Which sworn depositions from Epstein victims specifically name public figures and what did those depositions allege?
Executive summary
Two high-profile sworn depositions from women who say they were trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein—Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Johanna Sjoberg—explicitly name public figures; Giuffre’s statements and related filings list several prominent men she says she was directed to have sex with while underage or coerced, and Sjoberg’s 2016 deposition references visits to a Trump casino and mentions “politicians and figureheads” more generally [1] [2] [3]. The unsealed court record releases and mass DOJ disclosures contain many other names in schedules, flight logs, and emails, but many entries are heavily redacted and often provide only associations rather than detailed factual allegations [3] [4] [5].
1. Virginia Roberts Giuffre: who she names and what she alleges
In multiple sworn statements and court filings, Virginia Roberts Giuffre identified a list of prominent men she says she was instructed to have sex with on Jeffrey Epstein’s and Ghislaine Maxwell’s orders, naming individuals such as Prince Andrew, former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, billionaire Glenn Dubin, and computer scientist Marvin Minsky among those she accused in depositions and lawsuits [1] [2]. Giuffre alleged that some encounters occurred when she was a minor and that Maxwell and Epstein recruited and directed these encounters as part of a trafficking network; her claims led to a 2019 settlement with Prince Andrew’s civil case and other litigation, though public filings and reporting stress that some names appear without detailed corroborative narratives in the newly unsealed pages [1] [3] [6].
2. Johanna Sjoberg’s 2016 deposition: specifics and limits
Johanna Sjoberg, who testified in 2016, described being recruited by Maxwell and pressured into delivering sexual “massages” for Epstein and his associates and in that deposition referred to visits to a Trump casino in Atlantic City when Epstein’s plane could not land in New York; Sjoberg said she did not give Donald Trump a massage and resisted sexual activity, but the deposition also referenced conversations about “politicians and figureheads” more broadly [6] [3]. Reporting emphasizes that Sjoberg’s account places her in settings with well-known figures but does not produce prosecutions of those public figures; many of the documents are context-light and redacted, so the deposition reads as specific about movements and pressure but sparse on precise criminal allegations against named officials [6] [3].
3. Other depositions and filings that reference public figures
Beyond Giuffre and Sjoberg, the unsealed civil case documents, flight logs and schedules released in batches contain dozens of names linked to Epstein through travel, donations, meetings or loose social ties—Bill Clinton, Les Wexner, David Copperfield and others appear in various records—but journalists and the courts have noted that presence on logs or in correspondence does not equal an allegation of sexual misconduct in victims’ sworn testimony [6] [7] [8]. Several media summaries and the DOJ’s mass disclosures underline that many entries are “associative” rather than accusatory and that victims who have gone public generally have not accused some widely named figures—such as Clinton or Trump—of criminal sexual misconduct in their depositions [9] [6].
4. How redactions, settlements and legal context shape what the depositions show
The released pages are heavily redacted and unevenly edited, which limits the ability to draw firm conclusions from a name appearing next to an entry; survivors’ lawyers have also accused the DOJ of redaction errors that exposed victim identities, while others caution that some lists were compiled as “unverified hearsay” and contain entries that do not amount to sworn allegation [4] [10] [3]. Settlements—most notably Giuffre’s settlement with Prince Andrew in 2022—reflect civil resolutions rather than criminal determinations, and media outlets repeatedly flag that the documents add detail on contacts and schedules but seldom supply new prosecutable evidence against named public figures [3] [6] [9].
5. Caveats, denials and the record’s limitations
Many people named in the mass releases have publicly denied wrongdoing or contextualized their interactions as social or professional and some have drawn attention to errors in how names appear in the trove; contemporaneous reporting and the DOJ’s own commentary stress that not every name in the files corresponds to a sworn, detailed victim allegation, and the heavy redactions mean independent confirmation often falls outside the released pages [8] [4] [11]. The public record therefore supports that Giuffre and Sjoberg are the clearest victim depositions naming public figures with allegations of being directed into sexual encounters, while numerous other documents reference prominent people in ways that range from benign association to uncorroborated allegation [1] [6] [3].