Epstein list: New images from private island revealed in latest round of unsealed documents

“There was a constant influx of girls. There were so many girls. There were girls in Miami,” Ms Ransome said in an excerpt of her deposition, which was cited by her attorneys after Maxwell filed a motion for Ms Ransome to produce more discovery.

“There were guests coming. There were — It’s like, I’m sure if you go into a hooker’s brothel and see how they run their business, I mean, it’s just general conversation about who’s going to have sex with who and, you know — what do you talk about when all do you is have sex every day on rotation? I mean, what is there to talk about?”

Ms Ransome went on to describe Maxwell as “Epstein’s main right-hand woman.”

According to unsealed testimony by Epstein housekeeper Juan Alessi, the convicted paedophile had an internal messaging system dubbed “MindSpring,” which he used for all communications. Mr Alessi claimed that the system got “so ridiculous” that instead of asking her directly for coffee or orange juice, Mr Epstein would call his staff in New York, who would type the message on MindSpring and then send it to Mr Alessi.

“But it was a message system that Jeffrey received every two, three hours, with all the messages that would have to go to the office in New York, and they will print it and send it faxed to the [Palm Beach] house, and I would hand it to him,” Mr Alessi said in a 2016 deposition.

“Mr. Epstein, instead of talking to me that he wants a cup of coffee, he will call the office; the office would type it; they would send it to me, Jeffrey wants a cup of coffee, or Jeffrey wants an orange juice out by the pool.”

The deposition was cited by Virginia Giuffre’s attorneys in a motion to request that all discovery be produced by Maxwell’s attorneys.

Maxwell said in a response filing that she had not deleted any potential communications she had through the email messaging system.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan addressed the controversy surrounding the unsealed Jeffrey Epstein records at the 2024 Golden Globes with some daring jokes.

Ghislaine Maxwell took the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to England to introduce him to Prince Andrew and other royalty, unsealed court documents have claimed.

His testimony was unsealed on Friday night, among hundreds of emails and depositions.

During the hearing, Mr Rodriguez, who was jailed in 2012 for hiding Epstein’s little black book of contacts and attempting to sell it, was asked about the relationship between Prince Andrew and Epstein.

He told the court that he knew the pair were associated with one another because there were “many pictures” of the royal scattered around Epstein’s property, dubbed the “house of horrors”.

He later said: “Maxwell took him to England to introduce him to the royalty,” referring to Epstein.

The claim is backed up by a photo from 2006 that shows Epstein, Maxwell and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein at Prince Andrew’s daughter Beatrice’s party at Windsor Castle.

It comes as more unsealed documents revealed that Maxwell’s legal team was ordered to comb through her emails and text messages to look for Prince Andrew’s name as well as terms such as “sex toy” and “slave”.

The court order was made in 2016 during a dispute between Maxwell’s lawyers and Virginia Giuffre’s team. Ms Giuffre has alleged that Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her multiple times when she was a minor in the early 2000s.

Other documents recently unsealed from Ms Giuffre’s case include allegations that Prince Andrew took part in orgies with minors on Epstein’s island in the Caribbean, as well as sucking on Ms Giuffre’s toes while the pair were having a bath together.

Prince Andrew denies any wrongdoing. Being identified through the court documents does not mean that the individual was involved in or aware of any wrongdoing by Epstein.

A Jeffrey Epstein accuser baselessly claimed Hillary Clinton “intimidated” her friend into staying silent about her allegations about Bill Clinton in 2008 in an effort to protect her presidential campaign, court documents unsealed on Monday revealed.

Writing in a 2016 email to a New York Post reporter, Sarah Ransome alleged that an unnamed friend had appeared in sex tapes with Bill Clinton, as well as Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, and months later was “approached by Special Agents Forces Men sent directly by Hilary Clinton herself.”

“They heavily intimidated her, ruffled her up (luckily she took photos as evidence) and was then forced to sign a confidentiality agreement which ensures that she can never come forward publicly implicating her husband,” Ms Ransome wrote. She also claimed the friend was given “a substantial payout directly from the Clinton Foundation to keep her quiet” and was “forced against her will to sign a legally binding confidentiality agreement.”

In the newly unsealed documents, Ms Ransome testified that her unnamed friend “was one of the many girls that had sexual relations with Donald Trump” – including at Epstein’s New York townhouse.

Hundreds of filings relating to late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been unsealed in recent days after a New York judge ordered the release of a trove of documents in the now-settled litigation between Epstein’s fixer Ghislaine Maxwell and his former victim Virginia Giuffre.

Prominent figures, such as former US presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and several Hollywood A-listers have been mentioned in the tranches released so far. But even before those names were tied to the disgraced financier, Judge Loretta Preska warned that any mention did not immediately suggest wrongdoing and that “victims and absent third parties” were also included in the filings.

Here’s how some of the high-profile names at the centre of those allegations have responded to being named:

A criminal complaint from the attorney general of the US Virgin Islands described it as “the perfect hideaway and haven for trafficking young women and underage girls for sexual servitude, child abuse and sexual assault”.

On this island, the complaint says: “Epstein and his associates could avoid detection of their illegal activity from Virgin Islands and federal law enforcement, and prevent these young women and underage girls from leaving freely and escaping the abuse.”

The Independent’s Io Dodds reports:

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Paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is dead and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year jail sentence but the fallout from their crimes continues.

More than four years after the disgraced financier died by suicide in his prison cell, a New York District judge announced the impending unsealing of a trove of documents revealing the names of more than 150 of his associates.

And now the legal files, part of a long-running defamation lawsuit brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against his former fixer and convicted child trafficker Maxwell in 2015, have been made public.

As the story continues to unfold, here’s what you need to know about the circumstances of his death.