershowitz has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Netflix over his portrayal in the documentary series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.” The $80 million lawsuit in a Florida federal court alleges that the company and the show’s producers “knowingly and deliberately misled Professor Dershowitz as to their intentions for his participation in the series.” Dershowitz, who was …

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Epstein’s Prison Guards Cut Deal To Avoid Jail Time

The Associated Press reports: The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will skirt any time behind bars under a deal with federal prosecutors, authorities said Friday. The prison workers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were accused of sleeping and …

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