A Trove of Jeffrey Epstein Documents Are About to Be Made Public

A court ruling is set to unmask at least 175 former associates and victims of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as soon as New Year's Day.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered the unsealing of hundreds of documents containing the identities of previously anonymous figures named in Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking related to Epstein.

Preska's order concerns 187 anonymous "J. Doe" figures who are mentioned in case documents. The identities of only 10 people, mostly alleged victims or people with no direct connection to the case, will remain sealed. The remaining 177 "Does," two of whom are each listed twice, will be revealed on January 1, pending any appeals that could delay the process.

The order notes that some of the names have already been reported in the media or openly mentioned during Maxwell's trial. For most of the figures, unsealing is justified in the order due to "no interests that outweigh the presumption of access" to the documents. Materials involving a significant number of the figures are also said to be "not salacious."

Newsweek reached out for comment to the legal counsel of Jeffrey Epstein's estate via email on Tuesday.

Epstein, a well-connected financier who was spotted socializing with powerful figures that included former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, died in jail in August 2019, about one month after being arrested on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. His death was ruled an apparent suicide.

Lists purporting to show public figures who visited Epstein's private island, located in the U.S. Virgin Islands, have frequently circulated online since his death. The financier's private jet, sometimes referred to as the "Lolita Express," was also allegedly used to ferry underage girls to the island and other properties for sex trafficking purposes.

During the Maxwell trial, long-serving former Epstein pilot Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr. named passengers that included Trump, Clinton, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former senator and astronaut John Glenn, Britain's Prince Andrew and actor Kevin Spacey.

However, Visoski also described the island as a "regular destination" and answered "absolutely not" when asked if he ever witnessed any underage girls engaging in sex acts.

During a Newsmax interview on Monday, GOP Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee said that a petition to release the full "Lolita Express" flight logs from Senator Marsha Blackburn, also a Tennessee Republican, had been "snubbed" by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Burchett predicted that the logs would not be released because too many of his "colleagues" would be involved, suggesting that lawmakers were conspiring to keep the records under wraps.