Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, returned to national infamy this year after a federal judge ordered the unsealing of hundreds of documents about allegations against him in a civil lawsuit.
While Epstein's brother, Mark, is not the only one to question the government's conclusion that he died by suicide in federal custody, there is also significant public interest in the disgraced financier's associates, clients and potential accomplices.
Here are some of Epstein's biggest revelations of 2024:
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Jeffrey Epstein, September 8, 2004. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)
Jeffrey Epstein list: Court reveals names in Ghislaine Maxwell's lawsuit
Nearly 200 names were previously redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein Former lover and partner Ghislaine Maxwell has been declared dead on the orders of a federal judge in New York. Hundreds of documents were issued in multiple batches in January.
Epstein had many high-profile connections, including to former US presidents and foreign and British prime ministers Prince Andrewin addition to Hollywood stars, leading academics, modeling and fashion professionals, and other public figures. Some of the names were previously known through other means although they were withheld from the public eye in the lawsuit.
Many of the names belong to people who have not been accused of wrongdoing, such as former President Bill Clinton, who could have asked the court to keep his name sealed but refused. A Clinton spokesperson also denied allegations in one of the documents that claimed the former president and Epstein had a “close personal relationship.”
Other names Among those exposed were billionaire Glenn Dubin and his former private chef, Reynaldo Rizzo, magician David Copperfield, Tony Figueroa, Limited Brands founder and former Victoria's Secret CEO Les Wexner, and Epstein accusers such as Joanna Sjoberg and Annie Farmer.
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Prince Andrew with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre. Ghislaine Maxwell stands on the right. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)
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Bill Clinton denies visiting Epstein's island in new memoir
Former President Clinton, who had a brief working relationship with Epstein, wrote in his new memoir that he wished he had a “short working relationship.” I've never met him.“
Clinton took flights on Epstein's private plane on trips for the Clinton Foundation. He wrote that they only discussed “politics and economics” and that he never traveled to Epstein’s notorious little island.
“Flying on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of interrogation that followed,” he wrote in Citizen, a new book about his life after leaving the White House.
In an affidavit by Epstein's accuser, Joanna Sjoberg, which was revealed during a document dump in January, she said Epstein bragged about knowing the former president.
Bill Clinton receives a massage from Chauntay Davis in 2002 at a small airport in Portugal during a fuel stop on Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727, which was headed to Africa from New York. (Mega)
“I knew he was dealing with Bill Clinton,” she said. “I didn't know they were friends until I read the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa together.”
She later added during questioning: “He once said that Clinton likes them young“, referring to the girls.”
Clinton has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and her spokesman Angel Urena has denied allegations in the documents that Clinton and Epstein had any kind of personal relationship.
“I always thought Epstein was eccentric, but I had no idea what crimes he was committing,” the former president wrote in his book.
The former model recounts Jeffrey Epstein's abuse on his private island
Lisa Phillipsa former model turned scout and talent agent, was seeing her career take off when she encountered Jeffrey Epstein.
The former cover girl, who said she was abused by a convicted sex offender on his private island, recounted her alleged horrific ordeal in a podcast in October.from now on“, with the aim of raising awareness about human trafficking and how it can affect anyone.
Lisa Phillips is seen here heading to Jeffrey Epstein's Little St. James Island on a boat. (Courtesy of Lisa Phillips)
On a free day after a photo shoot in the Virgin Islands, another model invited her to visit Epstein's private island, Little St. James.
She said Epstein asked her for a massage, then the situation slowly escalated into explicit sexual assault.
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“It wasn't straight forward, 'Let me drag you into a room and abuse you,'” Phillips recalled. “He's lightening things up, like, 'It's just a massage, right?' “The girl went ahead and brought me into the room to do this massage with him, it was slow and escalated to the point of abuse, and the whole process was very confusing for me.
Over the years, she said she has met other victims who were attacked in the same way.
“I was on an island,” she said. “I wasn't in a house where I could say, 'Excuse me, I have to leave,' and take my stuff. I was far from home on an island that I was never supposed to be on.”
Epstein's grand jury records were released
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new anti-human trafficking law, paving the way for state investigators to release secret grand jury records from the harsh punishment Epstein received for child sex trafficking in the 2000s. Hours after the law took effect, Palm Beach County Court Clerk and Comptroller Joseph Abruzzo said Announce the release.
Little St. James Island – one of Jeffrey Epstein's private islands. This photo was one of many discovered during Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial in which she was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for working with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. (US Department of Justice/MEGA)
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Palm Beach police initially opened the case after a fight between girls at a local high school, according to transcripts. One, just 16 years old, was accused of prostitution by a classmate, and a school official later found $300 in her purse, which was originally from Epstein.
She testified that she was instructed to concoct a fake life story and pretend to be 18 to get $200 to give Epstein a massage before the first time she met him. She then revealed that she was asked to remove her underwear and had a filmed sexual encounter with him.
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In a court order allowing the documents to be released, Circuit Judge Luis Delgado warned that the contents were disturbing.
“It is widely accepted that Epstein is a notorious pedophile,” the order said. “The testimony presented by the grand jury concerned activity ranging from the completely unacceptable to rape – all of the conduct in question being sexually deviant, disgusting and criminal. The details in the record would be outrageous to decent people.”
Fox News' Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this report.
