New York Post
An avalanche of court documents related to late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were released Wednesday, Jan. 3, after sitting sealed for years.
Dozens of names of the rich, famous and/or powerful — including royalty, politicians, billionaires and famous scientists — appear in the trove that’s 40 documents deep.
The newly-unsealed docs are part of a larger group of about 250 that are expected to be released in the coming days — naming more than 170 people with ties to the multimillionaire sex offender, including victims and former employees.
The remainder of the documents will likely become public record throughout the next week.
Names of people with ties to the disgraced financier, who were previously known only as “John Does” and “Jane Does,” are being unveiled for the first time after a federal judge in December ordered that the records be unsealed.
Epstein killed himself in a federal jail in Manhattan in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
His former attorney and friend Alan Dershowitz defended the former financier’s associates, saying: “None of us knew about his private life that he kept so secret.”
“You could judge them for having shown bad judgment, but you can’t conclude that any accusations against them are true without hearing the evidence,” the one-time Harvard Law School professor said Tuesday ahead of the document drop.
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