For nearly two decades, journalists, police detectives, FBI agents and lawyers have tried to make sense of Jeffrey Epstein’s world, but even now, after the publication of 3,000 documents, some points remain vague – The Independent.
The published documents have garnered a lot of attention, but they shed no new light on the sexual character’s routine molestations of underage girls.
Further, the most interesting ongoing topic is whether other influential people in Epstein’s inner circle were also involved in the harassment. Interestingly, many famous people spoke of him as a wonderful and wonderful person, positive.
He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side, Epstein’s neighbour in both Florida and New York, Donald Trump, said in the story.
Epstein was arrested in 2006 over allegations that he hired several teenage girls to give him sexual massages at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. Two years later over a case, Epstein served 13 months in prison under a work-release programme and then quietly began rebuilding his network of influential friends.
Epstein committed suicide in prison, and prosecutors then accused Ghislaine Maxwell, his girlfriend, of facilitating and participating in some of his illicit sexual relationships. She was convicted and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The death has led to many oddities. For example, Virginia Giuffrè, as one of the victims, filed a lawsuit in 2009 claiming that he took her around the world for sexual encounters with billionaires, politicians, royalty and heads of state. She kept the names of these men secret, but in subsequent lawsuits began naming them: Britain’s Prince Andrew, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former US Senator George Mitchell, the French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel, the billionaire Glenn Dubin and the law professor Alan Dershowitz, who had represented Epstein.
Some of the details of Giuffrè’s allegations, though, have changed over time. She initially claimed she was 15 years old when Epstein began abusing her, but later admitted that she met him the summer she turned 17.
But there are already some inconsistencies about some of her allegations. In 2022, she retracted her allegations against Dershowitz, saying she “may have made a mistake” in naming him as one of her abusers.
Another item, in a newspaper interview, she revealed that she had danced with Prince Andrew at a club, but claimed no sexual contact took place. She later said they had three sexual encounters. Andrew, on the other hand, has repeatedly denied that he had sex with Giuffrè and said he did not remember ever meeting her, although one photograph shows them together, and a member of Epstein’s family also testified that he saw the two at Epstein’s home in New York. The newspaper refused to print those allegations, according to her words.
She told another newspaper that she took a helicopter ride with Bill Clinton and flirted with Donald Trump, but later said the reporting was a mistake.
Giuffrè’s claims were investigated by the FBI but no charges were brought based on her statements, but because of the attention they drew, Brunel came under investigation in France and was accused of raping other underage girls. While awaiting trial, he committed suicide.
Any chance that Epstein himself could have answered questions about his famous friends died with him in a federal detention centre in Manhattan in August 2019. Multiple investigations concluded that Epstein died by suicide.
So far, 191 of the approximately 250 files that US District Judge Loretta Preska has allowed to be made public have been released. Attorneys involved in the case are placing them in the files as directed by the judge. While versions of many of the documents have already been made public in previous years, some sections have been blacked out for privacy reasons or to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims.
