Prince Andrew, Clinton, Hawking: what do the Epstein documents say about key people?

Michael Jackson and David Copperfield also among well-known people mentioned in released court records

A torrent of court records relating to the sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein were released this week after the US district court for the southern district of New York ordered the unsealing of defendant and plaintiff files.

It began on Wednesday with nearly 1,000 pages filed as part of a 2015 lawsuit against Epstein's close friend Ghislaine Maxwell by one of his victims, Virginia Giuffre. The disclosures will continue on a rolling basis until completed. Highly anticipated were the names of Epstein's associates who had previously been anonymised using variations of J Doe. These included the former US president Bill Clinton, the late pop star Michael Jackson, the magician David Copperfield, and Prince Andrew.