Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, returned to national infamy this year after a federal judge ordered the unsealing of hundreds of documents about allegations against him in a civil lawsuit.
While Epstein’s brother, Mark, is not alone in questioning the government’s conclusion that he died of suicide in federal custody, there is also great public interest in the disgraced financier’s associates, clients and potential accomplices.
Here are some of the biggest Epstein revelations of 2024:
The Jeffrey Epstein list: Court unseals names in Ghislaine Maxwell lawsuit
Nearly 200 names that had previously been redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell were made public on orders of a federal judge in New York. Hundreds of documents were released in multiple waves in January.
Epstein had many high-profile connections, including former U.S. presidents, foreign prime ministers and Britain’s Prince Andrew, as well as Hollywood stars, leading academics, people in the modeling and fashion industries and other public figures. Some of the names were previously known through other means despite having been withheld from the public’s eye in the lawsuit.
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