Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Stephen Hawking are amongst these named in court docket paperwork referring to Ghislaine Maxwell, her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and alleged victims of sexual abuse.
A US decide, Loretta Preska, dominated in December that paperwork that had been a part of a 2015 defamation case by Virginia Giuffre in opposition to Ghislaine Maxwell ought to be made public.
Judge Preska ordered that some people ought to be named as a result of that they had already given interviews to the media.
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In one doc, a lady named Johanna Sjoberg – whereas giving testimony in May 2016 – claimed the Duke of York touched her breast whereas sitting on a sofa contained in the US billionaire’s Manhattan condominium in 2001.
Buckingham Palace has beforehand stated the allegations are “categorically untrue”.
At the time, Ms Sjoberg testified that Maxwell known as her to an upstairs closet the place they pulled out a puppet of Prince Andrew that had been made for a BBC programme.
“It looked like him,” Sjoberg stated. “And she brought it down and presented it to him; and that was a great joke, because apparently it was a production from a show on BBC.”
“And they decided to take a picture with it, in which Virginia and Andrew sat on a couch.
“They put the puppet on Virginia’s lap, and I sat on Andrew’s lap, and so they put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and so they took a photograph.”
In the documents released, Ms Sjoberg said that while flying to Manhattan with Epstein, Maxwell, Ms Giuffre and Prince Andrew, the financier’s jet was diverted to Atlantic City, New Jersey – where Epstein suggested going to one of Donald Trump’s casinos.
“The pilot’s informed me to return and inform [Epstein] that we won’t land in New York and that we had been going to need to land in Atlantic City,” she said.
“Jeffrey stated, Great, we’ll name up Trump and we’ll go to – I do not recall the identify of the on line casino, however – we’ll go to the on line casino.”
Later, when questioned on if she had to give Mr Trump a massage, Ms Sjoberg said she was never asked to.
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In Ms Sjoberg’s interview below oath, she additionally described conversations with Epstein during which he claimed former US president Bill Clinton “likes them young, referring to girls”.
ABC News beforehand reported that Mr Clinton is known as as “Doe 36” and talked about in additional than 50 of the paperwork.
In an announcement launched in 2019, a spokesperson for the previous president stated he had “not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade” and “knows nothing about the terrible crimes”.
There is not any indication of any wrongdoing by Mr Clinton.
Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed in different paperwork launched that Mr Clinton had travelled on board Epstein’s personal jet. She didn’t know what number of occasions.
Epstein: ‘Issue a reward to… show her allegations false’
Other papers unsealed included an e-mail from Epstein to Maxwell, the place he proposed for her to “issue a reward” to any of Ms Giuffre’s buddies who may dispute her allegations shortly after she filed a civil declare within the US in 2015.
The e-mail learn: “You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false.
“The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the brand new model within the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.”
Mr Hawking was photographed on Epstein’s island in March 2006, as part of a trip to a science conference on neighbouring island St Thomas.
The conference was paid for by Epstein and saw 20 other scientists attend.
Epstein was discovered lifeless in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 whereas he awaited trial on intercourse trafficking costs.
Maxwell, 62, is serving a 20-year jail sentence after she was convicted of serving to Epstein recruit and sexually abuse underage ladies.
Source: information.sky.com”