A U.S. District Court judge has ordered for a recently released deposition of Jeffrey Epstein to be removed and resubmitted with a key redaction.
The document, which was unsealed on Jan. 9, is a transcription of a videotaped deposition of Epstein conducted on Sept. 9, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Throughout the nearly six-hour deposition, Epstein consistently responds to nearly every question with, simply, “Fifth” – an invocation of his Fifth Amendment right allowing protection from self-incrimination.
The apparent lone exception to Epstein pleading the Fifth occurs on page 217 of the deposition, where, after being asked if the disgraced financier and Maxwell sent plaintiff Virginia Giuffre to have sex with billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, the transcript recorded Epstein responding, “Yes.”
Citing this passage, Senior U.S. Judge Loretta A. Preska for the Southern District of New York ordered the document to be removed.
“The Court is directed to strike [this] docket entry … because it contains inadvertently disclosed material that should have been redacted pursuant to the April 19, 2022 ruling of this court,” Preska wrote in a Jan. 10 order.
“This court expressly ordered that lines 217:17-19 of the deposition transcript should remain under seal because they contained a mistaken transcription, and the answer transcribed was not the answer actually given,” she wrote.
Preska concluded the order by telling counsel to re-file the stricken document with the appropriate redactions ordered by the court.
Similar orders from Preska were issued on Jan. 9, Jan. 8, and Jan. 4, citing other information that should have been redacted.
A separate document released Tuesday included a transcript from a 2016 deposition of Giuffre in a Florida case involving Alan Dershowitz. In the transcript, Giuffre claims she was trafficked to Dubin.
“What other powerful business executives that you were sexually trafficked to?” asked Dershowitz’s counsel.
After naming late New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel, Giuffre said, “The Dubins. Glenn Dubin.”
When Dershowitz’s attorney asked if Dubin was “the powerful executive who’s pregnant wife was asleep in the next room,” Giuffre said, “Yes.”
Later in the deposition, Giuffre claimed to have provided Dubin’s name, among others, to the FBI. She could not remember, and declined to speculate about, how old she was during the alleged trafficking.
Business Insider received the following comment from a spokesperson for Dubin on Tuesday: "The Dubins strongly deny these allegations, as we first said in 2019, when these unsubstantiated statements first surfaced as part of this same civil court proceeding."
“The Dubins have previously expressed regret for their relationship with Epstein. Business Insider previously reported that the couple was aware in 2009 that Epstein was a registered sex offender who was jailed for 13 months on charges of procuring a minor for prostitution. Eva Dubin emailed Epstein's probation officer at the time to say she was ‘100% comfortable’ with Epstein being around her three children, all of whom were under the age of 18,” per the outlet.
Eva Andersson-Dubin, a former model and doctor, dated Epstein in the 1980s, The New York Times reports. She testified for Maxwell’s defense during her 2021 sex-trafficking trial.
NBC News said over 4,550 pages of documents have been released to the publish thus far, and they include 150 names of individuals mentioned in legal filings or connected to Epstein and his network.
