Last week, the federal judge in New York who has taken charge of the case of the lawsuit filed in 2015 by one of the victims named Virginia Giuffre against Epstein’s lover and partner (Ghislaine Maxwell), lifted the summary seal. over more than 900 pages of documents and made public more than 90 names of public people, celebrities, artists and businessmen who had some type of relationship with the magnate.
The revelation of what is popularly known as the ‘Epstein list’ has given rise to a great media stir, since there are many figures who have been harmed by the action of Judge Loretta Preska.
Although it has been advertised as a list of ‘clients’ or ‘attendees’ to the man’s private parties on his private island, it is a series of documents that collect testimonies, calls, emails, etc., so The appearance of a specific name does not imply guilt, but rather shows some type of relationship with the sexual predator.
One of the names on the list that has been the most talked about in recent days is Prince Andrew. In the published documents, one of the victims named Johanna Sjoberg claims that in 2001, the British aristocrat “groped her breast” while she was sitting on a couch in Epstein’s Manhattan apartment.
According to the young woman’s testimony, they were posing for a photo when the royal member took advantage of the situation. Another of the accusers, Virginia Giuffre, was also present at this scene. A few years ago, this girl filed a lawsuit against the prince and accused him of having sexually abused her when he was 17 years old.
After negotiating different points, the plaintiff and the defendant reached an agreement and the son of Elizabeth II donated a large amount of money to a charity in relation to the cause and ended up recognizing Giuffre as a ”victim of abuse”.
People magazine has had access to legal documents that correspond to a statement by Giuffre in a Florida court. This testimony is part of a lawsuit against former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz.
In this statement, the young woman acknowledged that Epstein paid her $15,000 for having sexual relations with Prince Andrew: ”I don’t know what that equates to pounds. “I received it in American dollars.” Previously, the now 40-year-old woman had shared that she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York three times between 1999 and 2002 in New York, London and on a private island in the Caribbean (owned by Epstein). At the moment, it is unknown if the magnate paid him this amount for one of these times, for all three or if it is another occasion that was not ‘recorded’.
