Former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz named two former top Democratic officials on Sunday, whom he says appear in the Epstein files.
Speaking to Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream, Dershowitz clarified that there was never an official “client list,” but noted that names can be uncovered through other means and that additional information is available.
Dershowitz previously served on Jeffrey Epstein’s legal team during his 2008 case, in which Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
“Are [the names] in the grand jury transcripts, and do you think a judge releases that?” Bream asked the attorney.
“I think the judge should release it, but they’re not in the grand jury transcripts. There are sealed records by two or three federal judges in the New York courts. I’ve seen some of these materials,” Dershowitz responded.
“For example, there is an FBI report of interviews with alleged victims in which at least one of the victims names very important people, and the names have been redacted. I know some of the names from my investigation,” he added.
“George Mitchell, the former senator [from Maine]; Bill Richardson, the former ambassador to the UN; [former Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Barak … were all accused. Now, whether any of these people actually did anything wrong, we don’t know, because we know there have been many, many false accusations,” Dershowitz noted further.
Mitchell, the 91-year-old former Democratic Senate Majority Leader, retired from public life in 2011, while Richardson—who also served as governor of New Mexico—passed away in 2023.
Dershowitz was himself accused of misconduct in connection to Epstein. Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most well-known accusers who died by suicide in April, alleged in 2019 that Dershowitz was among the men she was forced to have sex with at Epstein’s direction, according to NBC News.
Dershowitz strongly denied the allegation and filed a defamation suit against Giuffre, the Western Journal reported. In 2022, she dropped the case, stating she “may have made a mistake.”
Dershowitz told Bream that “a woman named Sarah Ransome filed an affidavit. It’s probably in the record. It’s probably been sealed, in which she accused Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Richard Branson of having sex with young people. And she said she had videotapes of this, and then after an investigation, she admitted that she made up the whole story, and yet the affidavit still remains in the court records.”
The New Yorker reported in 2019 that “Ransome was another imperfect witness” against Epstein.
“In the fall of 2016, she had suggested to the New York Post that she had sex tapes of half a dozen prominent people, including Bill Clinton and [President] Donald Trump — but couldn’t provide the tapes when asked. (Ransome [said] that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had ‘evidence that would come out if he harmed me’),” the outlet added.
Dershowitz told Bream, “So we have to distinguish true accusations from false accusations.”
For his part, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform last weekend he has instructed his Justice Department to pursue releaseable, relevant information on Epstein after his administration received blowback from the MAGA base following the release of a DOJ/FBI memo claiming there is no ‘client list’ or further incriminating evidence to release on Epstein.
“I have asked the Justice Department to release all Grand Jury testimony with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, subject only to Court Approval. With that being said, and even if the Court gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It will always be more, more, more. MAGA!” he wrote.