Hundreds of documents totaling more than 1,000 pages have been unsealed over the last week in Manhattan Federal Court in a now-settled defamation lawsuit against Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, brought by Virginia Giuffre, one of the deceased financier’s most vocal accusers.

Judge Loretta Preska ordered the filings to be made public last month, finding there was no legal basis to keep them hidden. Most of those whose names were made public were not accused of wrongdoing and had already been publicly identified.

Monday’s batch included rehashing some of the most salacious claims to come out in the litigation — the existence of sex tapes Epstein made of his high-profile pals. The woman who made the allegations, Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome, ultimately retracted them.

In October 2016, Ransome emailed a reporter saying she wanted to retract all of the allegations “and walk away from this,” the filings unsealed Monday show. A 2019 article in the New Yorker reported that Ransome, by her own admission, made up the tapes “to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had ‘evidence that would come out if he harmed me.’”

Ransome, who could not be reached for comment, has long alleged she was abused by Epstein. She read a victim impact at Maxwell’s 2022 sentencing following her conviction for enabling Epstein’s abuse.

The mountain of documents unsealed over the last week contain few details that were not already known. The most consequential papers in the case were unsealed before Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial in 2019.

The names — who were largely not accused of wrongdoing — featured among more than 1,300 pages of court filings made public in Manhattan federal court starting late Wednesday in a lawsuit settled in 2017 between Epstein’s convicted right-hand, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Virginia Giuffre.

Giuffre, now 40, has long alleged she was recruited to be abused by Epstein as a teenager and loaned out to powerful men in his orbit for sex. More than 1,000 pages were unsealed on Friday alone.

The paperwork comprises motions by Giuffre and Maxwell, excerpts from their depositions and those of other Epstein victims, members of his house staff, and law enforcement, as well as records from a 2005 investigation into the disgraced financier by the Palm Beach police that almost brought him to justice.

The tranche of documents had remained under seal throughout the litigation, primarily to protect victims’ identities and individuals whose names came up but didn’t do anything wrong, the judge who unsealed them wrote last month.

Manhattan federal court Judge Loretta Preska noted their contents were largely public record, whether from being revealed in court cases or media reports, documentaries, podcasts, books, or elsewhere. Vast swaths of the case were unsealed at various intervals in recent years following legal efforts led by the Miami Herald, including a massive release on the eve of Epstein’s 2019 suicide while he was awaiting trial in a Manhattan jail cell.

Most of the elite names to hit the headlines this week have long been known to have socialized with Epstein. Still, new tidbits of their dealings with the perverted financier add sharper detail to claims by scores of women who say he sought to leverage his high-profile contacts while grooming them for repeated sexual abuse.

Here’s a look at some of the most notable figures referenced.

Prince Andrew

Prince Andrew’s well-documented friendship with Epstein comes up throughout the filings, including Giuffre’s allegations the financier forced her to sleep with him as a teen. The disgraced British royal, who stepped down from his military duties in 2022 amid fallout over his friendship with the disgraced perv, settled a suit with Giuffre the same year for a reported $16 million. He did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement and has adamantly denied any abuse.

Andrew, King Charles’ brother, is accused in one filing by alleged Epstein victim Johanna Sjoberg of groping her at the financier’s Manhattan townhouse in April 2001 while holding a puppet of himself. Buckingham Palace previously denied it ever happened.

In her deposition, Maxwell acknowledged being on Epstein’s Caribbean island with the British royal. It was on the private island, Little St. James, where Epstein was alleged to have committed much of his abuse. There are no further details of the prince’s activities there in the deposition.

In excerpts from Juan Alessi’s deposition unsealed Friday, Epstein’s longtime house manager at his Palm Beach estate recalled the prince visiting for extended trips.

“Prince Andrew, yes, Prince Andrew spent weeks with us,” Alessi testified, adding that he received daily massages.

The Daily News in 2015 first reported on the deposition from Alessi in a 2009 case featured in Giuffre and Maxwell’s suit. Epstein’s house manager from 1990 to 2001 provided crucial testimony at Maxwell’s trial, recalling how he regularly saw famous faces at Epstein’s Florida mansion and young girls walking around topless.

