Jeffrey Epstein attends the launch of RADAR MAGAZINE at Hotel QT on May 18, 2005.
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The attorney for several of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims says more court documents detailing the sexual predator’s actions and names of partners will be released in the coming days after the bombshell reveal of an initial batch of files.
“This is just the beginning,” the lawyer, Sigrid McCawley, told NBC News hours after the first tranche of 40 case files was unsealed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday night.
The documents contained the names of Epstein associates such as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew, billionaire Glenn Dubin, Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield and others.
“They have a lot more to come,” McCawley said. “There is certainly a significant amount.”
“And as we’ve seen, in this case, the truth is stranger than fiction. So we’re learning more each time about how the complex trafficking operation happened over so many decades and how many people were involved,” said McCawley, who is representing the victim. Epstein’s. Virginia Giuffre and other victims.
“It was huge, it was significant. And it hurt literally hundreds of young women. So you’re going to start to see more about how this happened, who knew about it and what was going on,” McCawley said.
The unsealed court documents are part of a lawsuit Giuffre filed years ago against Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who acted as a supplier of young women for Epstein, her one-time boyfriend.
Epstein killed himself in a New York prison in August 2019, a month after he was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking of underage girls.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence on charges related to facilitating Epstein’s rampant sexual abuse of women.
Many of the names revealed in the first batch of released court documents were previously known to have some sort of connection to Epstein and Maxwell.
The mere presence of their names in the records does not mean that they were necessarily accused of abusing women or facilitating such abuse.
Epstein has been known for years for his association with rich and powerful businessmen, celebrities and other high-profile people.
Prince Andrew almost two years ago reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre, who had sued him for allegedly sexually assaulting her while under the control of Epstein and Maxwell. Andrew denied her claim.
In a deposition unsealed Wednesday in Giuffre’s lawsuit against Maxwell, another Epstein victim, Johanna Sjoberg, testified that during a visit to Epstein’s New York home, Andrew put his hand on her breast and Maxwell or Epstein placed the hands of a puppet that looked like Andrew on “Virginia’s bosom.”
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend the de Grisogono Sponsors The Wall Street Concert Series 2005 Benefiting Wall Street Rising, featuring a performance by Rod Stewart, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on March 15, 2005.
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Sjoberg at another point in the deposition was asked about Clinton by Giuffre’s attorney, McCawley.
“Did Jeffrey ever talk to you about Bill Clinton?” McCawley asked.
Sjoberg replied: “She once said that Clinton likes them small, referring to girls.”
Clinton has never been accused of sexually harassing women or girls associated with Epstein.
A Clinton spokesman, when asked for comment by NBC News, referred to a statement issued on behalf of the former president in 2019, in which he said he “knows nothing about the terrible crimes to which Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to Florida a few years ago, or those he was recently charged with in New York.”
In the same statement, a spokesman said Clinton had not spoken to Epstein “in over a decade.”
McCawley, in her interview Wednesday night, praised Giuffre for her court battle with Maxwell, which led to the release of the documents and the charges against Epstein and Maxwell.
“Virginia is an incredibly strong person. She’s been through so much on this journey,” McCawley said.
“When I started with her almost 10 years ago, she was resistant to wanting truth and justice,” the lawyer said. “And I think this is really a shining moment that brings light to this issue. And for people to recognize what not only she went through, but so many other young people and for justice and the world to recognize what happened is really powerful for her.”
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