According to records, a federal judge in New York has ordered that the names of dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims and associates be made public in 2024.
The order, issued by Judge Loretta A. Preska on Monday, is the latest filing in a settled case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an American woman who claimed Epstein sexually abused her when she was a minor and that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime accomplice, assisted in the abuse.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal charges of running a sex trafficking organization and sexually abusing hundreds of minor females.
While awaiting trial, the multi-millionaire committed suicide in jail. Prosecutors in New York indicted Maxwell on multiple counts of sex trafficking. She was found guilty in 2021.
Dozens Of Documents Naming Jeffrey Epstein Victims And Associates To Be Made Public In 2024
While Giuffre’s 2015 defamation case was settled and placed under a protective order in 2017, portions of it have been unsealed since then as Giuffre, Maxwell, and several third-party individuals debated what should and shouldn’t be made public.
A day before Epstein died in jail, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unsealed hundreds of pages of documents, declaring that the district court judge had illegally sealed hundreds of filings. That judge had since passed away.
The appeals court then remanded the case to the district court to review the remaining records and determine what may be unsealed.
Judge Preska, who has subsequently taken over the case, has ruled that more papers, including Maxwell’s 2016 deposition connected to the litigation and emails and depositions by others, will be unsealed in July 2020.
Dozens Of Documents Naming Jeffrey Epstein Victims And Associates To Be be made In 2024
According to Preska’s Monday judgment, many of the alleged victims gave public interviews and have already been recognized in the media, while others “did not raise an objection” to the unsealing of papers.
Preska has given Jane and John Doe 14 days to file an appeal before the parties confer and the records are made public.
How many of Epstein’s associates have been or will be investigated for possible crimes is unknown.
According to the decree, some of the victims will stay anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the offenses and sexual abuse of kids.
According to the order, Epstein’s accomplices, one of whom was involved in his sex trafficking activities and another whose name was used in a criminal trial, will have their documents opened “in full.”
According to the order, some of the records to be released include information about those who have died, including one person who died in 2018 but was widely associated with Epstein and featured in images at Epstein’s island property on Little St. James in the US Virgin Islands. They also include people connected to Maxwell.
Dozens Of Documents Naming Jeffrey Epstein Victims And Associates To Be Made Public In 2024
Following Epstein’s death, the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan stated that it would focus on the conspiracy allegation against him, which accused him of collaborating with workers and colleagues to run a massive sex trafficking operation involving dozens of girls. In 2008, Epstein pled guilty to two Florida prostitution charges and was sentenced to 13 months in jail.
Prosecutors might use the conspiracy charge to charge anyone else participating in the plot.
SOURCE – CNN
