Jeffrey Epstein invoked the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times in a newly unsealed 2016 deposition
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The transcript of a 2016 deposition of Jeffrey Epstein was made public Tuesday, as part of hundreds of documents unsealed over the past two weeks from the lawsuit between one of his most vocal accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and his longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
The transcript of a 2016 deposition of Jeffrey Epstein was made public Tuesday, as part of hundreds of documents unsealed over the past two weeks from the lawsuit between one of his most vocal accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and his longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in jail before he could face trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, did not answer any substantive question in the deposition and instead invoked his Fifth Amendment right hundreds of times in the more than five hours he sat for the deposition in Palm Beach, Florida in September 2016. Epstein warned the opposing attorneys at the beginning of the deposition that he had been advised by his own lawyers to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege, but that didn’t stop Giuffre’s attorney from questioning the convicted sex offender for hours about allegations of Epstein’s extensive sexual abuse of minors in several countries and how Maxwell and others participated. Epstein did not answer dozens of questions about his relationship with Bill Clinton and whether the former president had been on to the financier’s private island. “When Bill Clinton came to your island, he was accompanied by two young women who were approximately 18 years old, true?” Giuffre attorney Paul Cassell asked Epstein. “Fifth,” Epstein answered.
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