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Jeffrey Epstein docs: 3rd batch includes allegations sex trafficker trolled nightclubs for underage girls
A federal court in New York has unsealed another batch of documents expected to name associates of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and child sex trafficker who died in prison in 2019.
The new release includes a deposition of Tony Figueroa, a driver for Epstein and Maxwell and former boyfriend of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who claimed that he was often tasked with driving girls to the mansion who looked like they were 16 or 17 years old. Each time he dropped them off, he said, Epstein would pay him $200 each.
He also alleged that Epstein, Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell would “all go out to clubs to pick up girls and try to find them to bring back for Jeffrey.”
As for Epstein, the documents allege he invoked the Fifth Amendment 500 times in a deposition with Giuffre’s lawyers, refusing to answer even simple questions aside from his own name, and also tried to use the amendment to avoid having to disclose documents in the discovery process.
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The documents included a deposition of Epstein’s accomplice and another containing images of Epstein’s phone records showed an unnamed female left a message that “she is wondering if 2:30 is OK cuz she needs to stay in school.”
Two depositions, one from Figueroa and on of Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg, asserted that the trafficker required “so many massages “from so many different girls” because “he needed to have three orgasms a day.”
“It was biological, like eating,” Sjoberg testified.
At one point, Epstein asked her to have his baby, she said.
“Basically, just said, I want you to be the mother of my baby,” she testified.
Sjoberg said she responded with: “Oh, yeah, really? Okay.”
Also mentioned in various documents is celebrity hairdresser Frédéric Fékkai. Sjoberg said she was massaging Epstein as he was on the phone with someone. She heard him say that Fekkai was in Hawaii.
“Can we find some girls for him,” Epstein asked, she said.
An entry from Epstein’s handwritten phone book.
The latest documents include the names of Jes Staley, a former JPMorgan Chase banker who resigned over his ties to Epstein, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was not accused of wrongdoing but was mentioned as part of a discovery request as an Epstein accuser hoped to gain information from people in his orbit.
Staley’s name appeared misspelled in Epstein’s call log, and so did many other figures in Epstein’s orbit, including Les Wexler, the billionaire founder of Limited Brands and former CEO of Victoria’s Secret.
The documents were previously sealed or redacted in a 2015 lawsuit between Giuffre and Maxwell, who is currently serving time in federal prison for sex trafficking.
Maxwell allegedly made efforts to hide evidence of her involvement in the sexual abuse of underage girls, authorities said. On the day Palm Beach police officers executed a search warrant for Epstein’s home, she called his housekeeper and told her not to come to work that morning, court documents revealed.
When police arrived at the home, they found computers had been ripped out of their places, leaving monitors, keyboards, wires and other equipment behind.
Documents unsealed Thursday also showed a discovery request for all photos of Maxwell taken during Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.
In this handout image provided by Genevieve de Manio, former U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) walks Chelsea Clinton down the aisle during her wedding to Marc Mezvinsky at the Astor Courts Estate on July 31, 2010 in Rhinebeck, New York. Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, married Marc Mezvinsky today in an interfaith ceremony at the estate built by John Jacob Astor on the Hudson River about two hours north of New York City. (Genevieve de Manio via Getty Images)
The entire former first family has now been named in the records, although none of the Clintons have been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. A spokesman for the former president earlier this week denied claims in the documents that Epstein and Clinton were close friends.
Giuffre had tried to depose the former president as part of the lawsuit, but a judge denied her request.
Giuffre objected to naming some high-profile individuals she was sex trafficked to because “naming some such individuals would jeopardize her physical safety based on credible threats to the same,” one documents states.
New York City billionaire Glenn Dubin has also come up in many of the unsealed documents. Dubin, the co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management, is heavily involved with philanthropic endeavors and has given federal candidates hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations in recent years. He and his wife Eva, a friend of Maxwell’s have denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein and Jean-Luc Brunel are seen onboard Epstein’s private jet, the ‘Lolita Express. This photo was one of many unearthed during Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial in the Southern District of New York, where she was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for working with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. (U.S. Department of Justice)
However, their former private chef, Rinaldo Rizzo has claimed that Epstein and Maxwell once visited Dubin’s house with a disoriented, 15-year-old Swedish girl who told him the couple asked her for sex and that her passport had been taken.
Another deposition involves testimony of a pilot who was implicated in Epstein’s Florida conviction, Nadia Marcinkova, who invoked her Fifth Amendment rights repeatedly during questioning.
“Have you witnessed improper sexual activity between Jeffrey Epstein and minors, while he was in the presence of Bill Clinton?” she was asked, in April 2010.
“Fifth,” she replied.
