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    10 months ago

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    The documents identify about 170 people whose names have come up in a legal battle between Virginia Giuffre, one of his accusers, and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend who in 2021 was convicted of trafficking girls to him for sex.

    “This individual did not raise any objection to unsealing, and thus did not meet his or her burden of identifying interests that outweigh the presumption of access with specificity,” Preska wrote of Doe 36.

    Two of the unsealed documents the judge said named Doe 174 are from a deposition of Johanna Sjoberg, who has accused Epstein of rape and Prince Andrew of groping her (the British royal has denied the claims).

    “Mr. Epstein’s name has been widely linked in the press with prominent individuals such as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew,” his attorneys wrote in a motion arguing that he should not be forced to testify in front of a jury, later adding: “His personal appearance at the trial of this case would predictably be the focus of massive media attention, of both the mainstream and gutter variety.”

    One unsealed document from a lawyer representing Dershowitz seeks to discredit one of his accusers, Sarah Ransome, by saying she has made unproven claims about possessing video footage of powerful people having sex with girls in Epstein’s homes.

    In her book “Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back,” she said she told the false story as a sort of insurance policy, though she maintained that “Jeffrey kept a trove of surveillance on every person who had ever visited his properties.”


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