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The first 40 documents, of around 250聽, largely mention figures whose names were already known, including high-profile friends of Epstein鈥檚 and victims who have spoken publicly.

Ahead of the documents鈥� release, misinformation about their contents ran rampant on social media. Users wrongly claimed that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel鈥檚 name might appear, spurred by a joke New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made Tuesday on ESPN鈥檚 鈥淭he Pat McAfee Show.鈥�

Kimmel said in a response on X that he had never met Epstein and that Rodgers鈥� 鈥渞eckless words put my family in danger.鈥�

WHO IS JEFFREY EPSTEIN?

A millionaire known for associating with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and academic stars, Epstein was initially arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005 after he was accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex.

Dozens of other underage girls described similar sexual abuse, but prosecutors ultimately聽聽in 2008 to a charge involving a single victim. He served 13 months in a jail work-release program.

Some famous acquaintances abandoned Epstein after his conviction, including former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, but many did not. Epstein continued to mingle with the rich and famous for another decade, often through philanthropic work.

Reporting by the Miami Herald renewed interest in the scandal, and federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking. He聽聽while awaiting trial.

The U.S. attorney in Manhattan then prosecuted Epstein鈥檚 former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, for helping recruit his underage victims. She was convicted in 2021 and is聽.

WHAT ARE THESE RECORDS ABOUT?

The documents being unsealed are part of a 2015 lawsuit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein鈥檚 victims,聽. She is one of the dozens of women who sued Epstein saying he had abused them at his homes in Florida, New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New Mexico.

Giuffre said the summer she turned 17, she was lured away from a job as a spa attendant at Trump鈥檚 Mar-a-Lago club to become a 鈥渕asseuse鈥� for Epstein 鈥� a job that involved performing sexual acts.

Giuffre also claimed she was pressured into having sex with men in Epstein鈥檚 social orbit, including Britain鈥檚 Prince Andrew, the former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell and the billionaire Glenn Dubin, among others. All of those men said her accounts were fabricated.

骋颈耻蹿蹿谤别听聽in 2022. That same year, Giuffre withdrew an accusation she had made against Epstein鈥檚 former attorney, the law professor Alan Dershowitz, saying she 鈥溌�聽鈥� in identifying him as an abuser.

Giuffre鈥檚 lawsuit against Maxwell was settled in 2017, but the Miami Herald went to court to access court papers initially filed under seal, including transcripts of interviews the lawyers did with potential witnesses.

About 2,000 pages were unsealed by a court in 2019. Additional documents were released in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

The batch currently being released contains around 250 records that sections that were blacked out or were sealed entirely because of concerns about the privacy rights of Epstein鈥檚 victims and other people whose names had come up during the legal battle but weren鈥檛 complicit in his crimes.

Only around 40 of those documents were made public Wednesday. More will be released in the coming days.

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE?

U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska, who evaluated the documents to decide what should be unsealed, said in her December order that she was ordering the records released because much of the information within them is already public.

Some records have been released, either in part or in full, in other court cases.

The people named in the records include many of Epstein鈥檚 accusers, members of his staff who told their stories to tabloid newspapers, people who served as witnesses at Maxwell鈥檚 trial, people who were mentioned in passing during depositions but aren鈥檛 accused of anything salacious, and people who investigated Epstein, including prosecutors, a journalist and a police detective.

There are also boldface names of public figures known to have associated with Epstein over the years, but whose relationships with him have already been well documented elsewhere, the judge said.

One of them is Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent close to Epstein who was awaiting trial on charges that he raped underage girls when he聽聽in 2022. Giuffre was among the women who had accused Brunel of sexual abuse.

His name was peppered throughout the documents released Wednesday.

Clinton and Trump both factor in the court file, partly because Giuffre was questioned by Maxwell鈥檚 lawyers about inaccuracies in newspaper stories about her time with Epstein. One story quoted her as saying she had ridden in a helicopter with Clinton and flirted with Trump. Giuffre said neither of those things actually happened. She hasn鈥檛 accused either former president of wrongdoing.

The judge said a handful of names should remain blacked out in the documents because they would identify people who were sexually abused. The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they decide to tell their stories publicly, as Giuffre has done.

WHEN WILL THE REST OF THE DOCUMENTS BE MADE PUBLIC?

The judge hasn鈥檛 set a target for when all of the documents should be made public, but more documents are expected to come in the next few days.