FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti
The more than 250-page filings show an accuser claiming to have seen sex tapes filmed by Jeffrey Epstein.
However, Sarah Ransome later said she wanted to drop the charges. It is the fourth release of data related to the case of the victim Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's ex-girlfriend.
The lawsuit, filed in 2015, was settled in 2017. Maxwell has since been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping Epstein abuse young girls. She is appealing against her conviction.
According to hundreds of pages of documents released on Monday, Ransome said in an email that he had seen sex tapes in Epstein's possession that showed figures including Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Sir Richard Branson.
However, the New Yorker magazine reported in 2019 that Ms Ransome had admitted to fabricating the claim. In an undated email from the released files entered as evidence, Ransome says: When my friend had sex with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, the sex tapes were actually filmed on each separate occasion by Jeffery.
Ransome, who said Epstein abused her as an aspiring model and fashion student, also claims in a text message that Donald Trump had sex with a friend of hers at Epstein's New York home. The BBC has contacted the four men for comment, all of whom have previously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. No evidence of the tapes, which Ransome claimed in the emails her friend possessed and she had copied, has ever surfaced.
Referring to the New Yorker report, a spokesman for Sir Richard's Virgin Group said on Monday: We can confirm that Sarah Ransome's claims are unfounded.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung also said Ransome's claims about the former president were "baseless." Court documents also include photographs provided by Ransome to Giuffre's lawyers that allegedly showed girls and young women on Epstein's private island in the Caribbean. According to the documents, Ransome retracted her claim about the tapes in an email to a New York Post columnist, saying she was worried it would "cause pain to my family."
"I would like to take back everything I said to you and walk away from this," Ransome says in an Oct. 23, 2016, email.
The emails are part of a court filing by a firm representing Epstein's former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, intended to show that Ransome "clearly lacks credibility."
Ransome had claimed he was forced to have sex with Dershowitz, who denies the allegations and says he has never met her. She claimed she was recruited by Maxwell into his sex trafficking ring in 2006 when she was 22. Ransome was a witness in Giuffre's case against Epstein and Maxwell and gave evidence of Maxwell's involvement. Giuffre made allegations of wrongdoing by Prince Andrew, but did not allege wrongdoing by Clinton, Trump or Sir Richard.
Three other sets of Epstein's long-sealed court files were released last week, but contained few previously unknown details. Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution of a minor in 2008 and took his own life in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Lini një Përgjigje