Epstein Chronicles: The Archives

Stacey Plaskett has been exposed in newly released emails showing she was actively messaging Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing, a revelation that detonated her carefully crafted public image as a defender of justice. Despite long-standing knowledge of Epstein’s reputation as a trafficker and blackmail broker for the powerful, Plaskett not only took his money, but fought to keep it unt...

In 2013, Ghislaine Maxwell brazenly appeared at a high-profile charity gala billed as a front-line defense against human trafficking—an event meant to spotlight and dismantle the very horrors she was complicit in. Photographs from that night show her mingling with celebrities, donors, and advocates, all under the banner of fighting exploitation. Meanwhile, behind closed doors, Maxwell was actively...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Jeffrey Epstein’s operation cannot be understood through the lens of a traditional sex trafficking ring. Unlike figures such as Heidi Fleiss, Epstein wasn’t in it for monetary gain or running a transactional enterprise. His network operated on two levels: the first was driven by his personal compulsions, where he targeted vulnerable high school girls in Palm Beach and New York to satisfy his own d...

In a detailed written statement submitted ahead of his closed-door deposition before the U.S. House Oversight Committee, billionaire Les Wexner said he was “pleased” for the chance to “set the record straight” about his long-standing financial and personal connection to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner described Epstein as a “con man” and said he had been “naïve, foolish, and gullible” to trust hi...

In France, prosecutors in Paris have opened multiple new investigations into suspected crimes connected to late U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein following the public release of millions of pages of previously sealed documents by U.S. authorities. Authorities announced two preliminary probes — one focused on alleged sex abuse and human trafficking offenses and the other on potential financial and eco...

Tom Pritzker, the billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels and a prominent member of the Pritzker family, announced his immediate resignation as executive chair following revelations in newly released files tying him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The disclosures showed that Pritzker maintained contact with Epstein well after Epstein’s 2008 con...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Norway’s parliament has opened public hearings into Jeffrey Epstein’s connections with Norwegian politicians and diplomats after newly released U.S. records exposed a wider web of relationships between Epstein and members of the country’s political and diplomatic elite. The parliament’s scrutiny and constitutional affairs committee has summoned 11 current and former foreign and development ministe...

Federal investigators are reportedly examining the Florida Science Foundation as part of the broader scrutiny surrounding longtime Jeffrey Epstein associates Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, focusing on whether the organization was used as another vehicle to facilitate Epstein’s continued access to women and girls. The foundation was created in 2007, during the same period Epstein entered into his...

Bill Gates again addressed his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein during a September 27 appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, where he denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island and said his contact with Epstein consisted of roughly 10 meetings over a period of a few years. Gates laughed nervously at points while answering questions and insisted that there were never women present during those mee...

Two anonymous Jeffrey Epstein survivors are asking a federal court to certify a class action on behalf of people whose images were allegedly acquired, produced, possessed or distributed as part of Epstein’s collection of child sexual abuse material. The lawsuit, filed September 15 in New York, says the named plaintiffs want to represent more than 40 identified people and potentially many more who...

The University of Maine System voted to strip former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell’s name from university programs and honors after renewed scrutiny of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Board of Trustees voted 9-5, with one abstention, to remove Mitchell’s name from the George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and the George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship. The d...