The Epstein Chronicles

JPMorgan has spent years fighting legal battles tied to its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, most notably lawsuits brought by Epstein survivors and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The survivors accused the bank of knowingly benefiting from Epstein’s trafficking operation and ignoring obvious warning signs while continuing to provide him banking services. The Virgin Islands made similar allegations, arg...

Jeffrey Epstein’s operation was built around far more than one source of money or influence. Over the years, he inserted himself into tax planning, estate work, mergers, private banking, investments and introductions between wealthy clients, collecting enormous fees despite not being a licensed tax attorney or certified public accountant. Financial records showed that Les Wexner and Leon Black alo...

Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell maintained a close friendship for years, moving in the same social circles in Britain and the United States and appearing together at royal residences, private gatherings and events connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell had unusually direct access to Andrew, and records released over the years have shown just how familiar their relationship was. Andrew’s contact...

Former Barclays chief Jes Staley told the House Oversight Committee that he was unsure whether Jeffrey Epstein had introduced him to a woman dressed as Snow White, despite emails showing Staley referencing the Disney character. In a July 2010 exchange, Staley told Epstein to “say hi to Snow White” and, when Epstein asked which character he wanted next, replied, “Beauty and the Beast.” Staley repor...

Danielle Bensky argued that Todd Blanche is unfit to become attorney general because his handling of the Epstein files harmed survivors while doing little to expose or prosecute the people who enabled Epstein. She said the Justice Department released documents containing victims’ names, phone numbers, addresses and deeply personal details, even after survivors and their lawyers had identified info...

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...

An unsealed defense memo raised questions about whether Bryan Kohberger fully understood the consequences of pleading guilty to the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. According to the filing, members of Kohberger’s defense team had concerns about whether he was thinking rationally and comprehending what he was agreeing to when he accepted the deal that remo...

Todd Blanche’s reply argues that the court should partially stay its enforcement order while the Justice Department appeals, particularly as it relates to the review and production of foreign-language Epstein materials. The government contends that the court’s September enforcement order went beyond simply implementing the earlier injunction and instead imposed new obligations and deadlines that D...

Todd Blanche’s reply argues that the court should partially stay its enforcement order while the Justice Department appeals, particularly as it relates to the review and production of foreign-language Epstein materials. The government contends that the court’s September enforcement order went beyond simply implementing the earlier injunction and instead imposed new obligations and deadlines that D...

Ghislaine Maxwell bought the secluded 156-acre New Hampshire estate known as “Tucked Away” for about $1.1 million in December 2019, roughly seven months before the FBI arrested her there. Newly released Justice Department records showed that Swiss banking giant UBS transferred nearly $8 million from an account tied to a trust associated with Maxwell shortly before the purchase, with the money then...

Highbridge Capital Management was a major New York hedge fund founded by Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca that had grown into one of the most successful alternative-asset managers on Wall Street by the early 2000s. In 2004, JPMorgan Chase acquired a majority stake in Highbridge, which was managing roughly $7 billion at the time, giving the bank a much larger foothold in the rapidly expanding hedge-fun...

Highbridge Capital Management was a major New York hedge fund founded by Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca that had grown into one of the most successful alternative-asset managers on Wall Street by the early 2000s. In 2004, JPMorgan Chase acquired a majority stake in Highbridge, which was managing roughly $7 billion at the time, giving the bank a much larger foothold in the rapidly expanding hedge-fun...

In January 2022, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Prince Andrew’s effort to have Virginia Giuffre’s civil sexual-abuse lawsuit thrown out, dismantling several of the arguments advanced by the prince’s legal team. Andrew’s attorneys had argued that Giuffre’s 2009 settlement with Jeffrey Epstein protected Andrew from being sued because the agreement released certain “potential defendants.”...

Ghislaine Maxwell spends nearly two years in pretrial detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn following her July 2020 arrest, repeatedly describing her confinement as unusually harsh and punitive. Through her attorneys, she tells the court that she is kept under constant surveillance, subjected to invasive searches and awakened throughout the night by guards shining flashlights...

Prince Andrew has been progressively shut out of prominent royal occasions as his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the allegations made by Virginia Giuffre turned him into a reputational liability for the monarchy. Organizers planning Prince Philip’s 100th-birthday commemorations reportedly intended to exclude Andrew from the principal celebrations and omit photographs of him from a planned e...

The newly released congressional photo of Epstein’s interior space reveals far more than a disturbing aesthetic choice; it is a psychological blueprint of how he engineered environments to dominate and destabilize the people he brought into them. The dental chair at the center of the room, the sickly yellow masks staring directly at it, the medical cabinetry, the stacked massage tables, and the na...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on federal banking regulators to investigate Jes Staley and other current and former banking executives who may have helped Jeffrey Epstein maintain access to the financial system despite mounting concerns about his conduct. In an October 2025 letter to the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Warren focu...

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...

Katie Phang is opposing Attorney General Todd Blanche’s request to partially stay a September 16 enforcement order requiring the Justice Department to begin reviewing and producing foreign-language materials potentially covered by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Phang’s filing argues that Blanche has already ignored the underlying June 25 preliminary injunction for nearly three months, includi...

Katie Phang is opposing Attorney General Todd Blanche’s request to partially stay a September 16 enforcement order requiring the Justice Department to begin reviewing and producing foreign-language materials potentially covered by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Phang’s filing argues that Blanche has already ignored the underlying June 25 preliminary injunction for nearly three months, includi...

Newly released records show that Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a surprisingly deep relationship with the emerging cryptocurrency world years after his 2008 conviction, positioning himself as an investor, connector and adviser while Bitcoin and other digital assets were still in their infancy. The records detail his dealings with crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce, who introduced Epstein to early invest...

Newly released records show that Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a surprisingly deep relationship with the emerging cryptocurrency world years after his 2008 conviction, positioning himself as an investor, connector and adviser while Bitcoin and other digital assets were still in their infancy. The records detail his dealings with crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce, who introduced Epstein to early invest...

Epstein survivors say the financial consequences of the abuse have continued long after their encounters with Jeffrey Epstein ended, affecting their ability to work, obtain medical treatment and maintain financial stability. Survivors described paying significant out-of-pocket costs for therapy, physical rehabilitation and other health care while also losing income because of trauma, advocacy work...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate drew criticism almost from the moment Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn took control of it because the two men were not neutral outsiders but longtime members of Epstein’s financial and legal inner circle. They inherited responsibility for administering an estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars while also responding to lawsuits, government scrutiny and demands from surv...