Latest in the series of explosive documents in sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's case reveals that an accuser once backtracked on the allegations that the billionaire-paedophile had kept “sex tapes” involving prominent people, including Britain's Prince Andrew, former US president Bill Clinton and British business tycoon Sir Richard Branson.
The details in the fourth set of documents released in Epstein case mention that the accuser, Sarah Ransome, wrote in mails to about her friend having "sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson," of which sex tapes were "in fact filmed on each separate occasion by Jeffrey."
She also made serious accusations against former US president Donald Trump in the mails.
The emails were reportedly sent to then-New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan in 2016. “She confided in me about her casual ‘friendship’ with Donald. Mr. Trump definitely seemed to have a thing for her and she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples,’” Ransome wrote about her friend in one email to Callahan, made public when the latest batch of newly unsealed documents.
The allegations in the emails were later retracted by Sarah Ransome.
“Thank God she managed to get a hold of some footage of the filmed sex tapes, which clearly identify the faces of Clinton, Prince Andrew and Branson having sexual intercourse with her," Ransome had said in the above-mentioned emails.
“Frustratingly enough Epstein was not seen in any of the footage but he was clever like that...When my friend eventually had the courage to speak out and went to the police in 2008 to report what had happened, nothing was done and she was utterly humiliated by the police department where she went to report what had happened with Epstein, Clinton, Branson and Prince Andrew,” theguardian.com cited lines from the emails.
In another email later that year, Sarah Ransome backtracked on the allegations, saying "I want to walk away from this … I shouldn’t have contacted you and I’m sorry I wasted your time. It’s not worth coming forward and I will never be heard anyhow and only bad things will happen as a consequence of me going public.”
Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and sex offender who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. A millionaire known for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and the who's who, Epstein was initially arrested from Florida's Palm Beach in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex.
The documents being unsealed are related to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre. She is one of the dozens of women who sued Epstein, alleging that he had abused them at his houses in Florida, New York, US Virgin Islands and New Mexico.
Meanwhile, in a statement on Monday, Donald Trump's advisor Steven Cheung said the "baseless accusations have been fully retracted because they are simply false and have no merit.”
