The Epstein Chronicles

Highbridge Capital Management was a major New York hedge fund founded by Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca that had grown into one of the most successful alternative-asset managers on Wall Street by the early 2000s. In 2004, JPMorgan Chase acquired a majority stake in Highbridge, which was managing roughly $7 billion at the time, giving the bank a much larger foothold in the rapidly expanding hedge-fun...

Highbridge Capital Management was a major New York hedge fund founded by Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca that had grown into one of the most successful alternative-asset managers on Wall Street by the early 2000s. In 2004, JPMorgan Chase acquired a majority stake in Highbridge, which was managing roughly $7 billion at the time, giving the bank a much larger foothold in the rapidly expanding hedge-fun...

In January 2022, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Prince Andrew’s effort to have Virginia Giuffre’s civil sexual-abuse lawsuit thrown out, dismantling several of the arguments advanced by the prince’s legal team. Andrew’s attorneys had argued that Giuffre’s 2009 settlement with Jeffrey Epstein protected Andrew from being sued because the agreement released certain “potential defendants.”...

Ghislaine Maxwell spends nearly two years in pretrial detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn following her July 2020 arrest, repeatedly describing her confinement as unusually harsh and punitive. Through her attorneys, she tells the court that she is kept under constant surveillance, subjected to invasive searches and awakened throughout the night by guards shining flashlights...

Prince Andrew has been progressively shut out of prominent royal occasions as his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the allegations made by Virginia Giuffre turned him into a reputational liability for the monarchy. Organizers planning Prince Philip’s 100th-birthday commemorations reportedly intended to exclude Andrew from the principal celebrations and omit photographs of him from a planned e...

The newly released congressional photo of Epstein’s interior space reveals far more than a disturbing aesthetic choice; it is a psychological blueprint of how he engineered environments to dominate and destabilize the people he brought into them. The dental chair at the center of the room, the sickly yellow masks staring directly at it, the medical cabinetry, the stacked massage tables, and the na...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on federal banking regulators to investigate Jes Staley and other current and former banking executives who may have helped Jeffrey Epstein maintain access to the financial system despite mounting concerns about his conduct. In an October 2025 letter to the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Warren focu...

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...

Katie Phang is opposing Attorney General Todd Blanche’s request to partially stay a September 16 enforcement order requiring the Justice Department to begin reviewing and producing foreign-language materials potentially covered by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Phang’s filing argues that Blanche has already ignored the underlying June 25 preliminary injunction for nearly three months, includi...

Katie Phang is opposing Attorney General Todd Blanche’s request to partially stay a September 16 enforcement order requiring the Justice Department to begin reviewing and producing foreign-language materials potentially covered by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Phang’s filing argues that Blanche has already ignored the underlying June 25 preliminary injunction for nearly three months, includi...

Newly released records show that Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a surprisingly deep relationship with the emerging cryptocurrency world years after his 2008 conviction, positioning himself as an investor, connector and adviser while Bitcoin and other digital assets were still in their infancy. The records detail his dealings with crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce, who introduced Epstein to early invest...

Newly released records show that Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a surprisingly deep relationship with the emerging cryptocurrency world years after his 2008 conviction, positioning himself as an investor, connector and adviser while Bitcoin and other digital assets were still in their infancy. The records detail his dealings with crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce, who introduced Epstein to early invest...

Epstein survivors say the financial consequences of the abuse have continued long after their encounters with Jeffrey Epstein ended, affecting their ability to work, obtain medical treatment and maintain financial stability. Survivors described paying significant out-of-pocket costs for therapy, physical rehabilitation and other health care while also losing income because of trauma, advocacy work...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate drew criticism almost from the moment Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn took control of it because the two men were not neutral outsiders but longtime members of Epstein’s financial and legal inner circle. They inherited responsibility for administering an estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars while also responding to lawsuits, government scrutiny and demands from surv...

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...