New York - A woman who accused Jeffrey
Epstein of keeping her as a sex slave said one of the
financier's associates had instructed her to have sex with at
least a half-dozen prominent men, according to a court filing
unsealed on Friday in a civil lawsuit.
The claim by Virginia Giuffre came in a deposition that was
included among roughly 2,000 pages of documents related to her
defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate whom
Giuffre has said helped Epstein procure girls for sex.
Lawyers for Maxwell did not respond to several phone and
email requests for comment.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking
involving dozens of underage girls as young as 14, from at least
2002 to 2005. He is being held in a Manhattan jail.
Lawyers for Epstein did not respond to requests for comment
outside business hours. Maxwell has not been criminally charged.
The Giuffre deposition and the other documents were released
after a federal appeals court in Manhattan rejected Maxwell's
bid to keep them under seal.
Giuffre claimed in a May 3, 2016, deposition that Maxwell
directed her to have sex with people including former New Mexico
Governor Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell,
modeling agent Jean Luc Brunel and financier Glenn Dubin.
It was not clear from the deposition transcript included in
the court documents how old Giuffre was at the time of the
alleged direction. The transcript does not indicate whether
Giuffre actually engaged in sex with the four men.
None of the four men has been criminally charged in
connection with Epstein. Richardson, Mitchell and Dubin, or
their respective representatives, all said the various
allegations against them were false. A lawyer for Brunel did not
respond to a phone call and email seeking comment.
A spokeswoman for Richardson said the former governor had
never met Giuffre. "These allegations and inferences are
completely false," she said. "To be clear, in Governor
Richardson's limited interactions with Mr. Epstein, he never saw
him in the presence of young or underage girls."
Mitchell said in a statement: "The allegation contained in
the released documents is false. I have never met, spoken with
or had any contact with Ms. Giuffre."
A spokeswoman for Dubin said he was "outraged" by the
unsealed allegations, which he considered "demonstrably false
and defamatory," and said that he had flight records and other
evidence that "definitively" disproved them.
The name of U.S. President Donald Trump, who was once a
friend of Epstein, appears in a Nov. 14, 2016, deposition of
Giuffre, in which she said Trump and Epstein had been good
friends.
In response to a question about how she knew whom Trump had
sex with, Giuffre said she "didn't physically see him have sex
with any of the girls."
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.