Hundreds of pages of documents that are part of a lawsuit connected to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have started being released.
CBC News is currently reviewing the newly unsealed documents. Those named in the documents are not necessarily accused of any wrongdoing; some of the people named are those making allegations or are potential witnesses.
Epstein, a disgraced financier, died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
The documents were originally filed in court as part of a lawsuit against Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was
