On Monday, a New York federal judge ordered the unsealing of documents that name associates of late billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The 170 names, including Epstein’s victims and ex-employees, will be revealed on January 1, 2024. According to the New York Post, the sealed documents are part of a 2015 defamation lawsuit Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed against co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
The defamation case was settled in 2017, though details of that settlement remain undisclosed to the public. ABC News that some of the minor victims named in those court documents will remain private despite Monday’s order.
In June 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years for federal sex trafficking for grooming underage girls for Epstein, 66, to sexual abuse between 1994 and 1997. She appealed her conviction in February.
In August 2019, Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Officials’ determination that Epstein hanged himself has been met with skepticism. At the time, he was jailed without bond amid allegations he sex-trafficked dozens of underage girls from 2002 to 2005.
Judge Loretta Preska has given those listed in the court documents 14 days to appeal Monday’s order.
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[Featured image: Jeffrey Epstein/New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File]
