More Jeffrey Epstein names to be revealed this week in victim's lawsuit. What to know

The public could learn more this week about people who associated with sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein as a judge unseals hundreds of documents in a libel case that survivor Virginia Giuffre filed against Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

Documents about various attempts to get former President Bill Clinton to testify amid Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency are expected to be among the materials. They do not contain any allegations of wrongdoing by the former president, according to ABC News.

Also expected is testimony from victims that appears to back up Giuffre's allegations that Epstein directed her to have sex with Prince Andrew.

Giuffre says she was Epstein's "sex. slave" after Maxwell recruited the then-15-year-old at Mar-a-Lago to give Epstein massages, which quickly turned sexual. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking in 2022. She's serving her time in a Tallahassee prison.

Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew more than once and that she was sexually abused by other prominent men.

Though the case was settled in 2017, about 170 redacted names caused the documents containing them to be sealed. In 2018, The Miami Herald fought for the names to be made public and won. The judges have been steadily revealing them since 2019.

Names of minor victims who have not gone public will remain sealed, according to a court document. Several names expected to be revealed were potential witnesses if the case had gone to trial, and many of the connections have been widely reported.

And some documents could provide more details about Epstein's sex trafficking of young females, several of whom live or lived in Palm Beach County. Carolyn Andriano and Johanna Sjoberg, who knew Giuffre, are among the names.

Here's what to know:

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Seeking testimony from Bill Clinton in an election year

Dubbed, "J. Doe 36," Bill Clinton is listed in more than 50 court documents. Many refer to attempts to get Clinton to testify, some amid Hillary Clinton's 2016 run for president against former President Donald Trump, ABC News reported.

In 2002, Bill Clinton flew with Epstein, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker on Epstein's plane, the "Lolita Express," to Africa to look at some of the Clinton Foundation's work on HIV/AIDS and other issues.

Bill Clinton says he never traveled to Epstein's private island, little St. James, in the Virgin Islands. Giuffre (then Virginia Roberts) says she saw him there but never saw him doing anything illegal.

Clinton knew nothing of Epstein's "terrible crimes," a Clinton spokesperson said in 2019, the year Epstein was indicted in New York on sex trafficking charges. Less than a month after he was arrested, Epstein was found hanged in his jail cell.

“In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation,” said Clinton spokesman Angel Urena. Flight logs indicate it was more than two dozen times.

Urena added that Clinton's Secret Service detail was with him on every leg of every trip and that the former president had never traveled to Epstein's Palm Beach home, New Mexico ranch or his private compound in the Virgin Islands.

Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2006, the same year Epstein was indicted by a Palm Beach County grand jury.

What happened to the first criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein in Palm Beach County?

The first criminal investigation against Epstein began in Palm Beach County in 2005 when the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl reported to Palm Beach police that she thought her stepdaughter had been molested by a wealthy man on the island.

Epstein was arrested in 2006 after a grand jury charged him with one count of solicitation of a prostitute. That happened despite evidence that Palm Beach police had uncovered from dozens of girls who told similar stories of Epstein sexually abusing them at his mansion on the island. Many attended Royal Palm Beach High School where classmates recruited victims in a pyramid-like trafficking scheme.

Then-State Attorney Barry Krischer torpedoed his own case in front of grand jurors, sources told The Palm Beach Post in a 2019 investigation. Only one victim testified, a 14-year-old girl. Prosecutors hammered her over her MySpaces pages, which featured depictions of drinking and simulated sex.

Epstein in 2008 pleaded guilty to the solicitation charge and an additional felony charge of procuring a minor for prostitution after Krischer and federal prosecutors arranged the "deal of the century," which allowed him to avoid a 60-count federal indictment.

The Post sued in 2019 to make public what happened at the grand jury in "furtherance of justice," the part of Florida law that allows transcripts of the secret proceedings to be released in rare cases. The 4th District Court of Appeal in May ordered the trial court judge to examine the Epstein documents and decide what to release. Circuit Judge Luis Delgado received the transcripts of audio recordings in July.

Epstein served 13 months of an 18-month sentence in the county jail. Most of that time he participated in a generous work release program allowing him off jail property up to12 hours a day/six days a week.

Palm Beach County survivor could say more about Prince Andrew

"J. Doe 162" is Johanna Sjoberg, who was recruited at age 20 by Maxwell on the campus of Palm Beach Atlantic University where she attended school.

Some victims, such as Sjoberg, who have gone public are apparent in a court document because the judge included links to show how their association with Epstein had been widely reported.

Sjoberg told the Daily Mail that she was present at Epstein's Manhattan mansion in 2001 on one of the nights Epstein told Giuffre to have sex with Prince Andrew. Maxwell was also there.

Sjoberg owns a business in Palm Beach County. When approached by Palm Beach police in 2006, she said she was a consenting adult but later said Epstein sexually abused her. Epstein paid her tuition among other gifts, according to Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office documents.

She said Andrew groped her breast while she sat on his lap that night in New York City but that it was all done in fun.

Victim who died in 2023 testified in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial

Carolyn Andriano, considered one of the key witnesses in Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, is "J. Doe 5." Andriano of Wellington died in 2023 of a drug overdose.

After the trial, she told the Daily Mail that Giuffre had sent her texts in March 2001 about having sex with Prince Andrew. She said Giuffre didn't sound upset about it.

Andriano said that she had never met Andrew and that she was not a fan of Giuffre, who she blamed for being delivered into Epstein's clutches when Andriano was 14. Guiffre has said she recruited young girls for Epstein, which she regrets.

Andriano was found dead in May in a West Palm Beach hotel room. She led a difficult life after she got away from Epstein, spending time in prison and for a period, earning money in strip clubs and as a sex worker.

But she was proud after a juror in Maxwell's criminal trial said her testimony was key to Maxwell's conviction.

"I’m not ashamed at being a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell," she told the Daily Mail. For other girls that have been victimized, I want them to know that it is OK to come out and tell somebody — even if you don’t want to be identified — and the sooner the better."

Giuffre named other prominent men in lawsuit

Giuffre's deposition in the libel suit was released in 2019.

She named these men, in addition to Prince Andrew, as ones Epstein forced her to have sex with: former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, Epstein’s attorney Alan Dershowitz, billionaire financier Glenn Dubin of Palm Beach, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the late MIT scientist Marvin Minsky and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel.

All have denied her claims except Minsky, who died before her claims were made public. Maxwell, however, said none of them was true.

“Ghislaine told me from her mouth to do these things,” Giuffre said in the April 2016 deposition. “Jeffrey told me from his mouth to do these things with these people. Ghislaine instructed me to do the things that I did with Jeffrey Epstein on the very first meeting that I had with him.”

The lawsuit was based on Guiffre's claims that Maxwell had called her a liar in public.

Holly Baltz is the investigations editor at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach her at hbaltz@pbpost.com.

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