Jeffrey Epstein list LIVE: Key revelations from bombshell documents - as victim's lawyer warns 'there's lots more to come'

Many of you will be waking up to the news that documents linking the associates of Jeffrey Epstein have been released.

If you are just joining us, here is what happened overnight:

• Prince Andrew has been named, with Epstein victim Johanna Sjoberg accusing the duke of touching her breast. The duke is also accused of taking part in an 'underage orgy' on Epstein's island.
• Former US president Bill Clinton was mentioned in Johanna Sjoberg's interview under oath. She says Epstein told her Clinton 'likes them young, referring to girls.'
• Epstein denied that physicist Stephen Hawking had taken part in 'an underage orgy' on his island.
• Donald Trump also features in the court file but Sjoberg claims she never massaged him and he was never seen at any of Epstein's properties.
• Michael Jackson visited Epstein at his Palm Beach home but Sjoberg did not massage the late King of Pop.
• Magician David Copperfield had dinner with Epstein and asked Sjoberg if she knew girls were getting paid to find other girls.

Former President Donald Trump proudly proclaimed in a statement that any allegations of an innapropriate relationship between him and former friend Jeffrey Epstein have been 'thoroughly debunked'.

The victory lap was issued in the form of a statement from the ex-head of state's campaign, after he was named in the impressive, 1000-page evidence release.

However, even though his name appears, the material does not implicate him in the pedophile financier's debauchery or crimes.

It did reveal, however, that he flew on Epstein's plane infamous jet at least four times, with Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg detailing how she had been part of a group that spent a few hours at one of Donald Trump's casinos, after the private plane was forced to land because of bad weather.

'Great, we'll call up Trump and we'll go to (the casino),' she credited Epstein saying, documents showed.

Later in her testimony, the massaage therapist - who was Epstein's own private masseuse - said she was never asked to give Trump a massage.

A few years later, in 2002, Trump told New York Magazine that Epstein was a 'terrific guy'.

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years,' he told the magazine, before providing an instance of foreshadowing that hinted at the financiers yet-to-be unmasked misdeeds.

'Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with.

'It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.'

Private equity investor Leon Black was photographed leaving his Upper East Side mansion on December 21 - days before the evidence dump that may still list him among the names of Epstein associates.

Seen in these exclusive pictures obtained by DailyMail.com, Black, 72, and his wife, Debra, 69, loaded luggage into three cars before heading off into the New York night.

Earlier in the day, Debra had perused the boutiques of Manhattan's swanky Madison Avenue.

Black, who traveled with his security detail, carried his wife's purse to a waiting car, carrying a monogrammed suit-carrier that bore his initials before the couple boarded and left the city.

Black - the former CEO of Apollo Global Management - has long been linked to Epstein, and recently has been hit with a slew of civil suits including one brought by a woman alleging he raped and sexual assaulted her in the financier's New York home.

Filed in July, the suit claims that Black raped the woman when she was just 16 years old - in an attack that allegedly took place in Epstein's townhouse a stone's throw from Black's own desirable digs.

The lawsuit describes in gruesome detail the woman's account of a sexual assault that, she claims, left her bleeding and sobbing.

According to her lawyers the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, has autism and a rare form of Down syndrome that left her 'developmentally…about 12 years old.'

Black's lawyers have dismissed the lawsuit as 'frivolous' and 'full of vicious defamatory lies.'

According to Susan Estrich, acting for Black, her client has never met the woman whose lawsuit was, she said, 'manufactured by the Wigdor law firm.'

Wigdor, a firm that Black's lawyers accuse of having an 'agenda' against their client, had filed a previous sexual assault complaint against Black that was eventually thrown out.

The latest lawsuit was filed on the same day that the U.S. Senate's finance committee said it was examining Black's treatments of several trusts, and whether that $158million he paid Epstein for tax and estate planning was properly deemed income of gifts for tax purposes.

Black was not named in the first tranche of documents released by Judge Loretta Preska on Wednesday but more papers are set to be released in upcoming days.

The newly released list of Epstein associates unsealed by a New York judge has reignited fears the financier was an asset for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.

Israel's former prime minister Ehud Barak was among the names identified in the bombshell release Wednesday night, after he met with Epstein some 36 times and was pictured entering his Manhattan townhouse in 2016.

Seveal young women were seen coming in and out of the residence that same day, offiicals wrote - several years after Barak, now 81, served his stint as PM from 1991 to 2001, after serving in the IDF for 35 years.

While he is mentioned somewhat sparingly in the files - by an Epstein victim who was asked by federal investigators whether she'd ever given Barak a massage - there has long been speculation surrounding the pair's relationship.

