Jeffrey Epstein list: New batch of documents unsealed revealing more associates

The newly-released legal documents linked to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein name several film stars, including Cate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz.

However, denials of any personal involvement with the billionaire financier, who socialised with royalty and celebrities, have been issued by all three actors.

Their names are only mentioned once in the expansive documents so far released, spanning hundreds of pages, during a segment in which a witness denies ever meeting the stars.

The Independent’s Isobel Lewis reports:

However, denials of any personal involvement with the billionaire financier, who socialised with royalty and celebrities, have been issued by all three actors. Their names are only mentioned once in the expansive documents so far released, spanning hundreds of pages, during a segment in which a witness denies ever meeting the stars.

While the majority of the allegations against the former royal contained within the unsealed 1,200 pages are not new, it has been suggested that at least one accusation is fresh.

The Duke of York has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

Being identified through the court documents does not mean that the individual was involved in or aware of any wrongdoing by Epstein.

The Daily Mail, citing a source close to Prince Andrew, reports that the Duke of York is “devastated” by the publication of his name and various allegations in this week’s unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.

“He doesn’t have the emotional bandwidth to deal with this,” the source said. “He has locked himself away in a room and has no idea how to respond. He’s devastated.”

The documents allege the duke knew of Epstein’s sex trafficking, committed “acts of sexual abuse,” enjoyed daily massages, ­­­­and took part in an “underage orgy.”

The duke denies any wrongdoing.

Maxwell was confronted with police reports in which Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, claimed that she was instructed by Jeffrey Epstein to recruit girls. Epstein told Ms Giuffre that “the younger [girls were], the better.”

Responding to questions about Ms GIuffre’s claims, Maxell called Ms Giuffre “an awful fantasist.”

His testimony was unsealed on Friday night, among hundreds of emails and depositions.

Maxwell’s attorneys Arthur Aidala and Diana Fabi Samson released a statement on Wednesday night, after the filings began to be unsealed, in which she continued to insist her innocence and vowed to plough ahead with her appeal.

“Ghislaine Maxwell took no position on the Court’s recent decision to unseal documents in Giuffre v. Maxwell as these disclosures have no bearing on her or her pending appeal,” they said in the statement, shared with The Messenger.

“Ghislaine’s focus is on the upcoming appellate argument asking for her entire case to dismissed. She is confident that she will obtain justice in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

“She has consistently and vehemently maintained her innocence.”

The guests to Epstein’s islands came from across the world and from the highest ranks of society: celebrities and scientists and members of royal families, touching down in a private jet and then boarding a helicopter to the island.

Its owner liked to call it “Little St Jeff”. The locals called it “Paedophile Island”.

On this island, the complaint says: “Epstein and his associates could avoid detection of their illegal activity from Virgin Islands and federal law enforcement, and prevent these young women and underage girls from leaving freely and escaping the abuse.”

Here is everything we know about Little St James and what Epstein did there.

During a May 2016 deposition, Johanna Sjoberg testified that on one particular occasion, Maxwell called several of the young girls on Epstein’s island “her children.”

Q. Did anybody respond to that?

[Ms Sjober]: I don’t recall.

Q. Did she ever refer to herself as a mother?

[Ms Sjober]: Yes, like a mother hen.

Ms Sjoberg also claimed that Epstein had once asked her to be “the mother of his children.”

“I don’t believe that I said flat-out no. I didn’t agree to it. I would just say, Oh, yeah, really? Okay,” she said.

Jeffrey Epstein told his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell that she could offer a financial reward to friends of his accuser Virginia Giuffre if they could help prove her allegation that Stephen Hawking had engaged in an underage orgy was false.

Newly released court documents reveal that the paedophile financier sent an email in 2015 showing that he was happy to issue a reward to counter her allegations, shortly after Ms Guiffre had filed a civil claim in the US.