Another set of unsealed documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released Thursday.
Nineteen exhibits totaling 327 pages of previously sealed documents were publicly filed Thursday evening by a federal court in New York.
The disclosure is part of a settled lawsuit first filed in 2015 against British socialite and 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.
In total, the hundreds of pages of unsealed documents — which are the latest to attract online conspiracy theorists in the wake of Epstein’s 2019 death — are expected to make public the names of more than 150 people connected to or mentioned in legal proceedings related to Epstein and his network, which prosecutors said involved luring underage girls and young women to engage in sex acts with powerful men.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell while facing charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy.
In December, a federal judge in New York ordered the documents from Giuffre’s lawsuit to be unsealed beginning this month, doing so on a rolling basis. Those who have objected to their names being unredacted were able to appeal, and their identities remain blocked while under review by the judge.
Dozens of documents were released Wednesday, with much of the information and names already known in prior public records and interviews. Still, the materials laid out the extent of Epstein’s orbit, with details provided in depositions from Giuffre and another woman, Johanna Sjoberg, who said she was recruited by Maxwell as a massage therapist while she was attending Palm Beach Atlantic College in 2001.
Giuffre said in a deposition that at different times she was directed to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew, another prince, the unnamed owner of a large hotel chain and Glenn Dubin, a billionaire hedge fund manager, according to a…
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