Lawyer urges release of Epstein CCTV
A lawyer representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein has urged the FBI to release CCTV footage that he claims could show Prince Andrew at the paedophile’s mansion.
Spencer Kuvin, who has represented nine victims of Epstein, is urging United States law enforcement to release the footage from home surveillance cameras in the wake of newly released records detailing Andrew’s connections to the convicted sex offender.
In the files, Johanna Sjoberg, who worked as a massage therapist for Epstein, claimed that the Prince groped her breast while sitting on a couch inside Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2001, an allegation denied by the Duke of York.
Juan Alessi, a former housekeeper for Epstein, also alleged Andrew had daily massages when he spent “weeks” at the disgraced financier’s Florida home, according to court papers released this week.
Alessi said he believes the Duchess of York visited the Florida estate “only once and for a short time”, but identified Andrew as someone who “spent weeks with us”. When asked if he would “frequently have massages”, Alessi replied: “I would say, daily massages”.
Kuvin, victims, and former employees of Epstein, have all insisted that every room in all his mansions had round the clock operational security cameras.
The lawyer claimed that senior FBI officers seized the hard disks and stored videos and wants the bureau to now allow the public to see what material is on those videos.
“I can tell you one thing,” he told Fox 11 LA. “I personally walked through Jeffrey Epstein’s home after the search warrant was executed and I identified numerous cameras and computer hard drives that were missing and a lot of that information was seized by the FBI not only in Palm Beach but also in Virgin Islands and Manhattan.
“Where are the videos? That is what the population needs to see.”
Discussing the newly released US court papers detailing the connections of Epstein, Kuvin, the chief legal officer of Goldlaw in Palm Beach, added that they provided “context” for why high profile figures had been linked to Epstein.
“The biggest names like Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew are individuals that everybody already knew about or heard about in the past.
“These documents just validate what everybody had been discussing. What is important to understand is now the context in which they have been identified.
“For example this deposition of Johanna Sjoberg, which had previously been sealed, now gives some context to exactly what Jeffrey Epstein was doing with Prince Andrew and some young girls that were there at the time.”
He added: “The biggest problem with most of the individuals that socialised with Jeffrey Epstein is that they were a part of tacitly normalising his behaviour.
“I don’t care if you just socialised with the man or if your bank provided him a loan or if you just happened to fly on his plane and be friendly with him. Whatever you were doing with Epstein normalised a sexual predator so that he could gain access to more money and more victims.”
There is no suggestion that Clinton engaged in illegal activity, and a spokesman for him has said that he was not aware of Epstein’s crimes. Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, or being aware of Epstein’s behaviour.