For a third straight day, more documents from a civil suit related to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein were released Friday.
Epstein, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 as he faced charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy, has been the subject of conspiracy theories, which the documents released have done little, if anything, to justify.
The documents released Friday by a federal court in New York City are part of a settled lawsuit against now-jailed Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who said she was a victim of sex trafficking and abuse when she was a teenager in the early 2000s.
The documents include a deposition by Tony Figueroa, who testified he was paid to bring girls he knew to Epstein’s Florida property.
Figueroa has not been charged with criminal wrongdoing.
He would be paid $200 apiece, introduce them and leave, he said, according to a transcript. He told them they would be a masseuse.
“And then I told them — I was, like, ‘Now, listen.’ I was, like, ‘I’m letting you know I don’t know what he’s going to ask you to do,’” Figueroa said according to the transcript. “But, you know, he obviously has money willing to pay for stuff. So whatever happens, I don’t.”
The documents, which started to be released Wednesday, shed some light on the powerful and politically connected circles in which Epstein traveled.
Former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are mentioned, but the documents don’t allege any wrongdoing on either’s part.
The documents released Friday include a deposition from Epstein housekeeper Juan Alessi who said Trump would sometimes visit and have meals at Epstein’s Florida property — but in the kitchen, not at the table — and that Trump never got a massage or stayed there.
Alessi said in a deposition that he met Clinton on Epstein’s plane. A spokesperson for Clinton has acknowledged that Clinton and staff members were on Epstein’s…
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