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Judge rules Jeffrey Epstein documents to be unsealed; billionaires brace for impact
...One of the people named in the documents is Tom Pritzker, the billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels and cousin of Illinois governor JB Pritzker,...
...When Pritzker’s attorney objected on the grounds that the revelation would harm his client’s reputation, Preska disagreed with his premise, asserting that the documents were already available in other cases and that their contents did not specify malicious actions.
John Doe 107 also filed an objection, claiming that the unsealing of the documents was a violation of their privacy. The judge knocked that objection down as well.
Another associate of Epstein’s named Emmy Taylor, who is a former personal assistant to Ghislaine Maxwell, is named in the documents. She is accused of being involved in the abuse of Epstein and Maxwell’s victims.
Taylor is mired in a separate lawsuit and objected to the unsealing of the documents. She steadfastly denies doing anything wrong while working for Maxwell.
The judge also ordered documents connected to John Doe 183 to be unsealed as well, since they were the “subject of intense media coverage.” However, the release of those documents will not occur until November 28 so the individual has the option to appeal her decision.
“In the court’s view, there’s no reason to redact Doe 183 from the documents,” she ruled...
John Doe 147’s documents will also be unsealed. That person is said to be Epstein victim Sarah Ransome. The judge noted that Ransome was a sex abuse victim but since she testified in another case publicly, the documents can be unsealed. She also published a book detailing her abuse and wrote a Washington Post op-ed...