The Vault: The Epstein Files

Maritza Vazquez, who worked as a bookkeeper for MC2 Model Management, provided critical testimony placing Jean‑Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein at the center of a carefully managed system of underage recruitment and abuse. In her deposition, she identified Brunel as a regular passenger on Epstein’s private jet and noted that Epstein often traveled with girls recruited through MC2—some as young as 14...

Maritza Vazquez, who worked as a bookkeeper for MC2 Model Management, provided critical testimony placing Jean‑Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein at the center of a carefully managed system of underage recruitment and abuse. In her deposition, she identified Brunel as a regular passenger on Epstein’s private jet and noted that Epstein often traveled with girls recruited through MC2—some as young as 14...

Maritza Vazquez, who worked as a bookkeeper for MC2 Model Management, provided critical testimony placing Jean‑Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein at the center of a carefully managed system of underage recruitment and abuse. In her deposition, she identified Brunel as a regular passenger on Epstein’s private jet and noted that Epstein often traveled with girls recruited through MC2—some as young as 14...

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...

Warren Buffett left the Gates Foundation out of his annual charitable donations for the first time, directing roughly $6 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock instead to four foundations connected to his family. The omission followed renewed disclosures about Bill Gates’ meetings and correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett also accelerated his broader estate plans, announcing that his remaining...

British whistleblower Simon Andriesz uncovered evidence in the publicly released Epstein records suggesting that Howard Lutnick, now the United States commerce secretary, had a more substantial business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than Lutnick had previously acknowledged. Andriesz, a former managing director at Lutnick’s Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, found a 2018 email exchange in whic...

New Mexico prosecutors have issued evidence-preservation notices to more than two dozen technology, financial and travel companies as they investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch and attempt to secure the complete record of Prince Andrew’s communications with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The notices reportedly cover emails, messages, travel information and other digital records held by compani...

Zorro Ranch was long one of the least thoroughly examined pieces of Jeffrey Epstein’s world, despite repeated allegations that women and girls were taken there and abused. Unlike his Manhattan townhouse and Palm Beach residence, the sprawling New Mexico property was not searched by federal authorities after his 2019 arrest, leaving years of activity at the ranch largely unexplored. Its remote loca...

Jeffrey Epstein demonstrated a sophisticated ability to obscure where his money came from, where it moved and who ultimately benefited from it. He operated through layers of corporations, trusts, offshore accounts and entities registered in secrecy-friendly jurisdictions, making his financial network difficult to trace as a single, coherent operation. Investigative records have shown that his weal...

As Jeffrey Epstein faced prosecution in Florida, his friends and associates sent a letter to prosecutors portraying him as a generous, accomplished and valuable member of society who deserved leniency. That intervention was part of a broader effort to replace the image emerging from the evidence with a carefully manufactured portrait of a respectable financier, philanthropist and trusted adviser t...

Charlie Kirk was killed in what amounts to a political assassination, and the gravity of that cannot be softened, blurred, or buried under the usual noise. This was not just another violent crime, not just another court case, and not just another headline for people to weaponize for a news cycle. It was the killing of a public political figure in front of the country, followed almost immediately b...

Charlie Kirk was killed in what amounts to a political assassination, and the gravity of that cannot be softened, blurred, or buried under the usual noise. This was not just another violent crime, not just another court case, and not just another headline for people to weaponize for a news cycle. It was the killing of a public political figure in front of the country, followed almost immediately b...

Charlie Kirk was killed in what amounts to a political assassination, and the gravity of that cannot be softened, blurred, or buried under the usual noise. This was not just another violent crime, not just another court case, and not just another headline for people to weaponize for a news cycle. It was the killing of a public political figure in front of the country, followed almost immediately b...

Charlie Kirk was killed in what amounts to a political assassination, and the gravity of that cannot be softened, blurred, or buried under the usual noise. This was not just another violent crime, not just another court case, and not just another headline for people to weaponize for a news cycle. It was the killing of a public political figure in front of the country, followed almost immediately b...

Charlie Kirk was killed in what amounts to a political assassination, and the gravity of that cannot be softened, blurred, or buried under the usual noise. This was not just another violent crime, not just another court case, and not just another headline for people to weaponize for a news cycle. It was the killing of a public political figure in front of the country, followed almost immediately b...

Jeffrey Epstein survivors are urging the Senate to reject acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to lead the Justice Department permanently, arguing that his handling of the government’s Epstein document release should disqualify him. In a video released by World Without Exploitation, the women accused Blanche of failing to protect survivors after poorly redacted records exposed names a...

Newly released Justice Department records reportedly show that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak maintained a close, years-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein well after Epstein’s 2008 conviction. Emails, visitor records and financial documents trace their association from roughly 2013 through 2019, including repeated stays by Barak and his wife at Epstein’s Manhattan residence, which st...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of obstructing his office’s renewed criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch by withholding unredacted federal records. Torrez said more than 130 days had passed since New Mexico first requested the material, despite six separate attempts to obtain assistance from federal officials. His office reope...

Kathryn Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs’ former chief legal officer and current senior counsel, is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee as lawmakers investigate her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the federal government’s handling of his crimes. Ruemmler stepped down from Goldman’s top legal position at the end of June after newly released Justice Department records revealed tha...

Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling Zorro Ranch in New Mexico reportedly welcomed an extraordinary collection of powerful and famous visitors, including former governor Bill Richardson, Prince Andrew, and people connected to the Clinton family. Richardson was reported to have visited the ranch multiple times, while former employees and other accounts placed Prince Andrew at the property during his years-l...

Epstein-related justice in Florida was shrugged away through a combination of prosecutorial weakness, institutional deference and an extraordinary willingness to treat serious allegations as an inconvenience rather than a public emergency. Palm Beach police developed evidence involving numerous underage girls, yet the case was steadily narrowed, softened and redirected until Epstein received a ple...

Prince Andrew’s conduct has brought lasting shame upon himself by exposing a pattern of arrogance, poor judgment and refusal to accept meaningful responsibility. His friendship with Jeffrey Epstein continued long after Epstein’s criminal behavior was publicly known, and his disastrous attempts to explain that relationship only deepened the damage. Rather than showing humility, Andrew repeatedly ap...

In the case of Doe 1 v. JP Morgan Chase & Co. (1:22-cv-10019), Judge Jed S. Rakoff issued an opinion and order on a motion to unseal judicial records filed by The New York Times. The motion sought to unseal certain exhibits that were submitted with summary judgment motions and class certification motions. Judge Rakoff's ruling granted the motion in part and denied it in part. Specifically, the...

In the case of Doe 1 v. JP Morgan Chase & Co. (1:22-cv-10019), Judge Jed S. Rakoff issued an opinion and order on a motion to unseal judicial records filed by The New York Times. The motion sought to unseal certain exhibits that were submitted with summary judgment motions and class certification motions. Judge Rakoff's ruling granted the motion in part and denied it in part. Specifically, the...