Jeffrey Epstein list: New batch of documents unsealed revealing more associates

Epstein had a modest upbringing, born to a middle-class family in Coney Island, New York City, in 1953. He attended New York University, studying mathematical physiology, but dropped out in 1974.

He went on to become a physics and maths teacher at a school in Manhattan, before being dismissed for “poor performance”. At this point he chose to go into banking, starting his career as a junior assistant to a floor trader.

In 1981, he set up his own company aimed at helping people recover stolen money from fraudulent lawyers and brokers.

Six years later, he was hired by Steven Hoffenberg as a consultant at Towers Financial Corporation, a collection agency that bought debts owed to hospitals, banks and phone companies.

With his wealth, Epstein was able to associate himself with the likes of former US president Bill Clinton

Then, in 1988, he founded his financial management firm J. Epstein & Company, where only clients with at least $1 billion of assets were considered. It’s then that Epstein became involved with money laundering and other criminal activities.

In 1993, it was claimed he became involved in an fraudulent investing scam that brought in investors on false promises of return – but he avoided being charged for his involvement in the scheme.

It remains a mystery as to how he achieved success so quickly at his company, but over the next two decades he struck multi-million-pound deals with some of the world’s wealthiest people and biggest financial institutions.

Former US president Donald Trump dined at Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida home but did not sit at the table, instead eating in the kitchen with a former employee of the disgraced financier, court documents claim.

There is no indication that Mr Trump committed any wrongdoing related to Mr Epstein’s crimes.

However, the former American president has been named a handful of times in the court documents related to the convicted sex offender, which were made public this week.

In a new set of documents unsealed on Friday former Epstein employee Juan Alessi referred to Mr Trump’s visits.

Responding to whether Mr Trump stayed at Epstein’s residence in Palm Beach, Mr Alessi said “No, never… He would come, have dinner. He never sat at the table. He [would] eat with me in the kitchen.”

You can read more on Mr Trump’s visit to the Epstein residence here

Newly released court documents claim Prince Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson also visited Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida home at least once.

Ms Ferguson divorced from the Prince in 1996, but they have remained close. Being named in the court documents does not equate to any accusations of wrongdoing on her part.

Juan ‘John’ Alessi, who worked at Epstein’s home in Palm Beach for about ten years in the 1990s, testified in 2009 that he had seen Ms Ferguson visiting the house alongside the Duke of York.

The Independent has reached out to Ms Ferguson for comment via her charity Sarah’s Trust.

Prince Andrew has been accused of participating in an “underage orgy” on convicted sex offender Jefferey Epstein’s private island, according to newly unsealed court documents.

The campaign group Republic has called for the Duke of York to be investigated by police after allegations of sexual assault resurfaced in the unsealed court records.

The allegations have previously been reported in the media and Andrew has strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

The court document alleges an underage girl – identified only as “Jane Doe 3” – was “forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations.”

The court filing also claims Mr Epstein told the girl to “give the Prince whatever he demanded.”

It alleges Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been jailed for sex trafficking young girls, “facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual abuse by acting as a ‘madame’ for Epstein”.

Asked if police should investigate, labour leader Keir Starmer said: “Wherever there’s a complaint made, it’s inevitable that it should be looked at. We have to start with the victims here, and look at what allegations have been made.”

It was a place where Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell lured their victims.

But, soon Little St James and and Great St. James will be welcoming guests to a luxury, five-star paradise.

The Independent’s Rachel Sharp reports:

Former president Bill Clinton faces renewed public scrutiny after being identified multiple times in the newly unsealed court documents detailing the associates of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Clinton’s name was mentioned 83 times in the first two batches of documents, though the number is now well over 100 also.

The second batch included evidence that claimed the former president had ridden in Epstein’s private helicopter with Maxwell and Ms Giuffre and attempted to threaten Vanity Fair into not writing about Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking.

In one of the latest batches of ducments, released on Friday, his wife Hillary Clinton was also named as a “specific witness”. There are no allegations of illegal activity against either.

Donald Trump occasionally came to Jeffrey Epstein’s house for dinner, but did not sit at the table, instead dining in the kitchen with one of the disgraced financier’s former employees, newly unsealed documents claim.

The former president, who had a residence in Palm Beach near to Epstein’s, would visit for meals but did not have massages there because he “had his own spa”, according to Epstein employee Juan Alessi.

Asked if the former president ever started at Epstein’s residence in Palm Beach, Mr Alessi replied: “No, never… He would come, have dinner. He never sat at the table. He [would] eat with me in the kitchen.

When asked if Mr Trump ever had a massage at the house, Mr Alessi replied: “No. Because he’s got his own spa.”

Convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has reacted to the long-anticipated release of a trove of court documents naming several of the dead paedophile’s associates.

Maxwell’s attorneys Arthur Aidala and Diana Fabi Samson released a statement on Wednesday night, after the filings began to be unsealed, in which she continued to insist her innocence and vowed to plough ahead with her appeal.

“Ghislaine Maxwell took no position on the Court’s recent decision to unseal documents in Giuffre v. Maxwell as these disclosures have no bearing on her or her pending appeal,” they said in the statement, shared with The Messenger.

“Ghislaine’s focus is on the upcoming appellate argument asking for her entire case to dismissed. She is confident that she will obtain justice in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

“She has consistently and vehemently maintained her innocence.”

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Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is also named in the documents released on Friday – having reportedly visited Epstein’s New York mansion with her then-husband, Prince Andrew.

Juan Alessi, who worked at Epstein’s house from 1991 or 1992 until 2002, said that he also saw beauty pageant queens and other “famous people.”