OK, we’re going to preface this by as soon as once more reminding everybody: the Jeffrey Epstein doc launch is NOT a listing of co-conspirators! Unfortunately we could by no means get that.
What we’re truly taking a look at is a bunch of authorized paperwork, depositions, and many others, which have been largely public for years — solely redacted. Names had been changed with Jane and John Doe to guard reputations. This isn’t as a result of 150 completely different individuals had been accused of collaborating within the intercourse trafficking ring; most names had been talked about in a far much less incriminating means. It’s simply that at this level any affiliation with Epstein and his circle is sketchy. But we nonetheless owe it to all these stars to concentrate to the context with which their names are talked about. OK, everybody obtained that?
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Most of the large A-lister names talked about within the docs are, the truth is, within the nature of an Epstein sufferer clarifying she by no means met them. For occasion…
Cameron Diaz
In Johanna Sjöberg‘s deposition, she is asked about meeting various movie stars during her time with Epstein. She says simply that she never met Cameron Diaz. And there you go, Cameron Diaz’s identify is within the docs. No allegations or concrete ties to Epstein, however her identify is there.
Kevin Spacey
Likewise Sjöberg was requested about Kevin Spacey. And once more she denied ever having met him. Whatever Spacey has been accused of, if it ever overlapped with Epstein (which appears unlikely contemplating the latter solely trafficked younger girls), Johanna by no means knew about it.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Bruce Willis
A trio of A-listers are talked about in a single second throughout Sjöberg’s testimony as examples of how Epstein would casually drop large names. She was requested about assembly film stars, and she or he clarified:
“I did not meet them, no. When I spoke about them, it was when I was massaging him, and he would get off — he would be on the phone a lot at that time, and one time he said, ‘Oh, that was Leonardo,’ or, ‘That was Cate Blanchett,’ or Bruce Willis. That kind of thing.”
So she was current when Epstein was on the cellphone with film stars — or not less than, that’s what he claimed. Obviously nobody is aware of if he was even telling the reality or big-timing the poor woman. Also, it’s not fully clear to us if the names she talked about had been examples or ones she particularly remembered listening to.
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was an enormous star Sjöberg truly did meet. She claimed to have met the late King of Pop as soon as at Epstein’s house in Palm Beach, Florida, whereas she was working as his assistant.
This has truly been documented earlier than, within the 2020 e book Relentless Pursuit. Lawyer Bradley J. Edwards, who represented a number of Epstein victims, famous the affiliation with Jacko, writing:
“For a young woman like Johanna, the fact that there were stars who were friends with Jeffrey and Ghislaine was an attractive bonus of the job. Even the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson, had been enough of an Epstein acquaintance to pay him a visit in Palm Beach while Johanna was working there.”
Naomi Campbell
Another identify that pops up is supermodel Naomi Campbell. In 2016 Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre stated she was despatched to have intercourse with “the owner of a large hotel chain in France around the time of Naomi Campbell’s birthday party.” Sjöberg additionally mentions Campbell, saying she by no means met her in individual.
Naomi herself has acknowledged having beforehand frolicked in the identical circles as Epstein. She stated in 2019, after his arrest on intercourse trafficking prices, that she regretted having socialized with him and located his actions “indefensible.”
She’s obtained that proper. We’ll see if anybody else talked about decides to launch an announcement…
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