Former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz named two former top Democratic officials on Sunday, whom he says appear in the Epstein files. Dershowitz also clarified that there was never an official “client list,” but noted that names can be uncovered through other means and that additional information is available.
Speaking to Fox News host Shannon Bream, Dershowitz previously served on Jeffrey Epstein’s legal team during his 2008 case, in which Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
“Are [the names] in the grand jury transcripts, and do you think a judge releases that?” Bream asked the attorney.
“I think the judge should release it, but they’re not in the grand jury transcripts. There are sealed records by two or three federal judges in the New York courts. I’ve seen some of these materials,” Dershowitz responded.
“For example, there is an FBI report of interviews with alleged victims in which at least one of the victims names very important people, and the names have been redacted. I know some of the names from my investigation,” he added.
“George Mitchell, the former senator [from Maine]; Bill Richardson, the former ambassador to the UN; [former Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Barak … were all accused. Now, whether any of these people actually did anything wrong, we don’t know, because we know there have been many, many false accusations,” Dershowitz noted further.
Mitchell, the 91-year-old former Democratic Senate Majority Leader, retired from public life in 2011, while Richardson—who also served as governor of New Mexico—passed away in 2023.
Dershowitz was himself accused of misconduct in connection to Epstein. Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most well-known accusers who died by suicide in April, alleged in 2019 that Dershowitz was among the men she was forced to have sex with at Epstein’s direction, according to NBC News.
Dershowitz strongly denied the allegation and filed a defamation suit against Giuffre, the Western Journal reported. In 2022, she dropped the case, stating she “may have made a mistake.”
Dershowitz told Bream that “a woman named Sarah Ransome filed an affidavit. It’s probably in the record. It’s probably been sealed, in which she accused Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Richard Branson of having sex with young people. And she said she had videotapes of this, and then after an investigation, she admitted that she made up the whole story, and yet the affidavit still remains in the court records.”
Others have been exposed for their ties to Epstein.
Embattled Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI) had more extensive ties to Jeffrey Epstein than she acknowledged this week while opposing a House resolution to censure her.
Plaskett described Epstein as merely a “constituent,” after recently released records from Epstein’s estate showed he had provided her with suggested questions during a 2019 congressional hearing — a disclosure that prompted calls for the disciplinary measure.
However, exhibits and depositions filed in a New York court case indicate that Epstein and his associates directed at least $30,000 in campaign contributions to Plaskett across three election cycles.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, accused House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ campaign of “soliciting money from Jeffrey Epstein.”
Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University, announced that he will scale back his public commitments, according to the university’s student newspaper.
The announcement comes after the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released seven years of correspondence between Summers, a longtime figure in and supporter of the Democratic Party, and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The documents show that the two men exchanged messages as late as July 5, 2019 — one day before Epstein was arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges, but years after he was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
