The Epstein Chronicles

Bill Barr said publicly that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, but he also described the failures at the Metropolitan Correctional Center as extraordinary and unacceptable. Immediately after Epstein’s death on August 10, 2019, Barr said he was “appalled” and that the death raised “serious questions that must be answered.” Two days later, he said he was angry about the jail’s failure to properly sec...

In April 1981, Jeffrey Epstein testified before the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an inquiry involving trading in St. Joe Minerals securities. Epstein described himself as a limited partner and account executive at Bear Stearns who assisted the sales force with commodities and financial-futures recommendations. The questioning focused heavily on his recent departure from the firm,...

Leon Black used his appearance before the House Oversight Committee to defend his long-running relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and explain the extraordinary $158 million he paid him between 2013 and 2017. Black maintained that the money purchased legitimate tax, estate-planning and family-office services that allegedly saved him between $1 billion and $2 billion. He said Epstein deceived him abo...

Jes Staley told Congress that he warned JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon about Jeffrey Epstein’s legal troubles in both 2006 and 2008, directly contradicting Dimon’s sworn claim that he did not learn Epstein was a bank client until 2019. Staley said the two men discussed the investigations into Epstein and his continued relationship with JPMorgan, placing Dimon much closer to the bank’s handli...

An independent investigation commissioned by the Interlochen Center for the Arts documented approximately 70 firsthand accounts of alleged sexual misconduct by adults affiliated with the prestigious Michigan arts school and summer camp. Investigators conducted about 180 interviews and identified 47 accused individuals, including faculty members, teachers, residence staff, donors, trustees and visi...

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...

Katie Phang’s lawyers asked Judge Emmet Sullivan to reject Todd Blanche’s latest attempt to postpone production of the administrative record in her lawsuit, arguing that DOJ had once again waited until the last possible moment to avoid a court-ordered deadline. The filing noted that Sullivan had already ordered Blanche to file a certified index of the administrative record by October 1 and produce...

Katie Phang’s lawyers asked Judge Emmet Sullivan to reject Todd Blanche’s latest attempt to postpone production of the administrative record in her lawsuit, arguing that DOJ had once again waited until the last possible moment to avoid a court-ordered deadline. The filing noted that Sullivan had already ordered Blanche to file a certified index of the administrative record by October 1 and produce...

Jeffrey Epstein survivor Annie Farmer has joined the campaign to remove Les Wexner’s name from buildings at Ohio State University, aligning herself with survivors of former OSU team doctor Richard Strauss, who sexually abused hundreds of students. Farmer argued that the continued presence of Wexner’s name on university facilities is especially troubling given his long relationship with Epstein and...

A London High Court judge ruled that the search warrants used by Thames Valley Police to raid the homes of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, were unlawful because police sought them under the wrong section of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. The warrants were executed in February 2026 after Andrew was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office tied to his relations...

Reps. Jamie Raskin and Madeleine Dean are demanding that Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel open a federal investigation into former Bard College president Leon Botstein after congressional investigators uncovered communications they say raise serious questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and a young woman Epstein was allegedly trafficking in 2014. The center...

Brice Gordon and his wife, Karen Gordon, were the longtime caretakers and property managers of Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, where they handled the day-to-day operation of the sprawling estate. Brice Gordon told the FBI in 2007 that he had been working at the ranch for roughly four years and that the property typically employed five or six full-time workers along with seasonal staff...

Federal prosecutors built the case against Ghislaine Maxwell by combining survivor testimony with documentary evidence, travel records, household records and testimony from people who had seen how Jeffrey Epstein’s operation worked. The government’s central theory was that Maxwell was not merely present around Epstein, but actively helped recruit, groom and normalize the abuse of underage girls by...

The U.S. Virgin Islands brought a sweeping civil case against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and related entities under the territory’s Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, arguing that Epstein had used a network of companies, properties and financial arrangements in the Virgin Islands to facilitate and conceal years of sex trafficking and abuse. The lawsuit alleged that Epstein’s operat...

In 2020, journalist Leland Nally undertook one of the most exhaustive attempts to penetrate Jeffrey Epstein’s social network by calling every person listed in Epstein’s 97-page “little black book.” Nally made close to 2,000 phone calls, reaching out to billionaires, bankers, CEOs, scientists, celebrities, models, politicians and people who had been personally close to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell...

Mother Jones filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons after the BOP stonewalled basic questions surrounding Ghislaine Maxwell’s abrupt and unusually opaque transfer following her conviction. The magazine sought records explaining why Maxwell was moved, who authorized it, what security assessments were conducted, and whether any deviations from standard BOP transfer protocols occurred. In...

Day three of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused largely on what happened after Robinson turned himself in following the killing of Charlie Kirk. Utah State Bureau of Investigation agent Brian Davis testified that he was sent to St. George after authorities learned that a man was preparing to surrender in connection with the shooting. Davis said Robinson arrived at the Washington County S...

A Jane Doe plaintiff sued Cornell University, the Chi Phi fraternity and its national organizations, Tri Delta and its related entities, Moonies Bar & Nightclub, seven Cornell students and several other defendants over an alleged sexual assault at the Chi Phi house in October 2024. According to the complaint, Doe was a 20-year-old Cornell student and Tri Delta member who became heavily intoxic...

Darren Indyke’s March 19, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee offered one of the clearest looks yet at how Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime lawyer described his own role inside Epstein’s operation. Indyke, who represented Epstein for roughly two decades, participated at least loosely in his Florida defense team, assisted with his sex-offender registration litigation, handled real-estate...

Darren Indyke’s March 19, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee offered one of the clearest looks yet at how Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime lawyer described his own role inside Epstein’s operation. Indyke, who represented Epstein for roughly two decades, participated at least loosely in his Florida defense team, assisted with his sex-offender registration litigation, handled real-estate...

Dr. Michael Freeman, a professor of forensic medicine and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, concluded after reviewing Jeffrey Epstein’s full autopsy materials that the injuries documented on Epstein’s body were far more consistent with homicide than suicide. Freeman was given access to the medical examiner’s file and unreleased autopsy photographs by Epstein’s brother,...

Leon Botstein resigned from all of his remaining positions at Bard College after House Judiciary Committee Democrats called for a criminal investigation into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The latest scrutiny centered on a 2014 email that lawmakers Jamie Raskin and Madeleine Dean said was sent from Botstein’s Bard email account to Epstein concerning a young foreign model and aspiring singe...

Prince Andrew’s decision to challenge Thames Valley Police over the legality of search warrants used during raids on his properties was described as an extraordinary and risky legal strategy. Andrew was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office over allegations that he shared sensitive information with Jeffrey Epstein while serving as the United Kingdom’s trade envoy. He has...

The Jeffrey Epstein story has always been defined as much by failures of accountability as by the crimes themselves. In Florida, investigators developed extensive evidence that Epstein had sexually abused underage girls, yet the federal investigation ended with an extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement that allowed him to avoid federal charges, protected unnamed potential co-conspirators and...