Lawyers representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein sued two of the disgraced financier’s closest advisers on Friday, accusing them of “aiding, abetting and facilitating” his sex trafficking of young women and teenage girls. The civil suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, seeks class action status on behalf of Mr. Epstein’s many victims. It comes just […]
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Jeffrey Epstein Court Documents Unsealed, Shedding Light on His Misdeeds
Hundreds of pages of previously sealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and registered sex offender, were made public Wednesday — but as most legal experts familiar with the sordid affair had surmised, there was no smoking gun list of famous men who had sought to have sex with young women and […]
Read MoreEpstein Documents Naming Prominent Figures Expected to Be Released Soon
Court documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein are expected to be released soon with many names that were previously redacted, and prominent figures on the right are holding up the impending disclosures as evidence of wrongdoing by Democrats despite a lack of concrete information about what they will show. Most of the names […]
Read MoreThe Stabbing of Derek Chauvin: What We Know
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd during a 2020 arrest, was stabbed at a federal prison in Arizona on Friday, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. No details were immediately available on his condition, but one of the people with knowledge of the incident […]
Read MoreA Giacometti for a Cezanne: Jeffrey Epstein’s Role in a Pricey Art Deal
In late 2016, when the private equity mogul Leon Black was trying to sell one expensive piece of art to buy another without incurring a hefty tax bill, he turned to the one man he knew who could help pull it off: his friend Jeffrey Epstein. On Nov. 23 that year, Mr. Black sold an […]
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