Former Israeli spies have gone on record stating that Epstein's international sex trafficking was a honeypot entrapment operation, one designed to garner valuable 'kompromat' material that could be used to blackmail political and business elites.

Prince Andrew, also named in the new list, was Epstein's 'useful idiot', according to an ex-intelligence agent, and was described by the financier as his 'Super Bowl trophy' out of his powerful acquaintances.

'Prince Andrew wasn't being blackmailed, he was being used as a useful idiot,' former Mossad operative Ari Ben-Menashe told RT International. 'He was being used to bring in some of the celebrities.'

Ben Menashe worked for Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate from 1977 to 1987.

Pictured: Ex Israeli PM Ehud Barak leaving Jeffrey Epstein's New York Mansion in 2016

The attorney representing several of the woman accusing Epstein of sex-trafficking reminded onlookers Thursday that there's still more to come from Wednesday's initial evidence disclosure.

The lawyer, Sigrid McCawley, offered the assertion to NBC News, to whom she reiterated: 'This is just the beginning batch.'

The remark came hours after the unsealing of the first wave of 40 case files alleging wrongdoing by the sex fiend

More criminal documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein's dealings and associates are set to be released on Thursday, according to reports, while others indicate more could come later in the week.

Citing an unnamed source, Business Insider reported that 'more [documents] are expected on Thursday'

The source said the new documents 'will be filed by either attorneys for Giuffre or [Ghislaine] Maxwell on Thursday'

Reuters also reported that 'more documents are expected to be unsealed or unredacted in the coming days'

It is understood that only 40 of about 250 docments have been published so far - a fact that McCawley on Wednesday cited during her interview.

'There’s a lot more to come,' the attorney representing Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre and others said. 'There’s a significant amount left for sure.'

She added:'And as we’ve seen, in this case, truth is stranger than fiction. So we learn more each time about how the sophisticated trafficking operation happened for so many decades and how many people were involved.'

'It was vast, it was significant,' she continued of Epstein's and others' illegal activities, which spanned more than a decade.

'It harmed literally hundreds of young women,' she said. 'So you’re going to start seeing more of how that happened, who knew about it and what was going on.'

The British Royal Family will stand behind accused sex pest Prince Andrew 'no matter what', a credentialed expert has claimed.

The assertion was offered by Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield in an interview with GB News, during which she explained why the newly confirmed allegations against the Duke of York will do little to sway his regal relatives.

'I do think that the royal family is going to stand beside him no matter what,' she told the station, despite allegations he molested at least two women under Epstein's umbrella.

“It’s not a great look,' the expert said, citing the royal's recent scandals, before adding, 'and I do think that you are as strong as your weakest team member.

'Unfortunately he’s their weakest team member.'

She went on to explain why she believes family will still stay behind their black sheep.

They're going to stand by him. It's never complain, never explain,' she said of the royals' forecast course of action. 'That's what their their strategy is going to be.'

Pictured: Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield

Andrew stepped down from public eye after the furore over his friendship with Epstein, before paying millions to settle a civil sexual assault case to Giuffre, a woman he once claimed never to have met but was seen holding around the waist in a 2001 photo issued by the US Department of Justice.

The snap, obtained by DailyMail.com, was said to be taken inside the Mayfair home of disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her part in Epstein's empire.

The duke was cast out of the working monarchy and no longer uses his HRH style, with Giuffre, accusing him of sexually assaulting her on at least when she was 17 - the same age she was when the photo was shot.

Andrew has always fought the claims, which were added to when it emerged today that another one of Epstein's alleged sex slaves, known as Jane Doe 3, claimed she was told to have intercourse with Andrew during an orgy on Epstein's island.

A 2014 court filing alleged she was 'forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations,' including 'in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell's apartment), in New York, and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls).'

The newly unsealed docs claim Epstein told Jane Doe 3 to 'give the Prince whatever he demanded'. Jane Doe 3 claims that Ghislaine Maxwell 'facilitated Prince Andrew's acts of sexual abuse by acting as a 'madame' for Epstein'.'

The unsealed documents also include the transcript of Virginia Giuffre being questioned over the whereabouts of the photograph showing her with the Duke of York.

The private jet used by Epstein to transport his VIP associates will be torn apart and scrapped, reps for the aircraft service that purchased the plane exclusively told DailyMail.com Thursday.

The notorious 'Lolita Express' - a Boeing 727 - was bought by Florida-based World Aviation Services for an undisclosed sum in March 2020, in hopes of turning a profit.

