The Vault: The Epstein Files

Tova Noel, one of the two correctional officers assigned to the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s Special Housing Unit on the night Jeffrey Epstein died, told the House Oversight Committee that she failed to conduct the required inmate checks and later signed records falsely indicating that the rounds had been completed. Noel described an understaffed, poorly managed facility in which she was exh...

Western Australian police have agreed to review how officers handled their interactions with Virginia Giuffre before her death by suicide in April 2025. Giuffre’s brother, Sky Roberts, and sister-in-law, Amanda Roberts, wrote to both police and the state coroner asking for scrutiny of the response to a domestic violence dispute involving Giuffre and a former partner. Police commissioner Col Blanch...

Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime executive assistant, told the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door interview that she booked massage appointments for Epstein “almost daily,” but denied knowingly arranging appointments with anyone she believed was underage. Groff said Epstein usually gave her names and phone numbers, that the calls were brief, and that massages were treated as a rout...

Bill Gates told the House Oversight Committee that his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was, in his telling, about philanthropy — Epstein claimed he could connect Gates to wealthy donors who might put major money into global health work. Gates said he met Epstein beginning in 2011, after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, and continued interactions until 2014, when he concluded Epstein could not deliver...

Ghislaine Maxwell remained publicly loyal to Prince Andrew throughout the collapse of Jeffrey Epstein’s network and the scrutiny that followed. She helped facilitate Andrew’s access to Epstein’s social circle, hosted him at her London home and was present during key periods later examined by journalists, investigators and civil litigants. Even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, Maxwell continued mov...

Ian Maxwell and Mark Epstein have both become loud, persistent critics of the official Epstein-Maxwell process, though from different angles and with obvious family interests at stake. Ian Maxwell has argued that Ghislaine was turned into a convenient stand-in for Epstein after Epstein died before trial, claiming her trial was flawed, that she was scapegoated, and that the government used her conv...

For decades, Epstein survivors have been pushed from one locked door to another by the very institutions that were supposed to protect them. In Florida, federal prosecutors built a serious case, then cut a secret non-prosecution agreement with Epstein in 2007–2008 without properly notifying or conferring with the victims, leaving them to discover after the fact that the government had already barg...

Prince Andrew has become one of the most radioactive public figures in modern royal history, and the labels attached to him reflect just how completely his image has collapsed. He has been called arrogant, entitled, spoiled, sleazy, reckless, protected, disgraceful, and out of touch, but the most brutal label thrown at him in Britain has been “nonce,” a slang term used to accuse someone of being a...

The videotaped deposition of Virginia Roberts Giuffre taken on January 16, 2016, in Fort Lauderdale sits at the center of the bitter legal war between Epstein survivors’ attorneys Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell and Alan Dershowitz, who was accused by Giuffre of sexually abusing her when she was a minor trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. In the deposition, Giuffre gives a detailed, sworn narrative of...

The videotaped deposition of Virginia Roberts Giuffre taken on January 16, 2016, in Fort Lauderdale sits at the center of the bitter legal war between Epstein survivors’ attorneys Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell and Alan Dershowitz, who was accused by Giuffre of sexually abusing her when she was a minor trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. In the deposition, Giuffre gives a detailed, sworn narrative of...

The videotaped deposition of Virginia Roberts Giuffre taken on January 16, 2016, in Fort Lauderdale sits at the center of the bitter legal war between Epstein survivors’ attorneys Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell and Alan Dershowitz, who was accused by Giuffre of sexually abusing her when she was a minor trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. In the deposition, Giuffre gives a detailed, sworn narrative of...

The videotaped deposition of Virginia Roberts Giuffre taken on January 16, 2016, in Fort Lauderdale sits at the center of the bitter legal war between Epstein survivors’ attorneys Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell and Alan Dershowitz, who was accused by Giuffre of sexually abusing her when she was a minor trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. In the deposition, Giuffre gives a detailed, sworn narrative of...

