A JERSEY trust has been named in a US Senate investigation into the Epstein Files and how the late disgraced businessmen financed his sophisticated sex trafficking operation.
In another twist in the long-running scandal, which has involved powerful global figures including Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and President Donald Trump, an influential Senator is calling for files relating to Epstein, his jailed girlfriend and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, and a Jersey entity once registered at St John’s Manor.
Senator Ron Wyden, the senior representative from Oregan, has introduced an act compelling Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to release Treasury records relating to Epstein to Sen Wyden’s Senate Committee on Finance.
In a letter to Secretary Bessent, Sen Wyden provides a list of 58 individuals and entities, and asks to be sent all documents which concern transactions with Epstein and any of his co-conspirators, including Maxwell.
Number 20 on the list is La Hougue Trust, an entity once registered at St John’s Manor when it was owned by the late American businessman John Dick.
The trust is at the centre of a long-running dispute between Mr Dick’s daughter and various financial organisations, whom she argues helped her late father plunder to her financial detriment.
This weekend, the New York Post reported that Tanya Dick-Stock and her husband Darrin Stock filed papers, via their lawyer – former US presidential candidate John Edwards – in Colorado District Court last month, claiming that banks, including Barclays and HSBC, had unlawfully handed control of her $350 million trust to her father.
Boxes of papers discovered by Mrs Dick-Stock and her husband in the squash court of St John’s Manor link the trust to Maxwell’s brothers, Ian and Kevin, all offspring of the disgraced press baron Robert Maxwell, whose body was found floating near his yacht, Lady Ghislaine, off the Canary Islands in 1991.
When the Maxwell brothers’ links to the trust were first revealed by the Times in 2021, a spokesman for them said that “neither Ian nor Kevin has any unaided recollection of La Hougue and certainly were not involved as investors, shareholders, directors, agents or representatives”.
Other entities on Senator Wyden’s list include J Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, UBS Financial Services, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America.