Maxwell, the daughter of the disgraced publishing baron Robert Maxwell, who owned the Daily News when he died in 1991, became friends with Prince Andrew while at Oxford. She was convicted in 2021 of charges alleging she procured young girls to be abused by Epstein for around a decade and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Bill Clinton

At least 70 references to Clinton came up in the latest tranche regarding previously reported events, which he did not object to being made public.

Clinton has not been accused of abuse by Giufffre or anyone else. But her lawyers doggedly fought to depose him in vain about his relationship with Epstein and Maxwell, describing him as “a key person” who could disprove various claims made by Maxwell.

Clinton’s name was featured on multiple flight logs in evidence at Maxwell’s trial, though none to Epstein’s private island, Little St. James. At Maxwell’s criminal trial, jurors heard about how he was among the famous figures who traveled on Epstein’s private planes, along with Trump, Prince Andrew and many others.

Sjoberg’s lengthy May 2016 deposition included a particularly unfavorable and unverified claim about Clinton allegedly made by Epstein “that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.”

Clinton has admitted traveling on Epstein’s aircraft but has denied visiting his properties in the Virgin Islands, New York, and New Mexico or staying in touch with him after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a 14-year-old girl for sex. Maxwell claimed she couldn’t recall if the two men were friendly or why they once went to Thailand together, Giuffre’s lawyers wrote in one filing.

Donald Trump

Passing references are made to Trump, but nowhere is he accused of any abuse.

He also came up as one of the celebrities Alessi said he saw at Epstein’s Florida home in his 2009 deposition, along with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., celebrity hair stylist Frédéric Fekkai, Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. Kennedy, Fekkai, and Ferguson were not accused of wrongdoing.

The house manager recalled Trump often coming over to Epstein’s when he was in town at his Mar-a-Lago estate, saying, “He never sat at the table. He eats with me in the kitchen.”

Epstein was placed at Trump’s Atlantic City casino in Sjoberg’s deposition. She said they stopped off when Epstein’s private pilots rerouted their flight to New York from Florida due to bad weather.

“Jeffrey said, ‘Great, we’ll call up Trump,'” Sjoberg testified, later adding she was never asked to massage Trump.

The current Republican front-runner for the 2024 election has said that he once thought the Brooklyn-born money manager was a “terrific guy” but that they never spoke after a disagreement.

Michael Jackson, David Copperfield

Sjoberg recalled meeting Michael Jackson at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, saying she was not required to massage him. She said she also met celebrity magician Copperfield at a dinner at Epstein’s attended by a girl she believed may have still been in high school.

After doing some magic tricks, Sjoberg testified, Copperfield asked if she was “aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls.” She said he didn’t specify if they were underage.

Copperfield and Jackson were not accused of wrongdoing.

Jean-Luc Brunel

Long suspected of steering underage girls to Epstein, Brunel features throughout the tranche of legal papers. Giuffre has claimed that Maxwell forced her into sex with the French model agent multiple times.

Last year, Brunel killed himself in a French jail cell while facing sex trafficking allegations, seeing an eerily similar demise to Epstein.

Stephen Hawking, Naomi Campbell, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Bruce Willis and Leonardo DiCaprio

There is no evidence the esteemed late theoretical physicist and Cambridge professor Stephen Hawking was involved in Epstein’s depravity.

His name has come up in news reports about the document dump because Epstein mentioned it in a typo-laden email to Maxwell in 2015 about baseless rumors they could debunk.

Blanchett, Diaz, DiCaprio, and Willis similarly appeared spontaneously in filings unsealed in the case, whether in depositions or email correspondence between parties and journalists.

None were accused of wrongdoing. Reps for DiCaprio, Diaz, and Blanchett this week denied having any association with Epstein to The Guardian.

Sjoberg said Epstein name-dropped them during massages, claiming he’d been talking to some on the phone. She said she never saw or met any of the celebrities.

Campbell’s name came up when Giuffre said in her deposition that Giuffre had been forced to sleep with a French hotel owner around the same time as the supermodel’s birthday party. Campbell was not accused of wrongdoing and has condemned Epstein.

