The Vault: The Epstein Files

The UK Financial Conduct Authority imposed a major penalty on former Barclays CEO Jes Staley over the way he described his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The FCA concluded that Staley had acted recklessly and without integrity when he approved a 2019 letter from Barclays to the regulator that contained misleading statements about how close he had been to Epstein and when the two men had last b...

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...

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...

New Mexico created what became known as the Epstein Truth Commission in February 2026, when the state House voted 62-0 to establish a bipartisan investigatory subcommittee focused on Jeffrey Epstein’s activities at Zorro Ranch and the failures that allowed those activities to remain largely unexplored for decades. Chaired by Democratic Rep. Andrea Romero and including both Democratic and Republica...

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...

The Senate unanimously adopted a nonbinding resolution opposing any presidential pardon, commutation or other form of clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate who is serving a 20-year federal sentence following her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking-related charges. Introduced by Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada, the measure passed by unanimous consent without obje...

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...

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...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could face a fresh demand to testify before the U.S. House Oversight Committee if Democrats take control of the House in the upcoming midterm elections. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the committee, said Democrats intended to continue investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s network and would use congressional subpoena power to compel testimony from Andrew and others who had...

Tova Noel was one of the two correctional officers assigned to the Special Housing Unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the overnight shift when Jeffrey Epstein died on August 10, 2019. According to the Justice Department inspector general, Noel and fellow officer Michael Thomas failed to perform required inmate rounds for hours and later signed records falsely indicating that the check...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal enterprise did not survive for decades because he acted alone or possessed some supernatural ability to evade scrutiny. It survived because major financial institutions continued to provide the banking services, cash access, wire transfers, private banking relationships, and institutional legitimacy that allowed his operation to function. JPMorgan maintained Epstein as a...

Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal enterprise did not survive for decades because he acted alone or possessed some supernatural ability to evade scrutiny. It survived because major financial institutions continued to provide the banking services, cash access, wire transfers, private banking relationships, and institutional legitimacy that allowed his operation to function. JPMorgan maintained Epstein as a...