Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell hedged on details about Epstein’s sexual proclivities and whether or not he was his girlfriend in newly unsealed documents.
A New York judge began to unseal Wednesday the identities of people linked in court documents to Jeffrey Epstein, the US financier who killed himself in 2019 as he awaited trial for sex crimes.
The initial tranche includes 40 previously undisclosed documents with almost 1,000 pages of depositions and statements, with the final library of documents expected to name prominent individuals.
In one of the depositions, Maxwell was asked about whether Epstein liked to have his nipples pinched during sex.
She responded that she would not answer about ‘adult sexual things when I was with him.’
Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell hedged on details about Epstein’s sexual proclivities and whether or not he was his girlfriend in newly unsealed documents.
Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was then asked by an attorney: ‘Did you ever consider yourself his girlfriend?’
She responded: ‘That’s a tricky question. There were times when I would have liked to think of myself as his girlfriend.’
When asked when that would have been, she said ‘probably in the early ’90s.’
On Wednesday, a 946-page trove of court documents from that 2015 case – filed by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre – were unsealed, with details including how Epstein emailed Maxwell to insist that Stephen Hawking did not participate in an underage orgy on his Caribbean Island in 2006.
Hawking, the celebrated wheelchair-bound physicist who died in March 2018 aged 76, was among the guests at a barbecue during a conference on the island sponsored by Epstein.
Another of the documents, arguing that Maxwell should be forced to sit for further testimony, reveals that Maxwell under oath said she ‘did not recall’ being in London with Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew – despite photographs showing the three together.
The documents also show Maxwell confirming that Bill Clinton dined on Epstein’s private jet, while traveling around the world, and denying that the former president ever visited Epstein’s Caribbean Island, Little St James.
Maxwell, in the April 2016 deposition, is asked about her travels with Epstein and Bill Clinton – who Epstein is known to have visited several times at the White House.
‘The allegation that Clinton had a meal on Jeffrey’s island is 100 percent false,’ Maxwell said.
‘I’m sure he had a meal on Jeffrey’s plane.’
She said she did not know how many times Clinton had flown on Epstein’s plane.
The first names from the long-anticipated ‘list’ of 187 previously unknown Jeffrey Epstein associates have been revealed today.
The files were made public by the Southern District of New York on January 3 after the deadline for appeals passed, around 6:30pm Wednesday night.
DailyMail.com is now reviewing the documents. Investor Glenn Dubin is the first name to appear, in a transcript of a taped depostion with Ghislaine Maxwell where Maxwell was asked if Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg had ever been asked to massage Dubin.
Maxwell answered: ‘I don’t believe, I have no recollection of it.’
Many were already linked to Epstein and some are the names of previously identified victims.
Three people filed appeals and one has been granted – that of Jane Doe 107. Another – filed by John Doe 110 – is under review.
Jeffrey Epstein pictured in 2019, months before he died in prison. The long-awaited list of his associates and friends named in a 2015 lawsuit was today partially released
For years, many have speculated over who else could have been involved in Epstein and Maxwell group. While he took his secrets to the grave, she maintains she has never been involved in any sex trafficking
Doe 110 is said to have been widely associated with Epstein in the past, but filed a last minute request to stay anonymous.
They are described in court documents as an ‘alleged Epstein affiliate’.
The names were all redacted in a 2015 lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell.
The case was settled in 2017 but the names remained secret until now.
Judge Loretta Preska finally agreed to unseal the documents in December last year, ruling there was no longer a legal need to keep the names hidden.
Some have been calling for their release for months.
Among them is Alan Dershowitz, a former Epstein associate who says releasing the documents puts all the information into the public forum and ‘proves’ he did nothing wrong.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who in June 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for her role in the sex trafficking ring, has ‘nothing to say’ about the files, according to her attorney, Arthur Aidala.
Aidala however said the papers may disappoint many, who think they will reveal a conspiracy or previously-unknown names.
Former President Bill Clinton has long been expected to be among the names.
Former President Donald Trump was also expected to be included.
This is a developing story.