DONALD Trump must cut the “hype” and drop all information on Jeffrey Epstein, a top lawyer representing his victims has told The Sun.
Lisa Bloom, who is fighting for eight victims, slammed the “incompetence” surrounding a promised release of a trove of records relating to the paedo financier.
ReutersJeffrey Epstein in a mugshot taken by Florida Department of Law Enforcement[/caption]
Epstein with accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentenceThe Mega Agency
ReutersBinders labelled ‘The Epstein File: Phase 1’ were full of heavily redacted records[/caption]
Attorney general Pam Bondi last week teased hundreds of pages of information connected to Epstein would disclose “a lot of names” and flight logs.
She warned the contents of the sealed files would “make you sick”.
But the much-awaited release of flight logs and more was overhyped by Bondi and fell flat.
Documents were heavily blacked out and redacted – with no new details coming to light in the records.
Much of what was in the binders – labelled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” – consisted of information previously made public through multiple court cases.
Bloom branded the failure to properly issue sealed documents an “insult” to the shamed financier’s victims as she blasted the botched release.
She is among lawyers demanding all documents related to Epstein’s sex trafficking case be revealed.
Bloom said they wanted everything to be exposed – including all the people associated with the paedo.
She is among lawyers demanding all documents related to Epstein’s sex trafficking case be unsealed.
Bloom told The Sun: “The incompetence surrounding this release — the Trump administration’s hype and then the lack of anything new coming out — is disappointing and insulting to the victims.
“This is not about politics or about PR.
“It’s about full accountability for everyone involved in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation.
“Until we have full transparency we will never know.”
It comes as Bondi has now revealed the Department of Justice has received a “truckload of evidence” related to Epstein from the FBI.
Thousands of pages of documents are being sifted through by a team, Bondi said, after she ordered the FBI to turn over everything they have on Epstein.
A detailed report over why records had been withheld will follow.
Bondi told Fox News: “It’s a new administration, and everything’s going to come out to the public.
“The public has the right to know Americans have a right to know.”
Highly censored files released last week included a redacted photocopy of an address book.
This is not about politics or about PR. It’s about full accountability for everyone involved in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation.
Lisa Bloom
It was purportedly compiled by Epstein and his jailed longtime accomplice Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the depraved sex trafficking operation.
Convicted sex trafficker Epstein died in prison in 2019 before being sentenced for his crimes.
Spencer Kuvin, another lawyer who represents Epstein’s victims, has also backed calls for a full disclosure of information.
He told The Sun last week: “On behalf of the victims, we have always been fighting for a full and complete disclosure of all individuals who were involved in the Epstein sexual pyramid scheme.
“Abuse on this large scale does not occur in a vacuum.
“These atrocities involve many people either directly involved in the abuse, or complicit in allowing it to continue.”
Epstein regularly socialised with royalty, celebrities and Wall Street titans before his arrest.
Many pages of the documents released were blacked out
APConservative political commentator Rogan O’Handley, left, and social media content creator Chaya Raichik hold up binders with a cover titled ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’ at the White House[/caption]
GettyLisa Bloom has called for the full release of papers related to Epstein[/caption]
ReutersEpstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry in 2017[/caption]
The well-connected financier, who owned a private island estate in the US Virgin Islands, is rumoured to have kept a “client list”.
Authorities have been accused of hiding the so-called “black book”, which is claimed to be filled with celebrities and politicians.
Referring to the future release of Epstein papers, Kuvin warned: “Anyone who was visiting Epstein at his homes should be concerned.
“That includes [Prince] Andrew.”
The Duke of York, 65, has always vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
He was forced to step aside from public duties in 2019 over his friendship with the paedo financier.
And three years ago he paid millions to Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre in an out-of-court settlement, while denying sexual assault accusations.
He spared a humiliating court battle over claims he raped and abused her when she was 17.
Last year, a string of Epstein’s former friends and associates were left red-faced by a cache of unsealed court documents released as part of a 2015 defamation lawsuit brought by Giuffre against Maxwell.
They revealed depraved and sordid claims regarding sex tapes, underage orgies, baths, billionaires, a prince and two presidents.
Bombshells from Epstein court docs
A STRING of Epstein’s former friends and associates were left red-faced last year by a cache of unsealed court documents.
Some 215 files were released as part of a 2015 defamation lawsuit brought by Giuffre against Maxwell.
Delivered in several anticipated drops, the files revealed inner workings of Epstein’s world.
And it also dragged a sprinkling of previously unmentioned celebrities and politicians into the mix.
These were some of the biggest revelations:
Andrew, Clinton & Branson ‘sex tape’ claims
Epstein victim Sarah Ransome wrote emails to a reporter in 2016 claiming the duke, Bill Clinton and billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson were filmed having sex by Epstein on separate occasions.
She later retracted the claims and told the New Yorker in 2019 “she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behaviour, and to make him believe that she had ‘evidence that would come out if he harmed me’”.
But last January she stood by allegations she made in 2016 that the tapes had existed and claimed she had been forced to withdraw them when her family was threatened by Maxwell and “others”.
All of the above have always vehemently denied any wrongdoing over their association with Epstein and no tapes have ever emerged publicly.
Stephen Hawking’s ‘underage orgy’
The doc drop revealed an email that had been sent from Epstein to Maxwell that showed the billionaire asking her to “issue a reward” to any of Giuffre’s friends who “come forward and help prove her allegations are false”.
Among the allegations listed by Epstein in the email were a “Clinton dinner” and a claim that Stephen Hawking “participated in an underage orgy”.
In the message, Epstein suggested Giuffre had made claims about both the British scientist and former US President Bill Clinton.
The email read: “You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false.
“The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.”
In 2015, photos emerged showing Hawking, who died in 2018 aged 76, being hosted on Epstein’s private Caribbean island before he was first charged in 2006.
The internationally renowned physicist was pictured at a barbecue on Little St James, often referred to as Epstein’s “Paedo Island”.
He was part of a group of 21 scientists attending a conference in March 2006, which Epstein had funded.
Duke of York’s ‘underage orgy’
A woman named only as Jane Doe 3 – but understood to be his high profile accuser Virginia Giuffre – alleged she was “forced” into sexual relations with Prince Andrew.
The accuser alleged the encounters took place at three locations including on Epstein’s private island “in an orgy with numerous other underaged girls”.
The alleged victim said she was to “give the Prince whatever he demanded” and also told to report back to Epstein the “details of the sexual abuse”.
The duke has always strenuously denied the resurfaced allegations.
Andrew and a puppet
During testimony in May 2016, a woman named Johanna Sjoberg, 42, claimed Prince Andrew had groped her when she was 21.
She alleged that the duke used a puppet of himself to touch her breast while sitting on a couch inside Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in March 2001.
Buckingham Palace previously blasted the allegations as “categorically untrue”.
Bill Clinton ‘likes them young’
In Sjoberg’s interview under oath, she said Epstein had told her that former president Bill Clinton “likes them young, referring to girls”.
In 2019, Clinton’s spokesman said he knew “nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to” and that the pair had not spoken “in over a decade”.
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