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Jeffrey Epstein: How did disgraced financier die?

Source: US District Attorney’s Office

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell may be serving a 20-year jail sentence for running a “pyramid scheme of abuse” and trafficking girls and young women for sex but the Jeffrey Epstein saga continues to have an afterlife.

More than four years after the disgraced financier died by suicide in his prison cell, a New York District judge announced the impending unsealing of a trove of documents revealing the names of more than 150 of his associates.

The legal files are part of a long-running defamation lawsuit brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against his former fixer and convicted child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in 2015.

The case was settled in 2017, but Judge Loretta Preska laterin December 2023. The individuals whose names had been previously redacted, including “alleged victims, people not accused

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