80 more names expected to surface soon
More court documents are expected to be released in the coming days.
Another 80 or so names are set to be unveiled in the unsealing.
Of the individuals named, there is no suggestion that any of them are accused of any wrongdoing.
Famous magician mentioned in court documents, part two
Ms Sjoberg did not say when or where the meeting took place.
She said in her deposition: “Someone called me from the house and said that he would be there, and if I wanted to come have dinner, then I could meet him.”
Ms Sjoberg said Copperfield did magic tricks at dinner and she observed him as a friend of Epstein’s.
Copperfield has denied any wrongdoing and said he regrets his association with Epstein.
Names of Epstein and Maxwell’s victims, associates and alleged co-conspirators, along with other A-listers mentioned in passing, will continue to be made public as part of the document dump, according to Preska’s order.
Famous magician mentioned in court documents
In her deposition, Ms Sjoberg also claimed she met magician David Copperfield at Epstein’s house.
The alleged Epstein victim said the American star, 67, was having dinner at the financier’s home when he asked if she knew other girls were getting paid to bring in new girls.
The document says: “David Copperfield was at a dinner at Epstein’s and there was another girl present who looked young and Johanna asked what school she went to and Johanna did not recognize
the school name as being a college and she said it was possible it was a high school aged girl.
“Johanna said Copperfield ‘questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls’.”
More on Stephen Hawking’s association with Epstein
The internationally renowned physicist was pictured at a barbecue on Little St James, often referred to as Epstein’s “Paedo Island.”
He was part of a group of 21 scientists attending a conference in March 2006, which Epstein had funded.
Hawking was one of a number of celebrities and politicians named in the unsealed documents.
Court documents reveal that Epstein bragged about phone calls with stars
The papers also reveal Epstein liked to brag about phone calls with Hollywood stars.
Ms Sjoberg, who alleges she was abused by Epstein and accomplice Maxwell in the late 1990s, said the disgraced financier name-dropped DiCaprio and Blanchett once while receiving a massage.
The lawyer said: “I saw one press report that said you had met Cate Blanchett or Leonardo DiCaprio.”
Ms Sjoberg replied: “I did not meet them, no.
“When I spoke about them, it was when I was massaging him [Epstein], and he would get off — he would be on the phone a lot at that time, and one time he said, ‘Oh, that was Leonardo, or, that was Cate Blanchett, or Bruce Willis. That kind of thing.”
Documents have been released on a rolling basis
After some of those involved in the trial were identified in the ruling through links to interviews they had previously given, Judge Preska cited this as a reason for why their identities should not remain sealed.
She ruled there was no legal justification for continuing to conceal the names of more than 150 “John and Jane Does” mentioned in the court filings relating to Epstein.
Media sued to have the documents made public and they have been released on a rolling basis since 2019.
Wednesday’s unsealing was the eighth release from the 2015 defamation case.