The Epstein Chronicles

Before Jeffrey Epstein received his extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement, federal prosecutors in South Florida had prepared a sweeping case against him that could have resulted in dozens of federal charges involving the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña prepared an 82-page prosecution memorandum laying out the evidence, potential defense...

Before Jeffrey Epstein received his extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement, federal prosecutors in South Florida had prepared a sweeping case against him that could have resulted in dozens of federal charges involving the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña prepared an 82-page prosecution memorandum laying out the evidence, potential defense...

Jeffrey Epstein’s work-release arrangement in Palm Beach County allowed him extraordinary freedom while he was supposedly serving a jail sentence for sex offenses, including long workdays at the Florida Science Foundation, private transportation, home visits, an unlocked cell, and privately funded sheriff’s deputies assigned to his security. Women later alleged that Epstein continued engaging in s...

Jeffrey Epstein’s work-release arrangement in Palm Beach County allowed him extraordinary freedom while he was supposedly serving a jail sentence for sex offenses, including long workdays at the Florida Science Foundation, private transportation, home visits, an unlocked cell, and privately funded sheriff’s deputies assigned to his security. Women later alleged that Epstein continued engaging in s...

As Florida attorney general, Ashley Moody opened an investigation in August 2019 into the Palm Beach County work-release arrangement that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to leave jail for up to 16 hours a day while serving his sentence. Within days, Moody said her office could find no judicial order authorizing that work release, yet the investigation dragged on for nearly two years and ultimately conclud...

Ghislaine Maxwell tried to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn her conviction by arguing that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement in Florida should also have protected her from being prosecuted years later in New York. Her lawyers contended that the agreement’s promise not to prosecute Epstein’s “potential co-conspirators” bound the federal government beyond South Florida and...

People like Jeffrey Epstein can use a broad mix of assets and financial structures to make wealth harder to trace, value, or connect to a single beneficial owner. Real estate is especially useful because properties can be held through LLCs, trusts, partnerships, or offshore entities rather than directly in an individual’s name, while luxury homes can also serve as repositories of enormous value. H...

The hypocrisy surrounding the U.S. Virgin Islands and Jeffrey Epstein came from the enormous gap between how territorial officials later presented themselves and what survivors alleged had happened while Epstein was alive. After his 2019 arrest and death, the USVI government aggressively pursued Epstein’s estate, JPMorgan and others, portraying the territory as a victim of his trafficking enterpri...

Jeffrey Epstein’s early financial career is cloaked in mystery, with only fragments of fact piercing through layers of rumor and myth. After leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, he founded Intercontinental Assets Group Inc., a consulting firm where he claimed to “recover stolen money for wealthy clients.” What exactly that meant was never made clear, but the business quickly drew speculation that Epstein...

Jeffrey Epstein’s early financial career is cloaked in mystery, with only fragments of fact piercing through layers of rumor and myth. After leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, he founded Intercontinental Assets Group Inc., a consulting firm where he claimed to “recover stolen money for wealthy clients.” What exactly that meant was never made clear, but the business quickly drew speculation that Epstein...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

Before Jeffrey Epstein received his extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement, federal prosecutors in South Florida had prepared a sweeping case against him that could have resulted in dozens of federal charges involving the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña prepared an 82-page prosecution memorandum laying out the evidence, potential defense...

Before Jeffrey Epstein received his extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement, federal prosecutors in South Florida had prepared a sweeping case against him that could have resulted in dozens of federal charges involving the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña prepared an 82-page prosecution memorandum laying out the evidence, potential defense...

The document is a May 3, 2026 Touhy request from the New Mexico Department of Justice seeking access to unredacted and unreleased federal records connected to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Zorro Ranch. New Mexico said it reopened its investigation in February 2026 after DOJ released redacted Epstein materials that, for the first time, gave state investigators a clearer picture of what may...

Outrage erupted after video from a Donald Trump campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, showed a male supporter assaulting a female protester who was wearing a “Release the Epstein Files” shirt. The footage showed the man shoving her, pulling her hair, striking her in the face and trying to force her toward the ground as people nearby reacted. Law enforcement eventually intervened and escorted the wom...

Now that the Epstein issue has become a mainstream political weapon, voters should be extremely cautious about politicians who suddenly present themselves as champions of transparency after years of institutional silence and indifference. Jeffrey Epstein was protected by failures that crossed party lines, agencies, financial institutions, universities, prosecutors, lawyers, and elite social circle...

Jeffrey Epstein was enabled by a wide network of powerful people across politics, academia, philanthropy, law, business and high society, but the most consequential relationships were arguably the ones that gave him access to money, legitimacy and the financial machinery necessary to sustain his operation. Wealthy patrons, bankers, money managers and executives did more than decorate Epstein’s soc...

Prince Andrew settled Virginia Giuffre’s civil sexual-abuse lawsuit in February 2022, avoiding a trial that would have forced him to answer detailed questions under oath about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Giuffre. The settlement came after Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Andrew’s attempt to have the case dismissed, leaving him facing discovery, depositions and the possi...

Alex Acosta was the U.S. attorney whose office signed off on Jeffrey Epstein’s extraordinarily favorable 2007 non-prosecution agreement, so his name became permanently attached to the deal. But treating the NPA as if it were merely the work of one local prosecutor ignores how consequential and unusual the agreement was. It resolved a potential federal sex-crimes case involving multiple alleged vic...

In the report dated January 22, 2021, Dechert reviewed over 60,000 documents and interviewed more than 20 witnesses to examine Black’s social and business ties to Epstein, including payments, introductions, and services rendered. It concluded that there was no evidence that Black or his affiliates were involved in Epstein’s criminal activities, or that Epstein introduced Black to any under-age wom...

The renewed release of information surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s network has highlighted a striking shift among groups that previously positioned themselves as vocal crusaders against child exploitation and elite corruption. During the height of Epstein’s second arrest in 2019, many of the loudest online voices—particularly those aligned with the QAnon movement—used Epstein’s case as a rallying po...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

Before Jeffrey Epstein received his extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement, federal prosecutors in South Florida had prepared a sweeping case against him that could have resulted in dozens of federal charges involving the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña prepared an 82-page prosecution memorandum laying out the evidence, potential defense...