Jeffrey Epstein Doe’s name unsealed by court order

• The names of more than 170 people associated with Jeffrey Epstein will be made public.
• The list of influential names is expected to include Bill Clinton, Glenn Dubin, and Jean-Luc Brunel.
• His victims also have other names previously referred to as Dawes in court documents.

A federal judge in New York will soon release the identities of more than 170 associates of Jeffrey Epstein as part of a long-running lawsuit between one of his accusers and sex trafficking partner Ghislaine Maxwell. It is planned to be made public.

Former President Bill Clinton is perhaps the biggest name expected to be revealed in the document. He was previously identified as “Doe 36,” and his name appeared in dozens of redacted court filings. He has not objected to the unsealing of documents bearing his name, and the document is not expected to result in any new accusations of wrongdoing against him.

The documents also bring new scrutiny to Prince Andrew, a longtime friend of Mr. Epstein who said he cut ties with him in 2010. Another Prince Doe whose name is not expected to be kept secret is Johanna Sjoberg, one of Mr. Epstein’s victims, who previously claimed that Mr. Epstein fondled her. At his mansion in Manhattan.

Much on social media and cable news has speculated that this list may include a comprehensive secret stash of friends of deceased pedophiles, and perhaps descriptions of their dastardly deeds. However, the reality is more complex.

The names are expected to include influential people with ties to Epstein. But the list includes the identities of some of his victims, household staff and others whose names happened to come up during the long-running trial between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Maxwell. It is expected that In court documents, these people were previously identified as John or Jane “Doe.”

For example, one of the Does, identified in court documents as “J. Doe 005,” is Carolyn Andriano. Andriano testified against Maxwell in her criminal trial, describing in excruciating detail how she was trafficked to Epstein for sex starting when she was 14 years old. Epstein had sex with her more than 100 times and told the court that by the time she turned 18, she was “too old” for him.

Andriano testified using only his first name, but gave his full name in an interview with the Daily Mail after the trial. The Daily Beast reported that the 36-year-old mother of five died of an apparent overdose in May.

Another name previously sealed, Doe 185, is Courtney Wild. She led the legal battle to invalidate Epstein’s controversial 2007 plea deal with federal prosecutors and gave multiple media interviews about her experience with Epstein.

The other two, aged 63 and 64, are sisters Annie and Maria Farmer, who have accused Epstein of sexual abuse. Annie Farmer testified at Maxwell’s trial, and both men have given media interviews about their experiences.

We’ve seen a lot of these records before.

Epstein died in a federal prison in Manhattan in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell, one of Epstein’s ex-girlfriends, was found guilty at trial in late 2021 of trafficking girls to Epstein for sex and sexually abusing some of them herself. . . She is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence in Tallahassee, Florida.

Before filing criminal charges, Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against the two, accusing them of trafficking her. Epstein settled the lawsuit against him in 2009 for $500,000.

A subsequent lawsuit against Maxwell, which was settled in 2017, unearthed numerous depositions and emails, flight manifests, news articles, and other records related to Epstein, Maxwell, and Giuffre. It did not go through an intense legal battle, including a lengthy discovery process. .

Since the settlement, the civil case has left a long shadow as various parties have sought to unseal the records.

Alan Dershowitz is trying to unseal numerous filings, claiming they will also disprove Giuffre’s misconduct accusations (the two filed numerous lawsuits against each other and their attorneys in 2022). Giuffre “probably” made a mistake (saying that Epstein trafficked her to Dershowitz).

The Miami Herald has filed a lawsuit to unseal the documents, part of which are part of a series of revelations about how Epstein negotiated a lighter plea deal on misconduct charges with Florida prosecutors around 2007. was used for. Right-wing influencer and conspiracy theorist Michael Cernovich also hired a lawyer to try to unseal documents he posted on social media.

U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet, who originally oversaw Giuffre’s case against Maxwell, passed away in 2019, leaving U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska to take over the case and take over the task of unsealing the documents.

This process took years. Preska weighed a variety of priorities, including the public’s presumed access to court documents and the privacy interests of those named in the lawsuit.

In December, for example, she ruled that sisters Andriano, Wilde and Farmer waived their right to privacy after they gave media interviews.

In an effort to unseal this series of records, Preska gave “Does” a January 1 deadline to file new objections to unsealing their identities. Now that that deadline has passed, lawyers for Mr. Giuffre and Mr. Maxwell have conferred and have since been ordered to place an unsealed version of the document in the court docket.

Epstein Doe’s name also includes powerful people.

Many documents in Giuffre v. Maxwell have been unredacted at different times and in different places.

As a result, some documents are as innocuous as the already published Daily Mail article about Mr. Epstein’s former friend Prince Andrew, and others as explosive as one of Mr. Maxwell’s depositions. Some of them are, but they end up forming a kind of puzzle that allows journalists to piece together a more complete version by: Examine unredacted portions of court documents in various locations.

That means journalists were able to identify many of the Dawes even before they were officially unsealed.

As Business Insider previously reported, Doe 183 — whose lawyers have vociferously fought in secret court filings to keep his identity secret — has been involved with Epstein in the 1990s and 2000s. It was former L Brands CEO Les Wexner, a billionaire who donated billions of dollars.

(Mr. Wexner said he was unaware of Mr. Epstein’s wrongdoing and severed ties with him in 2007 when he was convicted of soliciting girls for prostitution.)

Many of the Doe parties became victims. In the previous unsealing round, Preska revealed that two of them were Emmy Taylor and Sarah Ransom. Preska said Taylor is filing a lawsuit related to her status as a victim of Epstein, and Ransom is writing a book about his experience being trafficked by Epstein, so it’s important to keep their identities private. said it doesn’t make sense.

The current round of unsealing comes after Preska announced on Dec. 18 that it would unseal its largest batch to date, listing approximately 50 pages of Does up to and including Doe 187. The identities of some of these Does, including Doe 183, were previously published, so there are approximately 170 remaining to name, with work remaining.

Preska said he would give the court 14 days from the Dec. 18 ruling to allow the court to come forward and challenge the unsealing. According to published records, only Doe No. 107 came forward. Her lawyer said she “lives in a culturally conservative country and lives in fear of having her name published.”

Dershowitz, 24, is expected to be among the names unsealed, and he has long argued that documents relating to him should be made public.

As previously reported by the Daily Mail, Doe 162, identified as Johanna Sjöberg, gave an interview that corroborated some of Giuffre’s claims about Prince Andrew, and that the British Royal Family was involved in Epstein’s investigation in 2001. He said he fondled the two at his Manhattan mansion. Prince Andrew has denied the allegations and has settled a civil suit filed by Giuffre in 2022 over sexual misconduct.

The Miami Herald has previously reported that influential people whose names would be made public include Glenn Dubin, a hedge fund executive with close ties to Epstein (whose wife is representing Maxwell at trial); (testimony) and model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was also murdered. He himself was in prison in France before his rape trial.

Although some of the Duzes appear to be connected to Epstein’s powerful associates, that does not necessarily mean they were involved in any wrongdoing.

For example, Doe 5 is believed to be Doug Band, a former aide to Bill Clinton. Mr. Preska noted that he had given a lengthy interview to Vanity Fair about his interactions with Mr. Epstein. Band said in an interview that he tried to get Epstein out of Clinton’s orbit, but that Clinton continued to spend time with him.