Hundreds of pages of previously sealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and registered sex offender, were made public on Wednesday — but as most legal experts familiar with the sordid affair had surmised, there was no smoking gun list of famous men who had sought to have sex with young women and teen girls.

The documents, filed in the US District Court in New York, appeared to add a bit more context to the relationships that Epstein had maintained over the years with powerful men, such as former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump as well as a member of the British royalty, Prince Andrew.

But they provided little if any, new fodder for conspiracy theorists who remain fixated on Epstein’s dealings more than four years after his death.

The 45 court documents made public on Wednesday were part of a lawsuit brought against Epstein by one of his victims.

The documents were previously sealed or redacted to hide the names of more than 100 victims, associates or friends of Epstein, all given the designation “J. Doe” and a unique identifying number.

But the judge overseeing the case, Loretta A. Preska, who last month ordered the materials unsealed, noted that most of the names had already been disclosed publicly in other lawsuits or in news reports.

Most of the documents made public on Wednesday do not include specific episodes of wrongdoing by men other than Epstein, who was found dead at the age of 66 in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.

Among the documents unsealed on Wednesday was a May 2016 deposition of Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein’s alleged victims, who said she was around Epstein from 2001-06.

“He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” Sjoberg testified. She also said that while flying with Epstein on one of his planes, they made an unplanned stop in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

“Jeffrey said, ‘Great, we’ll call up Trump,’” Sjoberg testified, adding that Epstein suggested that they visit Trump’s casino. As for Andrew, Sjoberg testified that when she was first introduced to him, he “put his hand on my breast”.

In all, Preska ordered the unsealing of more than 200 documents, the remainder
of which are expected to be released over the next few days. The documents being unsealed are related to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre. She is one of dozens of women who sued Epstein for abusing them at his homes in Florida, New York, the US Virgin Islands and New Mexico.

Giuffre’s lawsuit was settled in 2017, but the court had kept some documents blacked-out or sealed because of concerns about the privacy rights of Epstein’s victims and others whose names had come up during the legal battle. More documents were to be released in coming days.