Here are the names on the Epstein list: 'Like 'em young'
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Epstein List: “He Said Clinton Likes Them Young”
Emelie Svensson
Updated 00.41 |Published 00.17
Presidents, Princes and the King of Pop.
Secret court documents shed new light on how the rich and powerful mingled with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- He said that "Clinton likes them young", testifies Johanna Sjoberg, in the first of several explosive document releases.
Who were the men who hung out in the inner circle of convicted pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epsteins?The world has been sitting on pins and needles before the revelations.
On the night of Thursday, a thousand pages of secret legal documents linked to Epstein were made public, with never-before-published testimony from victims, witnesses and accused.The first release of several.Jeffrey Epstein.Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell.
Jeffrey Epstein.
1 / 2Photo: Uma Sanghvi / AP
Over 150 people are named in the latest documents.The revelations come primarily from Johanna Sjoberg, who worked for Epstein from 2001 to 2006.
In her interrogation, more details emerge about trips with ex-president Bill Clinton, dinners with magician
David Copperfield, meetings with artist Michel Jackson - and a visit to Donald Trump's casino in Atlantic City.
Although no new concrete criminal charges are revealed, the papers provide deeper insight into Epstein's sex trafficking, and the celebrity elite who frequently mingled with the financier.
Here are some of the men mentioned in the Epstein papers.
One of the more than 4,000-page document accessed by AP in June 2023. Photo: AP
DONALD TRUMP
Donald Trump and Epstein knew each other well in Florida in the 90s.They hung out at the same parties, and Trump often flew on Epstein's private jet, at least seven times according to flight logs.Trump later said he was "not a fan" of Epstein.
In the most recently published documents, Johanna Sjoberg says, according to the deposition from 2016, that she remembers how the men stood close to each other.
During a temporary stop in Atlantic City, due to storms, she recalled Epstein saying:
- Great, we call Trump and we go to - I don't remember the name of his casino - but we go to the casino.
At the time, Trump owned a casino in the city.
When asked if Sjoberg ever massaged Trump, which she was forced to do with Epstein, she replied "No."
Former President Trump is not accused of wrongdoing in the Epstein documents.But the men socialized extensively, according to information.
BILL CLINTON
"John Doe 36" he was called under secrecy.
It turns out that it was the former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, who hid behind the pseudonym, and is repeatedly mentioned in the documents.
However, he is not charged with a crime.
Bill Clinton.Photo: Thomas Johansson
During the early 1990s, Epstein regularly visited the White House as a guest of Bill Clinton.According to the newly published witness interviews, Johanna Sjoberg says that Epstein knew about the president's preferences.
- He once said that "Clinton likes them young", referring to girls.
Despite Bill Clinton being photographed receiving a massage from an Epstein victim during one of his world tours with the financier, the former president maintains that nothing inappropriate ever happened during his time with Epstein.
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has said that Clinton was often the guest of honor on Epstein's private island in the Caribbean.However, the defense has presented an FBI report that concluded Clinton never traveled there.
In the newly published documents, Epstein's gunman, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, testifies that "allegations that Clinton had a meal on Jefferey's Island are 100 percent false."
Epstein's private island in the Caribbean.Photo: Gianfranco Gaglione/AP
MICHAEL JACKSON
In the new testimonies, Johanna Sjoberg says that she once met the artist Michael Jackson at Epstein's house in Palm Beach.
She said she did not massage the artist, as she used to do for Epstein.
In a 2020 book, by attorney Brad Edwards, who fought Epstein for several years, he previously wrote about Jackson's visit.
"For a young woman like Johanna, it was exciting to know that there were celebrities who were friends with Jeffrey and Ghislaine," Edwards wrote.
David Copperfield Photo: John Locher / AP
DAVID COPPERFIELD
During the interrogation, Sjoberg reveals that she once met the American magician and illusionist David Copperfield at a dinner at Epstein's.
- And what happened there at dinner, if anything?, asked the lawyer.
- He did some magic tricks, Sjoberg replied.
Sjoberg also said Copperfield asked if she was aware that "girls were paid to find other girls" — a recruitment method Epstein used.
