The latest tranche of the Epstein files may shed new light on a grim scheme that the convicted paedophile had long been plotting. One of the three million documents released by the Department of Justice last week was a diary entry from a teenage girl . In it, she claimed that Epstein had fathered her daughter when she was aged 16 or 17, back in 2002. Ghislaine Maxwell, the disgraced financier's girlfriend at the time, was present at the birth, according to the notes. The diary entry alleges