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A woody was reached betwixt lawyers for victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the Justice Department to support the identities of astir 100 women whose lives were allegedly harmed aft the authorities began releasing millions of documents past week, a lawyer told a national justice connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026).
Judge Richard M. Berman successful Manhattan cancelled a proceeding scheduled for Wednesday (February 4, 2026) aft helium was notified by Florida lawyer Brittany Henderson that “extensive and constructive discussions” with the authorities had resulted successful an agreement.
Ms. Henderson and lawyer Brad Edwards had complained to Berman successful a missive connected Sunday (February 1, 2026) that “immediate judicial intervention” was needed aft determination were thousands of instances erstwhile the authorities had failed to redact names and different personally identifying accusation of women sexually abused by Epstein.
Among 8 women whose comments were included successful the lawyers' Sunday (February 1, 2026) letter, 1 said the records' merchandise was “life threatening” portion different said she'd gotten decease threats and she was forced to unopen down her recognition cards and banking accounts aft their information was jeopardised.
The lawyers had requested that the Justice Department website beryllium temporarily unopen down and that an autarkic show beryllium appointed to guarantee nary further errors occurred.
Ms. Henderson did not accidental what authorities lawyers said to guarantee identities would beryllium protected going guardant oregon what the statement consisted of.
“We spot that the deficiencies volition beryllium corrected expeditiously and successful a mode that protects victims from further harm,” she wrote to the judge.
The Justice Department did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
The justice wrote successful an bid cancelling the Wednesday nationalist proceeding that helium was “pleased but not amazed that the parties were capable to resoluteness the privateness issues.”
On Monday (February 2, 2026), U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton successful Manhattan wrote successful a missive filed successful Manhattan national tribunal that errors blamed connected “technical oregon quality error” occurred connected redactions during the papers release.
He said the Justice Department had improved its protocols to support victims and had taken down astir each materials identified by victims oregon their lawyers, on with galore much that the authorities had recovered connected its own.
Mistakes successful the largest merchandise of Epstein documents yet included nude photos showing the faces of imaginable victims arsenic good arsenic names, email addresses and different identifying accusation that was either unredacted oregon not afloat obscured.
Most of the materials that were released stemmed from enactment trafficking probes of Epstein and his erstwhile girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year situation condemnation aft she was convicted successful December 2021 astatine a New York trial.
Epstein took his beingness successful a national jailhouse successful New York successful August 2019 portion awaiting proceedings connected enactment trafficking charges.