But the magician is said to have said nothing about the girls in question being minors.
Photo: Steve Parsons/AP
PRINCE ANDREW
Johanna Sjoberg describes the meeting with British Prince Andrew in a testimony.The whole thing must have happened around Easter 2001, when she lived in Epstein's house with his aide Ghislaine Maxwell in New York.
- At one point, Ghislaine told me to go upstairs, and we went into a closet and pulled out the doll, the caricature of Prince Andrew, and took it down, Sjöberg testified.
- And there was a little note on the doll that said 'Prince Andrew' on it, that's when I knew who he was.Then the doll was placed on the lap of Virginia Giuffre, a woman who also accused Epstein of sexual assault, while Sjoberg says she sat on Prince Andrew's lap.
- They put the doll's hand on Virginia's chest, and Andrew put his hand on my chest and they took a photo.
Virginia Giuffre is one of the victims who has been most public with her allegations against the Epsteins, and how she was loaned out to be forced to have sex with famous men, such as Prince Andrew, when she was just 17 years old.
The prince denies the accusations.
They agreed on a settlement in the sex crime case, where the prince is said to have paid the equivalent of 150 million kroner to avoid testifying.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND BRUCE WILLIS
Epstein used to talk about celebrities like Cate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bruce Willis.But there is no evidence that these celebrities actually knew him.
In her testimony, Johanna Sjoberg said that Epstein talked about the movie stars, and that they spoke on the phone.
- He talked a lot at the time and sometimes said, 'Oh, that was Leonardo' or 'That was Cate Blanchett' or Bruce Willis.Things like that.Cate Blanchett.
Leonardo DiCaprio.Bruce Willis.Cate Blanchett.
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GLENN DUBIN – AND MISS SWEDEN
Sweden is also mentioned in the new Epstein documents.
Because of former "Miss Sweden", Eva Andersson-Dubin, who was once Epstein's girlfriend.Today she is the wife of billionaire Glenn Dubin.
The Dubins are mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein documents, old and new.
Viriginia Giuffre has claimed that Maxwell instructed her to "massage" Glenn Dubin, i.e. "have sex".
Courtroom sketch.Eva Andersson Dubin testifies during the trial against Ghislaine Maxwell.Photo: Elizabeth Williams/AP
After Epstein was first convicted in 2008, the Dubin family helped the financier restore his reputation in New York society.
One of Eva Dubin's former employees has testified that he spoke to a 15-year-old Swedish girl who was shaking uncontrollably when he was in Dubin's kitchen.
The girl claimed she was pressured to have sex on Epstein's private island.
Both Eva and her husband insist they did nothing wrong and were unaware of Epstein's behavior.
FREDERICK FEKKAI
A celebrity hairdresser, Frederick Fekkai, has distanced himself from Epstein."They were superficially acquainted," a spokesperson claimed.
But Fekkaki's name appears in Epstein's controversial contact book and in flight logs.Fekkai's name reappears in Sjoberg's testimony:
- I heard him call someone, and say, "Fekkai is in Hawaii."Can we find him some girls?”
- How did you react to that?, asked a lawyer.
- I massaged and had no reaction.I tried to remain non-reactive for all five years, Sjoberg said.
FACTS
The News Epstein
PapersClose to a thousand legal documents identifying people in notorious sex offender Jefferey Epstein's circle were made public on Thursday night.
Some of the high-profile names mentioned include Prince Andrew, former US President Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson and David Copperfield.
Not all of the men named in the document have been charged with a crime.
Victims, accomplices and witnesses are among the more than 150 people named.
The previously masked names are part of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre's 2015 lawsuit.More documents will continue to be released in the coming days.
FACTS
Jeffrey Epstein
An American financier and investor became notorious for sexual abuse and human trafficking.He had controversial connections with powerful people such as politicians and celebrities.
Epstein was arrested in 2019, accused of organizing an extensive network for the sexual abuse of underage girls.
He was convicted once before, in 2008, for similar offences.
Epstein killed himself in custody before his trial.
His former girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, after
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