The Epstein Chronicles

FirstBank Puerto Rico has asked a federal judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the bank of participating in and profiting from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The anonymous plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, alleged that FirstBank provided Epstein and his associates with banking services for more than two decades, gaining access to financial information that should have exp...

The Justice Department has still not turned over the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records requested by New Mexico investigators, missing a July 31 deadline imposed by state Attorney General Raúl Torrez. New Mexico reopened its criminal investigation into allegations of sexual abuse and trafficking at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch earlier this year, but the federal government has provided only 31 pages of la...

Court records involving Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were filled for years with anonymous labels such as “John Doe,” “Jane Doe” and numbered variations of those names. The pseudonyms appeared most prominently in records from Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Maxwell, where depositions, emails, motions and exhibits discussed dozens of people whose identities remained sealed. So...

Prince Andrew offered a series of explanations for why Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s allegations could not be true, but many of them only intensified public skepticism. During his disastrous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview, Andrew said he had no recollection of meeting Giuffre and claimed he had been at a Pizza Express in Woking with his daughter on the night she said they had been together. His most wi...

Jane Doe 17, who filed a lawsuit against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, alleges that Epstein began grooming and sexually abusing her in 2008, when she was 26 years old and working in Florida. According to her complaint, Epstein, with assistance from Ghislaine Maxwell, lured her into his circle through promises of career help and lavish gifts. He then trafficked her across multiple locations—includ...

The PROMIS software scandal and the Jeffrey Epstein case, while separated by decades and context, share strikingly similar hallmarks. PROMIS began as a prosecutorial tool but was allegedly modified by intelligence services like Mossad to include backdoors, enabling covert surveillance when installed in foreign governments and financial institutions. Robert Maxwell, the British media tycoon and sus...

The PROMIS software scandal and the Jeffrey Epstein case, while separated by decades and context, share strikingly similar hallmarks. PROMIS began as a prosecutorial tool but was allegedly modified by intelligence services like Mossad to include backdoors, enabling covert surveillance when installed in foreign governments and financial institutions. Robert Maxwell, the British media tycoon and sus...

Utah prosecutors argued in their bindover memorandum that the evidence presented during Tyler Robinson’s five-day preliminary hearing easily established probable cause for him to stand trial on all seven charges connected to the killing of Charlie Kirk. The state pointed to Robinson’s alleged admissions to his roommate, Lance Twiggs, and several friends, including messages in which he reportedly a...

Bryan Kohberger’s effort to withdraw his guilty plea is likely to place the families of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin back into a legal process they had been told was effectively over. The plea agreement was intended to provide finality by guaranteeing that Kohberger would spend the rest of his life in prison without the uncertainty of a capital trial, years of ap...

Kathy Ruemmler told congressional investigators that she regretted associating with Jeffrey Epstein but maintained that she did not know he was continuing to abuse girls and young women after his 2008 conviction. The former Obama White House counsel acknowledged meeting with Epstein repeatedly, visiting his properties, exchanging numerous emails with him and accepting professional assistance and g...

Kathy Ruemmler told congressional investigators that she regretted associating with Jeffrey Epstein but maintained that she did not know he was continuing to abuse girls and young women after his 2008 conviction. The former Obama White House counsel acknowledged meeting with Epstein repeatedly, visiting his properties, exchanging numerous emails with him and accepting professional assistance and g...

Kathy Ruemmler told congressional investigators that she regretted associating with Jeffrey Epstein but maintained that she did not know he was continuing to abuse girls and young women after his 2008 conviction. The former Obama White House counsel acknowledged meeting with Epstein repeatedly, visiting his properties, exchanging numerous emails with him and accepting professional assistance and g...

Ghislaine Maxwell has repeatedly tried to recast herself as something other than Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, shifting between portraying herself as his unsuspecting former girlfriend, a household employee with no knowledge of his abuse, a convenient scapegoat for his crimes and even a victim of an unfair prosecution. At trial, her defense suggested that survivors had unreliable memories and were...

