Former President Bill Clinton, or organizations connected to him and his family, were mentioned in at least ten of the 40 documents released late Wednesday night related to a civil case against Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The newly public court documents come from a defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell by one of Epstein’s victims. Before today, approximately 175 names of Epstein associates, victims, former Epstein staff members, and of those investigating Epstein were sealed in the lawsuit.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims, sued Maxwell in 2015, accusing the Epstein associate of defamation when Maxwell called her a liar over her claims about alleged sexual abuse by Maxwell and Epstein. The two associates would later be charged criminally. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors.
According to the new trove of documents, one of Epstein’s accusers named Johanna Sjoberg, was asked about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and the former President during her deposition with lawyers representing Giuffre and Maxwell.
