The Epstein Chronicles

Maritza Vazquez, who worked as a bookkeeper for MC2 Model Management, provided critical testimony placing Jean‑Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein at the center of a carefully managed system of underage recruitment and abuse. In her deposition, she identified Brunel as a regular passenger on Epstein’s private jet and noted that Epstein often traveled with girls recruited through MC2—some as young as 14...

Maritza Vazquez, who worked as a bookkeeper for MC2 Model Management, provided critical testimony placing Jean‑Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein at the center of a carefully managed system of underage recruitment and abuse. In her deposition, she identified Brunel as a regular passenger on Epstein’s private jet and noted that Epstein often traveled with girls recruited through MC2—some as young as 14...

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...

JPMorgan Chase’s memorandum of law opposed Jes Staley’s effort to dismiss the bank’s third-party claims against him in the Epstein litigation, arguing that Staley’s own conduct was central to why JPMorgan faced massive legal exposure in the first place. The bank portrayed Staley as far more than an executive who happened to know Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that he was Epstein’s principal internal ad...

JPMorgan Chase’s memorandum of law opposed Jes Staley’s effort to dismiss the bank’s third-party claims against him in the Epstein litigation, arguing that Staley’s own conduct was central to why JPMorgan faced massive legal exposure in the first place. The bank portrayed Staley as far more than an executive who happened to know Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that he was Epstein’s principal internal ad...

JPMorgan Chase’s memorandum of law opposed Jes Staley’s effort to dismiss the bank’s third-party claims against him in the Epstein litigation, arguing that Staley’s own conduct was central to why JPMorgan faced massive legal exposure in the first place. The bank portrayed Staley as far more than an executive who happened to know Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that he was Epstein’s principal internal ad...

JPMorgan Chase’s memorandum of law opposed Jes Staley’s effort to dismiss the bank’s third-party claims against him in the Epstein litigation, arguing that Staley’s own conduct was central to why JPMorgan faced massive legal exposure in the first place. The bank portrayed Staley as far more than an executive who happened to know Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that he was Epstein’s principal internal ad...

From the very beginning of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, survivors were repeatedly treated as secondary to the reputations, careers and legal interests of the powerful people and institutions surrounding him. In Palm Beach, girls who came forward were subjected to aggressive scrutiny while Epstein received an extraordinarily favorable non-prosecution agreement negotiated in secret. Federal prosecut...

Prince Andrew’s transition from working royal to something resembling civilian life has been rough because almost every part of his adult existence was built around the privileges, money and insulation of the monarchy. After the disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview over Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, Andrew stepped back from public duties and gradually lost military affiliations, patronages,...

The jury that convicted Ghislaine Maxwell in December 2021 spent several days deliberating after a monthlong federal trial and ultimately found her guilty on five of six counts, including sex trafficking of a minor and multiple conspiracy charges. Jurors repeatedly asked to review testimony and evidence as they worked through the case, including material connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s pilots and t...

Before Ghislaine Maxwell purchased the secluded New Hampshire estate where she would later be arrested, she reportedly asked the real-estate broker an unusually specific question: what were the flight patterns over the property? The broker later recalled thinking the question was strange, especially because Maxwell was already going to extraordinary lengths to keep her identity out of the transact...

The Epstein jail logs from his 2008-2009 sentence in Palm Beach County showed just how unusual his incarceration was and how much access he continued to have to people from his outside life. Epstein served less than 13 months of an 18-month sentence, and after only a few months he was allowed out on work release for as much as 12 hours a day, six days a week, later expanding to even longer hours....

Prince Andrew reportedly vacationed in Phuket, Thailand, with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001, during a period when Andrew’s relationship with Epstein was far closer than he would later publicly suggest. According to the reporting, Andrew stayed at the ultra-exclusive Amanpuri resort, where private villas could cost thousands of pounds per night, while Epstein and Maxwell were also i...

The third judge has now denied the Trump administration’s request to release Epstein’s grand jury documents, and while it’s being spun as a setback, the truth is the administration knew this was coming all along. Grand jury materials are sealed by design, and no court was going to break decades of precedent. The request was never about actually getting those documents—it was about making a move th...

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...

The State’s amended supplemental expert disclosure for Idaho State Police forensic scientist Tina Walthall outlined the latent-print testimony prosecutors expected to present in Bryan Kohberger’s case. Walthall was identified as a forensic science expert specializing in fingerprints and friction-ridge evidence, and the disclosure said she would explain how latent prints were deposited, developed,...

The U.S. Virgin Islands moved to intervene in litigation brought by Epstein survivors against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate because the territory argued that it had its own substantial legal and financial interests in the same pool of assets. The USVI was already pursuing a sweeping civil enforcement case against the estate under its Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, alleging that Ep...

On September 11, 2001, I was 21 years old and working at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, where crews had spent the previous day loading in the band 311 for a multi-day event. After working a 16-hour shift, I was asleep when my mother woke me to say that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. At first, I assumed it was a small aircraft and a tragic accident. That changed wh...

French prosecutors said their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s network had identified additional people who may have acted as recruiters, expanding the inquiry beyond the figures already publicly associated with him. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau described the network as “labyrinthine” and said investigators were following dozens of different leads, including connections stretching from New Y...

The Trump administration continues to promote itself as historically transparent, but its handling of Jeffrey Epstein-related records is fueling renewed criticism as European authorities seek information for their own investigations. Officials in Poland, Norway, Latvia and Britain have pursued access to unredacted American records and investigative assistance tied to Epstein-related inquiries, whi...

The Trump administration continues to promote itself as historically transparent, but its handling of Jeffrey Epstein-related records is fueling renewed criticism as European authorities seek information for their own investigations. Officials in Poland, Norway, Latvia and Britain have pursued access to unredacted American records and investigative assistance tied to Epstein-related inquiries, whi...

Deutsche Bank’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein was riddled with compliance failures even though the bank knew exactly how risky he was. Epstein became a Deutsche Bank client in 2013 after JPMorgan finally cut him loose, and the bank classified him as high risk because of his 2008 conviction and the public allegations surrounding his abuse of young women. Yet New York regulators later found that Deuts...

Bank of America’s relationship to Jeffrey Epstein’s financial network became a major legal and regulatory problem because survivors alleged the bank processed suspicious transactions involving people and entities around Epstein while failing to report obvious red flags quickly enough. The most significant issue involved roughly $170 million that Leon Black sent to Epstein between 2012 and 2017 thr...

MC2 Model Management was a modeling agency created in 2005 from the U.S. operations of French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, with offices in New York and Miami. Brunel had already faced allegations dating back years concerning his treatment of young models, and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein had become extremely close by the early 2000s. Epstein was not simply another acquaintance hanging...

On September 8–9, 2025, lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate turned over a leather-bound “birthday book” created for his 50th birthday in 2003 to the House Oversight Committee, complying with a subpoena. The committee then made the material public, including a controversial page featuring a crude sketch of a naked woman, allegedly signed by Donald Trump with the message: “Happy Birthday — and may...