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were lies overnight more Jeffrey Epstein related documents were unsealed following a first batch that included names of famous people associated in some way with Epstein including the actor Kevin spacy magician David Copperfield supermodel Naomi Campbell and former presidents Trump and Clinton none accused of wrongdoing the newly released records show how attorneys for Galen Maxwell sought testimony from a British tabloid reporter who they claimed helped Epstein

victim Virginia jefra manufactur stories about sexual encounters with Epstein's famous friends like prince Andrew to make her account more marketable to book publishers Maxwell's attorneys accused the reporter Sharon churcher of encouraging jefra to handwrite a diary describing her alleged sexual encounters with prince Andrew the judge denied the request to depose churcher and this morning she called Maxwell's claim absurd telling ABC News there was no conspiracy

if I were that creative I would be writing Agatha Christie style novels a loyer for jefra said for years Maxwell and Epstein led a Relentless effort to discredit my client the his historical record has established what Virginia experienced was found to be true in a 2011 email je fre talked to churcher about selling this now notorious photo of her and prince Andrew to Vanity Fair what

do you think a good price to sell this to VF should be the same year je freay made the unsubstantiated claim former President Clinton had previously threatened the magazine over a story about Epstein B Clinton walked into VF and threatened them not to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend J those involved have long denied it and vanity fairs editor at the time told the

telegraph this categorically did not happen Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted in 2021 of aiding Epstein's sex trafficking of young women and girls her appeal will be heard in March so far about 60 documents have been unsealed George there are still more than 200 to go hi everyone George Stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel if you'd

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