The Vault: The Epstein Files

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recover...

Just days before his arrest for the University of Idaho murders, Bryan Kohberger wrote Washington State University asking to be reinstated as a teaching assistant after the school terminated him from the position. Kohberger had been notified on December 19, 2022 that he was losing his T.A. job in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology following complaints about his performance and conf...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Justice Department must expedite processing of most of Democracy Defenders Fund’s FOIA requests concerning Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files. DDF had sought records including Epstein and Maxwell investigative files mentioning Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, communications among senior DOJ officials such as Pam Bondi,...

Now that Congress has taken testimony from figures including Darren Indyke, Richard Kahn, Kathryn Ruemmler, Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff and Tova Noel, the real investigative work should be beginning, not ending. Their statements should be systematically compared against the contemporaneous record, including emails, financial documents, calendars, court filings, survivor accounts, prison records and...

Now that Congress has taken testimony from figures including Darren Indyke, Richard Kahn, Kathryn Ruemmler, Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff and Tova Noel, the real investigative work should be beginning, not ending. Their statements should be systematically compared against the contemporaneous record, including emails, financial documents, calendars, court filings, survivor accounts, prison records and...

Jane Doe 3 asked the federal court to allow her to continue using a pseudonym in her lawsuits against Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, including the related action in which they are sued as co-executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. She argued that publicly revealing her identity would expose her to additional trauma, unwanted attention and possible retaliation after coming forward with allegations...

There was repeated speculation that Ghislaine Maxwell might eventually write a memoir or autobiography giving her version of her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the criminal case against her and the years she spent moving through elite social circles. Reports suggested that Maxwell had considered telling her story from prison, potentially addressing Epstein, Prince Andrew, her prosecution and t...

In this episode, we’re taking a look back at the Jeffrey Epstein headlines from September 8th, 10th and 15th of 2025, revisiting the stories, developments and revelations that were shaping the case during that stretch. From the continuing fallout surrounding Epstein’s associates to the legal, political and financial questions that remained unresolved, those three days produced another round of sto...

After Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing girls, he increasingly leaned on philanthropy, science and elite institutions as a form of reputational armor. He donated money to universities, researchers, scientists and charitable causes, cultivated relationships with prominent academics and intellectuals, and promoted himself as a benefactor of cutting-edge science and humanitarian work. T...

Jeffrey Epstein earned the reputation as the proverbial king of slime because he thrived in the moral runoff of elite power, operating where money, secrecy, and exploitation overlapped. He attached himself to institutions, governments, financiers, academics, and royalty not through merit, but through usefulness, insinuation, and leverage. Epstein cultivated access by positioning himself as a fixer...

Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton were a lot closer than most people know or understand. From all kinds of financial "donations" to Clinton, to visits to various properties to being invited to Chelsea Clinton's wedding, you'd have to be blind or playing serious partisan politics to not see how deep the ties run between the Clinton's and Epstein and Maxwell. Yet, there has not been no serious invest...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recover...

Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recover...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justic...

The University of Maine System voted to strip former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell’s name from university programs and honors after renewed scrutiny of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Board of Trustees voted 9-5, with one abstention, to remove Mitchell’s name from the George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and the George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship. The d...

Norway’s parliament has opened public hearings into Jeffrey Epstein’s connections with Norwegian politicians and diplomats after newly released U.S. records exposed a wider web of relationships between Epstein and members of the country’s political and diplomatic elite. The parliament’s scrutiny and constitutional affairs committee has summoned 11 current and former foreign and development ministe...

A federal judge in Manhattan ruled that FirstBank Puerto Rico and its parent company, First BanCorp, must face most of a lawsuit accusing the bank of helping sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation for more than two decades. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected the bank’s effort to dismiss the central claim brought under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, allowing survivor Juli...

Judge Alison Nathan responded sharply after one of Ghislaine Maxwell’s appellate lawyers, David Markus, published a June 2021 New York Daily News op-ed arguing that Maxwell should benefit from the same kind of prosecutorial-agreement reasoning that had just led to Bill Cosby’s release. Markus described the case against Maxwell as extremely weak, argued that Jeffrey Epstein’s non-prosecution agreem...

Prince Andrew reportedly considered writing a memoir as part of an effort to tell his side of the story after his public downfall over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the allegations made by Virginia Giuffre. Reports said he discussed the idea with advisers and people in publishing, with the possibility that a book could address his friendship with Epstein, the fallout from his disastrou...

In her deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Johanna Sjoberg described being recruited to work for Jeffrey Epstein under the impression that it was a legitimate job opportunity. According to her testimony, she was initially hired to help with office work but was soon asked to give massages to Epstein—something she testified quickly evolved into i...

In her deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Johanna Sjoberg described being recruited to work for Jeffrey Epstein under the impression that it was a legitimate job opportunity. According to her testimony, she was initially hired to help with office work but was soon asked to give massages to Epstein—something she testified quickly evolved into i...

In her deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Johanna Sjoberg described being recruited to work for Jeffrey Epstein under the impression that it was a legitimate job opportunity. According to her testimony, she was initially hired to help with office work but was soon asked to give massages to Epstein—something she testified quickly evolved into i...