The Epstein Chronicles

Former New Mexico Attorney General Gary King’s effort to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein rested heavily on semantics, particularly his insistence that Epstein “wasn’t my friend.” But the documentary record made that explanation look increasingly strained. Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell contributed thousands of dollars to King’s political campaigns, Epstein had longstanding ties to the King fa...

Jeffrey Epstein’s control over the girls and young women he exploited went far beyond the abuse itself. Survivor accounts and court records describe a system in which Epstein gathered intimate information about their families, finances, ambitions, relationships, immigration problems, insecurities and personal crises, then used those vulnerabilities as leverage. In that sense, the information funct...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal troubles have steadily consumed the fortune and lifestyle that once placed her among the wealthy and well-connected circles surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. Years of civil litigation were already generating enormous legal bills before her 2020 arrest, and Maxwell had previously sought reimbursement from Epstein’s estate for expenses she said she incurred because of allegation...

Prince Andrew was warned before he ever sat down with BBC Newsnight that the interview could do far more damage than good. His public-relations adviser Jason Stein reportedly urged him not to participate, favoring a slower strategy designed to rehabilitate Andrew’s image without subjecting him to a lengthy, unscripted interrogation about Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre. Stein’s advice was ign...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has reportedly been left feeling increasingly isolated after being excluded entirely from this year’s Order of the Garter ceremony at Windsor Castle. Andrew had participated in the event in previous years and attended its private pre-ceremony lunch as recently as last year, but his removal from the order meant he was absent from every part of the 2026 observance. A sourc...

Pizza Express carried out an internal inquiry into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s infamous claim that he was at its Woking branch on March 10, 2001 — the same date Virginia Giuffre alleged she was sexually abused by him after being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew used the Woking visit during his 2019 BBC Newsnight interview as part of his denial, saying he had taken Princess Beatrice to a chil...

Bryan Kohberger is scheduled to return to court on October 15, 2026, as his new legal team continues trying to undo the guilty plea that sent him to prison for the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The October hearing is expected to focus on the defense effort to disqualify Judge Steven Hippler from presiding over Kohberger’s post-conviction case. Hippler...

The State’s rebuttal to defense expert Matthew Noedel focused on challenging the significance of his conclusions about the absence of victim blood or other victim-linked biological material in Bryan Kohberger’s car and residence. Noedel had emphasized that investigators conducted an extensive search of Kohberger’s vehicle and apartment and did not find blood tied to Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

Julia Molchanova, a Russian woman who met Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2011 when she was 22, described how he drew her into what she later called a “cult”-like system of control by exploiting her ambitions and vulnerabilities. Epstein initially promised to help her pursue fashion design and attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, paid for classes and helped her move to New York, but the prom...

Julia Molchanova, a Russian woman who met Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2011 when she was 22, described how he drew her into what she later called a “cult”-like system of control by exploiting her ambitions and vulnerabilities. Epstein initially promised to help her pursue fashion design and attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, paid for classes and helped her move to New York, but the prom...

Jes Staley’s fall from the highest levels of global banking was extraordinary because so much of it ultimately traced back to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Staley spent decades climbing through JPMorgan, eventually running its investment bank and becoming one of Wall Street’s most powerful executives before taking over as chief executive of Barclays in 2015. But Epstein followed him into...

The U.S. Virgin Islands’ lawsuit against JPMorgan was unusually aggressive because it did not merely accuse the bank of missing warning signs around Jeffrey Epstein; it accused JPMorgan of knowingly becoming part of the infrastructure that allowed his trafficking operation to function. The territory alleged that the bank continued serving Epstein for years despite repeated red flags, suspicious ca...

Bill Clinton’s testimony to Congress created a glaring problem when it came to Jeffrey Epstein’s White House access. Clinton reportedly told lawmakers that he remembered first meeting Epstein in the early 2000s, after his presidency, largely in connection with travel and philanthropic work. But White House visitor logs showed Epstein entering the Clinton White House repeatedly during the 1990s, wi...

Thames Valley Police detectives are reportedly preparing to travel to the United States to interview relatives of Virginia Giuffre as part of their expanding investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Officers are expected to speak with Giuffre’s brother, Sky Roberts, and his wife, Amanda, about her allegations that Andrew sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was a teenager. Andr...

The House Oversight Committee’s Epstein investigation is about to hit the one-year mark, and according to Politico, there is no real sign that the probe is winding down. The central point is that, even without a single clean “smoking gun,” the investigation has developed too much political gravity to simply disappear. The committee remains under pressure to keep digging into Epstein’s network, his...

The Lori Vallow case provides a stark test of the argument that severe mental illness should, by itself, substantially diminish or erase criminal responsibility for the killing of children. Vallow embraced an elaborate delusional worldview involving zombies, dark spirits, apocalyptic prophecy and supernatural classifications of the people around her, including her own children. If the mere existen...

The State’s rebuttal to defense expert Matthew Noedel focused on challenging the significance of his conclusions about the absence of victim blood or other victim-linked biological material in Bryan Kohberger’s car and residence. Noedel had emphasized that investigators conducted an extensive search of Kohberger’s vehicle and apartment and did not find blood tied to Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

The transcripts from Jes Staley’s July 24, 2026 interview with the House Oversight Committee revealed just how deep and personal his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became, while also exposing contradictions in the way Staley had described that relationship publicly. Staley acknowledged visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dozens of times, traveling to Little St. James on multiple occasions an...

New Mexico state Rep. Andrea Romero, the Democratic chair of the state’s Epstein Survivors Truth Commission, is facing growing calls to step aside amid an ethics controversy involving her outside employment and the commission’s own resources. Republican lawmakers questioned whether Romero violated state law by simultaneously serving in the Legislature and holding a paid part-time position with the...

A new ABC documentary revisits Jeffrey Epstein’s August 2019 death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and gives substantial attention to people who reject or question the official ruling of suicide by hanging. Epstein lawyer David Schoen said Epstein had denied trying to kill himself during the earlier July 2019 incident that landed him on suicide watch, claiming instead that a cellmate had p...

Dani Bensky, who says Jeffrey Epstein abused her beginning when she was 17, described the Epstein case as a spectacular institutional failure by the United States, arguing that the government has repeatedly failed survivors while allowing powerful people around Epstein to escape meaningful scrutiny. Bensky said Epstein initially manipulated her through her dream of becoming a professional ballet d...