Thousands of new documents linked to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made available by the US Department of Justice , amid mounting criticism over the pace of the publication and heavy redactions.
The latest release includes around 11,000 files containing 30,000 pages of documents, with many redactions, including an email from a prosecutor indicating President Trump had travelled aboard his private jet “many more times than previously has been reported”.
The tranche of materials released on Friday included photographs of former Democratic president Bill Clinton and other famous names.
These include the likes of pop stars Diana Ross, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson, actor Kevin Spacey, British politician Peter Mandelson and former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, broadcaster Walter Cronkite, French modelling agent Jean Luc Brunel and Virgin founder Richard Branson.
An initial review of the released materials by The Guardian yielded three particularly damning pieces of correspondence.
The first was a letter from Epstein to Larry Nassar – the US gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually abusing scores of young gymnasts – ostensibly written while the former was in prison.
“Dear LN as you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good Luck! We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls.
When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch’, whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J Epstein.”
The second is a series of emails between an individual identified as ‘The Invisible Man’ – believed to be an alias of former prince Andrew – and Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
