The Vault: The Epstein Files

Bryan Kohberger’s family publicly backed his effort to undo the guilty plea that resulted in four consecutive life sentences for the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. In a statement to ABC News, the family said its support did not come from disregard for the victims or their families, but from a desire to see what it called the “complete and unvarnished tr...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as...

Two women identified in court papers as Jane Doe and Amy filed a proposed federal class-action lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, alleging that their photographs were among a large collection of child sexual abuse material found in Epstein’s possession. The lawsuit claims Epstein and unnamed co-conspirators maintained a “modeling book” containing nude or partially nude sexualized images of...

Congress escalated its confrontation with Leon Black on September 16, 2026, when the House voted by unanimous consent to hold the billionaire former Apollo CEO in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The House Oversight Committee had demanded that Black produce nondisclosure agreements in his possession, including any that r...

British investigators were continuing to expand their examination of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by reaching out to current and former royal protection officers who may have witnessed relevant conduct while assigned to him. The Metropolitan Police said officers were being asked to consider whether anything they “saw or heard” during their service could assist ong...

Palm Beach Police Detective Michelle Pagan’s interview with the 14-year-old girl who became the first known complainant in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation provided the account that effectively opened the case. The teenager told Pagan that an older girl had offered her an easy way to make a few hundred dollars by giving a massage to a wealthy man in Palm Beach. She was taken to Epstein’s mansion,...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate claimed in late 2020 and early 2021 that it was running into a serious liquidity problem even though Epstein had died with hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. The executors, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, argued that much of the estate’s wealth was tied up in real estate, aircraft, investments and other property that could not simply be converted to cash overnight,...

A former Epstein assistant identified as “Anya” describes how she was drawn into his orbit through a modeling contact in Paris and promises that he could advance her career. Instead, she says Epstein gradually built what she calls an “ecosystem of abuse,” housing roughly a dozen female assistants, controlling their money, healthcare and employment, demanding constant availability and repeatedly se...

Andrew Brettler built a reputation as one of Hollywood’s go-to attorneys for famous men facing explosive allegations, representing clients including Armie Hammer, Chris Noth, Danny Masterson, Bryan Singer and Prince Andrew. Brettler told Variety that he strongly believed in due process and the principle that everyone was entitled to legal representation, regardless of how badly a client had alread...

In October 2021, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Donald Hafele indicated that he was inclined to release the secret transcripts from the 2006 grand jury investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, records that could help explain how an investigation involving numerous teenage girls ultimately produced only a single felony solicitation charge. The Palm Beach Post had sued for access after its investigation r...

Charlie Kirk’s family took the first formal step toward a wrongful-death lawsuit against Utah officials, alleging that a series of security failures at Utah Valley University left him vulnerable to the rooftop gunman who killed him on September 10, 2025. The notice of claim, filed by Kirk’s widow Erika and his parents, accused UVU, its former president Astrid Tuminez, campus police chief Jeffrey L...

North Idaho investigators said they were “deeply troubled” after true-crime content creators claimed they had obtained unredacted crime-scene photographs showing the bodies and wounds of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin and were preparing to publish them online. A YouTube creator from the BronxTails True Crime channel said she had access to unredacted images and sugg...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as...

Hillary Clinton’s February 26, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee centered on how much she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton’s relationship with them. Clinton repeatedly testified that she had never met Epstein, never flew on his plane, never visited Little St. James and knew nothing about his crimes before they became public. She described Maxwell as...

The House Oversight Committee voted unanimously, 41-0, to recommend that billionaire financier Leon Black be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to fully comply with subpoenas issued as part of its Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Chairman James Comer said Black’s testimony was important because of his long relationship with Epstein during the period when Epstein was engaged in sex trafficking...

The congressional depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton expose a broader problem with the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein: lawmakers appear to apply different levels of scrutiny depending on the political identity of the witness. Democratic members repeatedly characterize the Clinton depositions as political theater and spend significant portions of their public messaging attacking Repu...

The congressional depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton expose a broader problem with the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein: lawmakers appear to apply different levels of scrutiny depending on the political identity of the witness. Democratic members repeatedly characterize the Clinton depositions as political theater and spend significant portions of their public messaging attacking Repu...

In his August 2021 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Bill Gates described his association with Jeffrey Epstein as a serious mistake and said the relationship grew out of Epstein’s claims that he could help raise enormous sums of money for global-health philanthropy. Gates said he had “several dinners” with Epstein after first meeting him in 2011, despite Epstein already having been convicted o...

Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the Dubin family remains one of the more difficult relationships in his orbit to fully explain because it was unusually deep, long-running and resilient even after his crimes were publicly known. Eva Andersson-Dubin had dated Epstein years before marrying hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, but Epstein remained close to the family long afterward. Flight records...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s motion for attorney–client and work product protection in her lawsuit with Virginia Roberts Giuffre sought to shield a wide range of documents and communications from disclosure during discovery. Maxwell argued that certain materials requested by Giuffre were protected because they reflected legal strategy, attorney communications, or preparations made in anticipation of litiga...

Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach footprint went beyond the notorious mansion on El Brillo Way. As reported by the Daily Mail, he also owned a peculiar $1 million property nearby that baffled neighbors and investigators alike. Unlike a normal residence, this smaller house featured a swimming pool and several bathrooms but no bedrooms at all, raising questions about what it was actually used for. Its pr...

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...

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...

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...