The names of around 170 associates or victims of disgraced financier Jeffery Epstein will be made public, after a judge's ruling. The names come from hundreds of files connected to the 2015 defamation case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who supplied Epstein with underage girls.
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00:00 US Judge Loretta Presker ruled on Monday that hundreds of documents should be made public
00:08 relating to the libel case by Virginia Jeffery against Ghirlane Maxwell from eight years
00:12 ago. It may mean the Duke of York's alleged links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
00:17 will be called into question once more as the files come to light. They include 40 documents
00:21 of evidence from Joanna Showberg, who's claimed Prince Andrew touched her breast while sitting
00:26 on a couch inside the US billionaire's Manhattan apartment in 2001. Buckingham Palace previously
00:32 said the allegations are "categorically untrue". Writing on ex-formerly Twitter, Virginia Jeffery
00:37 said "Finally, we're hearing members of the US government senators about the need for
00:41 transparency and a call to arms for accountability. There's going to be a lot of nervous people
00:46 over Christmas and New Year's, 170 to be exact." But when will the documents be made
00:51 public? Those involved have a fortnight to appeal the judge's decision, meaning they're
00:55 likely to be released in early January.
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