The Epstein Chronicles

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued the U.S. Department of Justice on August 5, 2026, accusing the federal government of obstructing the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged abuse, trafficking and other crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The lawsuit seeks access to unredacted federal investigative files that New Mexico says are necessary to identify victims,...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued the U.S. Department of Justice on August 5, 2026, accusing the federal government of obstructing the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged abuse, trafficking and other crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The lawsuit seeks access to unredacted federal investigative files that New Mexico says are necessary to identify victims,...

The piece argues that Ghislaine Maxwell’s U.S. citizenship could potentially be challenged because of answers she gave on her naturalization application before becoming a citizen in 2002. According to the story, Maxwell answered “no” when asked whether she had ever committed an offense for which she had not been arrested and whether she had been involved in procuring prostitution or related conduc...

Newly released High Court documents showed that Thames Valley Police feared Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could obstruct searches of his properties by arguing that officers needed permission from King Charles because the residences or property belonged to the Crown. Police searched Royal Lodge in Windsor and Andrew’s home on the Sandringham Estate in February while investigating allegations that he i...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Robert Garcia, with Republican Rep. Thomas Massie also backing the measure, introduced the Epstein Wall Street Records Act, legislation aimed at forcing federal regulators to examine the financial institutions and executives that maintained ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The bill would require agencies including the Federal Reserve an...

The Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to step into some of the biggest legal fights connected to Jeffrey Epstein, leaving lower-court rulings in place without issuing full opinions of its own. In February 2022, the Court refused to hear Courtney Wild’s challenge over the secret 2007 non-prosecution agreement, effectively leaving intact the Eleventh Circuit’s ruling that the Crime Victims’ Righ...

A guy like Jeffrey Epstein was able to move and hold enormous amounts of money offshore because the modern financial system gives wealthy people access to layers of secrecy that ordinary depositors never see. Offshore trusts, shell companies, private foundations, nominee directors, foreign banks and entities registered in secrecy-friendly jurisdictions can all be stacked together so that the perso...

Jane Doe #2’s 2007 statement to Marie Villafaña and federal investigators described a pattern of recruitment, abuse, and normalization inside Jeffrey Epstein’s operation, beginning when she was a minor. She said she was introduced to Epstein under the guise of paid “massage” work and quickly realized the encounters involved sexual acts, including being directed to perform sexual contact on Epstein...

Newly surfaced records show that Jeffrey Epstein maintained and actively pursued connections with Arab royal circles, particularly in Saudi Arabia, in the years after his 2008 conviction. The documents detail how Epstein received a high-status religious gift from Mecca and positioned himself as someone with access to elite international networks. Among the more revealing details is his attempt to...

Newly surfaced records show that Jeffrey Epstein maintained and actively pursued connections with Arab royal circles, particularly in Saudi Arabia, in the years after his 2008 conviction. The documents detail how Epstein received a high-status religious gift from Mecca and positioned himself as someone with access to elite international networks. Among the more revealing details is his attempt to...

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...

Sean “Diddy” Combs reportedly suffered a serious head injury during an altercation with fellow FCI Fort Dix inmate Christopher “Dudus” Coke, the former Jamaican gang leader who headed the Shower Posse. According to sources cited by TMZ and subsequently reported by the Daily Mail, Coke had become angry with Combs after an NBC News report detailed allegations that the music mogul had been enjoying u...

Before Jeffrey Epstein received his extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement, federal prosecutors in South Florida had prepared a sweeping case against him that could have resulted in dozens of federal charges involving the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña prepared an 82-page prosecution memorandum laying out the evidence, potential defense...

Before Jeffrey Epstein received his extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement, federal prosecutors in South Florida had prepared a sweeping case against him that could have resulted in dozens of federal charges involving the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña prepared an 82-page prosecution memorandum laying out the evidence, potential defense...

Jeffrey Epstein’s work-release arrangement in Palm Beach County allowed him extraordinary freedom while he was supposedly serving a jail sentence for sex offenses, including long workdays at the Florida Science Foundation, private transportation, home visits, an unlocked cell, and privately funded sheriff’s deputies assigned to his security. Women later alleged that Epstein continued engaging in s...

Jeffrey Epstein’s work-release arrangement in Palm Beach County allowed him extraordinary freedom while he was supposedly serving a jail sentence for sex offenses, including long workdays at the Florida Science Foundation, private transportation, home visits, an unlocked cell, and privately funded sheriff’s deputies assigned to his security. Women later alleged that Epstein continued engaging in s...

As Florida attorney general, Ashley Moody opened an investigation in August 2019 into the Palm Beach County work-release arrangement that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to leave jail for up to 16 hours a day while serving his sentence. Within days, Moody said her office could find no judicial order authorizing that work release, yet the investigation dragged on for nearly two years and ultimately conclud...

Ghislaine Maxwell tried to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn her conviction by arguing that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement in Florida should also have protected her from being prosecuted years later in New York. Her lawyers contended that the agreement’s promise not to prosecute Epstein’s “potential co-conspirators” bound the federal government beyond South Florida and...

People like Jeffrey Epstein can use a broad mix of assets and financial structures to make wealth harder to trace, value, or connect to a single beneficial owner. Real estate is especially useful because properties can be held through LLCs, trusts, partnerships, or offshore entities rather than directly in an individual’s name, while luxury homes can also serve as repositories of enormous value. H...

The hypocrisy surrounding the U.S. Virgin Islands and Jeffrey Epstein came from the enormous gap between how territorial officials later presented themselves and what survivors alleged had happened while Epstein was alive. After his 2019 arrest and death, the USVI government aggressively pursued Epstein’s estate, JPMorgan and others, portraying the territory as a victim of his trafficking enterpri...

Jeffrey Epstein’s early financial career is cloaked in mystery, with only fragments of fact piercing through layers of rumor and myth. After leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, he founded Intercontinental Assets Group Inc., a consulting firm where he claimed to “recover stolen money for wealthy clients.” What exactly that meant was never made clear, but the business quickly drew speculation that Epstein...

Jeffrey Epstein’s early financial career is cloaked in mystery, with only fragments of fact piercing through layers of rumor and myth. After leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, he founded Intercontinental Assets Group Inc., a consulting firm where he claimed to “recover stolen money for wealthy clients.” What exactly that meant was never made clear, but the business quickly drew speculation that Epstein...

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...

Before Jeffrey Epstein received his extraordinary 2007 non-prosecution agreement, federal prosecutors in South Florida had prepared a sweeping case against him that could have resulted in dozens of federal charges involving the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña prepared an 82-page prosecution memorandum laying out the evidence, potential defense...