It thus hasn't flown since 2016, racking up thousands of dollars in storage fees as it sits unused on a Georgia runway.

In an exlusive interview, staffers said they had abandoned those plans - citing the plane's central role in Epstein's sex trafficking empire, which was further detailed in Wednesday's trove of documents.

'When I bought the plane I didn't know who he was or what he did with it,' the firm's boss, asking to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.

'My business is aviation – not this Epstein s**t. Of course, I wasn't happy,'

He further detailed how in four years, there hasn't been a single offer for Epstein's 54-year-old plane which once transported the likes of Bill Clinton, Britain's Prince Andrew and actor Kevin Spacey, according to the recent unredacted flight logs.

'It will cost a lot of money to restore,' he continued. Of the chance it still might sell to some opportunistic souvenier hunter, he said: There's always crazy people out there, but I just don't see it.'

He added: 'I can recoup my money, I'm not that worried about it.'

As of December, there were just 35 Boeing 727s in service across the world, primarily serving as freighters, charter jets or military planes for countries including Colombia, Mexico and Burkina Faso.

A handful have been turned into novelty homes, glamping accommodation and even a hotel, with disused models selling at auction for as little as $2,000.

Pictured: Epstein's black Boeing 727 airliner - dubbed the 'Lolita Express'

Jeffrey Epstein's longtime lawyer Alan Dershowitz has offered an impassioned defense of his defending of the sex pest - and called for list of 'feminists' who failed to condemn Hamas and those who 'blindly' supported the #MeToo movement instead.

Dershowitz made the equivalencies in a post to his YouTube account shortly after the document dump, which unmasked him as one of the many people to visit his infamous island.

First conceding [o]f course I’m on the list - I was his lawyer,' the Jewish Harvard professor attempted to argue the link and others like it were being blown out of proportion.

He went on to draw a bizarre analagy between the list of Epstein acquaintances and a prospective tally of those who failed to call out the Islamic militant group for its October 7 strike on Israel, and another of 'radical feminists' who ralled around #MeToo accusers with little legal evidence.

He told his roughly 80,000 subscribers: 'I want to list produce of radical feminists, people from the #MeToo movement, people who accuse others, people who believe that you should believe any woman

'Where is #MeToo?” Dershowitz continued. '#MeToo, but not if you’re a Jew? Is that what #MeToo is about?'

'Where are radical feminists? Where are those who think that the worst thing in the world is to be on an Epstein list, but it’s okay to rape and mutilate and behead and kidnap and murder innocent Israelis?'

'Where are all those radical feminists when it comes to the Hamas rapes of young Jewish girls, sexual abuse, beheadings? They are quiet, they are silent! The incredible hypocrisy of the 'Me Too' movement. "Me Too," except if you’re a Jew.'

Asserting his relationship with the financier was merely business, he said 'that people can make false accusations with impunity without fear of being of being sued.'

Meanwhile, mentions of Dershowitz in the newly released documents contain some of the most serious allegations.

The complaints contend that Dershowitz once forced a minor girl, named in court documents as Jane Doe 3, to have sex with him on several occasions.

Attorneys for Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, meanwhile, further alleged Dershowitz witnessed girls being abused under Epstein's sex-trafficking umbrella.

He previously denied allegations in 2015 that he had sex with an underage girl, and the suits have since been settled.

In the build up to the documents release and his subsequent 31-minute response on Wednesday, he had insisted that the anticipated documnet release would prove that he 'did nothing wrong.'

He was then named a total of 137 times.

Officials wrote that Bill Clinton was 'key' to their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein because of his 'close ties' to the financier and his convicted accomplice.

The former president was further described as having a 'close relationship' with both Epstein and 62-year-old socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving 20 years in a federal prison for her part in Epstein's sordid empire.

The comments come as part of a defamation suit filed against Maxwell by one of his accusers, now 40-year-old Virginia Giuffre, who was 17 when she was allegedly sex-trafficked.

She said she directed to have sex with the UK's Prince Andrew during a gathering with him, Maxwell, and Epstein at his imfamous island, where many alleged Clinton had traveled.

The newly unredacted documents appear to suggest otherwise, but one does accuse Clinton of '[liking] them young, referring to girls.'

The claim was made by another victim of the dead sex offender in Johanna Sjoberg, who wrote in the same 2016 deposition that Andrew put his hand on her breast as she sat on his lap at the financier’s Manhattan townhouse in 2001.

Clinton, in total, is mentioned 50 times in the almost 950-page evidence dump, but none of them are damning.

He maintains he had no knowledge of the sex pest's exploits, despite welcoming him to the White House at least 17 times, presidential logs show.

Clinton also flew on Epstein's private jet - making trips to Europe, Asia and Africa in 2002 and 2003.

That said, records show he never visited Epstein's Caribbean island, and only ever traveled on the infamous craft accompanied by Secret Service agents tasked with recording his every move.

None wrote of a visit to the so-called Epstein Island.

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was among the more than 180 names released Wednesday with ties to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The boss of the bureau from 1993 to 2001, the 73-year-old was listed because he 'may have knowledge concerning travel of Bill Clinton ,' a document filed by Ghislaine Maxwell 's lawyers in June 2016 stated.

Maxwell, then battling a lawsuit that contended she was part of Epstein's trafficking operation, was likely included to support claims that Clinton never visited Epstein's Caribbean island.

Clinton, who has not been accused of any involvement with underage girls, was somewhat exonerated in the document dump, and only ever traveled on his jet accompanied by Secret Service agents and aides.

That said, Clinton was mentioned in Johanna Sjoberg's interview under oath, in which the accused claimed Epstein told her the two-term democrat 'likes them young, referring to girls.'

In the filing, Maxwell's team looked to debunk a witness account previously offerred to DailyMail.com that described a dinner on Epstein's Little St. James island allegedly attended by Clinton 'shortly after he left office.'

Attorneys cited a report from Freeh to prove that point.

'Former FBI Director Louis Freeh submitted a report wherein he concluded that President Clinton "did not, in fact travel to, nor was he present on, Little St. James Island between January 1, 2001 and January 1, 2003,"' the filing states.

It goes on to point out that Secret Service assigned to the former president would have been required to file travel logs - something that never happened.

Clinton - who shook hands with Epstein and convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at the White House in 1993 - has denied any wrongdoing.

Freeh served as FBI Director throughout Clinton's presidency. He was replaced in 2001 by Bush-appointed John Ashcroft.

Epstein was initially arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex.

Dozens of other underage girls described similar sexual abuse, but prosecutors ultimately allowed the financier to plead guilty in 2008 to a charge involving a single victim. He served 13 months in a jail work-release program.

Epstein continued to mingle with the rich and famous for another decade, often through philanthropic work. But reporting by the Miami Herald renewed interest in the scandal, and federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking.

He killed himself in jail while awaiting trial.

The US attorney in Manhattan then prosecuted Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, for helping recruit his underage victims. She was convicted in 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison term.

Jeffrey Epstein was a millionaire financier known for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and academic stars.

He acted as a financial adviser to some of America's top executives and politicians.

Epstein, who floated in wealthy social circles in New York and Palm Beach, Florida.

He was known to host gatherings on his private island in the US Virgin Islands and invited high-profile individuals to travel on his private jet.

He is also a convicted sex offender.

• Jeffrey Epstein sent an email to Ghislaine Maxwell saying he would be content with rewarding Virginia Giuffre's friends to counter her allegations of wrongdoing after she filed her civil claim - including that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy
• Michael Jackson was mentioned in Johanna Sjoberg's interview as someone she had met at Epstein's house in Florida - but said their relationship was not sexual
• According to Sjoberg, magician David Copperfield asked her if she was 'aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls' and that he performed magic tricks over dinner at one of Epstein's properties
• Actors Kevin Spacey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Campbell, Cameron Diaz and Bruce Willis are in there. None of them have been accused of any involvement in Epstein's crimes, but Epstein was a name-dropper, Sjoberg claimed
• Sjoberg denied having ever met or given massages to a number of high-profile celebrities including Star Wars creator George Lucas
• She also testified that then-Governor Bill Richardson (D-New Mexico) was 'supposed to come to dinner when we were in New Mexico' but said he didn't know that she met him. Sjoberg added: 'I believe that he and Ghislaine had dinner separate from myself'
• Sjoberg also said she never met Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel
• In her deposition, Giuffre said she had sex with several politicians and financial leaders including billionaires Tom Pritzker and Glenn Dubin
• According to one of the documents, Epstein allegedly forced a woman named as Jane Doe #3, who was a 'minor' at the time, to 'have sexual relations' with Alan Dershowitz. Giuffre withdrew an accusation she made against Dershowitz in 2022
• Celebrity hair stylist Frédéric Fékkai was named in the court documents, although it is unclear what relationship – if any – he had with Jeffrey Epstein
• Another name appearing in the documents was Leslie Wexner, a former business partner of Jeffrey Epstein who founded L Brands, a retail empire that included Victoria's Secret. He was referred to when Maxwell was asked if she provided a woman with an outfit of a sexual nature to wear for Wexner
• Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent close to Epstein who was awaiting trial on charges that he raped underage girls when he killed himself in a Paris jail in 2022, was accused of sexual abuse by Giuffre

