The Epstein Files

What the EFTA documents reveal about the documented relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and the Ferguson-Windsor family — and what the primary source record establishes versus what remains undocumented. Key documents examined: The Ferguson email (August 2009, EFTA release) — Sarah Ferguson to Epstein: "I have never been more touched by a friend's kindness than your compliment to me in f...

Karyna Shuliak appears in the Epstein story through press accounts of a Belarus connection, nine-figure will lines, and the shorthand 'last girlfriend' frame. This episode separates civil docket text and filed allegations from headline inference—mapping what executor-controlled estate processes and compensation-fund structures actually show where Shuliak is named, and what remains uncorr...

On March 19, 2026, a video of Peter Simel — a retired Palm Beach real estate executive — went viral after bystanders shouted "Epstein is alive" at him. Known online as Palm Beach Pete, Simel came forward on March 20 to deny being Jeffrey Epstein. In doing so, he confirmed he attended parties where Epstein was present, though he says they never spoke. This episode uses that admission as a...

Richard D. Kahn was Epstein's accountant and co-executor of his estate alongside Darren Indyke. This episode examines what executor records and the civil docket show about decisions in the hours and days after August 10, 2019, including Kahn's closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill, what lawmakers asked about Epstein's wealth and business ties, and what the deposition record confirm...

In March 2026, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Darren Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein's estate attorney and co-executor, demanding roughly a decade of correspondence, billing records, and entity formation documents. The subpoena names Southern Trust, Financial Trust, Plan D LLC, and Maple Inc., the same shell entities that appear in Epstein's August 2019 trust instruments signed days be...

The Justice Department fought off a special master in January, then declared compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Three months later: Trump-related files had been withheld, Deputy AG Todd Blanche personally blocked a DEA drug probe document, and AG Pam Bondi had been subpoenaed and walked out of a Congressional briefing. This is the documented pattern of the DOJ's war against d...

File 129 - Epstein's Pilot Got $10M, 40 Acres, and a Tuition Check. He Saw Nothing. Sources for this episode are available at: https://nbn.fm/epstein-files/episode/ep129 About The Epstein Files The Epstein Files is an AI-generated podcast analyzing the 3.5 million pages released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). All claims are grounded in primary source documents, published on...

After 127 episodes examining the Epstein files from every angle, this episode compiles the definitive list of individuals who appear in the documents with substantive connections to Epstein's operation and have never been criminally investigated. Not social acquaintances. Not one-time party guests. People with repeated, documented, substantive ties to Epstein who have faced zero legal scrutin...

Former JPMorgan CEO Jes Staley exchanged approximately 1,200 messages with Jeffrey Epstein over several years, including messages containing photos and references that JPMorgan's own compliance team flagged as concerning. Despite internal warnings, JPMorgan maintained Epstein as a client until 2013 and Staley maintained the relationship for years after. The bank later settled victim lawsuits...

Epstein's flight logs, covering trips on his private Boeing 727 (the 'Lolita Express') and smaller aircraft, list 73 individuals who flew with him after his 2008 conviction became public. These weren't people who flew once in the 1990s and never again. These are people who continued associating with a registered sex offender by sharing his private aircraft. This episode identif...

Billionaire Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, paid Jeffrey Epstein approximately $158 million between 2012 and 2017 for what he described as tax and estate planning advice. This was after Epstein's conviction. An Apollo-commissioned review found the payments were for 'legitimate' services, but Black stepped down as chairman anyway. This episode examines what $158 m...

Under the terms described in contemporaneous reporting, Jeffrey Epstein served 13 months in the Palm Beach County Stockade with a work release arrangement that allowed him to be out of the facility for 12 hours per day, six days a week. He was driven by private car to his office on Royal Poinciana Way, where he had unsupervised access to visitors including young women. The work release was arrange...

White House visitor logs show Jeffrey Epstein visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times between 1993 and 2000. These visits occurred during the period when Epstein was building his network of political access and before his first arrest. This episode uses the visitor logs to map exactly who Epstein met, which offices he visited, what events he attended, and what access these visits gave hi...

Hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin and his wife Eva Andersson-Dubin maintained a decades-long social and financial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein even after his 2008 conviction. Eva, a former Miss Sweden and physician, had previously dated Epstein. Victim testimony describes Eva as being present in the household and aware of the abuse. Despite these allegations, the Dubins have faced no crimina...

In depositions and interviews, multiple Epstein victims independently named the same individuals: former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell. Both men denied the allegations. Richardson died in 2023. Mitchell issued a statement through his lawyers. This episode examines the specific testimony against each man, the consistency of victim accounts acr...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was photographed entering Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion and has acknowledged visiting Epstein's properties multiple times. Barak received $2.3 million from a trust linked to Epstein for consulting work and invested in a startup using Epstein-connected funding. Despite these documented connections, Israeli authorities have not opened any inve...

Sarah Kellen, identified in court documents as one of Epstein's primary schedulers and recruiters, managed a detailed calendar that documented appointments with victims. Despite being named in multiple victim depositions and identified by the FBI as a key organizer of Epstein's abuse operation, Kellen received full immunity under the 2008 non-prosecution agreement. She later changed her...

In March 2026, Bloomberg Law published an exclusive investigation revealing that Jeffrey Epstein used the Frédéric Fekkai Fifth Avenue salon as a systematic perks operation — booking appointments for himself, his associates, and women in his network under his own name and paying in full. Hundreds of EFTA emails document the operation. This episode follows the documentary record: the Bloomberg excl...

During Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 trial, dozens of exhibits were entered under seal, meaning the public and media could not view them. These sealed exhibits included communications, photographs, financial records, and testimony references that prosecutors argued were too sensitive for public view. A federal judge has now ordered the release of additional sealed materials. This episode examines...

MC2 Model Management, co-founded by Jean-Luc Brunel with funding from Jeffrey Epstein, operated offices in New York, Miami, and Tel Aviv. On paper it was a legitimate modeling agency representing working models. In practice, court filings and victim testimony describe it as a recruitment pipeline that brought young women from South America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere into Epstein's orbit u...

Epstein's victims were routinely presented with non-disclosure agreements drafted not by Epstein himself but by elite law firms whose names appear on the document headers. These NDAs contained penalty clauses, liquidated damages provisions, and language so expansive that victims believed speaking to law enforcement would expose them to lawsuits. Some NDAs were signed by minors without legal r...

Multiple Epstein victims were taken to licensed medical professionals for birth control prescriptions, STI treatments, and even abortions during the period of their abuse. These doctors treated visibly underage girls brought in by adult handlers, prescribed contraceptives without parental consent, and in some cases performed procedures that should have triggered mandatory reporting obligations. No...

Jeffrey Epstein's estate, valued at approximately $600 million at the time of his death, has been the subject of ongoing litigation across multiple jurisdictions for over six years. The estate includes properties in Manhattan, Palm Beach, New Mexico, Paris, and the US Virgin Islands, plus financial holdings, art, and aircraft. Co-executors Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn have been accused of c...

French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, accused of procuring young women for Epstein through his modeling agencies MC2 and Karin Models, was found dead in his Paris jail cell in February 2022 while awaiting trial. French authorities ruled it suicide and subsequently closed significant portions of their investigation. This episode examines the circumstances of Brunel's death, parallels to Epste...

On December 9, 2015, Jeffrey Epstein emailed New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. and offered him "photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen." That email, EFTA02478352, is one of dozens of documents now assembled from the Jmail archive and the FBI interview memos the DOJ initially withheld from the EFTA release. This episode traces the complete documentary record of the Tr...