The Vault: The Epstein Files

Author Michael Gross recalled spending a deeply unsettling day and night with Jean-Luc Brunel while researching his 1995 book about the modeling industry. Gross conducted one of the few lengthy interviews Brunel ever gave, questioning him about allegations that he sexually abused young models and about his cocaine use. Brunel denied the accusations and minimized his drug problem, but Gross said hi...

The affidavit submitted by attorney Bradley J. Edwards in the Southern District of Florida lays out a detailed argument for why the U.S. government should be compelled to produce documents related to the federal handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Edwards, representing Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2, explains that the requested records are essential to proving that federal prosecutors violate...

The affidavit submitted by attorney Bradley J. Edwards in the Southern District of Florida lays out a detailed argument for why the U.S. government should be compelled to produce documents related to the federal handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Edwards, representing Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2, explains that the requested records are essential to proving that federal prosecutors violate...

The probable-cause affidavit alleges that Tyler Robinson carried out the September 10, 2025 shooting of Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University. Investigators said campus surveillance tracked a dark-clothed suspect carrying a backpack as he moved toward the Losee Center, climbed onto its roof and took a prone position overlooking the courtyard shortly before Kirk was shot in the nec...

The probable-cause affidavit alleges that Tyler Robinson carried out the September 10, 2025 shooting of Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University. Investigators said campus surveillance tracked a dark-clothed suspect carrying a backpack as he moved toward the Losee Center, climbed onto its roof and took a prone position overlooking the courtyard shortly before Kirk was shot in the nec...

An external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation found that Jeffrey Epstein participated in roughly 30 meetings with Bill Gates and nine other foundation leaders and employees between 2011 and 2014. The meetings reportedly focused on philanthropic matters, including a proposed donor-advised fund, polio eradication strategy, donor introductions and Gates’s involvement with a nonprofit that l...

Former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has offered to assist the state’s renewed investigations into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, alleging that federal authorities effectively shut his office out of the case after he began investigating in 2019. Balderas said his team interviewed one survivor and was developing a potential first-degree criminal sexual penetration charge against Epste...

Jes Staley’s appearance before Congress centers on the collapse of his long-running effort to portray his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as distant, professional and misunderstood. The record suggests something far closer: years of communication, visits, continued contact after Epstein’s 2008 conviction and descriptions of the relationship that went well beyond ordinary banker-client business....

Doug Band told the House Oversight Committee that his personal contact with Jeffrey Epstein was limited, infrequent and largely incidental to his work as Bill Clinton’s longtime aide. He said he barely knew Epstein, did not recall receiving gifts from him and had no knowledge of Epstein’s abuse or other criminal conduct while they were acquainted. Band nevertheless described Epstein and Clinton as...

Doug Band told the House Oversight Committee that his personal contact with Jeffrey Epstein was limited, infrequent and largely incidental to his work as Bill Clinton’s longtime aide. He said he barely knew Epstein, did not recall receiving gifts from him and had no knowledge of Epstein’s abuse or other criminal conduct while they were acquainted. Band nevertheless described Epstein and Clinton as...

Jeffrey Epstein was allegedly continuing to abuse young women even while serving his Florida jail sentence and supposedly being monitored by state and local authorities. After pleading guilty in 2008, Epstein was granted an extraordinarily permissive work-release arrangement that allowed him to leave the Palm Beach County Stockade for as long as 12 hours a day, six days a week, and travel to an of...

Jeffrey Epstein’s extraordinary ability to evade meaningful consequences for years, despite mounting allegations, witness accounts and evidence of sexual abuse, helped fuel the belief that he may have been protected because of intelligence or government connections. The 2007–2008 non-prosecution agreement in Florida became the centerpiece of that suspicion: Epstein avoided federal charges, pleaded...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s 2021 inquiry examined whether Palm Beach County sheriff’s personnel committed crimes or acted corruptly while overseeing Jeffrey Epstein’s incarceration, work-release program and privately funded security detail. FDLE reviewed records from the sheriff’s office, courts, prosecutors, Palm Beach police and the Department of Corrections, while interviewing p...

The affidavit submitted by attorney Bradley J. Edwards in the Southern District of Florida lays out a detailed argument for why the U.S. government should be compelled to produce documents related to the federal handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Edwards, representing Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2, explains that the requested records are essential to proving that federal prosecutors violate...

The affidavit submitted by attorney Bradley J. Edwards in the Southern District of Florida lays out a detailed argument for why the U.S. government should be compelled to produce documents related to the federal handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Edwards, representing Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2, explains that the requested records are essential to proving that federal prosecutors violate...

The affidavit submitted by attorney Bradley J. Edwards in the Southern District of Florida lays out a detailed argument for why the U.S. government should be compelled to produce documents related to the federal handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Edwards, representing Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2, explains that the requested records are essential to proving that federal prosecutors violate...

The alleged confession to Lance Twiggs is among the strongest publicly available pieces of evidence because it is not presented as a vague secondhand rumor or an isolated statement stripped of context. Twiggs told investigators that Robinson sent messages accepting responsibility for Charlie Kirk’s killing, then confirmed the admission face-to-face the following day when Twiggs asked whether what...

Congress is asking whether Jeffrey Epstein was doing more than cultivating powerful international contacts and may have been acting as an unregistered intermediary for foreign governments. House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, say newly released communications show Epstein offering advice, access and influence to officials connected to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Russia and Isra...

Daniel Siad, a 69-year-old modeling scout extensively linked to Jeffrey Epstein in newly released records, was found dead Monday inside his home in Colombes, outside Paris. French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the cause of death and ordered an autopsy, although one report cited cardiac arrest. Siad had not yet been questioned by investigators examining allegations that he helped Ep...

Leon Black’s congressional testimony encapsulated the broader Epstein scandal because it combined immense wealth, legal maneuvering, institutional deference, and carefully controlled cooperation. Despite paying Epstein at least $158 million for tax and estate-planning services and continuing their relationship after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, Black was initially allowed to appear voluntarily rathe...

Doug Band told the House Oversight Committee that his personal contact with Jeffrey Epstein was limited, infrequent and largely incidental to his work as Bill Clinton’s longtime aide. He said he barely knew Epstein, did not recall receiving gifts from him and had no knowledge of Epstein’s abuse or other criminal conduct while they were acquainted. Band nevertheless described Epstein and Clinton as...

Doug Band told the House Oversight Committee that his personal contact with Jeffrey Epstein was limited, infrequent and largely incidental to his work as Bill Clinton’s longtime aide. He said he barely knew Epstein, did not recall receiving gifts from him and had no knowledge of Epstein’s abuse or other criminal conduct while they were acquainted. Band nevertheless described Epstein and Clinton as...

Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly attempted to portray herself as another casualty of Jeffrey Epstein, emphasizing his alleged manipulation, control and betrayal while highlighting the humiliation, isolation and punishment she had endured since her arrest. At sentencing, she shifted attention toward Epstein’s character and suggested that association with him had become the greatest mistake of her life,...

Jeffrey Epstein maintained close and mutually useful relationships with author Michael Wolff and political strategist Steve Bannon during the years after his 2008 conviction. Wolff conducted extensive interviews with Epstein and remained in contact with him while gathering material about Donald Trump, becoming both a chronicler of Epstein’s world and, at times, an adviser on how Epstein might navi...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s family has been the driving force behind the campaign to overturn her conviction and recast her as an innocent woman who was unfairly made to answer for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. Her siblings, particularly Ian, Kevin and Isabel Maxwell, have repeatedly spoken to the media, challenged the prosecution’s case and portrayed Ghislaine as a convenient scapegoat who was convicted beca...