The Vault: The Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with John Brockman was one of the clearest examples of how Epstein bought his way into elite intellectual culture. Brockman was a powerful literary agent and the founder of Edge, a high-status salon world that brought together scientists, technologists, writers, entrepreneurs, and billionaires. Epstein used Brockman’s orbit as a legitimacy machine: not merely to meet...

Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with Woody Allen was not some passing handshake or random name in an address book. Public reporting and released records have described Allen and Soon-Yi Previn as longtime friends and neighbors of Epstein in New York, with the three dining together often and maintaining contact even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction. Newly released emails added more texture to that re...

Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the Dubin family was strange because it did not fit the normal pattern of someone being socially exiled after a sex-crime conviction. Eva Andersson-Dubin dated Epstein for roughly a decade before marrying hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, and Epstein remained close enough to the family that he reportedly described himself as having introduced Eva and Glenn. Ev...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Rule 56.1 request in the defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre was a procedural move designed to narrow the case before trial by asking the court to treat Maxwell’s version of certain facts as undisputed. Under Local Rule 56.1, parties seeking summary judgment have to lay out the material facts they claim are not genuinely in dispute, with citations to admissib...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Rule 56.1 request in the defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre was a procedural move designed to narrow the case before trial by asking the court to treat Maxwell’s version of certain facts as undisputed. Under Local Rule 56.1, parties seeking summary judgment have to lay out the material facts they claim are not genuinely in dispute, with citations to admissib...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Rule 56.1 request in the defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre was a procedural move designed to narrow the case before trial by asking the court to treat Maxwell’s version of certain facts as undisputed. Under Local Rule 56.1, parties seeking summary judgment have to lay out the material facts they claim are not genuinely in dispute, with citations to admissib...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Rule 56.1 request in the defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre was a procedural move designed to narrow the case before trial by asking the court to treat Maxwell’s version of certain facts as undisputed. Under Local Rule 56.1, parties seeking summary judgment have to lay out the material facts they claim are not genuinely in dispute, with citations to admissib...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Rule 56.1 request in the defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre was a procedural move designed to narrow the case before trial by asking the court to treat Maxwell’s version of certain facts as undisputed. Under Local Rule 56.1, parties seeking summary judgment have to lay out the material facts they claim are not genuinely in dispute, with citations to admissib...

Pam Bondi’s congressional appearance today is centered on her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files while she was attorney general, especially the messy rollout, the shifting public explanations, and the lingering questions about what the Justice Department released, withheld, redacted, or claimed did not exist. Bondi is appearing before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door, transcribed...

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a former newspaper reporter and bestselling novelist who has spent recent years investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, says she has left her home and is preparing to leave the United States after what she claims were “directed energy weapon” attacks connected to her Epstein reporting. She has alleged that her work on Zorro Ranch, local cover-up claims, a...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson are being portrayed as a scandal-bound royal duo whose relationship long outlived their marriage because it benefited both of them. Royal author Andrew Lownie describes them as the royal family’s “Bonnie and Clyde,” arguing that their post-divorce bond was built around mutual loyalty, shared self-interest, financial survival, and the preservation of st...

Donald Trump has refiled a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein, specifically an article describing a birthday card to Epstein as bearing Trump’s signature. The new filing came after a federal judge threw out Trump’s earlier complaint in April, ruling that it failed to meet the “actual malice” standard required in...

For close to four decades, Jeffrey Epstein was treated less like a target of the full weight of federal law enforcement and more like a problem the system kept managing, minimizing, delaying, or quietly passing along. From the early warning signs around his access to young girls, to the Palm Beach investigation, to the federal review that could have produced a sweeping sex-trafficking case, the pa...

Alex Acosta had a choice. As the U.S. Attorney in South Florida, he was not some powerless clerk handed a file and told to stamp it. He was the federal official whose office had reviewed evidence that Jeffrey Epstein’s conduct could support a serious federal sex-trafficking prosecution. Instead of forcing the case into open federal court, Acosta’s office approved a secretive non-prosecution agreem...

Newly surfaced FBI material indicates that Jeffrey Epstein may have played a role in introducing Melania Trump to Donald Trump, directly contradicting prior public denials that any such connection existed. The information suggests that Epstein’s social network extended into the circumstances surrounding how the two met, raising questions about earlier efforts to distance that relationship from him...

Courtney Love said she first crossed paths with Prince Andrew through Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s, describing Epstein as someone who moved easily through celebrity and elite circles. According to her account, she met Andrew at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and later claimed the then-prince appeared at her Los Angeles home at around 1 a.m. “looking for sex.” Love said she rejected him, and h...

In her posthumously published memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, Giuffre alleges that while she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates she was sent to a “well-known Prime Minister” who raped her “more savagely than anyone had before”. She describes being choked until unconscious, bleeding from multiple wounds, and begging Epstein not to retur...

Virginia Roberts Giuffre alleges that Prince Andrew, Duke of York sexually abused her on three separate occasions after she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She claims the first encounter occurred in March 2001 when she was 17, at Maxwell’s London residence; she asserts that Maxwell told her she was “going to meet a handsome prince.” The second encounter is alleged to have...

Jeffrey Epstein allegedly told authorities that while he was on house arrest in Florida, his security team caught a man dressed in black “like a ninja” hiding in bushes near him. According to documents later obtained from the Epstein prosecution record, Epstein’s attorney Jack Goldberger raised the incident in a letter while seeking changes to Epstein’s probation restrictions. Goldberger claimed E...

Interlochen Center for the Arts is moving to demolish Green Lake Lodge, a building originally funded by Jeffrey Epstein and once named for him before the school stripped his name from campus after learning of his 2009 criminal conviction. Epstein had attended Interlochen’s summer camp in 1967 and later donated to the institution from 1990 to 2003. The lodge, built along Green Lake, was used to hou...

The column argues that Thomas Massie’s primary defeat is not just a political loss but the symbolic collapse of what it calls the “Epstein Era,” meaning the period when Epstein-related transparency demands, online speculation, anti-establishment anger, and accusations about hidden networks became central to parts of Republican politics. Its basic claim is that Massie helped drag the party into a c...

Jeffrey Epstein’s reach extended far beyond New York, Palm Beach, and the familiar circles of American finance and politics. Newly surfaced records show him probing for influence and opportunity across Latin America and the Caribbean, including Venezuela and Cuba, where he appeared to position himself as a connector for businessmen, political insiders, and power brokers operating in difficult, sen...

Jeffrey Epstein’s reach extended far beyond New York, Palm Beach, and the familiar circles of American finance and politics. Newly surfaced records show him probing for influence and opportunity across Latin America and the Caribbean, including Venezuela and Cuba, where he appeared to position himself as a connector for businessmen, political insiders, and power brokers operating in difficult, sen...

Newly released Justice Department files show Jeffrey Epstein received extraordinary white-glove treatment from Mount Sinai, turning one of New York’s most prestigious medical systems into yet another elite institution where his money, access, and relationships appeared to open doors that ordinary people would never get near. The records describe Epstein arranging medical care not only for himself,...

Sarah Ransome’s deposition offers a disturbing account of her exploitation by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She described being lured to New York under false pretenses and quickly forced into a world of manipulation and abuse. Ransome testified to being coerced into group sexual acts, including one incident involving a well-known attorney. She recounted life on Epstein’s private island an...