Newly unsealed court docket recordsdata in a lawsuit involving Jeffrey Epstein have offered extra particulars in regards to the late millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of underage ladies and interactions with celebrities. In response to one in all his drivers’ statements to the police, Epstein would pay $200 for every younger lady that was delivered to him as a part of the exploitation scheme.
When Epstein, the intercourse offender, was initially investigated by Palm Seashore police in 2005, detectives spoke to a lot of ladies from an space highschool, who stated that they had been paid cash to present massages to Epstein.
Tony Figueroa, who labored as a driver for Epstein and as soon as dated one in all Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre, talked in regards to the effort to recruit these ladies throughout his 2016 deposition.
“Jeffrey was giving us $200 apiece for everybody that we introduced over,” he stated. “I’d get buddies that I went to highschool with, and I’d take them over there and introduce them, after which I’d simply go away.”
He stated Maxwell would additionally name him often, “asking me to get ladies”. Figueroa has advised the identical story in media interviews within the years since that deposition.
The data are all associated to a defamation lawsuit that Virginia Giuffre, a girl who alleged she was sexually abused in her teen days, filed in 2015 in opposition to Epstein’s girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was accused by a number of ladies of serving to the financier recruit underage victims.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year jail sentence. The newly unsealed recordsdata linked to ‘Paedo Island’ that have been launched on Friday have revealed a number of different surprising particulars.
HILLARY CLINTON’S NAME CROPS UP
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s title has briefly appeared within the newest batch of the court docket recordsdata, alongside her husband, former President Invoice Clinton. A number of others have been named as witnesses in Giuffre’s lawsuit in opposition to Maxwell.
In a 2016 doc filed by Maxwell’s attorneys, Clinton seems in a single line regarding Giuffre’s request for “all communications with 13 particular witnesses.” She doesn’t characteristic anyplace else within the paperwork which have been launched as of Friday.
The looks of Clinton’s title isn’t proof of any criminal activity by the previous Secretary of State or by anybody else listed.
PRINCE ANDREW
The brand new data embody the 2009 deposition of a former housekeeper at Epstein’s residence in Palm Seashore, Florida, who talked about how a lot time the financier spent with Prince Andrew, the British royal who was a longtime pal of Maxwell’s.
Juan Alessi said, “Prince Andrew spent weeks with us” and when he visited, he would obtain each day massages on the mansion.
Alessi stated Andrew would keep in the primary visitor bed room, which he described as “the blue room”. He recalled seeing Andrew’s former spouse, Sarah Ferguson, on one event, however added, “I don’t assume she slept in there.”
(with inputs from AP)
