The Department of Justice has released two more batches of the Epstein files on Saturday, including grand jury transcripts from cases against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
In one document from a grand jury hearing ahead of Epstein’s 2019 trial, which never occurred because he died in jail, there were horrific details about what young girls were asked to do.
An FBI agent testified that a 14-year-old girl went to his home in Palm Beach, Florida, to massage him in her underwear. The girl was paid $300 per session, according to the agent’s testimony.
The girl told the agent about how the massage room had lotions and moisturizers. She also detailed how the walls had sketches or paintings of naked females on them.
A library in the home was straight out of Beauty and the Beast, according to the hearing’s transcript.
This comes after a judge ruled on December 9 that the DOJ was legally allowed to release grand jury materials from Maxwell’s sex trafficking investigation.
Because grand jury proceedings are secret by their very nature, it was unclear whether the DOJ would be able to release these documents as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that was signed by President Donald Trump last month.
US District Judge Paul Engelmayer said the grand jury materials had to be released because of that law, but he said mechanisms needed to be put in place to protect victims from disclosures that could ‘identify them or otherwise invade their privacy’.
Pictured: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell together in an undated photo released by the Department of Justice on Friday
The files dumped on Saturday afternoon were far less redacted than what was released on Friday.
Democrats, including Congressman Ro Khanna, one of the authors of the law compelling the release of the Epstein files, were particularly furious with one document that contained 119 pages of grand jury testimony was entirely blacked out.
By contrast, the documents released on Saturday had much more context to them. One of the disclosures shows a series of notes left for Epstein throughout 2005 with messages like ‘has girl for tonight’ and ‘she can be here tomorrow from 2pm to whenever’.
