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Kari Paul

Release of Epstein documents crashes court website but details are less scandalous

a man with grey hair sits in a row of other men
Jeffrey Epstein appears in court on 30 July 2008, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Uma Sanghvi/AP

When legal documents related to the case of convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein were made public on Wednesday night, it caused an online frenzy that crashed the court website hosting the files in minutes.

More than 900 pages of papers were unsealed late in the day, identifying numerous Epstein associates and public figures as mentioned in proceedings of the case Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre filed against Ghislaine Maxwell in 2015.

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