Newly Unsealed Court Records Detail Jeffrey Epstein And Prince Andrew Accusations
A huge cache of court documents involving one of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, was unsealed Friday after a judge last month ordered them to be made public.
Epstein, a multimillionaire, is awaiting trial in a New York City prison on charges of sex trafficking dozens of minors at his various properties in New York, Florida, New Mexico and other locations. Epstein was required to register as a sex offender when he was convicted in Florida in 2008 on an underage prostitution charge in a case that has been widely criticized for its leniency.
The records, part of a defamation suit between Giuffre and longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, provide details about a series of disturbing sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men. Most of the allegations are not new, having appeared in media coverage about eight years ago. Taken together, however, they paint a shocking picture of an alleged sexual exploitation scheme that operated for years, shielded by enormous privilege.
Giuffre says that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to places around the world for their sexual pleasure and others’ starting when she was an underage teen. She maintains that Maxwell, a British socialite, recruited her to train as a masseuse while she worked at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort owned by President Donald Trump, where her father had a job in maintenance.
But the massage work was just a cover for sex work, Giuffre says. Maxwell allegedly functioned as a madame, procuring underage girls for sexual exploitation by Epstein, his wealthy friends and herself.
Maxwell and Epstein both dispute Giuffre’s allegations, and the case was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2017.
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