Financial News Agency, January 5th (Editor Shi Zhengcheng) As the court documents of the Epstein case are gradually made public, "people who eat melons" around the world have picked up a magnifying glass and tried to find out whether well-known figures had contacts with the criminal. "Black History".
As the background to the entire incident, Epstein is a globally notorious American financier, widely known for his relationships with a large number of political, business and social celebrities . Since he has been accused of long-term human trafficking, sexual crimes, etc., any association with him can be regarded as a stain on these public figures.
explains how serious his problem is from another angle. If you ask chatgpt about Epstein’s life, the machine will answer it seriously, and then warn that the wording used to describe his life has violated openai’s content policy.
All in all, because the name Epstein can basically be equated with power and sex trading, and money and sex trading, and his own suicide in a New York prison in 2019 is also full of doubts, there are still no conspiracy theories related to him. Dissipate, and most likely there will never be an answer. By the way, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 0 years in prison in 2022 for conspiring to commit crimes with him.
Epstein and ghislaine maxwell, source: social media
What is the situation of declassified court documents?
Over the past decade, multiple victims have stepped into the spotlight to accuse Epstein of his crimes. As mentioned earlier, Epstein had close contacts with a large number of celebrities, so it is natural that there will be traces of them in the court documents. Before the files were decrypted, these names were concealed using the "anonymous + number" method.
At the end of 2023, New York State Judge Loretta A. Preska ordered that the court documents in the Epstein case will be unsealed starting in January this year. Except for the names of a small number of minor victims, the rest of the information will be disclosed to the public. . Local media had expected that although 's name appearing in court documents does not mean he has done anything wrong, this batch of court documents may expose more than 150 names .
On Wednesday evening local time, the court released the first batch of 40 documents, and the server was overwhelmed by the crowd within minutes. But even the British media, which is good at digging up gossip, lamented that the “content” of this batch of documents was not very high. It is reported that a total of nearly 250 documents were previously sealed.
(Source: The Guardian)
Who is mentioned in the first documents?
The main reason why the "melon-eating masses" are not very excited is that there are many names that appear in this batch of documents. Their relationship with Epstein has long been exposed by the media.
For example, former US President Trump , and another former US President Bill Clinton , as well as Prince Andrew, who fully returned his official duties, honorary military ranks and royal charity patron status due to the Epstein incident. . Since the photos of these men and Epstein in the same room have already spread all over the Internet, it is not news that they are mentioned in court documents.
(Trump and Epstein, photographed in 2002)
For example, Trump’s name appears in the document because the victim testified that Epstein took her to Trump in 2001 When opening a casino, he said, “I’ll call Trump.”
In addition to the three well-known "Epstein friends" mentioned above, the published documents also mentioned that witnesses had seen Michael Jackson at Epstein's Palm Beach house, but they also confirmed that they did not give him Provided "services".
In addition, the names of well-known figures such as the famous physicist Hawking and the magician David Copperfield also appear in these documents, but there is no description of these celebrities "making mistakes".
Lawyer: More documents will be released in the next few days
Regarding when the remaining 200-odd documents will be released, Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer who defended many victims of the Epstein case, said on Thursday that more detailed records of Epstein's behavior will be released. Court documents and the names of those involved will be released in the coming days.
mccawley said: "The first batch of documents is just the beginning, there is still a lot of content to be revealed, and there is indeed a lot of information ."
lawyer also revealed that, as this case shows, the truth is stranger than fiction. The scale of this thing was massive, literally hurting hundreds of young women, so "you're going to start to see more information about how these things happened, who knew about it, and what was going on."
(Financial Associated Press Shi Zhengcheng)
