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Court records related to Jeffrey Epstein are set to be released, but they aren't a client list

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Social media has been rife in recent weeks with posts speculating that a judge is about to release a list of clients or co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

The truth is less scandalous: There is no such list.

Some previously sealed court records are indeed going to be made public, but the great majority of the people whose names appear in those documents are not accused of any wrongdoing.

Here’s what we know about the documents, at least some of which are expected to

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