The Epstein Chronicles

The House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff report argues that the publicly released Epstein records, FBI interviews, survivor accounts and congressional investigative material establish more than enough evidence to justify a renewed criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the broader Epstein network. The 53-page report focuses heavily on the overlapping...

House Judiciary Committee Democrats are calling for the appointment of an independent special counsel to investigate Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, potential Epstein co-conspirators, and what Democrats characterize as a Justice Department effort to obstruct or shut down further investigation. The demand came in a new committee staff report released October 26, which compiled all...

Glenn and Eva Dubin are back in the news, renewing scrutiny of their long-standing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and raising fresh questions about why the couple remained comparatively insulated from the fallout surrounding his network for so many years. Unlike peripheral figures whose names surfaced briefly in contact books or social circles, the Dubins had a much deeper connection to Epstein...

Glenn and Eva Dubin are back in the news, renewing scrutiny of their long-standing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and raising fresh questions about why the couple remained comparatively insulated from the fallout surrounding his network for so many years. Unlike peripheral figures whose names surfaced briefly in contact books or social circles, the Dubins had a much deeper connection to Epstein...

Epstein survivors have publicly challenged Lesley Groff's testimony before Congress, arguing that her portrayal of herself as someone who knew nothing about Epstein's abuse operation is fundamentally incompatible with their experiences. During her June 2026 testimony, Groff described Epstein as a "master manipulator" who kept his criminal conduct hidden from her and insisted that she never knowing...

Prince Andrew’s Epstein scandal was not something that simply happened to him; it grew out of a series of decisions he made himself. He maintained a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein even after Epstein had pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting prostitution from a minor, stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2010, and was photographed walking with him in Central Park during that same visit. Th...

Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI on July 2, 2020, at a secluded property in Bradford, New Hampshire, nearly a year after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody. Prosecutors alleged that Maxwell had played a central role in Epstein’s abuse operation during the 1990s, accusing her of helping identify, recruit, groom and transport underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse. The indictment...

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) concluded that former Barclays CEO Jes Staley misled regulators about the depth of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The FCA determined that Staley “recklessly approved” misleading statements in a 2019 letter sent by Barclays, which downplayed his contact with Epstein and suggested their relationship had ended long before his tenure at the bank. In r...

In December 2010, Prince Andrew was photographed taking a casual stroll through New York’s Central Park alongside Jeffrey Epstein—just days after Epstein had completed a 13-month jail sentence for soliciting sex from a minor. The image, captured by a paparazzo and later published globally, showed the Duke of York walking shoulder-to-shoulder with a convicted sex offender, deep in conversation. The...

Day six of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held September 1, 2026, centered on closing arguments and the prosecution’s claim that the evidence easily cleared Utah’s probable-cause standard. Deputy Utah County Attorney Ryan McBride argued that the state had built its case through four overlapping categories of evidence: surveillance footage placing Robinson at Utah Valley University, DNA reco...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

In her April 29, 2016 second amended supplemental discovery response, Virginia Giuffre pushed back aggressively against Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to obtain an enormous range of information about her personal life, allegations, relationships and communications. Giuffre argued that many of Maxwell’s interrogatories violated the Southern District of New York’s local discovery rules because they went...

In her April 29, 2016 second amended supplemental discovery response, Virginia Giuffre pushed back aggressively against Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to obtain an enormous range of information about her personal life, allegations, relationships and communications. Giuffre argued that many of Maxwell’s interrogatories violated the Southern District of New York’s local discovery rules because they went...

In her April 29, 2016 second amended supplemental discovery response, Virginia Giuffre pushed back aggressively against Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to obtain an enormous range of information about her personal life, allegations, relationships and communications. Giuffre argued that many of Maxwell’s interrogatories violated the Southern District of New York’s local discovery rules because they went...

For years, the Jeffrey Epstein case was treated as something that could be contained, compartmentalized and pushed to the margins despite the scale of what was already known. Epstein received an extraordinary non-prosecution agreement in 2007, pleaded to state charges in 2008, served a notoriously lenient sentence with work release, and then returned to a life surrounded by wealth, influence and p...

Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never...

Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never...

Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never...

Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act II after the Justice Department repeatedly missed deadlines and faced accusations that its releases under the original law were incomplete, heavily redacted and improperly exposed survivors’ personal information while concealing the identities of men potentially connected to Epstein’s abuse. The proposed legislation woul...

A two-page Middle East policy briefing bearing former Treasury secretary Larry Summers’s name was found among the Jeffrey Epstein documents released through the House Oversight Committee. Dated to early 2013, the briefing summarized political and security developments across ten countries during the upheaval of the Arab Spring, including Egypt, Syria, Israel, Iran, Libya, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia....

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers mounted a broad attack on the federal investigation, arguing that prosecutors had built their case on unreliable witness accounts, distorted police reports and evidence that the defense said had been taken out of context. They accused investigators of ignoring statements favorable to Epstein, mischaracterizing physical evidence and failing to reconcile later FBI reports w...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...