Epstein Chronicles: The Archives

In court filings responding to JPMorgan Chase’s lawsuit, Jes Staley went on the offensive, arguing that the bank was attempting to shift institutional responsibility for its long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein onto him personally. JPMorgan has alleged that Staley, a former senior executive, misled the bank about Epstein and failed to flag risks, seeking to claw back compensation and damages tie...

Jeffrey Epstein had extensive ties to the academic community. His reach spanned across the country when it came to donating to professors. From the deserts of Arizona to the Pacific Coast and everywhere in between, proffesors and universities accepted his patronage. None of these institutions had the relationship with Epstein that Harvard had however. Today we take a look at that relationship. To...

Ghislaine Maxwell was, in many ways, exactly the kind of partner Jeffrey Epstein needed to make his predatory operation function. Epstein had money, properties and access, but Maxwell brought something different: social legitimacy, organization and the ability to make young women and girls feel that what was happening around Epstein was normal. Prosecutors and survivors described her as someone wh...

Seth Lloyd, an MIT professor and quantum computing specialist, came under fire for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after it emerged that he accepted both direct and indirect funding from Epstein—even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor. Lloyd met with Epstein multiple times, gave him personal tours of MIT’s facilities, and later admitted he had accepted two donations total...

The family of one of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims said they believed the abuse she suffered at his hands had contributed directly to the downward spiral that eventually ended with her death from a drug overdose. The woman, whose identity was withheld in the 2019 report, was described by relatives as having struggled badly after her encounters with Epstein, with addiction becoming part of the...

In a September 2021 interview with PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff, Bill Gates was pressed about his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, which had begun after Epstein was already a convicted sex offender. Gates acknowledged that he had met with Epstein multiple times, including dinners, and said he had done so because Epstein claimed he could help bring wealthy donors into global-health philanthropy. Gate...

Bill Gates has repeatedly tried to contain the damage from his association with Jeffrey Epstein by apologizing for the relationship and framing it as a serious error in judgment. Gates has said that meeting with Epstein after Epstein’s 2008 conviction was a mistake, that he regretted spending time with him and that the purpose of the contact was supposedly to explore philanthropic fundraising. In...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s motion for sanctions under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 37(b) and 37(c) accused Virginia Giuffre of repeatedly failing to comply with discovery requirements in the defamation lawsuit between them. Maxwell argued that an April 2016 court order required Giuffre to identify all health-care providers who had treated her since 1999 and produce the corresponding medical records b...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s motion for sanctions under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 37(b) and 37(c) accused Virginia Giuffre of repeatedly failing to comply with discovery requirements in the defamation lawsuit between them. Maxwell argued that an April 2016 court order required Giuffre to identify all health-care providers who had treated her since 1999 and produce the corresponding medical records b...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s motion for sanctions under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 37(b) and 37(c) accused Virginia Giuffre of repeatedly failing to comply with discovery requirements in the defamation lawsuit between them. Maxwell argued that an April 2016 court order required Giuffre to identify all health-care providers who had treated her since 1999 and produce the corresponding medical records b...

The backyard, bareknuckle brawl between the USVI and JP Morgan continues to rage inside of the courtroom, with both sides dropping bombs on each other with every filing, each looking to paint the other as the bad guy. Judge Rakoff, for his part, has kept things moving at a nice clip and has managed to keep things as orderly as possible. Now, however, he is asking the USVI for specific reasons why...

A federal magistrate judge temporarily spared Ghislaine Maxwell from having to sit for a deposition or answer written questions in a civil lawsuit brought by Annie Farmer, who alleged that Maxwell sexually assaulted her when she was 16 at Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch. Maxwell’s lawyers sought the delay by pointing to the ongoing federal investigation into Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators an...

JPMorgan sought to identify one of the anonymous women who accused the bank of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, arguing that it needed to know her identity in order to defend itself against the claims being made in court. The accuser had filed under a Jane Doe pseudonym, a common protection in sexual-abuse litigation, but JPMorgan pushed back against that anonymity and asked the court to requ...

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed against JPMorgan Chase accused the banking giant of knowingly benefiting from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation by continuing to provide him with extensive banking services despite years of warning signs surrounding his conduct. The suit was brought on behalf of Epstein survivors and alleged that JPMorgan maintained its relationship with Epstein from...

Stacey Plaskett has been exposed in newly released emails showing she was actively messaging Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing, a revelation that detonated her carefully crafted public image as a defender of justice. Despite long-standing knowledge of Epstein’s reputation as a trafficker and blackmail broker for the powerful, Plaskett not only took his money, but fought to keep it unt...

In 2013, Ghislaine Maxwell brazenly appeared at a high-profile charity gala billed as a front-line defense against human trafficking—an event meant to spotlight and dismantle the very horrors she was complicit in. Photographs from that night show her mingling with celebrities, donors, and advocates, all under the banner of fighting exploitation. Meanwhile, behind closed doors, Maxwell was actively...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Jeffrey Epstein’s operation cannot be understood through the lens of a traditional sex trafficking ring. Unlike figures such as Heidi Fleiss, Epstein wasn’t in it for monetary gain or running a transactional enterprise. His network operated on two levels: the first was driven by his personal compulsions, where he targeted vulnerable high school girls in Palm Beach and New York to satisfy his own d...

In a detailed written statement submitted ahead of his closed-door deposition before the U.S. House Oversight Committee, billionaire Les Wexner said he was “pleased” for the chance to “set the record straight” about his long-standing financial and personal connection to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner described Epstein as a “con man” and said he had been “naïve, foolish, and gullible” to trust hi...

In France, prosecutors in Paris have opened multiple new investigations into suspected crimes connected to late U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein following the public release of millions of pages of previously sealed documents by U.S. authorities. Authorities announced two preliminary probes — one focused on alleged sex abuse and human trafficking offenses and the other on potential financial and eco...

Tom Pritzker, the billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels and a prominent member of the Pritzker family, announced his immediate resignation as executive chair following revelations in newly released files tying him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The disclosures showed that Pritzker maintained contact with Epstein well after Epstein’s 2008 con...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...