NEW YORK POST
Jeffrey Epstein trafficked a teenage girl to prominent US politicians, world leaders — and even a “well-known Prime Minister” — and then made her detail the sexual encounters so that he could potentially blackmail the men, according to newly unsealed court documents.
The accuser, identified in the 2014 filing by the pseudonym “Jane Doe 3,” was forced to have sex with a host of “powerful men.”
That list included “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders,” the document alleged, without naming the individuals.
Epstein “required” the girl “to describe the events that she had with these men so that he could potentially blackmail them,” the filing continued.
The accuser was first approached by Epstein’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 1999, when she was just 15 years old, the document stated.
Over the next three years, Epstein turned the teen into a “sex slave” and frequently sexually abused her in locations all over the world, including aboard his private jets, the document claimed.
“Epstein also sexually trafficked the then-minor Jane Doe, making her available for sex to politically connected and financially-powerful people,” according to the court record.
The financier’s purported goal in “lending” Jane Doe 3 to his influential pals was to “ingratiate” himself with them for financial gain, but also “to obtain potential blackmail information.”
The same 10-page filing described how the underage victim was allegedly forced by Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew at Maxwell’s London apartment, in New York, and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands during an orgy involving “numerous” underage girls.
What we know about the Jeffrey Epstein list of 170 associates
- On Wednesday, documents were released naming 170 associates of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The list included Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield, Stephen Hawking, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former President Bill Clinton — who an Epstein victim said “likes them young, referring to girls.”
- Disgraced royal Prince Andrew, a known friend of Epstein, was named in the documents and was previously sued by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who accused Andrew of sexual misconduct toward her. According to one royal family expert, the Firm “will stand beside” the Duke of York “no matter what.”
- Epstein’s former attorney and friend Alan Dershowitz defended the late multimillionaire sex offender’s associates, saying: “None of us knew about his private life that he kept so secret.” Dershowitz, who is on the list, added that no one should be automatically convicted in the court of public opinion simply for showing up in court documents.
- Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told The Post that the ex-business mogul said he could have upended the 2016 election over what he knew about both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: “Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.”
- Only some of the 170 names and their relationships to Epstein have been released. The remainder of the documents will likely become public record throughout the next week.