Here's The Biggest Names On Jeffrey Epstein's 'List': From Hollywood Stars To Politicians
By Favour Adegoke on January 4, 2024 at 5:07 PM EST
Updated on January 6, 2024 at 12:44 PM EST
Documents in the case of late financier Jeffrey Epstein have finally been unsealed, and it is loaded with important people who had some sort of relationship to the case involving the sex offender.
Famous individuals, such as former U.S. president Bill Clinton and British royal Prince Andrew, were already expected to appear in the court documents.
Still, new names have been unveiled, and while these people were not necessarily accused of any crime, they were noted to have links with Epstein.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis & Cate Blanchett Name-Dropped
In the recently unveiled deposition of Johanna Sjoberg, one of the witnesses to Epstein's crimes, she revealed that the late financier would talk about the big names he knew and spoke to.
Sjoberg's testimony, unsealed from the 2015 defamation case between victim Virginia Giuffre and Epstein's close associate Ghislaine Maxwell, revealed that the financier bragged about phone calls with Hollywood actors.
Bruce Willis, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Cate Blanchett are just a few celebrities whom Epstein enjoyed boasting about knowing, even though the documents offered no evidence that the actors also knew him.
Sjoberg stated in her deposition that Epstein would talk about having phone conversations with the movie stars.
"I saw one press report that said you had met Cate Blanchett or Leonardo DiCaprio?" Ghislane Maxwell's lawyer asked Sjoberg. She responded, "I did not meet them, no … When I spoke about them, it was when I was massaging [Epstein], and he would get off—he 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."
Sjoberg claimed in her deposition that it was Epstein "name-dropping" the stars and that she would have remembered if she had ever encountered any of them.
Maxwell's lawyer further inquired if Sjoberg had met actress Cameron Diaz, to which she responded with a "no."
Michael Jackson Was Seen At Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach Home
King of Pop, Michael Jackson, was among the names revealed by Sjoberg in her deposition. She claimed that she encountered Jackson in Epstein's Palm Beach home.
"Did you ever meet anybody famous when you were with Jeffrey?" she was asked. "I met Michael Jackson … at [Epstein's] house in Palm Beach," Sjoberg responded.
She was then asked if she ever "massaged" Jackson, and she replied that she replied, "I did not."
In his 2020 book, Brad Edwards, a lawyer who battled Epstein and his colleagues for years, detailed Jackson's visit.
Per the Daily Beast, he wrote, "For a young woman like Johanna, the fact that there were stars who were friends with Jeffrey and Ghislaine was an attractive bonus of the job."
The lawyer added, "Even the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson, had been enough of an Epstein acquaintance to pay him a visit in Palm Beach while Johanna was working there."
David Copperfield Performed Magic Tricks At Dinner With Jeffrey Epstein
Another big name on the list is the famous magician David Copperfield. Sjoberg, in her deposition, claimed that she saw the illusionist at dinner with the late sex offender, adding that he performed "some magic tricks."
"Did you observe David Copperfield to be a friend of Jeffrey Epstein's?" Sjoberg was questioned, to which she responded in the affirmative.
Sjoberg was also asked if the illusionist "ever discussed Jeffrey's involvement with young girls with" her. "He questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls," she responded.
Sjoberg added in the deposition that Copperfield withheld specific details from her regarding that question. She was also asked, "Did he say whether they were teenagers or 20, anything along those lines?" she responded that the illusionist didn't.
Bill Clinton Allegedly Had Dinner At Jeffrey Epstein's Island
Ex-President Clinton was also named and linked to activities deemed to be very controversial.
According to Sjoberg's testimony, Epstein once told her that Clinton likes "young" girls. Meanwhile, Giuffre's unpublished memoir, quoted in court papers, claimed that the former president was an attendee sans his wife at one of Epstein's parties on his island. At that party, he reportedly displayed his "apparent provocative cheeky side."
"This wasn't a big party as such, only a few of us were eating at the diner table," Giuffre said. "There was Jeffrey at the head of it all, as always. On the left side was Emmy, Ghislaine, and I, and sitting across the table from us was Bill with two lovely girls who were visiting from New York."
She added, "Teasing the girls on either side of him with playful pokes and brassy comments, there was no modesty between any of them."
Giuffre's claims about Clinton having a meal on Epstein's island have since been refuted by Maxwell in a deposition.
Donald Trump Flew Multiple Times On Jeffrey Epstein's Private Jet
Trump and Epstein were socially acquainted in Palm Beach during the 1990s and allegedly once hung out at a Mar-a Lago "calendar girl" party with 28 girls.
However, Trump later claimed that they had a "falling out." The presidential hopeful also once stated that he was "not a fan" of Epstein.
Before their falling out, the billionaire mogul allegedly took multiple trips on Epstein's jet. Sjoberg's testimony in the unsealed documents revealed that Epstein also once visited Trump's casino.
"Great, we'll call up Trump, and we'll go to—I don't recall the name of the casino, but—we'll go to the casino," Sjoberg said about Epstein's conversation while flying on his private jet from Palm Beach to Atlantic City.
Prince Andrew Had A Thing With Puppets
Giuffre previously accused the disgraced royal of "sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress," and the case was later settled privately for an alleged $14 million without an admission of liability. Despite the existence of pictures showing him with Giuffre during her teen years, Andrew has consistently maintained his innocence.
Additionally, the prince faced accusations from Sjoberg of groping her while taking a photo with him, Maxwell, and Giuffre at Epstein's Mansion in New York. Sjoberg claimed in her deposition that Maxwell retrieved a puppet with Andrew's likeness from a closet before taking the photo.
"They decided to take a picture with it, in which Virginia and Andrew sat on a couch," Sjoberg said as part of her testimony in Giuffre vs. Maxwell (2015).
"They put the puppet on Virginia's lap, and I sat on Andrew's lap, and they put the puppet's hand on Virginia's breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo."