Posted on 11/19/2022 8:07:41 AM PST by bitt
A judge unsealed identities of anonymous "John Does" in Ghislaine Maxwell litigation.
Several names were of Jeffrey Epstein victims, not powerful associates.
One, a subject of "intense media coverage," was allowed to remain anonymous and pursue an appeal.
A judge agreed to make public the names of several "John Does" who tried to keep their identities secret in the long-running litigation between Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein victim.
One of them, however — identified as "John Doe 183" in court filings — will remain anonymous despite being the subject of "intense media coverage" and was repeatedly named in Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial.
Loretta A. Preska, the semi-retired federal judge overseeing the case, said in a court hearing Friday afternoon that John Doe 183's name ought to be made public but that she would stay her own ruling to permit the person to pursue an appeal.
"That Doe's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been a subject of intent media coverage, and Doe 183's name has appeared in numerous places in unsealed portions of Ms. Maxwell's criminal trial transcript," Preska said in the Friday hearing. "In the court's view, there's no reason to redact Doe 183 from the documents."
Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted in December for trafficking multiple girls to Epstein for sex, and for sexually abusing several of them herself. (Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial for related charges in 2019.) Evidence presented in her trial drew connections between her and Epstein and numerous powerful acquaintances, including former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew (who settled his own lawsuit with Giuffre), journalist Mike Wallace, and astronaut John Glenn.
Alan Dershowitz, another former acquaintance of the now-dead pedophile financier, who also settled a lawsuit with Giuffre, has long sought to unseal material from the lawsuit as well, claiming it would disprove Giuffre's misconduct allegations against him.
While the public has largely speculated that the 16 "John Does" who lodged objections to making their identities public were all powerful acquaintances of Epstein and Maxwell, that isn't the case.
Two of the people whose identities were unsealed Friday include apparent victims of Epstein, who Preska said should no longer remain anonymous because of the public nature of their accusations.
One is Emmy Taylor, who filed a lawsuit this summer against a journalist she said misrepresented her experience with Epstein and Maxwell. The other was Sarah Ransome, who wrote a book about her experience, granted numerous media interviews, and spoke at Maxwell's sentencing hearing. A third victim, Preska ruled Friday, would have their identity remain sealed because of the "ongoing trauma" from their experience.
The other people whose identities were unsealed, Preska said, had only marginal connections to Epstein and Maxwell. That includes hotel magnate Thomas Pritzker, the cousin of Illinois governor JB Pritzker. Preska said his name came up in the context of a deposition where the witness said they didn't recognize him.
The filings arose from a lawsuit Giuffre filed against Maxwell in 2015 in Manhattan federal court accusing her of defamation when the British socialite called Giuffre a liar. It settled in 2017 but has enjoyed a long afterlife stretching to more than 1,200 docket entries as Giuffre has sought to unseal thousands of pages of deposition transcripts and other documents filed in the case.
With the exception of "John Doe 183," Friday's hearing ends the saga of the anonymous "John Does."
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My bet John Doe 183 is BILL CLINTON.
Andrew. He settled.
Jane DOE.
His victims were all Jane DOE.
It’s stunning, the lack of interest of the Epstein/Maxwell “little black book” contents by the media.
They’re both convicted of sex trafficking, but not a single client of theirs has been publicly identified, let alone been prosecuted . . .
“My bet John Doe 183 is BILL CLINTON.”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
“I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Giuffre. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false.”
So this article outs 2 of the victims after making excuses about it.
WHERE ARE THE PERP NAMES?
But Andrew probably saw Bill there, too.
#183? Just how many John Does are there?
And why don’t we know them all if we are getting the names of exploited girls?
Amazing how Maxell could be convicted of traficking (i.e. selling), and yet not a single buyer has been arrested, indicted, much less named.
Unlike their ongoing interest in that nut E. Jean Carroll and, of course, Stormy Daniels.
Wondering the same.
I guess we’ll never know now that the FBI has been to the island and scrubbed any evidence of involvement by our (I say “our” derisively, of course - the worst examples of this country’s most vile abusers who are protected because they “feel our pain.”)
If these names were republicans the NYT would already have the list.
It’s stunning, the lack of interest of the Epstein/Maxwell “little black book” contents by the media.
They’re both convicted of sex trafficking, but not a single client of theirs has been publicly identified, let alone been prosecuted . . .
High probability they are Dems or Rinos / Cabal.
They are the protected class, not the citizens of the US.
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Yup, my guess is, we’ll not recognize one of the names released. Powerful people play by different rules.
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