President Trump refused to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein while departing the White House for a rally in North Carolina on Friday evening. A spokesperson for Bill Clinton has released a statement, saying the former president did not have a relationship with Epstein when details of his crimes emerged.
Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, claimed that the Justice Department has only released 10 per cent of the Epstein files in its possession.
The documents — more than 190 exhibits, totaling 3,025 pages so far — stem from a now-settled defamation lawsuit brought against Maxwell by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre. Maxwell, 60, a former romantic partner of Epstein’s, was found guilty in 2021 of conspiring to sexually abuse underage girls and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for her role. Giuffre has called Maxwell “the mastermind” behind the sex trafficking ring.
Former President Clinton is mentioned more than 50 times in the filings, though the records do not indicate any evidence of illegality on Clinton’s part, and his representatives said they did not object to the unsealing.
Former President Trump is mentioned in the documents, but no reference is made to any illicit behavior on his part.
Alan Dershowitz, who helped Epstein get a sweetheart plea deal, is named in the filings more than 130 times. Giuffre previously claimed she was trafficked by Epstein to Dershowitz but she later withdrew the suit in 2022, saying she made a mistake in identifying him. Dershowitz told News Nation he welcomed the release of the documents, which he said would show he had “done nothing wrong.”
Jean Luc Brunel: The former modeling agent and longtime Epstein associate features very prominently in the documents. Brunel was found dead in a jail cell in France in 2022 while facing charges for his alleged participation in the sex trafficking of minors. He had denied wrongdoing prior to his death.
Michael Jackson: A witness named in the documents said she met the late singer at Epstein’s house in Palm Beach. When asked if she gave him a massage, she said no.
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On Wednesday, a 946-page trove of court documents from that 2015 case – filed by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre – were unsealed, with details including how Epstein emailed Maxwell to insist that Stephen Hawking did not participate in an underage orgy on his Caribbean Island in 2006.
Hawking, the celebrated wheelchair-bound physicist who died in March 2018 aged 76, was among the guests at a barbecue during a conference on the island sponsored by Epstein.
Another of the documents, arguing that Maxwell should be forced to sit for further testimony, reveals that Maxwell under oath said she ‘did not recall’ being in London with Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew – despite photographs showing the three together.
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Jeffrey Epstein had information on Donald Trump and the Clintons so incendiary, it could have upended the 2016 presidential election if made public, according to the dead financier’s younger brother.
“Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016,” Mark Epstein told The Post Wednesday, recalling a conversation he had with his brother about the showdown between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
The 36-year-old mother-of-five had planned to start a new chapter in North Carolina, at a new house with a fireplace and half-acre lot with a chicken coop. Carolyn and her husband, John Pitts, had purchased the property just weeks before she was found unresponsive in a West Palm Beach hotel room on May 23.
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The Daily Beast has submitted requests for information to both the medical examiner and police department. While a cause or manner of death hasn’t been released, a toxicology report indicates Carolyn had methadone, fentanyl, and alprazolam (the generic name for Xanax) in her system when she died. Lewis Nelson, professor and chair of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School’s Department of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Division of Medical Toxicology, said alprazolam and fentanyl can be a dangerous combination, as both drugs suppress breathing. “Her fentanyl use was very recent,” said Nelson, who is not involved in Carolyn’s case but independently reviewed her toxicology report. “My postulation is she is on methadone, takes a high dose, she took fentanyl, and she died quickly.” The low levels of a metabolite of fentanyl, Nelson added, suggest that Carolyn died before her body had time to metabolize the drug. Bloodwork, however, doesn’t usually paint a picture of how often someone uses a substance.
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein’s palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico.
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Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts.
A witness simply known as “Kate“ has testified about massages, nude photos of girls being hung up in Jeffrey Epstein‘s residence, and a grooming pattern that involved her first massaging Epstein‘s feet because of her “strength“ up into a point where it became sexual favors on a regular basis.
The Hill video details hints of big names such as prince Andrew and Donald Trump, but the testimony offers no details about their involvement with the Epstein sex ring…
