The Vault: The Epstein Files

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red...

After Ghislaine Maxwell’s July 2020 arrest, members of her private security operation pushed back hard against the government’s portrayal of her as a fugitive deliberately hiding from law enforcement. Her security adviser, former British military man Matt Hellyer, later said Maxwell had been “the most hunted lady” in the United States and perhaps the world, explaining that his team constantly move...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers pushed for a sweeping gag order almost immediately after her 2020 arrest, asking Judge Alison Nathan to prohibit prosecutors, government agents and lawyers for potential witnesses from making public statements about the criminal case. The defense argued that the enormous publicity surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell threatened her ability to receive a fair trial bef...

The jury that convicted Ghislaine Maxwell in December 2021 spent several days deliberating after a monthlong federal trial and ultimately found her guilty on five of six counts, including sex trafficking of a minor and multiple conspiracy charges. Jurors repeatedly asked to review testimony and evidence as they worked through the case, including material connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s pilots and t...

Judge Jed Rakoff approved a $290 million settlement between JPMorgan Chase and Jeffrey Epstein's victims, emphasizing that the case sent a strong message to the financial industry about the responsibilities of banking institutions. The settlement, which did not require JPMorgan to admit liability, resolved claims that the bank ignored red flags to maintain Epstein as a client, benefiting from his...

Judge Jed Rakoff approved a $290 million settlement between JPMorgan Chase and Jeffrey Epstein's victims, emphasizing that the case sent a strong message to the financial industry about the responsibilities of banking institutions. The settlement, which did not require JPMorgan to admit liability, resolved claims that the bank ignored red flags to maintain Epstein as a client, benefiting from his...

In a Fox News appearance, Vice President J.D. Vance sought to shift focus away from the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case by accusing Democrats of inaction. He claimed that President Biden “did absolutely nothing” while in office and suggested Epstein had strong connections with left-wing political and financial figures—asserting that "Democrat billionaires and Democrat p...

Joseph Schnitt, a Department of Justice official, was recently caught in a sting operation by a James O’Keefe operative posing as a date on a dating app. During the secretly recorded meeting, Schnitt claimed the DOJ planned to redact Republican names from the Jeffrey Epstein files while leaving liberal names visible, fueling suspicions of political bias in the release of the documents. He also all...

Day one of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing on July 6, 2026, largely centered on prosecutors beginning to construct a timeline of Charlie Kirk’s killing at Utah Valley University and establishing the authenticity of the surveillance footage and investigative records they intended to use against Robinson. Former UVU police officer Chris Bagley described the moment the gunshot rang out during Ki...

On September 11, 2001, I was 21 years old and working at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, where crews had spent the previous day loading in the band 311 for a multi-day event. After working a 16-hour shift, I was asleep when my mother woke me to say that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. At first, I assumed it was a small aircraft and a tragic accident. That changed wh...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red...

The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) filed a motion opposing JPMorgan Chase's request to dismiss the lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI argues that JPMorgan played a crucial role in enabling and facilitating Epstein's illegal activities by maintaining his accounts and providing financial services, despite knowing about his criminal conduct. The motion asserts that the bank ignored numerous red...

French prosecutors said their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s network had identified additional people who may have acted as recruiters, expanding the inquiry beyond the figures already publicly associated with him. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau described the network as “labyrinthine” and said investigators were following dozens of different leads, including connections stretching from New Y...

The Trump administration continues to promote itself as historically transparent, but its handling of Jeffrey Epstein-related records is fueling renewed criticism as European authorities seek information for their own investigations. Officials in Poland, Norway, Latvia and Britain have pursued access to unredacted American records and investigative assistance tied to Epstein-related inquiries, whi...

The Trump administration continues to promote itself as historically transparent, but its handling of Jeffrey Epstein-related records is fueling renewed criticism as European authorities seek information for their own investigations. Officials in Poland, Norway, Latvia and Britain have pursued access to unredacted American records and investigative assistance tied to Epstein-related inquiries, whi...

The Epstein jail logs from his 2008-2009 sentence in Palm Beach County showed just how unusual his incarceration was and how much access he continued to have to people from his outside life. Epstein served less than 13 months of an 18-month sentence, and after only a few months he was allowed out on work release for as much as 12 hours a day, six days a week, later expanding to even longer hours....

The U.S. Virgin Islands treated Jeffrey Epstein’s flight records as an important piece of the effort to map how his trafficking operation functioned and who moved through it. In its litigation against JPMorgan, the USVI relied on pilot logs, passenger manifests and other aviation records to argue that Epstein regularly transported women and girls to the Virgin Islands and that the available logs w...

Before Ghislaine Maxwell purchased the secluded New Hampshire estate where she would later be arrested, she reportedly asked the real-estate broker an unusually specific question: what were the flight patterns over the property? The broker later recalled thinking the question was strange, especially because Maxwell was already going to extraordinary lengths to keep her identity out of the transact...

The third judge has now denied the Trump administration’s request to release Epstein’s grand jury documents, and while it’s being spun as a setback, the truth is the administration knew this was coming all along. Grand jury materials are sealed by design, and no court was going to break decades of precedent. The request was never about actually getting those documents—it was about making a move th...

Prince Andrew reportedly vacationed in Phuket, Thailand, with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001, during a period when Andrew’s relationship with Epstein was far closer than he would later publicly suggest. According to the reporting, Andrew stayed at the ultra-exclusive Amanpuri resort, where private villas could cost thousands of pounds per night, while Epstein and Maxwell were also i...

Utah County has already spent roughly $1.6 million on Tyler Robinson’s publicly funded defense in the year since he was charged with murdering Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, and the bill is expected to climb substantially as the death-penalty case moves toward trial. Because Robinson was found unable to afford his own attorneys, the county appointed an experienced capital-defense team led...

The State’s amended supplemental expert disclosure for Idaho State Police forensic scientist Tina Walthall outlined the latent-print testimony prosecutors expected to present in Bryan Kohberger’s case. Walthall was identified as a forensic science expert specializing in fingerprints and friction-ridge evidence, and the disclosure said she would explain how latent prints were deposited, developed,...

Seven women, including five Jane Does, Kersti Ferguson and Audra Christiansen, sued celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai, his company and employee Patrick Coombs, alleging that Fekkai’s salon became part of Jeffrey Epstein’s grooming and control system. The complaint portrayed Fekkai not as a peripheral acquaintance but as someone who allegedly benefited financially from Epstein while providing s...

Seven women, including five Jane Does, Kersti Ferguson and Audra Christiansen, sued celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai, his company and employee Patrick Coombs, alleging that Fekkai’s salon became part of Jeffrey Epstein’s grooming and control system. The complaint portrayed Fekkai not as a peripheral acquaintance but as someone who allegedly benefited financially from Epstein while providing s...

Law-enforcement agencies in at least five European countries reportedly said the U.S. Justice Department had failed to respond to formal requests for assistance as they pursued investigations stemming from the expanding Jeffrey Epstein record. Officials in Poland, Norway, Latvia, the United Kingdom and Germany told The Washington Post that they had sought help through mutual legal assistance reque...