Jane Doe sued Ghislaine Maxwell and the estate of Jeffrey Epstein in federal court, claiming, among other things, that Epstein introduced her to Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago when she was 14, told Trump, “This is a good one, right?” and that “Trump smiled and nodded in agreement,” after which Epstein sexually molested her repeatedly.
Read moreIn the 11th Circuit, government prosecutors at long last uttered the word “sorry” in open court to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring, after years of refusing to apologize for keeping them in the dark about a deal that protected the wealthy money manager from federal charges.
Read moreFederal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss an information accusing Efraim Jimenez of obstructing a sex trafficking investigation involving Girls Do Porn, but not dismiss the case against his brother, Frederick Jimenez.
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The Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on the Bridgegate convictions of two political operatives found to have orchestrated gridlock New Jersey traffic as partisan payback in the name of then-Governor Chris Christie.
Read moreVideo footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt “no longer exists,” federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday.
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Prince Andrew suffered fresh scrutiny Monday night when the woman who says she was a trafficking victim made to have sex with him when she was 17 asked the British public to support her quest for justice.
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One of Jeffrey Epstein’s prominent accusers asked a federal judge Monday for permission to boost defamation claims against Alan Dershowitz with fodder from his new book “Guilt by Association.”
Read moreA onetime informal adviser to the Trump campaign who is charged with bringing a 14-year-old Czech boy to the United States for sex failed to persuade a federal judge that the crime is too old to prosecute.
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Attorneys for the victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein say Prince Andrew should speak to U.S. investigators immediately, after the prince withdrew from public duties over what he called his “ill-judged association” with the convicted pedophile.
Read moreGirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, a fugitive believed to be in New Zealand, was charged Thursday for allegedly producing child porn and sex trafficking related to a 2012 incident involving a 16-year-old.
Read moreJoining the 22 women who testified before her, an additional witness – Jane Doe “A” – testified in the fraud civil trial against GirlsDoPorn Thursday giving a first-hand account of what the company’s videographer had previously admitted: the porn company is still recruiting women and posting new videos online in the midst of trial.
Read moreA forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother said Wednesday that evidence suggested the disgraced financier had not died by suicide in his jail cell but had been murdered.
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Bringing the latest in a string of legal actions across the country that attempts to hold hotels accountable for sex trafficking, an anonymous plaintiff accused two hotel chains in a federal complaint Tuesday of looking the other way as a young girl was trafficked in their guest rooms.
Read moreThe day after an online porn purveyor removed GirlsDoPorn’s videos and less than a week after federal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against its owners and operators, GirlsDoPorn lost a bid to stay the months-long civil trial brought by women who say they were duped to appear in its videos.
Read moreGirlsDoPorn’s administrative assistant Valorie Moser made her initial appearance in the Southern District of California Friday after criminal sex trafficking charges were unsealed Thursday against the online porn company. Moser is accused of conspiracy in recruiting women to appear in the porn flicks. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 22.
Read moreAmidst a months-long civil fraud trial for allegedly engaging in a bait-and-switch scheme to get women to appear in pornographic videos shot in San Diego, the owner and operators of GirlsDoPorn were criminally indicted on sex trafficking charges Thursday.
Read moreAttorneys for Alan Dershowitz told a federal judge Tuesday that a telephone recording of Boies Schiller partner David Boies discredits defamation claims against the former Harvard professor brought by Virginia Giuffre, one of at least 20 women who say Jeffrey Epstein trafficked them to a who’s who of the international elite.
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Two women who say they were victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring lost a decade-long battle in Florida federal court Monday when a judge shot down their demand to punish prosecutors for keeping them in the dark about the wealthy money manager’s favorable plea deal.
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