Court releases 19 more Epstein-related documents

A federal court in New York on Thursday evening released 19 more unsealed documents from a lawsuit connected to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile who died in jail in August 2019 awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. 

The documents are the second batch ordered released last month by the judge overseeing the lawsuit – in response to a legal efforts to publicly release them. The civil suit was filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against known Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. 

The release follows hundreds of pages being released Wednesday, with more releases expected over the next week or two.  

Epstein was a wealth financier accused along with girlfriend and convicted child sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell or recruiting young women to have sex with Epstein and his friends including Prince Andrew.

In an email contained in the newly unsealed documents, Giuffre told journalist Sharon Churcher that former President Bill Clinton threatened Vanity Fair not to write stories about Epstein’s sex trafficking, Fox News reported.

“When i was doing some research into VF yesterday, it does concern me what they could want to write about me considering that B.Clinton walked into VF and threatened them not to write scx-trafficing (sic) articles about his good friend J.E.," the email reads, according to Fox News. "Should I be asking what is this story pertaining to?"

Clinton was mentioned several times in yesterday’s document release. The former president has denied any allegations that he was aware of Epstein’s crimes. A Clinton spokesman told Just the News yesterday that Clinton stands by a 2019 statement that said “President Clinton knows 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.”

Another of the newly unsealed documents is the deposition of a Florida detective who was tasked with investigating Epstein in the early 2000s. Retired Detective Joseph Racarey testified that Epstein and his associates ensnared approximately 30 young girls in his schemes, leading to sexual abuse and exploitation. Despite claims that these girls were hired for massages, the detective testified that the vast majority had no massage experience.

“And of the 30, 33 or so girls, how many had massage experience?” the lawyer asked Recarey. “I believe two of them may have been -- two of them,” he answered.

Recarey also testified that his investigation found that a majority of the young girls were underage. “And were the majority of those girls that you interviewed over or under the age of 18?” the lawyer asked. “The majority were under,” Recarey said.

Recarey also testified that Epstein and his associates would use recruited, underage girls to bring more victims to the house in order to receive a kickback for their efforts, thus expanding the number of victims he exploited.