819 Court Documents You've Never Seen: What We Found in the DocumentCloud Archives

Today we added 819 court filings to the Epstein Exposed database, sourced from DocumentCloud's public archive. These aren't DOJ FOIA releases or EFTA datasets -- they're court filings, depositions, motions, and exhibits from the actual litigation. The kind of documents that lawyers, journalists, and investigators actually cite.

The ingestion pipeline matched 402 persons of interest across 4,825 new document-person links, bringing our database totals to over 1.64 million documents with 1.54 million person-document connections.

Here's what we found.

What's in the new documents

The 819 documents span six major categories:

The source cases include Giuffre v. Maxwell (the civil defamation suit that produced the explosive 2016 Maxwell deposition), US v. Maxwell (the criminal case), US v. Epstein (SDNY), Doe v. United States (the NPA challenge), and Giuffre v. Prince Andrew.

The 2024 unsealing drops

Among the most significant documents are the three waves of court papers unsealed in January-February 2024, following Judge Preska's December 2023 order. These include:

• The January 3 drop (dc-24253264): The first batch of Giuffre v. Maxwell materials ordered unsealed, totaling over 1.6 million characters of text
• The January 9 drop (dc-24356232): Additional depositions and exhibits, including testimony about specific "Does" whose identities remained sealed
• The February 3 drop (dc-24402695): A third tranche filed on a rolling basis, excluding materials related to Does 105, 107, and 110

These documents contain the redacted and unredacted depositions, witness statements, and exhibits that generated global headlines when they were released.

The Maxwell depositions

The Maxwell depositions are the crown jewels of this ingestion. These are Ghislaine Maxwell's own sworn testimony from the Giuffre v. Maxwell civil case, taken in April 2016 before the case settled.

Key exchanges now searchable in our database:

On Nadia Marcinkova:

Q. What was Nadia Marcinkova doing? MR. PAGLIUCA: Object to the form and foundation. A. I have no idea what Nadia Marcinkova was doing. I didn't hire [her].

Maxwell claimed ignorance about the role of Marcinkova, who was named as a co-conspirator in the Non-Prosecution Agreement and who multiple victims described as a participant in abuse.

On the organizational structure:

Q. The other people mentioned as co-conspirators are Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, and Nadia Marcinkova. So we'll get to them in a minute but first just so we stay on the track of who was in the organization...

This exchange explicitly frames Epstein's operation as an "organization" with named co-conspirators, not the actions of a lone individual.

The Non-Prosecution Agreement

Multiple documents reference the infamous 2008 NPA between Epstein and the US Attorney's office in the Southern District of Florida. The NPA's scope is a recurring subject of litigation:

Unlike the provision that Epstein will not be prosecuted "in this District," the sentence regarding "potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, or Nadia Marcinkova" contained no such geographic limitation.

This is significant because it shows the NPA was drafted to shield not just Epstein but his entire inner circle -- Kellen, Ross, Groff, and Marcinkova -- from federal prosecution anywhere in the country. The breadth of this protection for named co-conspirators remains one of the most controversial aspects of the original plea deal.

Who appears in these documents

The person-linking phase matched 402 of our 1,509 tracked persons across the 819 documents. The top mentions (excluding Epstein and Maxwell):

The Clinton references

Clinton appears across 66 documents, primarily in three contexts:

1. Flight logs: References to Clinton's trips on Epstein's private jet, sourced from pilot logs and the "Lolita Express" manifest
2. Island visits: Giuffre's assertion that she "saw Bill Clinton at Epstein's island in the U.S. Virgin Islands," described as "backed up with shots of the plane logs"
3. The black book: Clinton's phone numbers listed under "Doug Band's" name in Epstein's contact directory

The Dershowitz accusations

Alan Dershowitz appears in 73 documents. The most explosive is the Jane Doe #3 filing:

Epstein forced then-minor Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a close friend of Epstein's and well-known criminal defense attorney. Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with Dershowitz.

Dershowitz has categorically denied these allegations and filed multiple motions challenging them, also now in our database. His motion states the accusations are "absolutely outrageous" and "categorically false." Our database now contains both the accusations and the denials, letting researchers see both sides of the record.

The Alessi deposition

Juan Alessi, Epstein's longtime house manager, provided critical testimony about visitors to Epstein's Palm Beach residence:

And other famous people that I can't remember. It was a very famous lawyers that I'm sure you know, Alan Dershowitz, who spent at the house a couple times. And he slept there. He -- Princess [...]

This deposition places specific individuals at Epstein's properties through direct eyewitness testimony from household staff.

The DOJ executive summary on Acosta

One document (dc-DOJ executive summary) references the Trump administration connection:

In 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Secretary of Labor. At his March 2017 confirmation hearing, Acosta was questioned only briefly about the Epstein case.

This confirms the documented timeline: Alexander Acosta, the US Attorney who signed off on the sweetheart plea deal, was subsequently nominated for a cabinet position, and the NPA received minimal scrutiny during his confirmation.

What this means for the database

With this ingestion, Epstein Exposed now contains:

• 1,641,778 documents (up from 1,640,939)
• 1,511,191 OCR text records (full text searchable)
• 1,539,604 person-document links (up from 1,534,779)
• 44,849 co-occurrence pairs (up from 38,660)

Every document is fully searchable, cross-referenced to persons of interest, and includes mention context showing exactly where each person appears in the text.

How to explore

• Search for any person on their profile page to see their DocumentCloud mentions
• Use the AI Chat to ask questions about specific court filings
• Browse the documents section and filter by source "court-unsealed" or "doj"
• DocumentCloud documents have IDs starting with dc- and link back to the original source

What's next

We're continuing to expand our court document coverage. The CourtListener RECAP archive contains thousands of additional filings from the same cases, and we're working on authentication to access the full docket entries. We're also exploring FBI Vault releases and House Oversight records that haven't yet been digitized.

If you find something noteworthy in these documents, submit it through our community submissions system. Every lead matters.

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Data pipeline: DocumentCloud API (no auth) -> text extraction from S3 -> Neon Postgres ingestion -> tsvector person matching -> mention context backfill. Total processing time: ~12 minutes for 819 documents.