Breaking: Court Releases First Names on Epstein List

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A mix of old and new peppered the list of more than 150 people linked to alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that a federal court unsealed from a 2015 civil suit of Epstein.

Some of the names released include: former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, former President Donald Trump, astronaut John Glenn, and Alan Dershowitz.

The list of names was part of a defamation lawsuit, which is 2,024 pages long, that Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre filed against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in 2015 and has since been settled. However, documents gathered in the case have been sought by media outlets.

The list was expected to include a wide variety of people, according to PBS, which stressed that the list is not a client list.

Epstein’s accusers, staff members, witnesses at Maxwell’s trial, individuals deposed as part of the case and others who were contacts in some form were expected to be on the list, the outet reported.

Alan Dershowitz, a former lawyer for Epstein who has fought back against allegations he was a client, told NewsNation that releasing the list will allow those on it to make their own case to the public of their connections to Epstein.

“He was very well thought of in the beginning. None of us knew about his private life that he kept so secret,” Dershowitz said.

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