Maxwell, in another filing, repeatedly said she did not understand a lawyer’s question when asked, “Do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein abused any minor children?”
“Can you repeat the question please and break it down so it’s more understandable,” she replied.
Palm Beach police investigator Joseph Recarey, who is now deceased, allegedly found nude photographs of girls during a search of Epstein’s home. In addition, Epstein’s housekeeper, Louella Rabuyo, said she saw images of topless girls in his closet.
Alfredo Rodriguez, Epstein’s butler, told authorities his boss had a photo of a naked woman next to an image of the pope.
Bill Clinton receives a massage from Chauntae Davies in 2002 at a small airport in Portugal during a fuel stop for Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727 which was bound for Africa from New York. (Mega)
Other documents revealed a scheme by someone to sell criminal evidence against Epstein for thousands of dollars. That person was arrested in an FBI sting operation. The person, identified as Mr. Rodriguez, approached a lawyer in 2009 with the offer of criminal evidence against Epstein.
Rodriguez was imprisoned for bribery and obstruction before his death in 2015.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered the documents’ unsealing in December but gave each of the John and Jane Does two weeks to appeal. Lawyers for Giuffre posted the first 40 unsealed files Wednesday. They posted another 19 Thursday and are expected to release 240 files total by Monday.
Epstein had many high-profile connections, including former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, foreign prime ministers and Britain’s Prince Andrew, as well as Hollywood stars, leading academics, people in the modeling and fashion industries and other public figures. Some of the names were previously known through other means despite having been withheld from the public’s eye in the lawsuit.
Many of the names belong to people who have not been accused of wrongdoing, including Clinton and Trump.
Epstein’s social circle also included Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and ex-wife of Prince Andrew. Juan Alessi, the longtime manager of Epstein’s estate, said during a 2009 deposition that he saw Ferguson at the home, as well as secretary for now-deceased Princess Diana, “Mr. Trump” and Robert Kennedy Jr.
Ferguson and the prince were also friends with Maxwell. He sometimes “spent weeks with us,” Alessi said, and had daily massages. Trump also visited the estate but never stood over, Alessi said.
“He would come, have dinner. He never sat at the table. He eat with me in the kitchen,” said Alessi.
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Photo from 2001 that was included in court files shows Prince Andrew with his arm around the waist of 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre. Ghislaine Maxwell is standing to the right. (U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
One anonymous witness claimed to remember several conversations about Bill Clinton and others. She recalled Clinton and actor Kevin Spacey visited Africa but “there was nothing specific about Bill Clinton other than I think it was a trip where they – it was very vague.”
“It was implied that they enjoyed themselves, however that was,” she said.
Epstein accuser Sarah Ransom said she was “lent out” to Epstein’s friends and associates to have sex.
“Among the people he lent me to was bis friend, Alan Dershowitz,” she said, according to one filing. “On one occasion I was in a bedroom at Jeffrey’s New York townhouse with Jeffrey and (alleged Epstein accomplice) Nadia Marcinkova. After a short time, Alan Dershowitz entered the room, after which Jeffrey left the room and Nadia and I had sex with Dershowitz. I recall specific, key details of his person and the sex acts and can describe th.em in the event it becomes necessary to do so.”
Dershowitz has repeatedly denied even knowing about Epstein’s sexual abuse of young girls or participating in any abuses.
Some names will remain sealed for various reasons, including names of some of Epstein’s underage victims and at least one person who the judge said had been falsely identified. The judge is also expected to decide on whether to release the identities of two Does in the lawsuit who have requested to remain unnamed.
In a separate criminal case, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for sex trafficking Epstein’s victims.
She is appealing that conviction and has declined to comment on the document dump.
Fox News’ Kyle Morris, Sarah Rumpf Brie Stimson and Brianna Herlihy contributed to this report.
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Mamdani’s rent freeze, tax hikes a ‘one-two wealth destruction punch,’ economists warn
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New Yorkers could be facing a “one-two wealth destruction punch” if Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze and tax hikes take effect, economists warn.
Mamdani’s housing plan, a campaign promise aimed at addressing affordability, includes an immediate freeze on roughly 2 million rent-stabilized apartments. Separately, his broader $127 billion budget agenda calls for higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations, as well as a potential 9.5% property tax increase if state lawmakers decline to act.
In the nation’s largest city and a global financial center, the outcome of Mamdani’s proposals could shape not only the future of New York’s housing market, but also broader debates over regulation, taxation and urban policy.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani placed affordability at the center of his campaign to lead the nation’s largest city. (Angelina Katsanis/AFP/Getty Images)
Edward Pinto, senior fellow and co-director of the AEI Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute, said capping rent increases while raising property taxes would pressure landlords from both directions, reducing revenue while increasing expenses.
