The Vault: The Epstein Files

Julia Molchanova, a Russian woman who met Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2011 when she was 22, described how he drew her into what she later called a “cult”-like system of control by exploiting her ambitions and vulnerabilities. Epstein initially promised to help her pursue fashion design and attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, paid for classes and helped her move to New York, but the prom...

Prince Andrew was warned before he ever sat down with BBC Newsnight that the interview could do far more damage than good. His public-relations adviser Jason Stein reportedly urged him not to participate, favoring a slower strategy designed to rehabilitate Andrew’s image without subjecting him to a lengthy, unscripted interrogation about Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre. Stein’s advice was ign...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal troubles have steadily consumed the fortune and lifestyle that once placed her among the wealthy and well-connected circles surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. Years of civil litigation were already generating enormous legal bills before her 2020 arrest, and Maxwell had previously sought reimbursement from Epstein’s estate for expenses she said she incurred because of allegation...

Jeffrey Epstein’s control over the girls and young women he exploited went far beyond the abuse itself. Survivor accounts and court records describe a system in which Epstein gathered intimate information about their families, finances, ambitions, relationships, immigration problems, insecurities and personal crises, then used those vulnerabilities as leverage. In that sense, the information funct...

The House Oversight Committee’s Epstein investigation is about to hit the one-year mark, and according to Politico, there is no real sign that the probe is winding down. The central point is that, even without a single clean “smoking gun,” the investigation has developed too much political gravity to simply disappear. The committee remains under pressure to keep digging into Epstein’s network, his...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has reportedly been left feeling increasingly isolated after being excluded entirely from this year’s Order of the Garter ceremony at Windsor Castle. Andrew had participated in the event in previous years and attended its private pre-ceremony lunch as recently as last year, but his removal from the order meant he was absent from every part of the 2026 observance. A sourc...

The Lori Vallow case provides a stark test of the argument that severe mental illness should, by itself, substantially diminish or erase criminal responsibility for the killing of children. Vallow embraced an elaborate delusional worldview involving zombies, dark spirits, apocalyptic prophecy and supernatural classifications of the people around her, including her own children. If the mere existen...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

New Mexico state Rep. Andrea Romero, the Democratic chair of the state’s Epstein Survivors Truth Commission, is facing growing calls to step aside amid an ethics controversy involving her outside employment and the commission’s own resources. Republican lawmakers questioned whether Romero violated state law by simultaneously serving in the Legislature and holding a paid part-time position with the...

A new ABC documentary revisits Jeffrey Epstein’s August 2019 death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and gives substantial attention to people who reject or question the official ruling of suicide by hanging. Epstein lawyer David Schoen said Epstein had denied trying to kill himself during the earlier July 2019 incident that landed him on suicide watch, claiming instead that a cellmate had p...

Dani Bensky, who says Jeffrey Epstein abused her beginning when she was 17, described the Epstein case as a spectacular institutional failure by the United States, arguing that the government has repeatedly failed survivors while allowing powerful people around Epstein to escape meaningful scrutiny. Bensky said Epstein initially manipulated her through her dream of becoming a professional ballet d...

Jes Staley’s fall from the highest levels of global banking was extraordinary because so much of it ultimately traced back to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Staley spent decades climbing through JPMorgan, eventually running its investment bank and becoming one of Wall Street’s most powerful executives before taking over as chief executive of Barclays in 2015. But Epstein followed him into...

One important feature of the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program and related estate settlements was that accepting money from Epstein’s estate did not necessarily mean a survivor had surrendered every possible claim against every person in Epstein’s orbit. The releases were broad when it came to Epstein, his estate and specified related entities and individuals, but courts later examined whether...

The U.S. Virgin Islands’ lawsuit against JPMorgan was unusually aggressive because it did not merely accuse the bank of missing warning signs around Jeffrey Epstein; it accused JPMorgan of knowingly becoming part of the infrastructure that allowed his trafficking operation to function. The territory alleged that the bank continued serving Epstein for years despite repeated red flags, suspicious ca...

Bill Barr’s closed-door appearance before the House Oversight Committee was less an act of revelation and more of carefully dosed denial and damage control. While he acknowledged Epstein’s death resulted from a “perfect storm of screw-ups,” he denied awareness of missing surveillance footage or any so-called “client list” of associates. And despite widespread media focus on camera blind spots and...

Sources Reported in March 2022 that then-Prince Charles was prepared to provide most of the money Prince Andrew needed to complete his settlement with Virginia Giuffre, who had sued Andrew in New York alleging that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked her to him for sex when she was 17. According to the report, Charles was expected to lend Andrew as much as £7 million, with Queen Eliza...

Judge Tony Graf’s newly published written order explains why Tyler Robinson will stand trial on all seven charges in the killing of Charlie Kirk and why prosecutors can continue pursuing the death penalty. The key issue on the capital aggravated-murder count was whether the evidence established probable cause that Robinson knowingly created a “great risk of death” to someone other than Kirk. Graf...

Judge Tony Graf’s newly published written order explains why Tyler Robinson will stand trial on all seven charges in the killing of Charlie Kirk and why prosecutors can continue pursuing the death penalty. The key issue on the capital aggravated-murder count was whether the evidence established probable cause that Robinson knowingly created a “great risk of death” to someone other than Kirk. Graf...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

In the case of Doe v. Black (Case No. 1:23-cv-06418), defendant Leon Black has filed a reply memorandum supporting his motion to amend the case caption to reveal the plaintiff's identity. Black argues that the plaintiff's use of a pseudonym is unwarranted, emphasizing the public's right to access judicial proceedings and the importance of transparency. He contends that disclosing the plaintiff's n...

In the case of Doe v. Black (Case No. 1:23-cv-06418), defendant Leon Black has filed a reply memorandum supporting his motion to amend the case caption to reveal the plaintiff's identity. Black argues that the plaintiff's use of a pseudonym is unwarranted, emphasizing the public's right to access judicial proceedings and the importance of transparency. He contends that disclosing the plaintiff's n...

Jes Staley was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most important advocates inside JPMorgan, and the record showed that he repeatedly used his standing at the bank to defend a client who was already generating serious internal concern. Staley had a close personal relationship with Epstein, exchanged hundreds of messages with him, visited his properties and continued associating with him after Epstein’s 2008...

The U.S. Virgin Islands’ lawsuit against JPMorgan carried an obvious element of hypocrisy because the territory accused the bank of many of the same failures Epstein survivors later alleged against the USVI itself. In its case against JPMorgan, the territorial government argued that the bank had knowingly or negligently enabled Epstein’s trafficking operation by continuing to provide financial ser...