Nineteen more documents that are part of a lawsuit connected to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were unsealed on Thursday.
CBC News is currently reviewing the newly unsealed documents. Those named in the documents are not necessarily accused of any wrongdoing; some of the people named are those making allegations or are potential witnesses.
Epstein, a disgraced financier known for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and academic stars, died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
The documents being unsealed relate to a 2015 lawsuit brought against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend, who is serving a 20-year sentence on sex-trafficking charges. That lawsuit was settled in 2017, but documents in the case are still being released years later.
That lawsuit was filed by Virginia Giuffre, who is one of Epstein's victims. She's one of dozens of women who sued Epstein saying he had abused them.
Around 40 documents from the lawsuit were initially made public Wednesday.
The documents being unsealed largely contain material that had been released previously, or had been covered exhaustively in nearly two decades of newspaper stories, TV documentaries, interviews and books about Epstein.
The documents released Thursday largely focused on legal squabbles over Giuffre's lawsuit and her connection to a British tabloid reporter whom Maxwell's lawyers accused of compelling her to fabricate some of her allegations.
Though the documents didn't offer much new insight into individuals in Epstein and Maxwell's world, more are expected to be unsealed and released Friday and Monday.
19 more documents unsealed from lawsuit connected to Jeffrey Epstein - CBC.ca
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