The Epstein Chronicles

Prince Andrew became embroiled in another controversy after it emerged that he had received £750,000 from Selman Turk, a Turkish businessman who was later accused of fraud. The money was transferred in 2019 after Turk became involved with Nebahat Isbilen, a wealthy Turkish woman who had entrusted him with handling her financial affairs after her husband was imprisoned in Turkey. According to court...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Loretta Preska’s decision to unseal significant portions of the record from Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, rejecting Maxwell’s attempt to keep the material hidden from public view. The dispute centered particularly on Maxwell’s April 2016 deposition and related court filings, which had been produced during the civil...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

Bryan Kohberger’s defense pushed to move his trial out of Moscow, Idaho, arguing that the extraordinary publicity surrounding the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin had made it impossible for him to receive a fair trial in Latah County. His attorneys pointed to the intensity of local news coverage, the small size of the community, the emotional impact of the...

In 2011, years after Jeffrey Epstein’s first conviction, Ghislaine Maxwell attended a high-powered holiday party hosted by one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture capital firms. Her presence wasn’t accidental or under the radar—she was welcomed into a room full of tech elites, despite well-circulated suspicions that she had played a central role in Epstein’s abuse network. Attendees recog...

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...

Tara Martinez was a forensic scientist with Idaho State Police Forensic Services who became involved in the Bryan Kohberger investigation primarily through the collection and examination of physical evidence. After Kohberger was arrested and returned to Idaho in January 2023, Martinez participated in obtaining reference samples directly from him, including a buccal swab from inside his cheek, hair...

On August 18, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent Leon Black’s attorneys a sharply worded letter accusing the billionaire financier of obstructing the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and warning that Black could be held in contempt of Congress if he continued to resist its subpoenas. Comer pointed back to Black’s June 26 appearance before the committee, which began a...

On August 18, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent Leon Black’s attorneys a sharply worded letter accusing the billionaire financier of obstructing the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and warning that Black could be held in contempt of Congress if he continued to resist its subpoenas. Comer pointed back to Black’s June 26 appearance before the committee, which began a...

The ugliest part of what has happened around the Lindsay Clancy case is how quickly three dead children have been pushed into the background while strangers online make the story about themselves. Some of the same wine-aunt, conspiracy-soaked energy that surrounded the Karen Read case has migrated over here, complete with slogans like “Same Lindsay,” amateur psychiatric analysis, and disgusting sp...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer threatened billionaire Leon Black with contempt of Congress if he continued resisting the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The dispute intensified after Black’s voluntary June appearance ended after roughly an hour when lawmakers from both parties said he refused to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements. Comer then issued subp...

Alan Dershowitz said he was still “anxious” to testify before the House Oversight Committee about Jeffrey Epstein, but his eagerness looked considerably less convincing after his scheduled appearance abruptly collapsed. Dershowitz had publicly volunteered for months to testify under oath and on video, portraying himself as someone ready to confront the record and explain what he knew about Epstein...

Lesley Groff’s FBI 302 and later testimony deserve far more skepticism than they have often received because the version of herself she presented appears substantially cleaner than the documentary record surrounding Epstein’s operation. Groff repeatedly cast herself as an administrative employee handling routine logistics, but the available emails, calendars, travel records and communications sugg...

Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the New York Academy of Art stretched back years before his crimes became publicly notorious. Epstein served on the academy’s board from 1987 to 1994 and remained connected to the school as a donor and patron afterward, giving him access to an environment filled with young artists trying to establish their careers. Maria Farmer was a graduate student at the acad...

After her July 2020 arrest, Ghislaine Maxwell launched an almost continuous campaign of complaints about the conditions of her confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Through her attorneys, Maxwell argued that she was being treated more harshly than an ordinary pretrial detainee because of Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody the year before. She complained that correct...

In the immediate aftermath of Bryan Kohberger’s December 2022 arrest, his family issued a statement that tried to balance sympathy for the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin with continued support for Kohberger. His parents and sisters said they cared deeply for the four families who had lost their children, expressed profound sadness over the murders and s...

Caroline Kaufman said she had been 17 when she was recruited by another teenage girl at a horse show and eventually brought into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit under the impression that she was pursuing a modeling opportunity. Kaufman alleged that Epstein raped her at his Manhattan townhouse in early December 2010, more than two years after his Florida conviction for sex offenses. She said the assault oc...

The affidavit supporting a search warrant in the case against Tyler Robinson laid out investigators’ developing theory that Robinson was the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk during the September 10, 2025 event at Utah Valley University. Investigators described surveillance footage tracking a suspect before and after the shooting, the recovery of a rifle believed to have been used in the att...

Taylor Maichak, a forensic scientist with Idaho State Police Forensic Services, was expected to testify about DNA testing she performed on evidence gathered during the investigation, including a group of everyday items seized from the Kohberger family home in Pennsylvania. Those items included a Band-Aid, drinking straws, earplugs, lollipop sticks, nail clippers, a flosser, a Q-tip-style swab, cof...

Jeffrey Epstein’s life makes little sense when viewed through the lens of a rogue financier or even a Mossad agent, but it becomes coherent when understood as the creation of the CIA. From his early placement at the Dalton School by Donald Barr, to his sudden leap into finance at Bear Stearns, to his inexplicable relationship with Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s career looks less like chance and more lik...

Jeffrey Epstein’s life makes little sense when viewed through the lens of a rogue financier or even a Mossad agent, but it becomes coherent when understood as the creation of the CIA. From his early placement at the Dalton School by Donald Barr, to his sudden leap into finance at Bear Stearns, to his inexplicable relationship with Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s career looks less like chance and more lik...

Jeffrey Epstein’s life makes little sense when viewed through the lens of a rogue financier or even a Mossad agent, but it becomes coherent when understood as the creation of the CIA. From his early placement at the Dalton School by Donald Barr, to his sudden leap into finance at Bear Stearns, to his inexplicable relationship with Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s career looks less like chance and more lik...

Six women who said they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein filed a new lawsuit in New York against his estate and its co-executors, longtime attorney Darren Indyke and longtime accountant Richard Kahn. The women alleged they were between 16 and 24 years old when Epstein began abusing them between 2001 and 2005, and brought their claims under New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Act. The...

Investors sued Barclays and its former chief executive, Jes Staley, alleging that the bank misled shareholders about the true nature of Staley’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and concealed risks that eventually damaged the company and its investors. The securities class action, led by pension funds, alleged that Barclays repeatedly presented Staley’s connection to Epstein as essentially profes...