The Epstein Chronicles

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan warned acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that he could face civil contempt if the Justice Department failed to comply with the court’s orders in the lawsuit brought by journalist and attorney Katie Phang over the Epstein files. Sullivan gave Blanche until September 24 to satisfy several outstanding requirements, including providing support for disputed victim-...

A Florida woman, Jennifer Percival, pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to falsifying records in order to obtain money from a compensation fund for Jeffrey Epstein victims. Percival had applied to Epstein’s estate-funded victims program in late 2020 and was found ineligible for compensation. Years later, when she applied to a separate $290 million JPMorgan Chase settlement fund for Epstein...

More than a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors praised the House Oversight Committee after it voted 41-0 to recommend holding Leon Black in contempt of Congress for refusing to fully comply with subpoenas seeking his testimony and nondisclosure agreements. The survivors said the unanimous committee vote sent a clear message that wealth and influence should not place anyone beyond congressional scruti...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team attacked the prosecution from nearly every available angle before and during her federal trial, trying to keep evidence out, restrict what witnesses could say, challenge expert testimony, undermine the accusers’ memories and credibility, and narrow the government’s theory of the case. Her attorneys argued that she was being used as a substitute for Jeffrey Epstein be...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate claimed in 2020 and 2021 that it was facing a serious liquidity problem despite controlling an estate originally valued at more than half a billion dollars. Co-executors Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn said much of Epstein’s wealth was tied up in real estate, investments and other assets that could not quickly be converted into cash, while liens imposed by the U.S. Virgin I...

As jurors deliberated Ghislaine Maxwell’s fate in December 2021, they repeatedly returned to the trial record and asked Judge Alison Nathan for transcripts of key testimony rather than relying solely on memory. Early in deliberations, they requested the testimony of several accusers, including Jane, Annie and Carolyn, and later asked for transcripts from witnesses who either corroborated parts of...

The Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) was supposed to guarantee fairness and transparency for victims—making sure they were informed, included, and respected in the legal process. But when Jeffrey Epstein came along, that promise evaporated. Federal prosecutors secretly cut a Non-Prosecution Agreement that protected not only Epstein but also his “potential co-conspirators,” violating the very law d...

The Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) was supposed to guarantee fairness and transparency for victims—making sure they were informed, included, and respected in the legal process. But when Jeffrey Epstein came along, that promise evaporated. Federal prosecutors secretly cut a Non-Prosecution Agreement that protected not only Epstein but also his “potential co-conspirators,” violating the very law d...

Day one of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing on July 6, 2026, largely centered on prosecutors beginning to construct a timeline of Charlie Kirk’s killing at Utah Valley University and establishing the authenticity of the surveillance footage and investigative records they intended to use against Robinson. Former UVU police officer Chris Bagley described the moment the gunshot rang out during Ki...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as...

Bryan Kohberger’s family publicly backed his effort to undo the guilty plea that resulted in four consecutive life sentences for the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. In a statement to ABC News, the family said its support did not come from disregard for the victims or their families, but from a desire to see what it called the “complete and unvarnished tr...

Two women identified in court papers as Jane Doe and Amy filed a proposed federal class-action lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, alleging that their photographs were among a large collection of child sexual abuse material found in Epstein’s possession. The lawsuit claims Epstein and unnamed co-conspirators maintained a “modeling book” containing nude or partially nude sexualized images of...

Congress escalated its confrontation with Leon Black on September 16, 2026, when the House voted by unanimous consent to hold the billionaire former Apollo CEO in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The House Oversight Committee had demanded that Black produce nondisclosure agreements in his possession, including any that r...

British investigators were continuing to expand their examination of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by reaching out to current and former royal protection officers who may have witnessed relevant conduct while assigned to him. The Metropolitan Police said officers were being asked to consider whether anything they “saw or heard” during their service could assist ong...

In his August 2021 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Bill Gates described his association with Jeffrey Epstein as a serious mistake and said the relationship grew out of Epstein’s claims that he could help raise enormous sums of money for global-health philanthropy. Gates said he had “several dinners” with Epstein after first meeting him in 2011, despite Epstein already having been convicted o...

Jeffrey Epstein’s empire was not only built on money and connections but on silence. Alongside Jean-Luc Brunel, he deliberately targeted vulnerable girls from Eastern Europe and South America, knowing cultural shame, disbelief, and poverty would keep them voiceless. Promised modeling careers, housekeeping jobs, or education, these young women instead found themselves trapped, their passports taken...

Palm Beach Police Detective Michelle Pagan’s interview with the 14-year-old girl who became the first known complainant in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation provided the account that effectively opened the case. The teenager told Pagan that an older girl had offered her an easy way to make a few hundred dollars by giving a massage to a wealthy man in Palm Beach. She was taken to Epstein’s mansion,...

Jeffrey Epstein had a deeply unsettling fascination with transhumanism, a fringe scientific ideology focused on using advanced technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence to “improve” or even transcend the human species. For years, Epstein cultivated relationships with prominent scientists, funding research and hosting intellectual salons to promote his own bizarre vision of...

Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to the world of science were not accidental — they were strategic. He courted some of the most brilliant minds at Harvard, MIT, and other elite institutions, presenting himself as a patron of innovation and philanthropy. Epstein used his fortune to endow programs, fund research, and host lavish dinners that mixed Nobel laureates with billionaires. Many of these “men w...

Charlie Kirk’s family took the first formal step toward a wrongful-death lawsuit against Utah officials, alleging that a series of security failures at Utah Valley University left him vulnerable to the rooftop gunman who killed him on September 10, 2025. The notice of claim, filed by Kirk’s widow Erika and his parents, accused UVU, its former president Astrid Tuminez, campus police chief Jeffrey L...

North Idaho investigators said they were “deeply troubled” after true-crime content creators claimed they had obtained unredacted crime-scene photographs showing the bodies and wounds of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin and were preparing to publish them online. A YouTube creator from the BronxTails True Crime channel said she had access to unredacted images and sugg...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as...

The House Oversight Committee voted unanimously, 41-0, to recommend that billionaire financier Leon Black be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to fully comply with subpoenas issued as part of its Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Chairman James Comer said Black’s testimony was important because of his long relationship with Epstein during the period when Epstein was engaged in sex trafficking...