The final batch of court documents containing ‘salacious’ allegations related to 167 of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates, victims, and employees, will finally be unsealed – nearly four years after the disgraced financier’s death.
The material will be made public in the coming months and, DailyMail.com can reveal, is expected to include information pertaining to at least one ‘public figure.’
The documents refer to ‘alleged perpetrators’ or individuals accused of ‘serious wrongdoing’, as well as law enforcement officers and prosecutors, according to a declaration filed on Wednesday.
Prince Andrew, who is accused of having sex with Epstein victim Virginia Roberts when she was 17, and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, are understood to be among the individuals mentioned in the papers.
Other high-profile men who have been associated with the pedophile include Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, though it is unclear if they will be mentioned.
The documents represent the last of the sealed material to be made public as part of a years-long process that has been rumbling through federal court in New York since before Epstein apparently killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.
The material was first filed in a defamation case brought by Roberts in 2015 against Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and recruiting minors for Epstein.
The lawsuit was settled under seal in 2017 but the case material has since been gradually released in batches after numerous requests from media organizations.
The remaining documents are now set to be released after dozens of John or Jane Does mentioned in the papers did not object to their names being made public – which DailyMail.com understands includes The Duke of York.
The individuals are not named in a February 8 filing but all of them appear set to be revealed when the documents are unsealed.
J. Doe 5 is listed as a ‘victim’ who gave evidence at Maxwell’s trial using only her first name.
Roberts’s lawyers asked that her last name be redacted, but lawyers for Maxwell pointed out that she had used her second name in a media interview so it should not.
J. Doe 18 is an assistant state attorney who has been previously identified in a police report.
The individual appears to have been involved in the charges brought against Epstein in 2007 under which he served just 15 months in jail for soliciting a minor for prostitution as part of a sweetheart deal with state prosecutors in Florida.
J. Doe 21 is described as a ‘public figure’ by Maxwell’s lawyers who objected to their name becoming public because of the only known reference to them being in Epstein’s ‘Black Book’ of contacts.
Roberts’s lawyers point out that the person made no objection to their name being released.
J. Doe 23 is deceased but was accused of ‘serious wrongdoing’, the documents state. They are not identified by name.
