PRINCE Andrew and Bill Clinton have been named in unsealed Jeffrey Epstein court documents.
The order for the files to be released was given by New York judge Loretta Preska in relation to the 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Sun has seen the first set of released court files and is scouring through them for more information.
Prince Andrew and former US president Clinton are both named in early documents, which include an email sent by Ghislaine Maxwell.
In the email, Maxwell writes: “I can’t even see what life after press hell even looks like.
“Statements that don’t address all just lead to more questions. What is my relationship to Clinton? Andrew? On and on.”
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And, in a transcript of her deposition, Maxwell claims Andrew only ever visited Epstein’s ‘paedo’ island once.
She added that no girls were present during the prince’s visit – only female staff.
The transcript reads: “There were no girls on the island at all. No girls, no women, other than the staff who work at the house.
“Girls meaning, I assume you are asking underage, but there was nobody female outside of the cooks and the cleaners.”
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Maxwell also said under oath that she “did not recall” being in London with Virginia Giuffre and Andrew – despite photographs showing the three together.
And she denied ever “at any time, at anyplace, in any moment ever asked Virginia Roberts or whatever she is called now to have sex with anybody.”
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Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing and told the BBC in 2019 that he had never met Ms Giuffre.
Ms Giuffre launched a legal battle against Prince Andrew in 2021 – accusing him of sexually abusing her at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion and raping her when she was 17.
She also alleged in court documents she was recruited by Maxwell, 61, as a teenage “sex slave” for Epstein.
In another round of her deposition, Maxwell denied Clinton ever visited the infamous island but she said he did have a meal on Epstein’s plane.
She said “the allegation that Clinton had a meal on Jeffrey’ s island is 100 percent false” before adding “I’m sure he had a meal on Jeffrey’s plane.”
She also said she knew the former President’s longtime personal aide Doug Band.
Asked if she had a relationship with Band, Maxwell said: “We are talking about adult consensual relationships, it’s off the record.”
Meanwhile, Prince Andrew’s grope accuser Johanna Sjoberg testified that Epstein told her Clinton “likes them young” when talking about girls.
Ms Sjoberg, 42, claims that in March 2001, when she was 21, Andrew groped her breast at Epstein’s New York mansion while playing with a Spitting Image puppet of himself.
In transcript of her witness testimony, Ms Sjoberg was asked if she ever met anyone famous while with Epstein.
She said she met Michael Jackson at Epstein’s house in Palm Beach – but insisted their relationship was not sexual.
Names of Epstein and Maxwell’s victims, associates and alleged co-conspirators will continue to be made public as part of the document dump, according to Preska’s order.
The list is expected to include names of people with close ties to Epstein such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.
There is no suggestion that any of those named are accused of any wrongdoing.
Ghislaine Maxwell on Prince Andrew
Question: Were you present on the island when Prince Andrew visited?
Maxwell: Yes.
Q: How many times?
Maxwell: I can only remember once.
Q: Were there any girls under the age of 18 on the island during that one visit that you remember that were not family or friends of or daughters of your friends?
Maxwell: There were no girls on the island at all. No girls, no women, other than the staff who work at the house. Girls meaning, I assume you are asking underage, but there was nobody female outside of the cooks and the cleaners.
The new files will include emails, legal documents, depositions and more relating to Epstein and Maxwell.
Only Epstein and Maxwell have been charged over the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005.
Ms Giuffre filed a defamation lawsuit in 2015 which was settled – but some of those involved in the trial were identified in the ruling through links to interviews they had previously given.
Judge Preska cited this as a reason for why their identities should not remain sealed.
She ruled there was no legal justification for continuing to conceal the names of more than 150 “John and Jane Does” mentioned in the court filings relating to Epstein.
Media sued to have the documents made public and they have been released on a rolling basis since 2019.
Today’s unsealing is the eighth and likely final release from the 2015 defamation case.
Of the dozens of documents being released, 67 concern Johanna Sjoberg and relate to the defamation case brought by Ms Giuffre – who claims Andrew had sex with her when she was 17.
Ms Sjoberg also claims that in March 2001, when she was 21, Andrew groped her breast at Epstein’s New York mansion while playing with a Spitting Image puppet of himself.
Ms Giuffre sued Prince Andrew in 2021 for battery and infliction of emotional distress.
They settled in February 2022 for a reported £10million, though he has always denied the allegations against him and claimed he could not recall ever meeting Ms Giuffre.
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Epstein killed himself in 2019 while he awaited trial.
Maxwell, 62, is serving 20 years for sex trafficking.
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