New batch of Epstein documents includes his interrogation

The Justice of USA published this Tuesday a new batch of documents related to the deceased financier Jeffrey Epsteinaccused of trafficking and sexual abuse of minors, which includes an interrogation of him in 2016 in which he availed himself hundreds of times of the right not to incriminate himself.

It is a transcript of about 130 pages that had not been declassified in its entirety and in which Epstein indicates that he is availing himself of the US Fifth Amendment on the recommendation of his lawyers and repeats “fifth” more than 500 times, avoiding responding to accusations of sexual abuse and all kinds of questions, except what his name is.

In the last week, some 4,500 pages of documents from a defamation lawsuit filed in 2015 by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s main accusers, against his ex-lover and partner, have been released by order of a New York court. British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, currently sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping her sexually abuse minors.

The files reveal names previously hidden for privacy and detail the ties, some already known, of Epstein with prominent figures, such as former US President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of England, with whom Giuffre reached a million-dollar agreement in 2022 to not taking his complaint for sexual crimes when he was a minor to trial.

Among the documents published this Tuesday is a transcript of an interrogation of Giuffre in which she cites several men with whom she was allegedly sexually exploited by Epstein and Maxwell when she was a minor.

Those men, identified above, include Andrés, businessmen Les Wexner and Glen Dubin, politicians George Mitchell and Bill Richardson, modeling agent Jean Luc Brunel and scientist Marvin Minsky.

Giuffre exempts former President Donald Trump from guilt in Epstein’s crimes, whom she says she does not believe “participated in anything,” but believes that former President Bill Clinton could have been “witness” of abuse and claims to have seen him on two occasions, both on Epstein’s island, something he has denied.

In another transcript, of an interrogation of Maxwell, of about 500 pages and in which there are also numerous refusals to answer, a lawyer divulges a message to Epstein from the modeling agent Brunel, which he says was sent to him by a girl “not blonde” whose age is “twice eight”, that is, 16 years.

Likewise, there are another 500 pages of an interrogation of an Epstein victim, Sarah Ransome, who says that from the third massage she gave to Epstein “the rest of the massages were sexual”and declares that he, through his psychiatrist, prescribed him medications for mental illnesses.

The previous batch, published yesterday Monday, included a document with allegations by Ransome, which he admitted were false, about alleged sexual videos of prominent figures.

Judge Loretta Preska, who ordered the disclosure of the documents, demanded this Tuesday that several documents be removed because they contained “information that should have been classified”after doing the same on Monday with some photographs published “by mistake” that showed the identities of several women.