Late on Wednesday, numerous court documents that had been previously sealed regarding Jeffrey Epstein were disclosed. This release comes as part of a court’s decision to unveil additional records from a lawsuit dating back several years associated with the deceased financier.
They’re likely to disappoint sleuths online, where the plan to release documents prompted rumors of a list of “clients” or “co-conspirators.” In fact, the judge who made the call wrote in December that she was ordering the records released because much of the information within them is already public.
The initial set of 40 documents, out of an anticipated total of around 250, primarily reference individuals whose identities were already disclosed. Among these are well-known associates of Epstein and survivors who have previously come forward publicly. previously sealed regarding Jeffrey
Ahead of the documents’ release, misinformation about their contents ran rampant on social media. Users wrongly claimed that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s name might appear, spurred by a joke New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made Tuesday on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show.”
Kimmel said in a response on X that he had never met Epstein and that Rodgers’ “reckless words put my family in danger.”