Former President Bill Clinton is set to be identified as one of several previously redacted John Does in documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to ABC News. More than 150 individuals, identified only as John or Jane Does, will have their legal masking removed, with Clinton being one of the notable names disclosed. A federal judge in New York had ordered the unsealing of dozens of documents linked to Epstein, ruling that there was no justification to keep them sealed in a settled case involving an Epstein accuser.
Trump on February 27, 2015: "Bill Clinton has a lot of problems coming up with the famous island, with Jeffrey Epstein." pic.twitter.com/2Dybw8eYRg
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ABC News reported that Clinton’s name appears over 50 times in the redacted filings, but there is no indication that the records contain evidence of illegal conduct by the former president. The unredacted documents, expected to be released soon, will identify various individuals, including associates, victims, investigators, and journalists involved in the case. Some names will remain under seal, such as those of minor victims and a person wrongly identified as an alleged perpetrator by a reporter.
The order to unseal the documents stems from a 2015 lawsuit between Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former lover and accomplice. Although the case was settled in 2017, the judge indicated in hearings in 2021 and 2022 that the names would not remain sealed indefinitely. Giuffre alleges that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her when she was 17, Fox News Digital reports.
Epstein, a convicted sex offender in Florida, died in 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York while awaiting federal trial for sex trafficking. His death was ruled a suicide, and a subsequent federal investigation found no evidence contradicting this designation. The upcoming release of unredacted documents is part of ongoing efforts to bring transparency to the Epstein case and shed light on the individuals involved.
