Twenty-five men reached “secret settlements” with accusers, while four others were never charged, the late sex offender’s partner has claimed
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefiting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City. © Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Twenty-nine alleged accomplices and co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein have avoided prosecution, most of them through “secret settlements,” the disgraced financier and sex offender's partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, has claimed in court documents.
Several
media outlets on Thursday reported on Maxwell’s filing dated December
2025. On Friday, the US Department of Justice announced the release of a
new batch of the so-called Epstein files.
Epstein was found dead
in 2019 in his cell at a Manhattan correctional facility while awaiting
trial on sex-trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison term over her role in the
infamous sex-trafficking ring.
In the court papers cited by the media, Maxwell petitioned the court to overturn her conviction, citing what she described as “new evidence of the collusion between the plaintiff’s lawyers and the government to conceal evidence and the prosecutorial misconduct.”
Epstein’s former partner claimed that “new evidence reveals that there were 25 men with which the plaintiff lawyers reached secret settlements.”
According to the filing, another four of Epstein’s co-conspirators never faced charges.
It
is not clear from Maxwell’s motion whether she contends that the
individuals in question had also sealed similar deals with federal
authorities.
Asked by a reporter about Maxwell’s allegations, Deputy Attorney General Blanche said on Friday that “to the extent that such arrangements exist, I’m not aware of them.”
Disclosures
from the so-called Epstein files indicated that he had associated with
many high-profile politicians and business people, including ex-US
President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, US President Donald Trump, and ex-US
Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
On the campaign trail, Trump
promised to release the ‘Epstein files,’ but as president he has
bristled at the issue, dismissing calls to make the documents public as a
politically motivated “hoax.”
Late last year, amid
sustained public pressure, Trump mandated the Department of Justice to
release the first batch of heavily redacted Epstein-related documents.