• Johanna Sjoberg said during her interview under oath Epstein had told her that Bill Clinton 'likes them young, referring to girls'
• Mr Clinton's spokesman said in 2019 that he knew 'nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to' and that the pair had not spoken 'in over a decade'
• Former Vice President Al Gore, who served under Bill Clinton, was mentioned in the documents. He was referred to regarding materials that Ghislaine Maxwell sought from Virginia Giuffre before trial in the civil defamation lawsuit. The document said Maxwell asked Giuffre to produce any photos or videos that she had that showed with a number of high-profile people, including Gore. But Giuffre's attorneys said she objected because any such alleged photographs were in the 'custody and control' of Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein
• Doug Band, one of Bill Clinton's closest aides who is credited with rehabilitating the 42nd president's image in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, was referred to as a 'friend' by Ghislaine Maxwell during a deposition, the new documents show
• Donald Trump also featured in Ms Sjoberg's evidence after she said Epstein had called him and visited one of his casinos due to his private plane being diverted

Pictured: Epstein and Maxwell speaking with then-President Bill Clinton at an event that took place in 1993 for donors to the White House Historical Association

Pictured: Donald Trump, his future-wife Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida on February 12, 2000

Prince Andrew is mentioned more than 70 times in nearly 1,000 pages of interviews and transcripts released in the US in connection with a 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell.

The duke, who has previously strenuously denied the allegations, paid millions a year ago to settle a civil case out of court with Ms Giuffre with no admission of guilt, after she accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17.

The Duke of York was seen as recently as Christmas Day walking from Sandringham to church with the King and other members of the royal family, just months after appearing publicly at Charles's coronation in his garter robes.

But the resurfacing of the allegations against him are likely to be seen as a setback, potentially jeopardising his hopes of any future public appearances alongside his family.

Pictured: Prince Andrew was all smiles as he left the Christmas Morning Service at Sandringham Church alongside his family on December 25, 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk

The documents were used as evidence as part of Virginia Giuffre's civil claim against Ghislaine Maxwell - a case that was settled in 2017.

They have been published following an order by a US judge, who ruled in favour of the media that it was in the public interest for the names of associates, friends and victims of Epstein to no longer be anonymised.

The documents show interviews given under oath by Maxwell, Ms Giuffre and a woman named Johanna Sjoberg, who previously said Andrew touched her breast while sat in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001.

Also included in the files are emails between Epstein and Maxwell; Ms Giuffre and the FBI; and Maxwell and her lawyers in the UK.

Royal expert Phil Dampier told MailOnline today that the Epstein files are 'the final nail in the coffin' for Prince Andrew's reputation - and Prince William in particular will make sure his uncle does not return to the royal fold.

Mr Dampier said: 'The big danger for him is that another woman could make specific allegations against him and want a day in court or a pay off as well'.

Buckingham Palace declined to comment today because they only speak for working royals. The duke stepped down from duties in 2019 over his links to convicted paedophile Epstein.

In 2022 his mother the late Queen Elizabeth II stripped him of his royal patronages and military titles before he settled the multi-million dollar case with Virginia Giuffre.

Pictured: The Duke of York, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell

Pictured: An excerpt from the documents detailing allegations Jane Doe 3 made against Prince Andrew

Pictured: Prince Andrew, Duke of York (L), Sarah, Duchess of York (2L) Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (3L) and Princess Beatrice (4L) arrive for the Royal Family's traditional Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham in eastern England, on December 25, 2023

Kinsey Schofield says the latest release of Epstein documents has likely put Prince Andrew and the royal family in an 'extremely uncomfortable' positon.

Describing the situation as the 'worst game of telephone in the world', the royal commentator said the Duke of York likely just 'wants this to go away'.

She told GB News today: 'We’ve seen the Royal Family really unite around him and I think that we're going to continue to have the never complain, never explain strategy and that they are going to continue to support him in the way that they do - by just allowing him to hover around them.'

Prince Andrew's connections to Jeffrey Epstein are a 'danger for the palace', royal biographer Tom Bower has argued.

Mr Bower, appearing on TalkTV today, said King Charles and the royal family need to 'bury and forget' the Duke of York, whom the analyst claims is in 'self-denial' about the situation.

