Court records expected to be made public in the first few days of 2024 will list dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s well-known pals.
A judge ordered on Monday to conduct a massive unsealing in 14 days, and Mail Online reports that part of that unsealing will reveal the pedophile’s powerful associates.
The identification of about 177 individuals from hundreds of files will provide fresh insight into the late financier’s network of influence and his sex trafficking enterprise.
Judge Loretta Preska annotated the names of 177 Does—friends, recruiters, victims, and others—with the phrase “unsealed in full” next to them. These names will become public when the information is made public in the upcoming weeks.
The material is related to a defamation case brought by Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Roberts in New York against Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
Roberts sued Maxwell for defamation in 2016 and while the case was settled, media outlets filed in order to have the documents made public.
Some of the Does are identified in the ruling through links to interviews they have given to the media, which the judge cited as a reason why they should not stay private.
They include the housekeepers on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean where some of the worst abuse that he perpetrated was carried out.
In her ruling Judge Preska gave 14 days for any Does who objected to their documents being made public to object, after which they would be unsealed.
There will be documents about one of Prince Andrew’s accusers, who claims he fondled her breasts at Epstein’s New York mansion.
There will also be information regarding Haley Robson, who has now claimed to be a victim herself, despite being listed in police records from Epstein’s initial inquiry in 2006 in Palm Beach as a recruiter.
According to the lawsuit, part of the records will deal with Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model scout who was connected to Epstein and is accused of abusing numerous underage girls. In 2022, while he was awaiting prosecution for several sexual offenses, Brunel killed himself in a prison cell in Paris.
Since 2019, the case’s records have been made available to the public one at a time. This started a few days before Epstein hung himself in jail while he was awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
Emails, court records, deposition transcripts, and other previously undisclosed information are probably among the contents.
Miles and Cathy Alexander, a South African couple who oversaw Little St James, Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, for many years, seem to be the people in dots three and four.
Judge Preska listed the couple’s 2011 interview with the Daily Mail as one of the grounds for releasing their identities.
Despite their suspicions that some of the girls on the island were young, the couple stated in the interview that it was not their business to “judge” other people.
One of the women who testified at Maxwell’s trial, Annie Farmer, will also be mentioned in the documents; she is known as Doe 63.