sexual offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. The court documents, contrary to prompted rumors of a list of ‘clients’ or ‘co-conspirators’, mention figures whose names were already known, including high-profile friends of Epstein’s and victims who have spoken publicly. The court documents mentions high profile politicians like Bill Clinton, Donald trump, and several Hollywood actors.
Stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Bruce Willis, and Kevin Spacey have been name dropped. However, the mention does not elaborate or report any wrongdoing on the part of these Hollywood actors. One of the witnesses claimed that Epstein "would be on the phone a lot at that time, and one time he said, 'Oh, that was Leonardo, or that was Cate Blanchett or Bruce Willis.
That kind of thing." The person then added that they had indeed not even met Leonardo DiCaprio. Social media has been rife in recent weeks with posts speculating the documents amounted to a list of rich and powerful men who were Epstein's “clients" or “co-conspirators." There was no such list. The first 40 documents in the court-ordered release largely consisted of already public material revealed through nearly two decades of newspaper stories, TV documentaries, interviews, legal cases and books about the Epstein scandal.
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