The imminent publication of court documents with names associated with the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein has created great expectationas they are expected to include prominent figures already known such as Prince Andrew of England or former US President Bill Clinton, but also to reveal some unknowns.

Judge Loretta Preska, of the federal court for the Southern District of New York, ordered that as of January 1 they be made public the until now sealed documents of a civil case against Epstein in which the identity of some 190 mentioned people was hidden, which may be revealed at any time.

The financier committed suicide in 2019 in a federal prison in New York, where he was awaiting trial for allegedly create a minor sex trafficking network in their mansions in the Big Apple and Florida. The youngest girls were 14 years old, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

The documents to be published are part of a defamation lawsuit filed in 2015 by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s main accusers, against his ex-lover and partner, the British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell. The case was closed with an out-of-court settlement in 2017.

It is expected with greater expectation that people associated with Epstein and Maxwell are cited -especially men- as friends, alleged collaborators or assistants in their crimes, witnesses and former workers, according to ABC News. The documents also include names of victims of Epstein’s sexual abuse, who were often very young women.

The identity of those who were minors or have not made public statements will remain hidden. Likewise, there are names that They only appear in lists of potential witnesses or in search proposals for electronic documents, add the string.

Many names are already known, since they were identified during the 2021 trial against Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the financier to sexually abuse minors, or have given interviews or have been the subject of a complaint.

Family names

It’s known that will include that of Prince Andrewwhom Giuffre sued for sexual abuse and with whom she reached an out-of-court settlement, and also former President Clinton (1993-2001), identified by ABC News as “John Doe 36”, whom that woman unsuccessfully tried to subpoena to testify.

Clinton, about which no accusation hangs, appears on the passenger lists of Epstein’s flights to different countries, but its possible presence on one of the financier’s islands is not clear, something that Giuffre claims but he denies. Among the unknowns is “Jane Doe 162”, a woman who testified to having been with Prince Andrew, Maxwell and Giuffre at the financier’s mansion in New York, the same media reports.

Epstein, even after his conviction in 2008 for pimping a minor in Florida and being a registered sex offender, he was a figure with important connections in the United States and beyond, especially among elites across the political and social spectrum. He has been linked to former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former lawyer Alan Dershowitz, academic Noam Chomsky and filmmaker Woody Allen, among others.

Judge Preska set the date of January 1 to give anyone who opposed the publication of her name time to object, although she has given the lawyers of at least one victim, “Jane Doe 107”, time until January 22 to prove that she is in danger in the country where lives if identified.