The Epstein Chronicles

Prince Andrew was excluded from the Buckingham Palace balcony appearance during Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, underscoring his diminished royal standing following the scandal over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Queen restricted the appearance to working royals, leaving Andrew outside one of the most prominent public moments marking her 70-year reign. He had withdr...

Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with George Mitchell, Frédéric Fekkai and Marvin Minsky showed how deeply his network reached into politics, luxury services and academia. Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell appeared in Epstein-related records and was accused by Virginia Giuffre of being one of the powerful men she said Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell directed her to have sex with while she...

The scandal surrounding Prince Andrew has left the United Kingdom sick to its stomach—a kind of collective disgust that’s gone far beyond anger or tabloid gossip. His entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just a personal disgrace; it tore at the fabric of what the monarchy was supposed to represent. Watching him sit in that Newsnight interview, spewing absurd excuses about sweat glands and Pizz...

In 2011, Alex Acosta publicly defended his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case while serving as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Acosta characterized Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement as the result of weighing difficult legal realities, claiming federal prosecutors believed the case hinged on vulnerable witnesses and posed significant trial risks. He asserted that the de...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recover...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recover...

The Government of the United States Virgin Islands asks the court to strike four affirmative defenses asserted by JPMorgan in the lawsuit accusing the bank of knowingly participating in and benefiting from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The USVI alleges that JPMorgan provided the financial infrastructure through which Epstein paid victims and recruiters while concealing suspicious tr...

The Government of the United States Virgin Islands asks the court to strike four affirmative defenses asserted by JPMorgan in the lawsuit accusing the bank of knowingly participating in and benefiting from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The USVI alleges that JPMorgan provided the financial infrastructure through which Epstein paid victims and recruiters while concealing suspicious tr...

According to newly surfaced FBI records, a foreign hacker penetrated a server used by the FBI’s New York Child Exploitation Forensic Lab on Super Bowl Sunday in February 2023 and accessed material connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Special Agent Aaron Spivack later said in sworn statements that he discovered the intrusion after finding a message on the system saying the network had be...

A second push to force the release of additional Jeffrey Epstein records advanced in the House after Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna said they had secured enough commitments to bring the Epstein Files Transparency Act II to the floor through another discharge petition. The maneuver closely mirrored the strategy used to pass the original Epstein Files Transparency Act in 2025, when supporters byp...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was described by friends as effectively “living in limbo” while Thames Valley Police continued investigating allegations tied to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his former role as a British trade envoy. Andrew had moved from Royal Lodge to Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate after his February 2026 arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Although h...

Howard Lutnick’s public account of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has drawn scrutiny because key parts of it have not lined up neatly with the documentary record. Lutnick said that he and his wife essentially cut Epstein off in 2005 after a disturbing visit to Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, describing a moment when Epstein showed them his massage room and made comments that convinced Lutnic...

Over the years, Jeffrey Epstein has been described in radically different ways depending on who was speaking and when. To some, he was a mysterious billionaire financier with powerful clients and an almost inexplicable fortune. To others, he was primarily a social climber who used wealth, access and famous friends to manufacture an image of importance. Former associates described him as a money ma...

Alan Dershowitz has faced sustained criticism over both his legal work for Jeffrey Epstein and the depth of his personal relationship with him. Dershowitz was part of Epstein’s defense team during the Florida investigation that ultimately produced the extraordinarily favorable 2007 non-prosecution agreement, and he later defended that deal publicly even after its terms became a national scandal. C...

Trump’s election-integrity speech exposed a glaring double standard in how his administration treats government records. When FBI, CIA, or intelligence-community files appear to support his claims about election fraud, he presents them as authoritative proof of a hidden conspiracy and demands that the public trust their contents. Yet when the Epstein record raises uncomfortable questions about pow...

Trump’s election-integrity speech exposed a glaring double standard in how his administration treats government records. When FBI, CIA, or intelligence-community files appear to support his claims about election fraud, he presents them as authoritative proof of a hidden conspiracy and demands that the public trust their contents. Yet when the Epstein record raises uncomfortable questions about pow...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recover...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red...

Questions about items removed from Jeffrey Epstein’s properties have persisted because records show that potentially important material was moved before investigators could fully examine it, raising concerns about what evidence may have disappeared from the official record. In Palm Beach, a private investigator working for Epstein’s defense team removed computers, address books, sexually explicit...

It strains credulity to believe that the world around Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell—filled with elite elites in finance, tech, entertainment, and fashion—was completely unaware of what was going on. For example, Ellen Pao, former Reddit CEO and one-time partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins, publicly stated that Maxwell was invited to a Silicon Valley holiday party in 2011 despite existi...

Bill and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly described their ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as limited, incidental or primarily connected to philanthropy, but the documentary record has shown a relationship that was broader and more sustained than those descriptions suggest. Bill Clinton acknowledged traveling on Epstein’s plane in 2002 and 2003 for Clinton Foundation-related work, whil...

One of the most striking patterns to emerge around Jeffrey Epstein’s social circle was how often people who had spent years around him suddenly claimed not to remember basic details once those relationships came under scrutiny. Former friends, business associates and social contacts repeatedly minimized the depth of their connections, described Epstein as little more than an acquaintance, or said...