Embedded Old Fonts in ePub

Folks -
I have a few books that I did originally in PageMaker using the Minion font. The Minion font has a SemiBold and SemiBoldItalics subsets which I used. When I moved the books to InDesign I moved the font to Minion Pro. I'm now attempting to create ePubs with the books and cannot get rid of the non-existant MinionPro-SemiBold and MinionPro-SemiBoldItalics?
Well, I can go in through Sigil and delete them, but would rather know how to get rid of them permantly in InDesign.
Thanks. Rick

Sorry about that as "Tried this" does not say what I tried.
What I tried was the "In the Master Pages flyout, Select Unused Masters, and delete..."
and the Remove minor corruption by exporting.
And the "Find Font."
All three of these did not work.
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