Key takeaways from the latest trove of Epstein documents
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A US federal court on Wednesday unsealed hundreds of pages of documents from a lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile who died in jail before he could face trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. CNN has reviewed the documents, which included names — previously redacted to protect the individuals’ privacy — of Epstein’s associates, accusers and others with links to a civil case brought by one of the victims. More documents are expected to be unsealed Thursday. Here’s what we’ve learned so far. Most of the high-profile names that became public in the documents Wednesday were already known to have links to Epstein. The documents stem from a 2015 civil suit brought by Virginia Giuffre, who says she was one of the many young girls trafficked by Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. (Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking in 2021 and is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison.)
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