Over 200 names are allegedly being connected to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy, including 20 big names, as many on the list are already publicly known as associates, employees of Epstein and Maxwell, or people who had flown on his planes.
As per US media reports, the boldface names that emerged included the director of the CIA, William Burns, and Kathryn Ruemmler, White House counsel under Barack Obama, alongside lesser figures including the leftwing professor and activist Noam Chomsky, billionaire venture capitalist Reid Hoffman and Lawrence Summers, former Harvard president and director of the National Economic Council under Obama.
Others included Woody Allen, Bill Gates, Thorbjørn Jagland, a former Norwegian prime minister, former Israeli Prime minister Ehud Barak and former Barclays chairman Jes Staley.
The documents are set to reveal more than 150 names of people linked to Epstein, who died by suicide in a US prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and other charges.
The names appear in court documents from the 2015 defamation lawsuit Giuffre filed against Maxwell, a British socialite who was later sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges related to sex trafficking.
The case was ultimately settled in 2017. As part of the court’s findings, a judge wrote that Giuffre “was a victim of sustained underage sexual abuse between 1999 and 2002”.
The case did not end there as in 2018, the Miami Herald started legal proceedings to get access to the documents wherein thousands of pages were released on a rolling basis since then, according to the Herald. But the documents used in the case continued to provoke interest, well after the suit ended.
It may also name Epstein’s alleged victims who had been taken to homes, including a mansion in New York, a Palm Beach villa, a private island in the US Virgin Islands, and a ranch outside Santa Fe.
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It’s the names of the John Does that will be mostly scrutinized, and is almost certain to include a former US president, actors, academics, and, notoriously, the now reclusive British Prince Andrew.
