The Epstein Chronicles

Prince Andrew reportedly used private access to Buckingham Palace as a way to impress women connected to Jeffrey Epstein, with one of the most striking attractions being the opportunity to sit on the monarch’s throne. Accounts have described Andrew leading unauthorized or highly unusual private tours through restricted areas of the palace, treating spaces associated with the Crown as though they w...

Vice President JD Vance said he wants further investigation into certain materials within the newly released Epstein files after encountering emails that he believed raised concerns. While speaking at a public event, Vance referenced a message mentioning “pizza and grape soda,” saying it reminded him of language associated with the “Pizzagate” misdirection. He stated that his reaction was that the...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s federal trial was originally scheduled to begin on July 12, 2021, but it was postponed after prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding new sex-trafficking charges. Maxwell’s lawyers argued that the additional allegations significantly expanded the case and left them without enough time to examine the new evidence, conduct further investigations and prepare an adequate d...

People like Prince Andrew can use wealth, status and institutional access to create distance between themselves and the consequences that would quickly overwhelm an ordinary person. Money pays for elite lawyers, public-relations teams, private settlements and years of procedural resistance, while social position provides access to influential figures who can manage scandals rather than confront th...

Kathryn Ruemmler faced sharp bipartisan criticism after spending six hours answering questions before the House Oversight Committee about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Lawmakers said they did not believe she had been fully candid, particularly when she attempted to characterize their association as limited or professional. Democratic ranking member Robert Garcia said her answers did not a...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

On August 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released redacted transcripts and audio recordings of a two-day interview it conducted in July with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring. During the interview, Maxwell denied ever seeing any inappropriate behavior by former President Donald Trump, describing him...

On August 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released redacted transcripts and audio recordings of a two-day interview it conducted in July with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring. During the interview, Maxwell denied ever seeing any inappropriate behavior by former President Donald Trump, describing him...

On August 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released redacted transcripts and audio recordings of a two-day interview it conducted in July with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring. During the interview, Maxwell denied ever seeing any inappropriate behavior by former President Donald Trump, describing him...

On August 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released redacted transcripts and audio recordings of a two-day interview it conducted in July with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring. During the interview, Maxwell denied ever seeing any inappropriate behavior by former President Donald Trump, describing him...

On August 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released redacted transcripts and audio recordings of a two-day interview it conducted in July with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring. During the interview, Maxwell denied ever seeing any inappropriate behavior by former President Donald Trump, describing him...

During a 2016 deposition connected to Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when attorneys questioned him about his sexual conduct and relationships with powerful associates. When the questioning turned to Prince Andrew, Epstein refused to provide substantive answers, relying on the F...

Leon Black has repeatedly tried to narrow and sanitize his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by describing it as a regrettable but strictly professional arrangement centered on tax planning, estate matters and financial advice. After the scale of the relationship became public, Black called his decision to work with Epstein a “horrible mistake” and portrayed himself as someone who had been deceive...

Ghislaine Maxwell has said for years that Jeffrey Epstein promised to pay any legal fees that she might incur due to her work with him. However, there is no documentation of this agreement that the estate says is legally binding. With the two sides at odds, the issue was taken to a courtroom. Now, four years later and with no resoloution, the estate is asking that the suit be thrown out based on t...

The Wall Street Journal published an exclusive account revealing what it says was the specific incident that led Donald Trump to ban Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago’s spa in 2003. According to the report, Mar-a-Lago had been sending spa employees to provide services at Epstein’s nearby Palm Beach mansion for years, even as staff privately warned one another about Epstein’s increasingly inappropria...

Utah taxpayers could ultimately spend more than $10 million defending Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk, because prosecutors are seeking the death penalty and Robinson has been declared unable to pay for his own representation. Utah County initially approved $1 million to cover expenses for both the prosecution and Robinson’s specialized defense team, while officials later...

Trump’s election-integrity speech exposed a glaring double standard in how his administration treats government records. When FBI, CIA, or intelligence-community files appear to support his claims about election fraud, he presents them as authoritative proof of a hidden conspiracy and demands that the public trust their contents. Yet when the Epstein record raises uncomfortable questions about pow...

Trump’s election-integrity speech exposed a glaring double standard in how his administration treats government records. When FBI, CIA, or intelligence-community files appear to support his claims about election fraud, he presents them as authoritative proof of a hidden conspiracy and demands that the public trust their contents. Yet when the Epstein record raises uncomfortable questions about pow...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met with several Jeffrey Epstein survivors at the Justice Department as his confirmation vote remained uncertain in the Senate. Afterward, Annie Farmer said the meeting strengthened her belief that senators should reject his nomination, describing Blanche as abrasive, condescending and deliberately noncommittal. Farmer said Blanche would not promise to investig...

Two activists from the anti-monarchy group Republic entered Buckingham Palace during public visiting hours and staged a protest inside the Throne Room. After blending in with other tourists, they unveiled a large image of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with Jeffrey Epstein and displayed a banner asking, “What did you know?” The demonstration was designed to confront the monarchy over its handling of t...

For more than three decades, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have come forward with warnings, allegations and firsthand accounts, only to be dismissed, doubted or pushed aside by institutions that should have protected them. Complaints reached law enforcement as early as the 1990s, and by the mid-2000s investigators in Palm Beach had assembled evidence showing that Epstein was systematically...

Prince Andrew became the most disliked member of the British royal family through a long collapse in public trust driven overwhelmingly by his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his handling of the allegations made by Virginia Giuffre. His disastrous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview intensified the damage when he defended his continued association with Epstein, offered explanations that were widely...

Judge Loretta Preska played the decisive role in beginning the large-scale release of documents from Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell. After taking responsibility for reviewing the sealed record, Preska rejected the idea that entire categories of court filings should remain hidden indefinitely. She examined the materials individually, weighed legitimate privacy conce...

Denise George was removed as attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands at the end of December 2022, only days after she filed a sweeping federal lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase over the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. George alleged that JPMorgan knowingly benefited from Epstein’s business, ignored repeated warning signs and provided financial services that helped sustain his sex-traffi...