“This would be a one-two wealth destruction punch,” Pinto told Fox News Digital. “The rent freeze would drive multifamily property values down and the increase in property taxes would drive both multifamily and single-family values down,” he said.
That, he warned, could ripple across the housing market, affecting not only landlords, but also homeowners whose property values are tied to broader market conditions. He also said the policies could discourage new housing construction and lead landlords to defer repairs and improvements.
“At the same time, the construction of new supply would contract, and property upkeep would diminish as repairs are deferred and improvements are not made,” Pinto said.
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Economists warn that Mamdani’s housing proposal will exacerbate affordability issues in the nation’s largest city. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Expanding on that argument, E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, said the risks extend beyond property values and could ultimately reduce the city’s housing supply.
“Economists — whether they are on the right or on the left — essentially are in universal agreement, that when the government implements price controls in the rental market, you end up with housing shortages,” Antoni told Fox News Digital.
“And not only do you end up with fewer housing units available, but the quality of those units consistently goes down as well,” he added.
Emily Hamilton, the director of the Urbanity Project at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, echoed similar concerns with Mamdani’s housing policy platform.
“It’s going to exacerbate the city’s housing quality problems that the current rent stabilization law is already exacerbating. A rent freeze would just make that worse, and ultimately will contribute to the reduction in the supply of rent-stabilized units,” she said.
Mamdani, who made lowering costs for New Yorkers a cornerstone of his campaign, has also proposed building 200,000 affordable rental units. Hamilton said that portion of the proposal could be more promising.
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With billions of dollars and millions of renters at stake, the outcome of Mamdani’s plan could shape New York City’s property landscape for years to come. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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She explained that the passage of the 1961 Zoning Resolution made it difficult to add real estate in New York City, which contributed to an affordability problem and a push to regulate rents.
“It’s regulation on top of regulation, rather than addressing the root cause of housing undersupply and just making it easier to build housing of all types at all price points,” Hamilton said.
Mamdani’s office did not reach out to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
With billions of dollars and millions of renters at stake, the outcome of the debate could shape the city’s property landscape for years to come.
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Bruins Believe They ‘Didn’t Do Enough’ In Loss To Flyers | NESN
The Boston Bruins suffered a 3-1 road loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.
Boston entered the game in points in eight-straight games, as the Bruins are competing for a playoff spot. However, Boston’s offense struggled on Saturday, as the Bruins scored just once on Dan Vladar, and head coach Marco Sturm felt like the team didn’t do enough to create more scoring chances.
“(Vladar) played really good, he kind of made those saves he needed to,” Sturm said as seen on NESN’s postgame coverage on Saturday. “We just didn’t do enough of a good job being around him or being front of him.”
Although Sturm didn’t like Boston’s play, Vladar still made some key stops when the game was close.
Bruins forward Morgan Geekie had multiple chances and was frustrated that he couldn’t score on any of them.
“Just one of those nights,” Geekie said. “Their goalie played well. Couldn’t quite put it in the spot I wanted to a couple times and Dan made a couple great plays.”
Boston’s lone goal came from Charlie McAvoy, while Jeremy Swayman made 14 saves on 16 shots, as Philadelphia added an empty-netter to secure the win.
With the loss, the Bruins fell to 33-21-5 and are holding onto the final Wild Card spot. Boston will return to the ice at home on Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Vegas allowed two power-play goals on Pittsburgh’s four chances after giving up one on 12 opportunities the previous four games.
“I think we just had poor execution all game long,” Golden Knights forward Reilly Smith said. “Obviously, our penalty kill has been pretty good for us and that wasn’t good enough tonight.”
Rickard Rakell pushed it to 4-0 on another power play at 15:06, stopping a shot from Karlsson with his left skate and wrapping a shot around Hill.
Brazeau scored on a wrist shot from above the right circle at 14:59 of the third period for the 5-0 final.
“Second period, they took it to us,” McNabb said. “We were out of it, basically.”
NOTES: With goals from Kindel, Chinakhov and Brazeau, the Penguins have 73 goals by players in their first season with the team. It’s the most in the NHL this season and 13 more than the next closest (the Anaheim Ducks, 59). … The Golden Knights have been outscored 9-1 in the first and second periods of their first three games out of the break for the Olympics. … Karlsson has 908 points (204 goals, 704 assists), tied with Scott Stevens (908 points; 196 goals, 712 assists) for the 13th-most by a defenseman in League history. … Vegas forward Mitch Marner had a point streak end at six games (seven points; four goals, three assists).
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