The Moscow Murders and More

Former U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh Jr. has filed a memorandum in federal court seeking to dismiss, transfer, or strike the lawsuit brought by five anonymous women identified as Jane Does 1-5, who accuse the Virgin Islands government and several current and former officials of enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network. De Jongh argues that the Southern District of New York lacks...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

This deposition comes from an unnamed captain at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and provides a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein was managed inside the facility, particularly in the Special Housing Unit. The captain describes Epstein’s status following his prior suicide incident, including the decision-making process around his housing, monitoring level, and classification. The testimo...

This deposition comes from an unnamed captain at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and provides a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein was managed inside the facility, particularly in the Special Housing Unit. The captain describes Epstein’s status following his prior suicide incident, including the decision-making process around his housing, monitoring level, and classification. The testimo...

This deposition comes from an unnamed captain at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and provides a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein was managed inside the facility, particularly in the Special Housing Unit. The captain describes Epstein’s status following his prior suicide incident, including the decision-making process around his housing, monitoring level, and classification. The testimo...

This deposition comes from an unnamed captain at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and provides a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein was managed inside the facility, particularly in the Special Housing Unit. The captain describes Epstein’s status following his prior suicide incident, including the decision-making process around his housing, monitoring level, and classification. The testimo...

Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell were repeatedly described as unusually close, long-running friends whose relationship predated much of the public Epstein scandal and helped place Andrew inside Epstein’s social orbit. Andrew has said he knew Maxwell from her university years at Oxford, and he has acknowledged that he met Epstein through her, although later accounts and released records have rai...

This deposition comes from an unnamed captain at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and provides a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein was managed inside the facility, particularly in the Special Housing Unit. The captain describes Epstein’s status following his prior suicide incident, including the decision-making process around his housing, monitoring level, and classification. The testimo...

In the defamation case Giuffre brought against Maxwell over Maxwell’s public denial of Giuffre’s trafficking allegations, Bernard J. Jansen provided a sworn expert witness report designed to corroborate Giuffre’s credibility and the consistency of her disclosures over time. According to the description of his testimony, Jansen asserted that Giuffre had repeatedly and privately disclosed her experi...

In the defamation case Giuffre brought against Maxwell over Maxwell’s public denial of Giuffre’s trafficking allegations, Bernard J. Jansen provided a sworn expert witness report designed to corroborate Giuffre’s credibility and the consistency of her disclosures over time. According to the description of his testimony, Jansen asserted that Giuffre had repeatedly and privately disclosed her experi...

In the defamation case Giuffre brought against Maxwell over Maxwell’s public denial of Giuffre’s trafficking allegations, Bernard J. Jansen provided a sworn expert witness report designed to corroborate Giuffre’s credibility and the consistency of her disclosures over time. According to the description of his testimony, Jansen asserted that Giuffre had repeatedly and privately disclosed her experi...

Kathleen Liggio, a senior investigator with the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, prepared an investigative report documenting the scene findings and physical evidence surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death inside the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 10, 2019. Her investigation focused on reconstructing the conditions inside the cell and the phy...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

Pam Bondi’s congressional transcript showed her trying to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files while repeatedly distancing herself from the day-to-day mechanics of the review. She told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche was the official “in charge” of the Epstein records process, saying she did not personally conduct the document review and that the work had been...

Pam Bondi told House Oversight lawmakers that Todd Blanche, who served as her deputy at the Justice Department and whom Donald Trump plans to nominate as attorney general, was “in charge” of the DOJ’s handling and release of the Epstein files. Bondi said she did not personally conduct the document review and had delegated oversight of the process to Blanche, even as she defended the department’s b...

Jes Staley’s Epstein narrative was built around distance, professionalism, and minimization: he repeatedly tried to frame Jeffrey Epstein as a former client or business contact from his JPMorgan days rather than a genuinely close personal associate. That version began to collapse as regulators, court filings, and released communications showed something far more intimate and sustained. Staley and...

For years, Lord Peter Mandelson tried to minimize the depth and seriousness of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, presenting it as a regrettable association from the past rather than an intimate, ongoing connection with a convicted sex offender. That version became harder to sustain as more material emerged showing that Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein was not casual, distant, or easily d...

Darren Indyke was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s longest-serving and most important lawyers, operating less like a courtroom-only defense attorney and more like a central legal-business figure inside Epstein’s private empire. He handled Epstein-related corporate, estate, trust, and legal affairs for years, was named as one of the executors of Epstein’s estate, and later became a major figure in litigati...

Prince Andrew’s reputation inside the royal household has long been portrayed as deeply unpopular, especially among people who worked around him rather than above him. Former palace staff and royal insiders have described him as arrogant, entitled, short-tempered, and needlessly difficult, with accounts alleging that he barked orders, swore at staff, expected extreme deference, and treated palace...

Prince Andrew’s Epstein disgrace reportedly created a deep strain inside the royal family because Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip appeared to respond to the crisis from very different emotional positions. The Queen was widely portrayed as a mother who, despite the public humiliation and institutional damage, remained personally protective of Andrew for as long as she could. She allowed him to...

A newly surfaced photograph from Department of Justice files shows former Prince Andrew—now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—sitting barefoot in a bathrobe alongside Jeffrey Epstein and British politician Peter Mandelson at a wooden table, believed to be on Martha’s Vineyard around 1999 or 2000. The image is one of the first known photos placing all three men together in a casual setting, adding to the...

Charlotte Manley, a longtime aide to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew), has said she is willing to speak with police about her time working for him between 1996 and 2003 as investigators revisit issues connected to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Manley served in several senior administrative roles, including assistant private secretary, private secretary, and treasurer, and often a...

A whistleblower has come forward alleging that disturbing ground formations resembling “grave-like plots” were identified on Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch property in New Mexico, raising new questions about what may have taken place at the secluded estate. According to the claims, these markings were reportedly observed in aerial imagery and were significant enough to warrant closer scrutiny, yet...