NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of Jeffrey Epstein's associates.

NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates.

The documents are part of a settled civil lawsuit alleging Epstein’s one-time paramour Ghislaine Maxwell facilitated the sexual abuse of Virginia Giuffre. Terms of the 2017 settlement were not disclosed.

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted of sex trafficking and procuring girls for Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

Anyone who did not successfully fight to keep their name out of the civil case could see their name become public – including Epstein’s victims, co-conspirators and innocent associates.

  • Chef@sh.itjust.works
    361·
    11 months ago

    Upcoming Headline: The entire judicial system fell out a window and shot itself 13 times in the back.

  • breakingcups@lemmy.world
    181·
    11 months ago

    Man, I worry about the victims and innocent associates getting caught up in this. Surely those powerful enough to rape kids with Epstein were powerful enough to fight to keep their name out of the disclosure, a possibility mentioned in the article?

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      11 months ago

      Turns out that Epstein brokered crimes for a lot of people whose names were solid black lines. It must be more common moniker than I thought.

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
    153·
    11 months ago

    Doesn’t matter. It’ll be just like the Panama Papers. There will be no accountability from anyone including the public.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    112·
    11 months ago

    woooohooooo finnallly! there is a whole cahort of scumbags sweatin this one out… the question is, will this lead to anything at all or will they just use this to focus on and harass the victims

    • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
      152·
      11 months ago

      Anyone who did not successfully fight to keep their name out of the civil case

      So no. The rich and powerful are protected.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
        63·
        11 months ago

        awwwwwwfuuuuuuuuuck thats just garbage. and i see this is just a freakin civil case

        in america you can rape buy and sell children as long as youre rich enough

        • alabasterhotdog
          25·
          11 months ago

          Lemmy is seeming more and more like a collection of useful idiots farming cynicism every day.