Jeffrey Epstein first appeared on a federal regulator’s radar in 1981, when the Securities and Exchange Commission questioned him under oath during an investigation into trading connected to a corporate tender offer while he was associated with Bear Stearns. That proceeding did not concern sexual abuse and did not result in criminal charges against him, but it showed that Epstein had been subjecte...

Lesley Groff was Jeffrey Epstein’s longest-serving and most senior assistant, working for him from 2001 until his 2019 arrest, and the newly examined records place her closer to his daily life than almost anyone else in the Epstein files. Her name reportedly appears more than any other name in the released material, because she handled the machinery of Epstein’s world: calendars, travel, calls, ap...

Jeffrey Epstein used his friendship with Prince Andrew as a powerful form of social validation. Association with a senior member of the British royal family gave Epstein access to royal residences, aristocratic circles, prominent business figures and influential political contacts that would otherwise have been difficult to reach. Andrew’s presence helped Epstein present himself not merely as a we...

Jeffrey Epstein’s “Core Four” referred to the group of women who played key roles in recruiting and managing his trafficking operation. These four women—Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff—allegedly helped Epstein lure underage girls into his network, scheduling massages that often turned into abuse. **Ghislaine Maxwell**, the most infamous of the group, acted as Epstei...

Paolo Zampolli is presented as a key figure in the Trump-Melania-Epstein timeline because he says he introduced Melania to Donald Trump in 1998 and insists Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with it. Zampolli ran ID Models, helped bring Melania into the U.S. modeling world, and later became closely tied to Trump socially and politically. His account matters because Epstein’s files and related repor...

This FBI FD-302 memorializes a December 4, 2019 proffer interview with a heavily redacted woman who described both financial and sexual dimensions of her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. She told investigators that in late 2018, after financial stress connected to apartment renovations and after public reporting on Epstein had already intensified, she met Epstein at his New York residence and ex...

The October 24, 2025 hearing centered on Tyler Robinson’s request to appear at future court proceedings in civilian clothing and without restraints. His attorneys argued that routinely presenting him in jail clothing and shackles would undermine the presumption of innocence, interfere with his ability to participate in his defense and create prejudicial images that could spread through extensive m...

While studying criminal justice at DeSales University in 2020, Bryan Kohberger wrote a 12-page paper titled “Crime-Scene Scenario Final” describing how investigators should process the fictional stabbing death of a 35-year-old woman. The paper laid out procedures for securing the scene, obtaining a search warrant, contacting supervisors, forensic personnel and the coroner, photographing evidence a...

Ted Waitt told the House Oversight Committee that he met Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein at a Hong Kong dinner in November 2003 and began dating Maxwell the following year, remaining in a relationship with her until September 2010. Waitt portrayed his own contact with Epstein as extremely limited, saying he had only a brief introduction at the dinner, one arranged meeting at Maxwell’s New Yo...

Ted Waitt told the House Oversight Committee that he met Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein at a Hong Kong dinner in November 2003 and began dating Maxwell the following year, remaining in a relationship with her until September 2010. Waitt portrayed his own contact with Epstein as extremely limited, saying he had only a brief introduction at the dinner, one arranged meeting at Maxwell’s New Yo...

Ted Waitt told the House Oversight Committee that he met Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein at a Hong Kong dinner in November 2003 and began dating Maxwell the following year, remaining in a relationship with her until September 2010. Waitt portrayed his own contact with Epstein as extremely limited, saying he had only a brief introduction at the dinner, one arranged meeting at Maxwell’s New Yo...

Jeffrey Epstein’s “Core Four” referred to the group of women who played key roles in recruiting and managing his trafficking operation. These four women—Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff—allegedly helped Epstein lure underage girls into his network, scheduling massages that often turned into abuse. **Ghislaine Maxwell**, the most infamous of the group, acted as Epstei...