The Epstein Chronicles

David Schoen was one of the lawyers Jeffrey Epstein consulted near the end of his life, and his account matters because he says Epstein personally denied that the July 2019 neck-injury incident at the Metropolitan Correctional Center was a suicide attempt. According to Schoen, Epstein told him that his cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, had caused the injury during what was described as some kind of...

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were not treated like radioactive outcasts after Epstein’s first arrest; in many elite circles, they were still welcomed, tolerated, or quietly absorbed back into the social machinery of high society. Epstein’s 2006 arrest and 2008 conviction should have made him untouchable, but money, access, famous friends, private jets, philanthropy, and the protective man...

Bill Gates was not honest, or at minimum not fully forthcoming, about the true depth and consequences of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. For years, the public explanation was basically that Gates met Epstein because he believed Epstein might help raise money for global health philanthropy, and Gates later called the relationship a “huge mistake.” But reporting has shown the relationship was...

A cybersecurity breach exposed files connected to the FBI’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein after a hacker gained unauthorized access to a server at the FBI’s New York Field Office in February 2023. The intrusion occurred at the bureau’s Child Exploitation Forensic Lab when a server used to handle digital evidence was accidentally left vulnerable by an FBI special agent navigating internal proced...

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has called for a formal investigation into how the Justice Department handled the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the department may not have fully complied with the law requiring the disclosure of those files. The lawmakers asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct an independent review of the process used to coll...

A group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors has filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration and Google, alleging that the release of Epstein-related files exposed their private and identifying information to the public. The lawsuit claims the Department of Justice prioritized rapid disclosure of documents over protecting victims’ identities, resulting in sensitive personal details of ro...

In the premiere episode of Last Channel Before Dawn, we enter the ruined life of Evan, a man who has spent ten years trapped inside the aftermath of a disappearance no one could explain and everyone thought they understood. One ordinary autumn hike in the Bitterroot foothills became the dividing line between the life he had and the life he was forced to endure, after Mara Ellison vanished from a t...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

The Epstein files are being framed as more than another royal scandal in Britain; they are being presented as a full institutional crisis hitting the monarchy, Parliament, and the Metropolitan Police all at once. The reporting argues that the newly released U.S. Justice Department documents have accelerated a collapse in public trust, with polling showing support for the monarchy falling below maj...

Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime executive assistant, is set to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee as lawmakers continue digging through Epstein-related records and questioning people who worked inside his operation. Groff worked for Epstein for nearly 20 years, from 2001 until his July 2019 arrest, and told the FBI in 2021 that she was hired after a headhunter describ...

Nadia Marcinko, also known as Nadia Marcinkova, is being pushed back into the center of the Epstein story because of her unusual position inside his world: she has been described as a former teenage model, Epstein girlfriend, assistant, and pilot connected to his private jet, the “Lolita Express.” According to the reporting, she was allegedly recruited through Jean-Luc Brunel’s modeling orbit, lat...

The Southern District of Florida’s handling of Epstein looks even worse when you follow what happened after the sweetheart deal machinery was already moving. This was not just a case where powerful defense lawyers outmaneuvered a federal office; it became a revolving-door story, where people connected to the very office responsible for scrutinizing Epstein later ended up in orbit around Epstein, h...

Pam Bondi has made the Epstein problem worse because she turned what should have been a sober, victim-centered document process into a rolling credibility disaster. She helped raise expectations with public talk about Epstein material being ready for release, including the now-infamous “client list” confusion, only for the DOJ to later walk that back and say no such list existed. The first “phase”...

Scott Borgerson entered the Epstein story through his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, which was initially hidden from public view even as prosecutors later revealed she was married. Borgerson, a tech executive and former Coast Guard officer, was widely identified as Maxwell’s secret husband after her arrest, and court reporting indicated the marriage became part of her bail arguments because...

New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and his siblings are moving to transfer their remaining ownership stake in the NFL franchise to trusts controlled by their children following renewed scrutiny over Tisch’s past association with Jeffrey Epstein. The move comes after newly released Epstein documents revealed hundreds of references to Tisch, including emails from 2013 in which Epstein allegedly di...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s claims that her trial was unfair collapse under even minimal scrutiny. Multiple courts, a jury, and an extensive evidentiary record all reached the same conclusion: she was not a peripheral figure but a central facilitator in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse network. Her conviction was the product of years of investigation, corroborated witness testimony, and documented patterns of beha...

Several Brazilian women have come forward describing how a modeling recruiter connected to Jeffrey Epstein allegedly attempted to recruit them while they were teenagers pursuing careers in the fashion industry. According to accounts gathered by journalists, French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a longtime associate of Epstein, approached young women in Brazil and other parts of South America with...

According to newly surfaced documents and flight records, Jeffrey Epstein continued to traffic women through British airports and even military airfields up until a month before his arrest in July 2019. Analysis of his private jet’s movements shows Epstein’s aircraft landed at UK airports — including Luton, Stansted, Heathrow and RAF bases like Northolt — more than 60 times, and that he booked com...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

Sarah Kellen, Jeffrey Epstein’s former personal assistant, told the House Oversight Committee that she was brought into Prince Andrew’s orbit, including private dinners in Andrew’s Buckingham Palace apartment and Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle. Kellen identified Andrew and Sarah Ferguson as notable figures within Epstein’s network, saying Andrew had been at Epstein’s New...

The new reporting centers on former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, who launched the original mid-2000s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and says the case was undermined once federal prosecutors took control. According to the account, Reiter’s department had gathered evidence from roughly two dozen alleged victims and their families, only to see the matter drift toward the now-infamous 2...

Former correction officer Tova Noel testified before the House Oversight Committee that she was not the orange-colored shape seen moving near the stairs to Jeffrey Epstein’s cell tier around 10:39 p.m. on August 9, 2019, the night before Epstein was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Noel said she never returned to the tier at that time, was not carrying anything orange, and did n...

The rumors that Jeffrey Epstein was connected to Mossad have circulated for years because his operation had several characteristics that looked, to critics and researchers, less like a simple rich-man sex-trafficking ring and more like a possible intelligence-adjacent compromise network. The theory usually rests on a few recurring points: Epstein’s close relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose...