The Vault: The Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with George Mitchell, Frédéric Fekkai and Marvin Minsky showed how deeply his network reached into politics, luxury services and academia. Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell appeared in Epstein-related records and was accused by Virginia Giuffre of being one of the powerful men she said Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell directed her to have sex with while she...

Trump’s election-integrity speech exposed a glaring double standard in how his administration treats government records. When FBI, CIA, or intelligence-community files appear to support his claims about election fraud, he presents them as authoritative proof of a hidden conspiracy and demands that the public trust their contents. Yet when the Epstein record raises uncomfortable questions about pow...

Trump’s election-integrity speech exposed a glaring double standard in how his administration treats government records. When FBI, CIA, or intelligence-community files appear to support his claims about election fraud, he presents them as authoritative proof of a hidden conspiracy and demands that the public trust their contents. Yet when the Epstein record raises uncomfortable questions about pow...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recover...

Ghislaine Maxwell asks the court to sanction Virginia Giuffre, formerly Virginia Roberts, under Rules 37(b) and 37(c), accusing her of repeatedly failing to comply with discovery obligations in their defamation lawsuit. Maxwell argues that Giuffre violated an April 2016 court order requiring her to identify every health-care provider who treated her since 1999 and produce the corresponding medical...

Ghislaine Maxwell asks the court to sanction Virginia Giuffre, formerly Virginia Roberts, under Rules 37(b) and 37(c), accusing her of repeatedly failing to comply with discovery obligations in their defamation lawsuit. Maxwell argues that Giuffre violated an April 2016 court order requiring her to identify every health-care provider who treated her since 1999 and produce the corresponding medical...

Ghislaine Maxwell asks the court to sanction Virginia Giuffre, formerly Virginia Roberts, under Rules 37(b) and 37(c), accusing her of repeatedly failing to comply with discovery obligations in their defamation lawsuit. Maxwell argues that Giuffre violated an April 2016 court order requiring her to identify every health-care provider who treated her since 1999 and produce the corresponding medical...

According to newly surfaced FBI records, a foreign hacker penetrated a server used by the FBI’s New York Child Exploitation Forensic Lab on Super Bowl Sunday in February 2023 and accessed material connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Special Agent Aaron Spivack later said in sworn statements that he discovered the intrusion after finding a message on the system saying the network had be...

A second push to force the release of additional Jeffrey Epstein records advanced in the House after Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna said they had secured enough commitments to bring the Epstein Files Transparency Act II to the floor through another discharge petition. The maneuver closely mirrored the strategy used to pass the original Epstein Files Transparency Act in 2025, when supporters byp...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was described by friends as effectively “living in limbo” while Thames Valley Police continued investigating allegations tied to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his former role as a British trade envoy. Andrew had moved from Royal Lodge to Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate after his February 2026 arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Although h...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate drew criticism almost from the moment Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn took control of it because the two men were not neutral outsiders but longtime members of Epstein’s financial and legal inner circle. They inherited responsibility for administering an estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars while also responding to lawsuits, government scrutiny and demands from surv...

Over the years, Jeffrey Epstein has been described in radically different ways depending on who was speaking and when. To some, he was a mysterious billionaire financier with powerful clients and an almost inexplicable fortune. To others, he was primarily a social climber who used wealth, access and famous friends to manufacture an image of importance. Former associates described him as a money ma...

Howard Lutnick’s public account of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has drawn scrutiny because key parts of it have not lined up neatly with the documentary record. Lutnick said that he and his wife essentially cut Epstein off in 2005 after a disturbing visit to Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, describing a moment when Epstein showed them his massage room and made comments that convinced Lutnic...

Jeffrey Epstein reportedly regarded Prince Andrew as useful precisely because Andrew’s royal status opened doors that Epstein could not have opened as easily on his own. Royal biographer Tina Brown wrote that Epstein confided to a friend that he viewed Andrew as an “idiot,” but a useful one, because traveling with the Duke of York gave Epstein access to governments, political leaders and business...

If the birthday message attributed to Donald Trump was truly forged, the absence of a publicly announced investigation into who created it is difficult to explain. Fabricating evidence to connect a sitting president to Jeffrey Epstein would be an extraordinary act with potentially serious criminal, political, and national-security implications. Investigators could examine the album’s chain of cust...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recover...

In the now-concluded civil case Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., the USVI sought a partial summary judgment before the case was settled, arguing that the evidence overwhelmingly showed JPMorgan knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The filing claimed that internal emails, compliance reports, and testimony proved the bank ignored repeat...

In the now-concluded civil case Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., the USVI sought a partial summary judgment before the case was settled, arguing that the evidence overwhelmingly showed JPMorgan knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The filing claimed that internal emails, compliance reports, and testimony proved the bank ignored repeat...

In the now-concluded civil case Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., the USVI sought a partial summary judgment before the case was settled, arguing that the evidence overwhelmingly showed JPMorgan knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The filing claimed that internal emails, compliance reports, and testimony proved the bank ignored repeat...

In the now-concluded civil case Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., the USVI sought a partial summary judgment before the case was settled, arguing that the evidence overwhelmingly showed JPMorgan knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The filing claimed that internal emails, compliance reports, and testimony proved the bank ignored repeat...

Questions about items removed from Jeffrey Epstein’s properties have persisted because records show that potentially important material was moved before investigators could fully examine it, raising concerns about what evidence may have disappeared from the official record. In Palm Beach, a private investigator working for Epstein’s defense team removed computers, address books, sexually explicit...

It strains credulity to believe that the world around Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell—filled with elite elites in finance, tech, entertainment, and fashion—was completely unaware of what was going on. For example, Ellen Pao, former Reddit CEO and one-time partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins, publicly stated that Maxwell was invited to a Silicon Valley holiday party in 2011 despite existi...

Money was the lifeblood of Jeffrey Epstein’s operation, and he became exceptionally skilled at making that money difficult to follow. He moved enormous sums through a maze of personal accounts, trusts, limited-liability companies, offshore entities and businesses with vague or shifting purposes, allowing money to be transferred, invested, withdrawn as cash and routed between associates without lea...

Bill and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly described their ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as limited, incidental or primarily connected to philanthropy, but the documentary record has shown a relationship that was broader and more sustained than those descriptions suggest. Bill Clinton acknowledged traveling on Epstein’s plane in 2002 and 2003 for Clinton Foundation-related work, whil...

After Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in December 2021, her legal team moved quickly when Juror 50, Scotty David, revealed in post-trial interviews that he had been sexually abused as a child and had discussed that experience during deliberations. The disclosure raised an immediate problem because the jury questionnaire had specifically asked prospective jurors whether they or close family members...