The entertainment world has been rocked with the revelations from the sealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexual offences.

The document includes a bunch of names from Hollywood. Michael Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio are some of the big names in the document along with politicians Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, as per news reports.

Stars such as Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Bruce Willis, and Kevin Spacey have also been named.

However, simply the mention of these celebrities does not imply that they have been party to any wrongdoing. The claims and association of the names to the crimes are yet to be proven in the court of law.

As per the report, the judge said a handful of names should remain blacked out in the documents because they would identify people who were sexually abused.

Some huge names uncovered

Before the unsealing, the names were listed in court papers as variants of J Doe. Many of the names on the list are people who had been publicly identified as Epstein associates prior to this unsealing through years of coverage of the case.

Dozens of previously sealed court documents related to Epstein were made public late on Jan 3 after US Judge Loretta Preska ruled last month that documents naming more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of Epstein should be made public.

The documents are part of a 2015 US defamation case by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who supplied Epstein with underage girls.

Giuffre claimed the now deceased and disabled physicist Stephen Hawking also participated in the acts.

In 2015, photographs showed Hawking was hosted on Epstein’s private Caribbean island before the billionaire was first charged in 2006, while it is alleged magician Copperfield had dinner with Epstein and asked a “victim” if she knew girls were getting paid to find other girls.

Prince Andrew has also been named in the tranche of names, despite Buckingham Palace previously saying the allegations are “categorically untrue.”

(Source: IANS)

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