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The public release of documents related to sex trafficker and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as part of a lawsuit against his former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell revealed the names of several prominent business figures in two document dumps Wednesday and Thursday evening, and more are expected in the coming days.
Epstein has partnered with celebrities, artists, politicians and business titans, and the documents revealed more than 150 names of other people connected to the financier after documents drafted as part of Epstein’s accuser Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Maxwell were revealed in the past. .
The names were discussed in the depositions of Giuffre and Epstein’s alleged victim, Johanna Sjoberg, as well as Maxwell.
Some names of Americans connected to Epstein were already known. Others have been placed in a new context following the last publication of the document. Many have been accused of wrongdoing.
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FOX Business takes a look at some of the high-profile business figures named in this week’s Epstein document release.
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French modeling mogul Jean-Luc Brunel had a long-standing relationship with Epstein and Maxwell and secured an investment from Epstein to launch a new modeling firm that counted many prominent fashion stores and corporations among its clients.
Giuffre alleged in court documents released four years ago that Brunel was among the men Maxwell ordered her to have sex with when she was underage caught in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.
In a document filed on behalf of two of Epstein’s accusers who remained anonymous as underage sex crime victims, one of them claimed that Epstein sexually trafficked Brunel and forced her to “have sex with Brunel on quite a few occasions. “
It further alleged Brunel used his role as a model scout to “bring young girls (ranging to ages as young as twelve) to the United States for sexual purposes and farm them out to his friends, especially Epstein.”
Brunel died of an obvious suicide before his trial in France in 2022 for child rape.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin had a close relationship with Epstein, who invested in his company and helped facilitate its acquisition through JPMorgan. Dubin’s wife, Eva Andersson Dubin, dated Epstein.
Giuffre alleged that Maxwell ordered her to have sex with Dubin, although she did not state that she had sex with him. Additionally, a document says that Dubin’s personal boss, Rinaldo Rizzo, alleged that Epstein and Maxwell once went to Dubin’s space with a disoriented 15-year-old Swedish woman who told him that the couple had asked her for sex and that they had passport confiscated.
In her deposition documents, Maxwell denied asking Giuffre to have sex and said she knew Dubin as Eva’s husband and refused to expand the dates further.
Dubin did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Dubin and his wife have previously denied any knowledge of Epstein’s behavior and disputed that the alleged incident involving the Swedish 15-year-old occurred.
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Billionaire hotel mogul Tom Pritzker, whose family fortune was built largely through the expansion of the Hyatt Hotels brand, has been linked to Epstein’s sex ring through one of the court documents. In a May 2016 deposition from Giuffre, a lawyer asked her, “All right, if I were to ask you the question of how many times you’ve slept with Tom Pritzker, do you know what that question means?”
“I believe so,” Giuffre responded, which prompted the attorney to inquire, “All right, what is the answer to that question?”
“I think I was with Tom once,” Giuffre said.
Giuffre’s accusation against Pritzker first came to light in 2019 with the revelation of another set of court documents. The Miami Herald reported at the time that Giuffre claimed she was sent abroad to “have sex with the owner of a major hotel chain. “At the time, Pritzker was talked about through a phone call in a footnote, the document does not specify that he was the rich man of the hotel that was being talked about.
In response to an inquiry from FOX Business, a spokesperson for Pritzker said, “This is the same false and isolated allegation that was published and vehemently denied more than four years ago. Mr. Pritzker continues to vehemently deny it.”
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Celebrity hairstylist and beauty industry mogul Frederic Fekkai was named in a 2016 deposition given by Sjoberg in Giuffre’s lawsuit against Maxwell.
Sjoberg said in his statement that he heard Epstein talk about Fekkai’s presence in Hawaii and indicate that he was looking to locate his girls: “I heard him call someone and say, ‘Fekkai is in Hawaii. Can we locate some girls for him?'”
Fekkai did not respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
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Billionaire Les Wexner, founder of Limited Brands and former CEO of Victoria’s Secret, had a long-standing relationship with Epstein after hiring him as chief financial officer in the 1980s, a position Epstein held until 2007, when Wexner severed ties with he. Wexner went on to accuse Epstein of “embezzling large sums of money” in 2019, according to the New York Times.
In one of her depositions, Maxwell categorically denied providing “an outfit of a sexual nature” to Giuffre for her to wear for Wexner.
FOX Business reached out to Wexner through its base for comment. In the past, he has denied any knowledge of the alleged incident, and in 2019, an attorney representing Epstein’s patients said Wexner was unlikely to be aware of Epstein’s conduct.
In documents released Thursday, testimony shows Epstein recruited women under the guise of applying for Victoria’s Secret, a Florida detective said. Additionally, Wexner is listed as a user with knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell’s “habit of sex trafficking and interaction with minors. ” “
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Computer scientist Marvin Minsky, who has focused much of his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on synthetic intelligence (AI), has won a scholarship from Epstein MIT, according to research conducted across the university.
According to one of the documents released Wednesday, Giuffre said in a 2016 deposition that Maxwell ordered her to have sex with Minsky and others. Giuffre’s accusation against Minsky had already been reported since her defamation trial against Maxwell in 2015 and in subsequent reports. after Epstein’s death.
Minsky died in January 2016 at the age of 88 after a brain hemorrhage. His widow disputed allegations that Minsky possibly had sexual relations with women at Epstein’s homes because she said she was with him at all times when they visited him, she said. to the New York Post in 2019.
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