The Epstein Chronicles

In her deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Johanna Sjoberg described being recruited to work for Jeffrey Epstein under the impression that it was a legitimate job opportunity. According to her testimony, she was initially hired to help with office work but was soon asked to give massages to Epstein—something she testified quickly evolved into i...

In her deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Johanna Sjoberg described being recruited to work for Jeffrey Epstein under the impression that it was a legitimate job opportunity. According to her testimony, she was initially hired to help with office work but was soon asked to give massages to Epstein—something she testified quickly evolved into i...

In her deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Johanna Sjoberg described being recruited to work for Jeffrey Epstein under the impression that it was a legitimate job opportunity. According to her testimony, she was initially hired to help with office work but was soon asked to give massages to Epstein—something she testified quickly evolved into i...

Illinois lawmakers have introduced House Bill 5723, dubbed the Illinois Epstein Files Investigation Act, to create a bipartisan state commission with subpoena power tasked with investigating any crimes tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking network that involve Illinois — including offenses that happened in the state, targeted Illinois residents, or involved local institutions. Supporters, led...

Newly released Justice Department memos from the early federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein show that prosecutors were preoccupied with how Epstein’s lawyers might attack the credibility of the girls who accused him of abuse. The memos described concerns that defense attorneys would point to past arrests, drug use, theft allegations, and inconsistencies in early statements to undermine witne...

A federal inmate told investigators that shortly after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, prison guards themselves were openly questioning what had happened. According to the inmate, he overheard officers talking among themselves about the death and one guard bluntly remarked, “Dudes, you killed that dude,” implying that staff believed their ow...

Theresa Helm has alleged that she was deceived and abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s. According to her account, she was approached by Maxwell with what appeared to be a professional opportunity—an interview for a position as a massage therapist for a wealthy couple. Helm, then a young woman aspiring to build a career, accepted the invitation and traveled to Epstein...

In a sworn interview with DOJ Office of Inspector General investigators conducted on June 14, 2021, an unnamed lieutenant and former correctional officer from MCC New York was questioned as part of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the broader security failures surrounding his incarceration. The interview began with investigators explicitly stating that the probe focused not only...

In a sworn interview with DOJ Office of Inspector General investigators conducted on June 14, 2021, an unnamed lieutenant and former correctional officer from MCC New York was questioned as part of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the broader security failures surrounding his incarceration. The interview began with investigators explicitly stating that the probe focused not only...

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 Palm Beach police report reads like the opening chapter of a crime saga everyone wishes had ended sooner. In painstaking detail, investigators laid out how Jeffrey Epstein operated a revolving-door abuse scheme out of his Palm Beach mansion—recruiting underage girls, often as young as 14, under the guise of “massages,” then paying them cash after sexual assaults. The report makes clear this wa...

The Palm Beach police report reads like the opening chapter of a crime saga everyone wishes had ended sooner. In painstaking detail, investigators laid out how Jeffrey Epstein operated a revolving-door abuse scheme out of his Palm Beach mansion—recruiting underage girls, often as young as 14, under the guise of “massages,” then paying them cash after sexual assaults. The report makes clear this wa...

The Palm Beach police report reads like the opening chapter of a crime saga everyone wishes had ended sooner. In painstaking detail, investigators laid out how Jeffrey Epstein operated a revolving-door abuse scheme out of his Palm Beach mansion—recruiting underage girls, often as young as 14, under the guise of “massages,” then paying them cash after sexual assaults. The report makes clear this wa...

The Palm Beach police report reads like the opening chapter of a crime saga everyone wishes had ended sooner. In painstaking detail, investigators laid out how Jeffrey Epstein operated a revolving-door abuse scheme out of his Palm Beach mansion—recruiting underage girls, often as young as 14, under the guise of “massages,” then paying them cash after sexual assaults. The report makes clear this wa...

The Palm Beach police report reads like the opening chapter of a crime saga everyone wishes had ended sooner. In painstaking detail, investigators laid out how Jeffrey Epstein operated a revolving-door abuse scheme out of his Palm Beach mansion—recruiting underage girls, often as young as 14, under the guise of “massages,” then paying them cash after sexual assaults. The report makes clear this wa...

A memoir titled Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, written by Virginia Roberts Giuffre with journalist Amy Wallace, is scheduled for posthumous release on October 21, 2025, from Alfred A. Knopf (with Penguin Random House involved in audio and ebook editions). The 400‑page manuscript was completed prior to Giuffre’s death by suicide in April 2025, and she had conve...

Former Slovak model-turned-pilot Nadia Marcinko (also known as Nadia Marcinkova) — who once worked as a pilot on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, the Lolita Express, and was named as a potential co-conspirator in Epstein’s controversial 2008 non-prosecution deal — cooperated extensively with U.S. federal investigators between 2018 and 2022 in hopes of securing assistance with her immigration status....

Newly surfaced details suggest that **Jeffrey Epstein continued to fly women into the United Kingdom and maintain them in a luxury London flat right up until the day he died in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Flight logs from Epstein’s private jet — often called the **“Lolita Express” — indicate he made dozens of trips to the UK, transporting women who would stay at th...

Former President Bill Clinton testified under subpoena in a closed-door deposition before the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his network. Over about six hours of questioning in Chappaqua, New York, Clinton repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein’s criminal activities, emphasized that their interactions...

In her formal response to the government’s motion, Ghislaine Maxwell opposed the unsealing of grand jury transcripts in her criminal case, arguing that such a release would violate long-standing principles of grand jury secrecy and unfairly prejudice her rights. Her legal team emphasized that the transcripts in question contain sensitive testimony and confidential material that should remain prote...

In 2019, federal prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York asked New Mexico authorities to stop their own sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling Zorro Ranch, located south of Santa Fe, in an effort to avoid potential conflicts with the federal case and the risk of “inconsistent statements” from parallel investigations. At the time, th...

At its core, this hypocrisy dovetails perfectly with the Epstein coverup because it reveals the same moral collapse that allows powerful institutions to operate without accountability while their defenders selectively invoke “law and order” only when it protects the state. The same voices who excuse a federal agent killing a legally armed citizen now are often the same ones who waved away the swee...

Alex Acosta is frequently singled out as the architect of Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement (NPA), but mounting evidence suggests that he was more of a functionary than a decision-maker. As the U.S. Attorney in South Florida, Acosta did sign off on the sweetheart deal that allowed Epstein to avoid federal prosecution and serve minimal time in a county jail. However, emails and DOJ r...

In a sworn interview with DOJ Office of Inspector General investigators conducted on June 14, 2021, an unnamed lieutenant and former correctional officer from MCC New York was questioned as part of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the broader security failures surrounding his incarceration. The interview began with investigators explicitly stating that the probe focused not only...

In a sworn interview with DOJ Office of Inspector General investigators conducted on June 14, 2021, an unnamed lieutenant and former correctional officer from MCC New York was questioned as part of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the broader security failures surrounding his incarceration. The interview began with investigators explicitly stating that the probe focused not only...