Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend the Batman Forever/R. McDonald Event in New York City on June 13, 1995.
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New York federal court documents containing previously hidden names of people associated in some way with the late notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein began being unsealed Wednesday evening.
Many of the more than 150 people named in the civil court filings have previously been publicly disclosed as connected in some way with Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 after being arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges. They include victims of Epstein who testified at the criminal trial of his procurer and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
The documents were filed in connection with a Manhattan federal court lawsuit by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell.
Among the documents unsealed Wednesday was a deposition taken of Giuffre by lawyers for that suit and requests to take other depositions of other individuals by her lawyers.
One such request details how Maxwell in her deposition was unable to recall details about Epstein's contacts with Britain's Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton.
In Maxwell's deposition, which was filed Wednesday, she was asked about the billionaire Glenn Dubin, a co-founder of the Highbridge Capital hedge fund.
"Did you ever instruct [Giuffre] to have sex with Glenn" Dubin," Giuffre's lawyer asked Maxwell.
Maxwell replied: "I have never instructed Virginia to have sex with anybody ever."
Dubin's spokesman in 2019 denied claims by Giuffre that Maxwell had ever instructed her to have sex with him.
"Things should start getting unsealed today," Edward Friedland, the district executive for that court, told CNBC.
The fact that peoples' names appear in the files does not necessarily mean they engaged in wrongdoing.
Only Epstein and Maxwell have been criminally charged in connection with his longstanding abuse of girls and young women at residences in New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and elsewhere.