Of prince andrew, bill clinton, and sir richard branson. the three of them have denied any wrongdoing, and the person who made the allegations later said she wanted to withdraw them. the claims were included in hundreds of documents that a usjudge has ordered to be unsealed as part of a civil claim by prince andrew s accuser virginia giuffre against ghislaine maxwell, which was filed in 2015 and settled in 2017. 0ur north america correspondent nada tawfik has more. a new batch of court documents have been released, this time in relation to a woman named sarah ransom, who herself settled a civil lawsuit with epstein and maxwell in 2018 for an undisclosed amount. sarah ransom says she was abused and recruited into epstein s sex trafficking ring in 2006 when she was 22 years old. now, the latest release
She wanted to withdraw them. our north america correspondent nada tawfik has more. a new batch of court documents have been released, this time in relation to a woman named sarah ransome, who herself settled a civil lawsuit with epstein and maxwell in 2018 for an undisclosed amount. sarah ransome says she was abused and recruited into epstein s sex trafficking ring in 2006 when she was 22 years old. now, the latest release includes several of her communications with a columnist from the new york post in 2016. she claims in them to have witnessed bill clinton, richard branson and prince andrew having sex with one of her friends. and she says she has copies of the encounters in her possession and on usb drives. she later tells the reporter that she would like to retract everything she told her. now, all of the men mentioned have denied any wrongdoing
And have not been charged with any criminal charges in relation to epstein. now, when miss ransome was asked about her claims again in 2019 by the new yorker, she said that she invented the story of the tapes to draw attention to epstein s behaviour and to make him believe that she had evidence that would come out if he harmed her. now, also released are documents that she provided to virginia giuffre s lawyers. a number of photos that show herself, young women, or girls, on epstein s private island. she also sent them a picture of ghislaine maxwell lounging on a chair at a time when maxwell claimed she wasn t there. and in her deposition, she said maxwell was like the mama bear, and the girls were afraid of her because she called the shots and she was epstein s right hand. she likened her time with epstein to a dungeon of sexual hell.
Ghislaine Maxwell was ordered to search her email accounts for mentions of Prince Andrew and references to “sex toys” and “massage”, newly released court.
Understand, nate, you just got a fresh new batch of names. four separate drops throughout the day. the newest one, 36 documents. 381 pages. so we have the entire newsroom going through that right now. what we learned in the newest batch released today for the first time hillary clinton s name is included. the former secretary of state is on a list of names and phrases that lawyers wanted searched on jeffrey epstein s confidante ghislaine maxwell s election electronic devices. this is all part of a 2015 defamation lawsuit that epstein accusers gustav fray brought against maxwell. form herb president bill clinton on that same list. in a separate document maxwell discusses taking a trip with epstein and clinton but said she couldn t remember the date. neither of the clintons are accused of any wrongdoing. a clinton spokesperson says the former president last spoke to epstein almost 20 years ago another new name is harvey