He said: 'It's a danger for the Palace, they don't know what more bombs will be dropped. He's not telling them!'

The royal expert said he hopes the Duke being named in the documents will 'convice the Palace that there can actually be no question of Prince Andrew ever returning to public life'.

He added that there are likely to be 'more allegations' and 'more papers', which could create problems for the British monarchy.

Prince Andrew has been accused of taking part in an 'underage orgy' while staying at Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean home, nicknamed the 'Island of Sin', bombshell court documents claimed today.

It has emerged that one of Epstein's alleged sex slaves, known only as Jane Doe 3, claimed that she was told to have intercourse with Prince Andrew during an orgy on Epstein's island, Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.

A 2014 court filing alleges that she was 'forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations.' She claims this happened 'in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell's apartment), in New York, and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls).'

The newly unsealed docs claim Epstein told Jane Doe 3 to 'give the Prince whatever he demanded'. Jane Doe 3 claims that Ghislaine Maxwell 'facilitated Prince Andrew's acts of sexual abuse by acting as a 'madame' for Epstein'.'

Jane Doe 3 is not named in the documents.

Pictured: Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein together in New York City

The Duke of York's association with Jeffrey Epstein makes has put him in 'limbo' when it comes to his future as a member of the royal family, Royal Correspondent Richard Fitzwilliams has claimed.

The royal epert, appearing on GB News today, alleged that while Andrew has 'hopes of some sort of rehabilitation' for his reputation, it is 'more or less an impossible task'.

The new owners of Jeffrey Epstein's notorious US Virgin Island compound intend to transform the property into a luxury, five-star resort.

Stephen Deckoff, the entrepreneur and investor behind the project, plans to turn the island that was once used for underage sex parties into a 25-room retreat by 2025.

Deckoff purchased the islands of Little St James and Great St James, in the US Virgin Islands, in May for $60 million.

2005: INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED

• Police in Palm Beach, Florida launched investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in March 2005 after a 14-year-old girl reported being molested at his mansion

2006: FIRST ARREST

• Epstein was arrested by Palm Beach Police in May 2006 and charged with with multiple counts of unlawful sex with a minor and the state attorney sent case to grand jury
• The jury hears testimony from one accuser in June 2006 and Epstein is indicted on one count of solicitation of prostitution
• FBI opens federal investigation into Epstein in July 2006 that involved accusers in Florida, NY and other US states

2008-2009: JAILED AND RELEASED

• Epstein pleaded guilty to one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from a minor in June 2008. He is sentenced to 18 months in jail, one year community service and registered as a sex offender
• He was released from jail in July 2009

2019: JAILED AGAIN

• Epstein is arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in New York in July 2019
• A federal grand jury indicts Epstein, charging him with 'creating and maintaining a network of minor victims in multiple states to sexually abuse and exploit'. He is also charged with employing 'victim-recruiters' to find underage girls for his network

2019: EPSTEIN FOUND DEAD

• Epstein is found dead in his cell at a federal jail in New York City on August 10, 2019. His death was ruled a suicide by the medical examiner's office

2015-2022: GHISLAINE MAXWELL CASE

• Virginia Roberts Giuffre sued Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation in September 2015
• Maxwell was arrested and charged with sex crimes by federal prosecutors in New York in July 2020
• Guiffre sued Prince Andrew under New York’s Child Victims Act in August 2021, alleging he assaulted her in 2001 when she was 17 years old. Andrew denies any wrongdoing
• Guiffre and Andrew settled out of court in February 2022 for undisclosed sum estimated to be worth £7.5million
• Maxwell was convicted of multiple charges including sex trafficking, conspiracy and transportation of a minor for illegal sexual activity in December 2021
• She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2022

2023-TODAY: DOCUMENTS TROVE

• A judge ordered the unsealing of documents that were part of a defamation case that Giuffre brought against Maxwell in December last year
• The first 40 documents in the court-ordered release are unsealed on Janaury 3 this year
• Hundreds more documents are expected to continue to be released on a rolling basis in the coming days

• More criminal documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein's dealings and associates are set to be released on Thursday, according to reports
• Citing an unnamed source, Business Insider reported that 'more [documents] are expected on Thursday'
• The source said the new documents 'will be filed by either attorneys for Giuffre or [Ghislaine] Maxwell on Thursday'
• Reuters also reported that 'more documents are expected to be unsealed or unredacted in the coming days'
• It is understood that only 40 of about 250 docuemnts have been published so far

Glenn Dubin was the first person Virginia Roberts Giuffre was told to have sex with by Ghislaine Maxwell, new Jeffrey Epstein court papers claim.

