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applegrove

(118,767 posts)
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 01:25 AM Jul 2019

Jeffrey Epstein Documents Could Expose Powerful Politicians, Businessmen

Jeffrey Epstein Documents Could Expose Powerful Politicians, Businessmen

Lisette Voytko Forbes Staff

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/07/03/jeffrey-epstein-documents-could-expose-powerful-politicians-businessmen/amp/

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In its 27-page decision, the court cited the public’s right to access the case information outweighed the privacy of certain individuals, “including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well‐known Prime Minister, and other world leaders.” 

Virginia Guiffre (now Roberts) filed the lawsuit against Ghislane Maxwell, alleging that she had used her as part of a sex trafficking network of underage girls to Epstein and a number of his famous friends, including his lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew. Both men denied the accusations.

Dershowitz has supported unsealing the documents, according to the Daily Beast.

The documents will not be immediately available, as anonymous individuals involved in the case have two weeks to file appeals.

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renate

(13,776 posts)
3. I actually doubt that
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 04:19 AM
Jul 2019

He'd consider anybody who indulged in anything blackmail-worthy to be weak. Kompromat is his currency but not his Achilles' heel, IMO.

LisaL

(44,974 posts)
11. Furthermore, the age of consent in Russia is only 16.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 04:31 PM
Jul 2019

If he was so inclined (which there is no evidence of), he could legally do so in Russia.I mean, he is officially divorced.

Kablooie

(18,641 posts)
4. Dershowitz probably figures opening the docs will take the spotlight off himself.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 04:26 AM
Jul 2019

Dershowitz name would be forgotten as prominent politicians and world leaders take over the news.

pnwmom

(108,990 posts)
9. He wasn't asking to have ALL the documents opened -- just some specific ones
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 04:27 PM
Jul 2019

that he thought would show his innocence. I wonder how he feels about any inculpatory evidence being revealed.

pnwmom

(108,990 posts)
12. He named certain documents that he wanted unsealed because, he claims,
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 04:32 PM
Jul 2019

they would prove his innocence.

no_hypocrisy

(46,163 posts)
6. Guess Prince Andrew won't be called as a character witness for Epstein.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 07:37 AM
Jul 2019

The Prince may have been anticipating this day of reckoning as I've read that he's going through the motions of reconciling with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, in order to look like a family man.

applegrove

(118,767 posts)
7. I don't think he and Sarah were ever really apart. They got divorced
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 03:48 PM
Jul 2019

and then kind of had an open marriage. They lived in two sides of the same house.

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