The Epstein Chronicles

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...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a federal lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime attorney Darren Indyke, accountant Richard Kahn, Epstein’s estate and the 1953 Trust, alleging that Indyke and Kahn knowingly helped facilitate, finance and conceal Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation, including abuse connected to Zorro Ranch. The complaint portrayed the two men as far more than ordi...

Former federal agent Robert Mazur argued that investigators should stop treating Ghislaine Maxwell as a uniquely valuable source of truth about Jeffrey Epstein’s network and instead build the investigation around survivors, documentary evidence and the prosecutors who originally developed the case. He pointed to Maxwell’s conviction and her history of false statements under oath as reasons to trea...

Ghislaine Maxwell and her lawyers fought repeatedly over the way she was being presented while awaiting trial, arguing that her appearance in jail-issued clothing reinforced an image of guilt before a jury had heard any evidence. During earlier proceedings Maxwell had appeared in loose blue prison scrubs, sometimes shackled, while her attorneys were simultaneously complaining that the Metropolitan...

The lead-up to Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial was marked by extraordinary public attention, repeated bail fights and intense speculation about how much of Jeffrey Epstein’s hidden world would finally be exposed in open court. Maxwell had been arrested in New Hampshire in July 2020 after months largely out of public view and remained jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while her lawy...

French authorities had been investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s network for years, beginning in August 2019 when the Paris prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape, sexual assault of minors and criminal conspiracy. The inquiry was designed to examine crimes allegedly committed on French soil as well as offenses involving French victims or French participants abro...

In 2003, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein joined forces with a small group of high-powered figures, including Michael Wolff and Mortimer Zuckerman, in a bid to purchase New York Magazine. The group submitted a multimillion-dollar offer in hopes of seizing editorial control and rebranding themselves as major players in the media world. Although their bid ultimately failed—coming in second-lowes...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial was originally scheduled to begin on July 12, 2021, but that timetable changed after federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment on March 29 that added new sex-trafficking charges and expanded the alleged conspiracy through 2004. Maxwell’s lawyers argued that the late addition dramatically increased the amount of evidence they had to review and changed the scope of...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

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...

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 and state Rep. Meredith Dixon announced two legislative proposals aimed at strengthening protections for human trafficking survivors and closing legal gaps exposed in part by the Jeffrey Epstein case. The proposed Trafficking Investigation and Meaningful Enforcement Act would eliminate the statute of limitations for sex-trafficking prosecutions, raise the ag...

Michigan Democrats resurfaced audio from a July 2025 interview in which Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers argued that the government should be careful about releasing the names of people who appeared in Jeffrey Epstein’s flight records if there was no evidence they had participated in criminal activity. Rogers said someone could have flown with Epstein for a legitimate business reas...

The Justice Department had been warned well in advance that its rushed handling of the Epstein files could expose victims. In July 2025, Sen. Dick Durbin disclosed information provided by a protected FBI whistleblower alleging that Attorney General Pam Bondi had pushed roughly 1,000 FBI personnel onto around-the-clock shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records on an extremely s...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers pointed to her work with Bill Clinton’s philanthropic network as part of their effort to persuade a federal judge to give her a dramatically reduced prison sentence after her December 2021 sex-trafficking conviction. In a 77-page sentencing memorandum filed in June 2022, the defense cited Maxwell’s involvement with the Clinton Global Initiative several times, portraying...

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

Senator Ron Wyden called on federal regulators to investigate Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase over their handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s financial accounts, alleging that the banks may have failed to identify and report suspicious transactions quickly enough. Wyden’s findings followed a four-year investigation drawing on suspicious activity reports, court records, lawsuits and info...

Calls to “move on” from Jeffrey Epstein are not just tone-deaf—they reek of institutional self-preservation. The push to close the book on one of the most expansive, well-connected child sex trafficking operations in modern history ignores the deep rot that enabled it. Epstein operated for decades with the help of governments, banks, intelligence-linked figures, celebrities, and elite gatekeepers....

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

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...

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...

Jeffrey Epstein has become a major factor in the closing stretch of the 2026 midterm elections, with his name appearing in campaign ads, debates, donor attacks, and arguments over congressional transparency in races across the country. Senate contests in Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, and Georgia, along with key House races in Colorado and Pennsylvania, have all seen candidates use Epstein-r...