Giuffre said in a legal deposition that Maxwell - who is currently serving 20 years in prison for her role as Epstein's madam - directed her to have sex with Dubin.

Dubin, a co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management, and his wife of three decades Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin are both mentioned by name in the newly unsealed documents.

The couple have previously denied allegations made against them and offered Vanity Fair what they claim is evidence that disproves Giuffre's claims. Neither has ever been charged in relation to the allegations.

Royal analyst Phil Dampier says it is 'not a good start to the year' for the Duke of York.

Prince Andrew was among those named in the unsealed documents yesterday.

The documents included allegations that Andrew had an 'underage orgy' on Epstein's private island and that a victim was told ‘give him whatever he wants’.

• Judge Loretta Preska ordered most of the 187 entries listed under the pseudonym 'J. Doe' to be unsealed after January 1
• Anonymity of Doe 107 and Doe 110 was extended yesterday by courts
• Doe 107 claims she will be in danger if named in her 'culturally conservative country'
• She has until January 22 to submit information that supports her claim
• Doe 110's inquiry is under review by the court

The identities of well-known figures who were associates, friends or victims of Jeffrey Epstein - or with no links to him at all - have been revealed in court papers.

The names of more than 170 people are now set to be made public following a US judge's order last month, with the first tranche of documents released last night.

High-profile people such as Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Al Gore, Kevin Spacey and Stephen Hawking were all included in evidence filings.

However inclusion of a name does not necessarily mean they were accused of any wrongdoing, with some names simply put to witnesses who denied meeting them.

Click below for a look at some of the first names to be revealed in the papers:

• Social media users had speculated that the documents would amount to a list of rich and powerful men who were Epstein's 'clients' or 'co-conspirators' - but there was no such list
• The first 40 documents in the court-ordered release largely consisted of already public material - revealed through newspaper stories, TV documentaries, interviews, legal cases and books - about the Epstein scandal
• Records released yesterday included transcripts of interviews with some of Epstein's victims and old police reports
• Documents also contained reminders that the pedophile surrounded himself with famous and powerful figures, including a few who have also been accused of misconduct
• Unsealed files included mentions of Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Michael Jackson and more

Johanna Sjoberg, one of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims, testified that American magician David Copperfield asked if she realized Epstein's 'girls' were encouraged to procure other girls for him.

Newly released court documents show Sjoberg said during her deposition the famous magician was having dinner at Epstein's house when he asked if she knew other girls were getting paid to bring in new girls.

'Johanna said Copperfield “questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls."'

The Daiily Mail has contacted Copperfield's rep for a comment.

Former US President Bill Clinton has once again denied having knowledge of Epstein's sex trafficking ring.

Clnton's spokesman issued a statement in 2019 confirming he had flown on Epstein's plane, but said the president knew 'nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York'.

The president's camp yesterday reiterated that denial, in a statement to CNN, adding that is has been 'nearly 20 years since President Clinton last had contact with Epstein'.

Clinton has not been accussed of any wrongdoing related to the financier.

Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell issued a statement on Wednesday as the first batch of unsealed documents were released.

'She has consistently and vehemently maintained her innocence,' her lawyers told CNN Business.

• Judge delayed the unsealing of two of the Jane Does until January 22
• Delay comes after judge granted a 30-day extension to a 'Jane Doe' to consider her appeal to remain confidential
• Judge also ordered some names be redacted to protect the anonymity of minors who were sex crimes victims

Before the documents were released, misinformation about what was in them abounded.

Social media users wrongly claimed that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's name might appear in the documents, spurred by a crack New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made Tuesday on ESPN's 'The Pat McAfee Show.'

The NFL star joked Kimmel could be named on the list of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's associates, which triggered an expletive-laden retort from the comedian.

Kimmel said in a response on X that he had never met Epstein and that Rodgers' 'reckless words put my family in danger'. He threatened to sue the four-time NFL MVP as he branded him an 'a**hole'.

Kimmel's long-standing beef with his NFL nemesis dates way further back than the quarterback's controversial comments on the Pat McAfee Show this week.

Newly released court documents about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal he liked to brag about phone calls with some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Johanna Sjoberg, who alleges Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell abused her in the late 1990s, said the sex criminal at one time name-dropped Oscar-winning Australian actor Cate Blanchett while receiving a massage.

Ms Sjoberg made the claim while discussing her interactions with Epstein with lawyer Laura A. Menninger in Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit against Maxwell.

