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Former Jeffrey Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz claims he knows names that are being “suppressed” to “protect individuals.” He made this claim during an appearance on former Trump White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s podcast and again in an article he penned for the Wall Street Journal this week.
On Sean Spicer’s podcast, Alan Dershowitz said, “Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them.”
Unfortunately, Dershowitz told Spicer in the interview which was originally broadcast on March 19 and then re-posted on social media last Thursday, he is “bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases” so he said he cannot divulge any of those names.
Alan Dershowitz doubles down
Fast forward three months, and Alan Dershowitz, who was once accused of being a client of Jeffrey Epstein, again made claims about the alleged client list. “I was his lawyer. I know things that court orders won’t allow me to disclose,” he began an article for the Wall Street Journal this week.
“Epstein never created a ‘client list.’ The FBI interviewed alleged victims who named several ‘clients.’ These names have been redacted,” Dershowitz continued. “They should be disclosed but the courts have ordered them sealed. I know who they are. They don’t include any current officeholders. We don’t know whether the accusations are true. The courts have also sealed negative information about some of the accusers to protect them. Neither the Justice Department nor private defense lawyers are free to disregard court sealing orders. The media can and should petition the courts for the release of all names and information so the public can draw its own conclusions.”
Dershowitz also claims that the rumors of there being videos of some of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients may be true. However, he claims they aren’t the incriminating kind.
“There has also been speculation about incriminating videos taken by hidden cameras in Epstein’s guest bedrooms,” he claimed. “There are videotapes, but they are of public areas of his Palm Beach, Fla., home. Epstein reported the theft of money and a licensed firearm from a drawer in his living room, so the police installed a video camera. I am not aware of video cameras in guest bedrooms.”
Really? No video tapes?
That claim flies in the face of a woman named Sarah Ransome, who filed a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and other alleged co-conspirators in 2017. Among the 327 pages of court documents that were unsealed in January of 2024 were emails written by Ransome in which she claimed “tapes were in fact filmed on each separate occasion by Jeffrey” that “clearly identify the faces” of the clients, some of them quite famous and powerful.
Also, in 2023, according to federal court documents filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands, Jeffrey Epstein’s estate discovered a cache of photos and videos.
Dershowitz’s claims also go against what former 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen said Ghislaine Maxwell told him during a 2016 interview: that Jeffrey Epstein had secret videos.
In 2020, TV host and journalist Christopher Mason, who has known Maxwell since the 1980s, told the Daily Mail that he believes she has a “secret stash” of tapes, “copies of everything Epstein had.”
In addition to those statements, Ghislaine Maxwell also once reportedly told a friend, Christina Oxenberg, “Jeffrey and I have everyone on videotape.”