Jeffrey Epstein: How did the disgraced paedophile financier die?

Paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is dead and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year jail sentence but the fallout from their crimes continues.

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.

And now the legal files, part of a long-running defamation lawsuit brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against his former fixer and convicted child trafficker Maxwell in 2015, have been made public.

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 of wrongdoing…and absent third parties.”