'I saw one press report that said you had met Cate Blanchett ...?' Ms Menninger, appearing for Maxwell, asked Ms Sjoberg.

'I did not meet them, no,' Ms Sjoberg replied.

Today it emerged that one of Epstein's alleged sex slaves, known only as Jane Doe 3, has claimed that she was told to have intercourse with Prince Andrew during an orgy.

A 2014 court filing alleges that she 'forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations.'

The newly unsealed docs claim Epstein told Jane Doe 3 to 'give the Prince whatever he demanded'. Jane Doe 3 claims that Ghislaine Maxwell 'facilitated Prince Andrew's acts of sexual abuse by acting as a 'madame' for Epstein'.'

She claims this happened 'in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell's apartment), in New York, and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls).'

Jeffrey Epstein's brother Mark said the financier claimed to have information about Donald Trump and Bill Clinton which was so explosive it would derail the 2016 presidential election.

Mark Epstein, a New York-based property developer younger than Jeffrey by 18 months, said his brother never provided details.

Mark, 69, said: 'Here's a direct quote: "If I said what I know about both candidates, they'd have to cancel the election." That's what Jeffrey told me in 2016.'

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate in the 2016 race, was not known to spend time with Jeffrey Epstein, but her husband was a friend from at least 1993.

The pedophile financier made at least 17 visits to the White House, presidential logs show, and Bill Clinton also flew on Epstein's private jet - making trips to Europe, Asia and Africa in 2002 and 2003.

Professor Stephen Hawking has also been named in the newly released court documents.

An email from Epstein to Maxwell on January 12, 2015, shows the paedophile asking his former girlfriend to try and find any of Virginia Giuffre's friends or family who will help prove her allegations were untrue.

Epstein wrote: 'You can issue a reward to any of Virginia's friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false.'

'The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.'

Professor Hawking visited Epstein's infamous island in 2006 during conference.

It is unclear why he was on the island - or why Epstein wanted to disprove the orgy allegation, although the twisted financier was known to invite famous figures he admitted to enjoy his hospitality.

Hawking, who died in 2018 aged 76, is pictured attending a barbecue and taking a submarine tour of the sea bed off the island, reported The Telegraph.

The conference was reportedly funded by Epstein on the neighboring island of St. Thomas.

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The bombshell new Epstein documents claim that the former US president 'likes them young', according to Johanna Sjoberg.

Ms Sjoberg has said she was recruited on a college campus at the age of 20 to work as a massage therapist without any training by Ghislaine Maxwell.

She said she was forced to perform sex acts on Epstein.

Ms Sjoberg said that Epstein told her 'Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.'

Clinton has long sought to play down his association with Epstein, but admitted traveling on his private plane.

On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Clinton told CNN that he knew nothing of Epstein's 'terrible crimes' during their friendship, adding that it has 'been nearly 20 years since Clinton last had contact with Epstein.'

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Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg said Prince Andrew put his hand on her breast to pose for a photo with the financier, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell.

In depositions, she has described how in March 2001, when she was 21, she was summoned to Epstein's New York mansion where she found that 'Prince Andrew was there and a couple of other girls my age', including Giuffre.

'Andrew was very charming,' Ms Sjoberg said. 'She (Maxwell) came down with a present for him – a latex puppet of him from Spitting Image.'

Ms Sjoberg added that Andrew had thought the puppet was 'funny because it was him'.

She said in a deposition: 'I just remember someone suggesting a photo and they told us to get on the couch. And so Virginia (Roberts) and Andrew sat on the couch and they put the puppet on her lap.

'And so I sat on Andrew's lap, I believe of my own volition, and they took the puppet's hands and put it on Virginia's breast and so Andrew put his on mine.'

It was all done in 'a joking manner' and 'everybody laughed,' Ms Sjoberg said. 'Ghislaine... had a very dirty sense of humour'.

Buckingham Palace has previously denied the allegations.

Andrew has been stripped of most of his royal titles due to his association with Epstein.

The list of names is part of a settled lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 

The case was settled in 2017, but Giuffre - and many others - have long called for the names to become public.

Giuffre is one of the dozens of women who sued Epstein saying he had abused them at his homes in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New Mexico.

She said the summer she turned 17, she was lured away from a job as a spa attendant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club to become a 'masseuse' for Epstein - a job that involved performing sexual acts.

U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska, who evaluated the documents to decide what should be unsealed, said in her December order that she was ordering the records released because much of the information within them is already public.

Prince Andrew and former US president Bill Clinton are among the high-profile figures who have been named in newly released US court documents identifying associates of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein which were made public last night.

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