Franck Ribéry comes out of silence. Quoted in a document linked to the Epstein files recently made public by the American justice system, the former French international denounced, on Tuesday, "false information" about him and announced his intention to file a complaint.

Published on: 02/10/2026 - 3:04 p.m. Modified on: 02/10/2026 - 3:41 p.m.

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Former French international Franck Ribéry, whose name is cited in a document from the Epstein files, denounced, on Tuesday February 10, "false information" about him and announced, via his lawyer, his intention to file a complaint.

The name of the former Bayern Munich player, heard in 2010 in Paris as a witness in a case of aggravated pimping, is cited in an anonymized document dated 2019, appearing in the files of the American sex criminal published by the American Department of Justice.

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Me Carlo Alberto Brusa denounces in a press release “false information”, published on social networks, “making people believe that he would be involved in the Epstein affair”.

In this 38-page document, presented as a letter sent to the American justice system which cites numerous names, it is notably written that Ribéry's membership "in the world of prostitution is no longer to be proven" and that the 42-year-old man would have "tried to hit" a woman while she was "in her garden", whose address he would have "obtained".

Franck Ribéry denies "formally and without reservation all of the terms uttered against him in this totally 'eccentric' letter, the result of a settling of scores between people to whom he is a complete stranger", continues his lawyer Me Carlo Alberto Brusa.

"Faced with the seriousness of these actions and in order to ensure that his rights are respected", Franck Ribéry has decided "to initiate criminal legal proceedings against the person signing this slanderous letter", whom he claims to have identified, "but also against those who continue to draw on this false information contained in the slanderous letter to write 'posts' on the networks", he continues.

“Freedom of expression cannot justify the dissemination of false, slanderous, insulting or defamatory information against a former professional player who only asks to live in peace and serenity with his family who indirectly suffers the seriousness of the accusations made against him,” he adds.

If the simple mention of a person's name in the Epstein file does not imply any reprehensible act a priori on their part, many personalities are experiencing the shock wave of these revelations.

With AFP

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