Tova Noel, one of the two correctional officers assigned to the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s Special Housing Unit on the night Jeffrey Epstein died, told the House Oversight Committee that she failed to conduct the required inmate checks and later signed records falsely indicating that the rounds had been completed. Noel described an understaffed, poorly managed facility in which she was exh...

Tova Noel, one of the two correctional officers assigned to the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s Special Housing Unit on the night Jeffrey Epstein died, told the House Oversight Committee that she failed to conduct the required inmate checks and later signed records falsely indicating that the rounds had been completed. Noel described an understaffed, poorly managed facility in which she was exh...

Bill Gates told the House Oversight Committee that his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was, in his telling, about philanthropy — Epstein claimed he could connect Gates to wealthy donors who might put major money into global health work. Gates said he met Epstein beginning in 2011, after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, and continued interactions until 2014, when he concluded Epstein could not deliver...

Tova Noel, one of the two correctional officers assigned to the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s Special Housing Unit on the night Jeffrey Epstein died, told the House Oversight Committee that she failed to conduct the required inmate checks and later signed records falsely indicating that the rounds had been completed. Noel described an understaffed, poorly managed facility in which she was exh...

Tova Noel, one of the two correctional officers assigned to the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s Special Housing Unit on the night Jeffrey Epstein died, told the House Oversight Committee that she failed to conduct the required inmate checks and later signed records falsely indicating that the rounds had been completed. Noel described an understaffed, poorly managed facility in which she was exh...

Prince Andrew’s exile from royal life did not happen all at once; it hardened step by step as his Epstein disgrace became impossible for the palace to manage. First came the loss of public duties after the disastrous BBC interview, then the stripping away of military roles, patronages, HRH styling in public life, and eventually the deeper symbolic punishments: fewer balcony appearances, fewer cere...

In his interview with the DOJ Office of the Inspector General, Alex Acosta repeatedly framed the 2007–2008 Epstein non-prosecution agreement as a constrained, pragmatic decision made under pressure rather than a deliberate act of favoritism. He told inspectors that Epstein’s defense team, stacked with politically connected and aggressive lawyers, created what he described as a credible threat of a...

In his interview with the DOJ Office of the Inspector General, Alex Acosta repeatedly framed the 2007–2008 Epstein non-prosecution agreement as a constrained, pragmatic decision made under pressure rather than a deliberate act of favoritism. He told inspectors that Epstein’s defense team, stacked with politically connected and aggressive lawyers, created what he described as a credible threat of a...

Cecile de Jongh, the former First Lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands, acknowledged in court-related filings that she stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2017 while recovering from knee-replacement surgery. She reportedly framed the stay as a matter of convenience, pointing to the apartment’s elevator access and proximity to the hospital, but the admission landed badly because Epstein w...

Dagens Næringsliv journalists Gard Oterholm and Tore Gjerstad said they received death threats after publishing a series of Epstein-related stories involving Norwegian politician and former UN Under-Secretary-General Terje Rød-Larsen. Their reporting focused on Rød-Larsen’s close financial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, including loans, donations, and debts, as well as Epstein-linked donations...

The newly unsealed New York grand jury materials related to Ghislaine Maxwell provide a clearer window into how federal prosecutors built the case that ultimately led to her conviction. The documents outline the scope of witness testimony, evidentiary focus, and investigative priorities considered by the grand jury, reinforcing that Maxwell was not viewed as a peripheral figure but as a central fa...

The newly unsealed New York grand jury materials related to Ghislaine Maxwell provide a clearer window into how federal prosecutors built the case that ultimately led to her conviction. The documents outline the scope of witness testimony, evidentiary focus, and investigative priorities considered by the grand jury, reinforcing that Maxwell was not viewed as a peripheral figure but as a central fa...

The allegations surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s forced marriages scheme expose a chilling exploitation tactic that goes far beyond trafficking. Court filings reveal that Epstein, along with his estate’s executors—Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn—arranged sham marriages between his victims (often underage or vulnerable) and foreign recruitiers. These marriages were allegedly engineered solely to preven...