The Vault: The Epstein Files

Day one of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing on July 6, 2026, largely centered on prosecutors beginning to construct a timeline of Charlie Kirk’s killing at Utah Valley University and establishing the authenticity of the surveillance footage and investigative records they intended to use against Robinson. Former UVU police officer Chris Bagley described the moment the gunshot rang out during Ki...

Paulette Sutton was one of the prosecution’s forensic experts in the case against Bryan Kohberger, and her specialty was crime-scene reconstruction and bloodstain-pattern analysis. Sutton reviewed the blood evidence documented inside 1122 King Road, including the location, distribution and characteristics of stains throughout the house, in an effort to help reconstruct what happened during the mur...

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...

Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says a longtime, well-informed international source told him that significant Jeffrey Epstein material remains inside government files and has not yet been made public by the Justice Department. According to Hersh, the withheld material includes evidence concerning Epstein’s connections to both foreign and domestic intelligence services, particularly...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s family says she intends to continue fighting her conviction even after U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected her latest effort to overturn it. In a statement released after the ruling, her relatives called the decision “disappointing and shocking” and accused the judge of using a tone they believed showed sarcasm and disdain toward Maxwell’s arguments. Engelmayer rejecte...

The claim that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is somehow a hoax becomes increasingly difficult to square with the enormous sums major financial institutions are paying to resolve claims brought by survivors. JPMorgan agrees to a roughly $290 million settlement, Deutsche Bank agrees to pay $75 million, and Bank of America later reaches a $72.5 million settlement, bringing those survivor-related agreem...

The public has largely rejected the official narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death because the circumstances were so riddled with failures, irregularities and unanswered questions that the government’s conclusion never inspired broad confidence. Epstein was one of the most high-profile federal detainees in the country, yet he was taken off suicide watch, left without a cellmate, and housed...

Geoffrey Berman’s removal as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in June 2020 immediately generated controversy because of both the chaotic way it happened and the sensitive investigations his office was handling. Attorney General William Barr first announced that Berman was “stepping down,” only for Berman to publicly state that he had not resigned and had no intention of doing so...

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...

Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer, has long claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was not merely a wealthy predator but an intelligence asset, operating what he describes as a classic honey-trap operation. According to Ben-Menashe, Epstein’s private island, jets, and mansions were not only indulgences but controlled environments designed for surveillance and kompromat collection. The y...

Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer, has long claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was not merely a wealthy predator but an intelligence asset, operating what he describes as a classic honey-trap operation. According to Ben-Menashe, Epstein’s private island, jets, and mansions were not only indulgences but controlled environments designed for surveillance and kompromat collection. The y...

Tyler Robinson’s defense team is asking Judge Tony Graf to block electronic media coverage of the September 1 hearing, arguing that allowing cameras and livestreaming would create an unnecessary risk to Robinson’s right to a fair trial. The lawyers contend that the proceeding will center heavily on evidence presented during the preliminary hearing, much of which came into the record as hearsay und...

Bryan Kohberger’s effort to withdraw his guilty plea is moving forward procedurally, but Fourth District Judge Steven Hippler has not yet decided that Kohberger is entitled to an evidentiary hearing. Hippler has issued an order laying out how the post-conviction challenge will proceed and has reserved a date in June 2027 in case a hearing ultimately becomes necessary. Kohberger, who is serving fou...

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 Gates was pressed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper about allegations that Jeffrey Epstein had attempted to use sensitive information about Gates’ personal life to pressure him after their relationship deteriorated. During an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360, Cooper raised a series of graphic, unverified claims contained in draft emails Epstein wrote in 2013 but apparently never sent, including alleg...

A newly surfaced June 15, 2009 letter from then-acting U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sloman showed that Jeffrey Epstein had repeatedly violated the terms of his extraordinarily favorable 2007 non-prosecution agreement, yet federal prosecutors in South Florida never exercised their explicit authority to tear up the deal and prosecute him. Sloman told Epstein’s attorneys that there had been “several instanc...

Jane Doe #3 and Jane Doe #4 sought to join the long-running Crime Victims’ Rights Act case brought by Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2 against the federal government over the secret non-prosecution agreement given to Jeffrey Epstein. Their January 2015 motion argued that they had suffered essentially the same violation: Epstein had sexually abused them while they were minors, federal authorities either...

Former Barclays chief Jes Staley told House Oversight Committee investigators that he had a sexual encounter with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistants after meeting her through Epstein. Staley said he first met the unnamed woman at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and that their conversations eventually became flirtatious. According to his testimony, the woman later invited him to her Upper East Side...

Scotland Yard repeatedly faced criticism for declining to open a full criminal investigation into allegations connected to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew in Britain, even when some of the alleged conduct was said to have occurred in London. In 2015, the Metropolitan Police declined to pursue a detailed trafficking investigation, saying the focus of any inquiry would largely i...

The public has largely rejected the official narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death because the circumstances were so riddled with failures, irregularities and unanswered questions that the government’s conclusion never inspired broad confidence. Epstein was one of the most high-profile federal detainees in the country, yet he was taken off suicide watch, left without a cellmate, and housed...

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...

In July 2020, shortly after Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested, a federal criminal defense attorney suggested that her lawyers might have been exploring a cooperation agreement with prosecutors known informally as a “Queen for a Day” proffer. Under that type of arrangement, Maxwell could have sat down with federal investigators and told them what she knew about Jeffrey Epstein, his trafficking operati...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation into the handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s case ultimately cleared Palm Beach County officials, including former State Attorney Barry Krischer and members of the sheriff’s office, of criminal wrongdoing. The probe had been ordered after renewed scrutiny of the extraordinary treatment Epstein received in Florida, including the weak state prosecuti...