The Epstein Chronicles

The New York Times has reported that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein shared a much closer relationship in the late 1980s through the 1990s and early 2000s than Trump has publicly acknowledged. According to the Times, Epstein described Trump as his “best friend,” and the two socialized frequently at parties, spoke often by phone, and were part of the same high-society circles, particularly bonding...

The New York Times has reported that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein shared a much closer relationship in the late 1980s through the 1990s and early 2000s than Trump has publicly acknowledged. According to the Times, Epstein described Trump as his “best friend,” and the two socialized frequently at parties, spoke often by phone, and were part of the same high-society circles, particularly bonding...

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...

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...

Vicky Ward became part of the Epstein story through her 2003 Vanity Fair profile, “The Talented Mr. Epstein,” one of the earliest major magazine examinations of his mysterious wealth, relationship with Leslie Wexner and access to powerful people. Ward’s reporting raised serious questions about Epstein’s financial history and described threats made against her while she was preparing the story. Mor...

Some of the most powerful figures and institutions on Wall Street treated Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal history as a manageable reputational problem rather than a reason to cut him off. JPMorgan Chase kept Epstein as a client until 2013, five years after he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor, while he continued moving large sums of money, withdrawing substantial amounts of cash an...

The transcripts from Howard Lutnick’s closed-door appearance before Congress painted a picture of a witness trying to minimize both the depth and duration of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while lawmakers confronted him with records suggesting far more contact than he had previously acknowledged. Lutnick repeatedly described his interactions with Epstein as “inconsequential,” insisting he o...

The transcripts from Howard Lutnick’s closed-door appearance before Congress painted a picture of a witness trying to minimize both the depth and duration of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while lawmakers confronted him with records suggesting far more contact than he had previously acknowledged. Lutnick repeatedly described his interactions with Epstein as “inconsequential,” insisting he o...

The transcripts from Howard Lutnick’s closed-door appearance before Congress painted a picture of a witness trying to minimize both the depth and duration of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while lawmakers confronted him with records suggesting far more contact than he had previously acknowledged. Lutnick repeatedly described his interactions with Epstein as “inconsequential,” insisting he o...

A South Carolina woman told the FBI in multiple 2019 interviews that Jeffrey Epstein abused and trafficked her when she was a minor, beginning around age 13. She described being recruited into Epstein’s orbit and transported to various locations where the abuse allegedly occurred. As part of her account, she claimed she was introduced to Donald Trump during that time, placing him within the same c...

The situation surrounding the Epstein files has become increasingly tangled inside the Trump-era Justice Department, with conflicting signals creating more confusion than clarity. After former attorney general Pam Bondi failed to comply with a congressional subpoena over her handling of the files, lawmakers began threatening contempt proceedings, arguing that her departure from the role does not a...

Members of Congress are sharply divided over the idea of a potential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, with the debate emerging in the context of ongoing investigations into Jeffrey Epstein’s network. Some Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have indicated they would consider supporting a pardon if it meant securing Maxwell’s full cooperation and testimony, viewing it as a possible way to ext...

Charlie Kirk was killed in what amounts to a political assassination, and the gravity of that cannot be softened, blurred, or buried under the usual noise. This was not just another violent crime, not just another court case, and not just another headline for people to weaponize for a news cycle. It was the killing of a public political figure in front of the country, followed almost immediately b...

Charlie Kirk was killed in what amounts to a political assassination, and the gravity of that cannot be softened, blurred, or buried under the usual noise. This was not just another violent crime, not just another court case, and not just another headline for people to weaponize for a news cycle. It was the killing of a public political figure in front of the country, followed almost immediately b...

Charlie Kirk was killed in what amounts to a political assassination, and the gravity of that cannot be softened, blurred, or buried under the usual noise. This was not just another violent crime, not just another court case, and not just another headline for people to weaponize for a news cycle. It was the killing of a public political figure in front of the country, followed almost immediately b...

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...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the Justice Department of obstructing the state’s reopened criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch by refusing to provide complete, unredacted federal files. Torrez says the withheld material contains the names of survivors, witnesses, suspected co-conspirators and other people considered essential to determining what happened a...

Epstein survivors have publicly challenged Lesley Groff's testimony before Congress, arguing that her portrayal of herself as someone who knew nothing about Epstein's abuse operation is fundamentally incompatible with their experiences. During her June 2026 testimony, Groff described Epstein as a "master manipulator" who kept his criminal conduct hidden from her and insisted that she never knowing...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team tried to use juror Scotty David as the crowbar to pry open her conviction, arguing that he should never have been seated on the jury because he failed to disclose his own history of sexual abuse during jury selection. After Maxwell was convicted, David gave media interviews saying that he had been abused as a child and that he used that experience during deliberation...

The psyche behind the people who enabled Jeffrey Epstein was built on a toxic mix of ambition, cowardice, greed, access, and moral compartmentalization. Epstein surrounded himself with people who either wanted something from him, feared losing something because of him, or convinced themselves that the obvious ugliness around him was not their problem to confront. For some, he was a gateway to mone...

Congress has treated the Epstein money trail like a side corridor instead of the main road, and that is the core failure. There have been moves in the right direction — House Oversight sought suspicious activity reports from Treasury, Democrats pushed for subpoenas to major financial institutions, and Chairman James Comer later subpoenaed JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank for Epstein-related financial re...

The idea of granting a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell is more than just controversial—it fundamentally undermines the logic of accountability. Maxwell is a convicted participant in a system of child exploitation, and any argument that pardoning her would advance an investigation falls apart under scrutiny. Her credibility as a witness is deeply compromised by her conviction and documented history of...

The idea of granting a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell is more than just controversial—it fundamentally undermines the logic of accountability. Maxwell is a convicted participant in a system of child exploitation, and any argument that pardoning her would advance an investigation falls apart under scrutiny. Her credibility as a witness is deeply compromised by her conviction and documented history of...

Congressional Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a set of 19 photos from a larger trove of over 95,000 images obtained from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, aiming to shed light on his social connections. The photos include well-known figures such as President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, Larry Summers, Woody Allen, and Prince Andrew, often shown...