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Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011
Court records and unsealed documents repeatedly associate Bill Richardson with Jeffrey Epstein’s circle: Virginia Giuffre’s 2016 deposition names Richardson as someone she was directed to have sex wit...
Court documents and depositions unsealed in litigation and reporting identify mentions of former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson in materials tied to Jeffrey Epstein; at least one accuser (Virgini...
Virginia Giuffre publicly accused several high-profile figures of sexual abuse and trafficking connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s network, most prominently , while also alleging encounters with other unna...
The unsealed court records from Virginia Giuffre’s defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell include hundreds of pages that reference more than 150 people, ranging from modeling agents and alleged rec...
Available reporting and released documents link former New Mexico governor and U.S. envoy Bill Richardson to Jeffrey Epstein through allegations in victim testimony and unsealed court records from the...
Court documents and unsealed depositions and reporting over 2019–2025 repeatedly mention former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s circle; accuser Virginia Giuffr...
The records assembled to date do not support a single, definitive count of how many U.S. politicians visited Jeffrey Epstein’s properties; . Multiple analyses published between 2024 and late 2025 iden...
Available reporting in the provided sources says Virginia Giuffre accused Jean‑Luc Brunel of procuring and abusing her and testified against him in France, but does not report that Brunel—or other acc...
Virginia Giuffre’s court testimony and later reporting say she alleged that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell directed her to provide “massages” for former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson; Ric...
Public records and reporting show Bill Richardson’s name appears in multiple Epstein-related documents and that he visited Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico property once; sources differ on whether he flew...
Virginia Giuffre’s 2019 sworn affidavit, unsealed in August 2019, lists a core group of high‑profile men she alleges she was trafficked to and ordered to have sexual encounters with; the names most co...
Publicly released materials—flight logs and a redacted contact book—contain dozens of names ranging from celebrities and business figures to politicians; the ’s February 2025 packet and long-available...
Major news organizations reported that Bill Richardson’s name appears in documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein and that victims’ depositions alleged he was among men Giuffre said she was forced to meet, w...
Public records and reporting show Bill Richardson is named in several Epstein-related documents — including flight logs, a contact book and unsealed depositions — and Richardson himself and his spokes...
Available reporting and public records show that Jeffrey Epstein made at least two documented political donations to Bill Richardson’s gubernatorial campaigns — $50,000 to Richardson’s 2002 campaign a...
has published a massive tranche of -related material — more than three million pages, roughly 180,000 images and some 2,000 videos — that includes investigative records, court filings, photographs, em...
The unsealed produced several individual depositions that directly named other public figures: ’s deposition named multiple alleged recipients of -trafficked sex (including , , , and , and referred to...
Available reporting and released documents show Bill Richardson’s name appears among individuals referenced in materials connected to Jeffrey Epstein, but current public sources do not show a criminal...
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl names very few politicians directly; she repeatedly withholds or says she did not know names, though she explicitly discusses Prince Andrew and refer...
Jeffrey Epstein’s recorded political giving before his 2008 plea was limited in scale but touched many prominent Democrats and some Republicans: OpenSecrets tallies more than $139,000 to Democratic fe...