The highly anticipated release of hundreds of documents tied to the Jeffrey Epstein saga offer fresh insight into the people who surrounded him. The names of two former presidents, a member of the UK royal family and celebrities were among the unredacted information. The material was filed in a lawsuit brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
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COPPERFIELD AND JACKSON
Johanna Sjoberg, an Epstein victim who regularly visited his Palm Beach home, recounted meeting magician David Copperfield, pop star Michael Jackson and Prince Andrew.
Sjoberg met Copperfield at a dinner at Epstein’s house and recalled him performing “some magic tricks.”
“He questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls,” she said, referring to Copperfield, during a 2016 deposition. She didn’t accuse him of criminal conduct.
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PRINCE ANDREW
Sjoberg also claimed Prince Andrew put his hand on her breast when they posed for a photograph with a puppet of him at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. “And so then I sat on Andrew’s lap, and I believe on my own volition, and they took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast and so Andrew put his on mine,” she said.
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CLINTON AND TRUMP
Giuffre told a journalist that she had dinner with Clinton at Epstein’s villa in the U.S. Virgin Islands but did not allege he did anything untoward. In Giuffre’s unpublished deposition transcript, mentioned in the unsealed documents, she referred to Clinton “teasing the girls on either side of him with playful pokes and brassy comments.”
Sjoberg also claimed in her deposition that Epstein told her “Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” according to one unsealed document.
Epstein went to great lengths to draw powerful and influential people into his orbit, many of whom say they now regret ever being associated with him. Sjoberg said she was on Epstein’s private plane once when it had to land in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Epstein remarked “great, we’ll call up Trump” and go to the casino, referring to Donald Trump.
A spokesperson for Clinton referred to his 2019 statement, claiming he knew nothing of Epstein’s terrible crimes. He did take four trips on Epstein’s private plane to Europe, Asia and Africa.
Trump didn’t respond to the latest documents. but has previously said that he had a “falling out” with Epstein and wasn’t “a fan.”