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In one of the more unusual intersections of American history, astronaut-turned-senator John Glenn and baseball legend Ted Williams served together in the same Marine Corps fighter squadron during the Korean War. In Spring 1953 Major Glenn and Captain Williams flew combat missions — side-by-side aboard matching F9F Panther jets — into Communist North Korea, routinely dodging anti-aircraft and small arms fire. 

When the war ended that summer, Williams and Glenn returned home to resume the separate and disparate careers that would eventually establish each man’s undeniable place in the pantheon of American icons. Across the ensuing decades they remained in touch — through letters, telegrams, Christmas cards, phone calls — but eventually became closest toward the end of Williams’ life in 2002.

A new nonfiction book by author Adam Lazarus, entitled The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams, chronicles the relationship which lasted nearly half a century. 

The following excerpt focuses on a highlight of the friendship. After the Korean War, Glenn became a military test pilot, a career that culminated in the first-ever transcontinental supersonic flight. “Project Bullet,” as he dubbed it, saw Glenn fly from Southern California to Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field in three hours and twenty-three minutes. At 722 miles per hour — well beyond the speed of sound — the flight represented a remarkable aviation achievement and earned Glenn national acclaim.

While Glenn conceived, planned, and ultimately executed Project Bullet during the spring and summer of 1957, Ted Williams enjoyed one of the finest seasons of his long career. Not only did the 38-year-old left fielder for the Boston Red Sox match Yankees star Mickey Mantle home run for home run but by early June The Splendid Splinter was hitting well over .400, sixteen years after becoming the last man to do so.

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July, 1957.

Rejuvenated by a few days off during the all-star break, Ted Williams’s torrid pace resumed. During a five-game road trip through Detroit and Cleveland, he pounded out seven extra-base hits, including five home runs. Following a doubleheader against the Indians, in which Williams homered in both games, the Red Sox headed to Kansas City for a three-game set with the Athletics.

Trailing 2−1 during a ninety-degree summer night, Williams came to the plate with one out in the top of the ninth. He hit the first pitch thrown by veteran right-hander Virgil Trucks over the right field fence to spark a Red Sox comeback victory. For the fifth straight game he socked a home run, the sixth in his last eleven at-bats. He was just one shy of tying the American League record for consecutive games with a home run. With a league-leading twenty-six home runs, Williams now trailed Mickey Mantle, the reigning American League Triple Crown champion, by just one point in the race for the batting title.

“Theodore Samuel Williams won’t be washed up as a great hitter,” Boston Daily Record reporter Joe Cashman wrote from Kansas City, “just so long as he can drag himself to a plate and swing a bat.”

That July 16 morning had been a typical day on the road for Williams. The team’s eight-hundred-mile train ride from Cleveland had taken more than twenty-one hours. While his teammates slept before resuming their eleven-game road trip, Williams woke up early to enjoy his standard breakfast: orange juice, two lamb chops, and double orders of bacon and liver. But unlike his younger days, instead of touring a new city or stopping by the movie theater to see a Western, Williams remained in his hotel room. Room service and valets brought him everything he needed.

Although sportswriter Edwin Pope later explained that the thirty-eight-year-old Williams “had begun husbanding his strength by resting for much of the playing day,” he was just as content to hide out from reporters and autograph-seekers until much closer to game time.

At some point that day, however, he did see a familiar face. News of Major John Glenn’s transcontinental supersonic flight saturated television and radio airwaves as well as the afternoon editions of hundreds of American newspapers. The Kansas City Star mentioned the milestone on the front page, while pieces in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Missouri’s Springfield Leader were accompanied by large photographs of the Marine in his sleek tan flight suit.

By early evening Williams was ready to leave his solitary confinement for the ballpark. But before heading to Kansas City Municipal Stadium, he had to make a stop. At a local Western Union station he sent a telegram to the rear entrance of the Main Navy and Munitions Building adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The message, addressed to Major John Glenn, Jr., read, “CONGRATULATIONS ON RECORD I AM BIG SHOT NOW TELLING EVERYONE I FLEW WITH YOU IN KOREA TED WILLIAMS.”

When he returned from Brooklyn to his post at The Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C., Glenn picked up the telegram. He held on to it for more than fifty years.