Federal Judge Orders the Unsealing of Documents That Will Reveal Over 150 of Jeffrey Epstein’s Associates

New York State Division of Criminal Justice

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that documents containing the identities of over 150 associates of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be unsealed after the new year.

ABC News reported that New York Judge Loretta Preska ordered the documents unsealed on January 1, 2024 as part of a settled civil lawsuit by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against Epstein’s confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her own involvement in the sex trafficking scheme.

The date was set for early January so those who objected to their names being revealed could file their own objections; the report says that the names in the documents could include “Epstein’s victims, co-conspirators and innocent associates.” Any of the named individuals who are minors will remain unidentified.

While the news will have everyone following the Epstein case chomping at the bit to know who was doing business with the financier, who died in 2019 in prison while awaiting his sentence, ABC News provided more detail about what could be contained in the specific documents set to be unsealed:

The documents may not make clear why a certain individual became associated with Giuffre’s lawsuit, but more than 150 people are expected to be identified in hundreds of files that may expose more about Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and girls in New York, New Mexico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and elsewhere. Some of the names may simply have been included in depositions, email or legal documents.

Epstein and Maxwell worked together for years targeting, grooming, and luring girls as young as 14 to work in “massage parlors” and other environments where they were abused and trafficked to others, including, allegedly, some very high-profile individuals.