Epstein Chronicles: The Archives

Ghislaine Maxwell has filed new legal claims asserting that dozens of individuals connected to Jeffrey Epstein were shielded from prosecution through “secret settlements” with federal prosecutors. In her recent habeas corpus petition, Maxwell alleges that 29 men associated with Epstein—including 25 who reached undisclosed deals and four potential co-conspirators known to investigators—were never i...

Rinaldo Rizzo, the Dubins’ former house manager, delivered a harrowing deposition recounting one of the most disturbing moments later revealed in court documents. He described finding a distraught 15-year-old Swedish girl in the Dubins’ kitchen—visibly shaking, silent, and terrified. Through tears, Rizzo recalled how she whispered that she’d been held against her will on Epstein’s private island,...

Matthew I. Menchel, once the Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, played a pivotal role in shaping the 2007–2008 non-prosecution agreement that spared Jeffrey Epstein from serious federal charges. As the FBI gathered overwhelming evidence against Epstein for trafficking and abusing underage girls, Menchel’s office instead negotiated a s...

Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George opposed key terms of Jeffrey Epstein’s proposed victims compensation fund because she believed the estate was demanding releases that were far too broad. George did not object to creating a compensation program for survivors, but argued that women should not have to surrender potential claims against Epstein’s employees, associates, agents or other thi...

effrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico became one of the most troubling and least fully investigated properties in his network after multiple survivors said they were abused there and records showed that Epstein used the sprawling, isolated estate as a secluded base far from public scrutiny. The ranch, which covered roughly 7,600 acres near Santa Fe and was surrounded in part by state-leased l...

Glenn Dubin, a billionaire hedge fund manager, has faced legal scrutiny in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) due to his associations with Jeffrey Epstein. In September 2020, the USVI Attorney General issued subpoenas to Dubin, his wife Eva Andersson-Dubin (a former girlfriend of Epstein), and his former investment firm, Highbridge Capital. These subpoenas sought documents and communications detailing...

Newly released United States Department of Justice files, as reported by The New York Post, reveal disturbing details about Jeffrey Epstein’s long-standing and unusually close involvement with Celina Dubin, the daughter of his former girlfriend, Eva Dubin. Epstein first met Celina when she was a child through Eva, with whom he had a relationship in the 1980s and early ’90s. Emails in the documents...

New York’s prosecutors shockingly argued that Jeffrey Epstein—a man accused of sexually abusing multiple minors—should be deemed a Level One sex offender, the lowest-risk classification. Their justification? Epstein faced a single formal charge, and none of the underage victims had cooperated with authorities at that time. This defense blatantly ignored the overwhelming accounts of numerous surviv...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s American citizenship could potentially be challenged under federal denaturalization law, not simply because she was later convicted of serious crimes, but because some of the conduct underlying those convictions occurred before she became a U.S. citizen in 2002. Under 8 U.S.C. §1451, citizenship can be revoked if it was illegally procured or obtained through concealment of a ma...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s American citizenship could potentially be challenged under federal denaturalization law, not simply because she was later convicted of serious crimes, but because some of the conduct underlying those convictions occurred before she became a U.S. citizen in 2002. Under 8 U.S.C. §1451, citizenship can be revoked if it was illegally procured or obtained through concealment of a ma...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s American citizenship could potentially be challenged under federal denaturalization law, not simply because she was later convicted of serious crimes, but because some of the conduct underlying those convictions occurred before she became a U.S. citizen in 2002. Under 8 U.S.C. §1451, citizenship can be revoked if it was illegally procured or obtained through concealment of a ma...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate agreed in December 2022 to pay the U.S. Virgin Islands government $105 million in cash to settle the territory’s civil enforcement action against the estate, co-executors Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, and several Epstein-controlled entities. The settlement also required the estate to turn over half of the proceeds from the sale of Little St. James, which the Virgin Islan...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate had begun quietly paying millions of dollars to dozens of women through the Victims’ Compensation Program, which had been established as an alternative to prolonged civil litigation. The first settlements were distributed in the fall of 2020 after claims were reviewed by the independently administered program, with payments generally issued within about 90 days. The specif...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...

In her sworn deposition from 2016 (unsealed in 2020), Virginia Giuffre detailed how Ghislaine Maxwell recruited, groomed, and trafficked her into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation starting when she was 16. She testified that Maxwell approached her at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 under the pretense of offering her work as a masseuse for a wealthy benefactor. That “job” quickly evolved into sexual a...