Jeffrey Epstein’s friends are facing a nervous wait after a judge in New York laid out a schedule for releasing court documents which mention “literally 1,000 people” by name.

One unnamed man, known only as John Doe, wrote to the court in advance of Wednesday’s hearing begging the judge to keep his name out of the public domain.

Jeffrey Pagliuca, a lawyer for Epstein’s long-term companion Ghislaine Maxwell, said the sealed documents include “hundreds of pages of investigative reports that mention hundreds of people.”

They contain depositions taken from 29 people.

“There are hundreds of other people who could be implicated” in the documents, he said.