The Vault: The Epstein Files

An unnamed correctional officer assigned to the Receiving and Discharge unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York was interviewed by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General on July 15, 2021 as part of the federal investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein while in custody. The interview was formally recorded by OIG special agents, who identified themselves on the...

An unnamed correctional officer assigned to the Receiving and Discharge unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York was interviewed by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General on July 15, 2021 as part of the federal investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein while in custody. The interview was formally recorded by OIG special agents, who identified themselves on the...

An unnamed correctional officer assigned to the Receiving and Discharge unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York was interviewed by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General on July 15, 2021 as part of the federal investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein while in custody. The interview was formally recorded by OIG special agents, who identified themselves on the...

John Brockman, a prominent literary agent and founder of the Edge Foundation (a prestigious salon for scientists and thinkers), had longstanding ties to Epstein’s intellectual and social circle. Brockman’s Edge dinners, salons and invite-only events created a powerful “third culture” network of elite scientists, technologists, and wealthy patrons — and Epstein was deeply embedded in this milieu. B...

Senior executives at JPMorgan Chase continued to meet with Jeffrey Epstein years after the bank said it had cut him off as a client in 2013, according to reporting based on internal documents and people familiar with the matter. Bankers, including one named Justin Nelson, held about half a dozen meetings with Epstein at his Manhattan townhouse between 2014 and 2017, even though JPMorgan had formal...

Members of Congress continue to intensify their investigation into the handling and release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, with lawmakers from both parties increasingly framing the issue around justice for survivors and whether the Department of Justice deliberately narrowed the scope of accountability. The ongoing congressional inquiry has focused heavily on redactions, withheld materials, and the...

Mark Epstein is publicly challenging the authenticity of the newly unsealed handwritten note that was allegedly written by his brother Jeffrey Epstein following the July 2019 jail incident involving former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione. According to Mark Epstein, the language and phrasing in the note appear too similar to jokes and expressions Jeffrey previously used in old emails, particularly a...

The document is a detailed question-and-answer exchange regarding the DOJ Office of Inspector General’s review of the surveillance footage and investigative findings surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death inside the Special Housing Unit at MCC New York. The OIG repeatedly insists that the video they reviewed did not contain any “missing minute” or unexplained gap between 11:59 p.m. and 12:00 a.m., di...

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have long faced scrutiny over their connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, particularly because the relationship appeared far more substantial than later public denials suggested. Visitor logs and reporting over the years documented Epstein making numerous visits to the White House during the Clinton administration, with records showing at least 17 e...

Jeffrey Epstein appeared to gravitate toward a very specific category of scientist and intellectual during the later decades of his life: elite researchers working at the cutting edge of fields tied to human intelligence, genetics, artificial intelligence, physics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and transhumanist-style theories about the future of humanity. Epstein surrounded himself with pro...

Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn were not peripheral figures in Jeffrey Epstein’s world — they were deeply embedded in the infrastructure that kept his financial empire and personal operations running for decades. Indyke served as Epstein’s longtime attorney and handled a vast range of legal matters tied to Epstein’s businesses, trusts, real estate holdings, shell entities, and estate planning struc...

An unnamed correctional officer assigned to the Receiving and Discharge unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York was interviewed by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General on July 15, 2021 as part of the federal investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein while in custody. The interview was formally recorded by OIG special agents, who identified themselves on the...

An unnamed correctional officer assigned to the Receiving and Discharge unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York was interviewed by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General on July 15, 2021 as part of the federal investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein while in custody. The interview was formally recorded by OIG special agents, who identified themselves on the...

An unnamed correctional officer assigned to the Receiving and Discharge unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York was interviewed by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General on July 15, 2021 as part of the federal investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein while in custody. The interview was formally recorded by OIG special agents, who identified themselves on the...

An unnamed correctional officer assigned to the Receiving and Discharge unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York was interviewed by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General on July 15, 2021 as part of the federal investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein while in custody. The interview was formally recorded by OIG special agents, who identified themselves on the...

The Institutional Investor piece recounts how JPMorgan Chase faced intense scrutiny over its long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges when he died in 2019. Citing a New York Times investigation, the article explains that JPMorgan’s compliance staff had recommended ending Epstein’s accounts after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor, bu...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s vast rolodex of contacts was central to both her allure and her complicity. For decades she positioned herself as a high-society power broker, cultivating ties with royals, politicians, financiers, and celebrities. Investigative reports and newly surfaced Epstein emails—more than 18,000 in total—show her not just as a socialite but as a manager of Epstein’s operations, handling...

Dr. Michael Baden, a veteran forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother to oversee the autopsy, sharply criticized the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General’s (OIG) report, which affirmed the official finding that Epstein’s death was a suicide due to “negligence and misconduct” by prison staff. Baden called the report “ridiculous” and accused investigators of ignoring key foren...

Jeffrey Epstein’s death inside a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 ignited a chain of suspicion that has never faded, morphing into a narrative where suicide is never just suicide. From Epstein himself to Jean-Luc Brunel in Paris, to former White House aide Mark Middleton in Arkansas, to Deutsche Bank executives and even Ghislaine Maxwell’s father decades earlier, each sudden death has been folded into...

Mark Epstein has repeatedly portrayed his relationship with his brother Jeffrey Epstein as distant and strained in later interviews, but financial records, property dealings, and witness accounts have painted a far more interconnected picture. Over the years, the two brothers were involved in multiple shared business and financial arrangements, including property transfers and overlapping corporat...

Jeffrey Epstein was found injured inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York in July 2019 in what authorities quickly began treating as a possible suicide attempt. The incident immediately raised questions because of the conflicting explanations that emerged almost instantly. Epstein was discovered with marks on his neck, but the circumstances surrounding how those injurie...

Jeffrey Epstein spent years cultivating deep ties to Harvard University, embedding himself within elite academic circles despite his growing legal and reputational baggage. Through donations, personal relationships, and aggressive networking, Epstein positioned himself as a patron of science and intellectual research, surrounding himself with prominent professors, researchers, and institutional fi...

Jeffrey Epstein spent years cultivating deep ties to Harvard University, embedding himself within elite academic circles despite his growing legal and reputational baggage. Through donations, personal relationships, and aggressive networking, Epstein positioned himself as a patron of science and intellectual research, surrounding himself with prominent professors, researchers, and institutional fi...

The deposition of the unnamed MCC lieutenant reveals not just operational failures, but a striking level of evasiveness that runs throughout the testimony. When pressed on critical details—staffing levels, required inmate checks, chain of command responsibilities, and awareness of Epstein’s status—the lieutenant repeatedly falls back on vague answers, limited recollection, or an inability to provi...

The deposition of the unnamed MCC lieutenant reveals not just operational failures, but a striking level of evasiveness that runs throughout the testimony. When pressed on critical details—staffing levels, required inmate checks, chain of command responsibilities, and awareness of Epstein’s status—the lieutenant repeatedly falls back on vague answers, limited recollection, or an inability to provi...