The Epstein Chronicles

A new round of records from Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell was set to become public after Judge Loretta Preska rejected Maxwell’s latest attempt to keep the material sealed. Giuffre had sued Maxwell after Maxwell publicly accused her of lying about being sexually trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and others, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The case eventuall...

The legal battle between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell began in 2015 after Maxwell publicly rejected Giuffre’s allegations about Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking operation and characterized her claims as lies. Giuffre responded by suing Maxwell for defamation in federal court in New York, arguing that Maxwell had damaged her reputation by portraying her as dishonest after Giuffre acc...

The New York Times’ history with Jeffrey Epstein was uneven in a way that became increasingly difficult to ignore as the full scale of the scandal emerged. For years, Epstein moved comfortably through the worlds the Times covered most aggressively: Wall Street, philanthropy, academia, science, politics and New York high society. Yet the newspaper was not the institution that originally broke open...

During the 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys attempted to turn the discovery process against Giuffre by asking the federal court to sanction her under Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Maxwell argued that Giuffre had failed to comply fully and promptly with discovery obligations and with an earlier court order, including requirem...

In a scathing 31-page ruling, Judge Paul Engelmayer rebuffed the Trump administration’s push to unseal grand jury transcripts in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s key enablers. He asserted that the DOJ’s argument—that the transcripts would shed “meaningful new information” about Epstein’s or Maxwell’s crimes—was "demonstrably false" and that anyone expecting revelatory d...

Circuit Judge Donald W. Hafele was the trial-level judge in Palm Beach County who repeatedly denied efforts to unseal the secret grand jury transcripts from the 2006 grand jury that investigated Jeffrey Epstein in Florida. When media organizations such as The Palm Beach Post and others petitioned the court to release the secret testimony that might explain why Epstein received a lenient plea deal,...

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...

The State’s amended supplemental expert disclosures laid out, in far greater detail, how prosecutors planned to present the forensic case against Bryan Kohberger. The disclosures covered crime-scene processing, latent prints, DNA testing, touch-DNA transfer, toxicology, historical cell-site analysis and bloodstain-pattern reconstruction. Prosecutors said an FBI cellular expert would testify that K...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

Leon Black’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein exposed just how deeply the worlds of high finance, elite philanthropy, and blue-chip art could overlap without much meaningful scrutiny. Black, the billionaire cofounder of Apollo Global Management and one of the most powerful private collectors in the world, paid Epstein roughly $170 million over six years for financial and tax-related services, eve...

Leon Black’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein exposed just how deeply the worlds of high finance, elite philanthropy, and blue-chip art could overlap without much meaningful scrutiny. Black, the billionaire cofounder of Apollo Global Management and one of the most powerful private collectors in the world, paid Epstein roughly $170 million over six years for financial and tax-related services, eve...

Former Playboy Playmate Audra Lynn Christiansen said Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted and trafficked her after she entered his orbit in 2004, describing an experience that she said eventually led her to seek help from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Christiansen, Playboy’s Miss October 2003, said she had been living at the Playboy Mansion when she became connected with Epstein and alleged that she...

Jean-Luc Brunel and Prince Andrew were two of the most prominent figures in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit to come under formal law-enforcement scrutiny as authorities continued examining the network surrounding Epstein. In France, prosecutors opened an investigation in 2019 into allegations involving rape, sexual assault of minors and criminal conspiracy, with Brunel becoming a major focus because of hi...

The nearly six-hour congressional interview focused on why Bill Gates continued meeting with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein's 2008 conviction, what Gates knew about Epstein's conduct, and whether Epstein attempted to gain leverage over him. Gates testified that he met Epstein roughly 12 to 14 times between 2011 and 2014, saying he believed Epstein could help attract major philanthropic donations to...

The nearly six-hour congressional interview focused on why Bill Gates continued meeting with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein's 2008 conviction, what Gates knew about Epstein's conduct, and whether Epstein attempted to gain leverage over him. Gates testified that he met Epstein roughly 12 to 14 times between 2011 and 2014, saying he believed Epstein could help attract major philanthropic donations to...

Glenn Dubin is a billionaire hedge fund manager and major figure in New York’s high society whose long, troubling relationship with Jeffrey Epstein went far beyond casual acquaintance. Even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for sex crimes involving a minor, Dubin — along with his wife, Eva Andersson-Dubin — kept him close, inviting him into their home, allowing him to spend holidays like Thanksgivin...

Glenn Dubin is a billionaire hedge fund manager and major figure in New York’s high society whose long, troubling relationship with Jeffrey Epstein went far beyond casual acquaintance. Even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for sex crimes involving a minor, Dubin — along with his wife, Eva Andersson-Dubin — kept him close, inviting him into their home, allowing him to spend holidays like Thanksgivin...

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...

A newly unsealed neuropsychological evaluation revealed that Bryan Kohberger had been diagnosed with four conditions during an assessment conducted for his defense in February 2025: Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, or ARFID. Defense neuropsychologist Rachel Lawson Orr evaluated K...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

Cami Clark, the wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, came under scrutiny after previously undisclosed correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein surfaced showing that she had approached him about investing in an adult-content business she was trying to build. The emails dated back to the early 2010s, years after Epstein had pleaded guilty in Florida to charges involving a minor. Clark’s venture was pitche...

Newly released FBI records showed that Sarah Ferguson attempted to pass the contact information of Lady Victoria Hervey, a former girlfriend and longtime defender of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, to FBI Director Kash Patel in March 2025. According to an email from FBI legal attaché David Walker, Ferguson had reached out believing Patel wanted Hervey’s contact details. Patel responded by asking who H...

As more context to our previous episode examining just how many opportunities authorities had to intervene against Jeffrey Epstein, an amended lawsuit brought by 32 Epstein survivors added another extraordinary allegation to the timeline. According to the complaint, former Playboy Playmate Audra Lynn Christiansen told Hugh Hefner in 2005 that Epstein had raped and trafficked her, and that she had...