2023-12-20 02:34:28
A New York judge on Monday ordered to reveal in early January 180 names of people – victims, relatives, alleged accomplices – linked to the network of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex crimes, but who committed suicide in prison in 2019 before being judged.
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Virginia Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew under the influence of financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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The judge listed in a 50-page document the cases of some 180 people – under numbers and the pseudonym Doe – ordering that their identities be made completely public no later than 14 days after the date of this court document, i.e. 1 or January 2, 2024.
According to the British media Daily Newswhich revealed the information on Tuesday, Virginia Giuffre’s defamation complaint against Ghislaine Maxwell dates back to 2016 and was settled the following year.
However, the newspaper Miami Herald then took civil action to gain access to the file and investigate the Epstein network.
The financier was arrested in 2019.
To justify the disclosure of names – including personalities already cited in the press –, American justice relies on the fact that certain people are easily identifiable in interviews published in recent years.
Sex trafficking
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were a couple in the early 1990s, before becoming professional collaborators and accomplices in their sexual crimes for nearly 30 years.
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Ghislaine Maxwell lived for several years with financier Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in custody in New York, where he was awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
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The 61-year-old former British, French and American socialite was convicted in December 2021 in New York of sex trafficking of minors on behalf of Mr. Epstein and sentenced in June 2022 to 20 years of imprisonment.
The financier Jeffrey Epstein, with powerful economic and political networks in the United States and abroad, was himself accused of having sexually assaulted and raped young girls, but his suicide by hanging in prison in New York in August 2019, extinguished the public action against him.
In a separate aspect of this international issue, British Prince Andrew, friend of the Maxwell-Epstein pair, sealed an amicable agreement in February 2022 – for $13 million, according to the Daily Telegraph – with Virginia Giuffre, 40, who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2001, when she was 17.
The 63-year-old prince, who has fallen from grace, disputes these accusations.
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