The Vault: The Epstein Files

David Rothkopf argues that Donald Trump’s military confrontations with Venezuela and Iran were not primarily driven by national-security concerns, but by a political need to divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The opinion column portrays the operations as “wars of distraction,” claiming the administration repeatedly shifted its stated justifications because neither country presented...

The New York Times’ new claim that Jeffrey Epstein attempted suicide at least three times depends heavily on Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein’s former cellmate and a convicted quadruple murderer with an obvious personal interest in shaping the story. Epstein initially accused Tartaglione of attacking him during the disputed July 23, 2019 incident, so Tartaglione benefits enormously from portraying Ep...

The New York Times’ new claim that Jeffrey Epstein attempted suicide at least three times depends heavily on Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein’s former cellmate and a convicted quadruple murderer with an obvious personal interest in shaping the story. Epstein initially accused Tartaglione of attacking him during the disputed July 23, 2019 incident, so Tartaglione benefits enormously from portraying Ep...

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal was never confined to Palm Beach, Manhattan or the American political and financial establishment. His network stretched across the Atlantic through homes, social circles and business relationships in Britain and continental Europe, including his Paris residence and his close association with French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel. Brunel was accused by numerous women of...

Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727 became one of the most notorious symbols of his operation because it allegedly served as far more than transportation between his properties in New York, Florida, New Mexico, Paris and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Survivors and court records described girls and young women being moved aboard Epstein’s aircraft as part of the trafficking system, while Virginia Giuffre alleg...

William Barr assumed an unusually personal role in managing the federal government’s response to Jeffrey Epstein’s death. After initially declaring himself “appalled” and promising investigations into the serious irregularities at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Barr personally questioned Efrain “Stone” Reyes, the final inmate assigned to share Epstein’s cell before Reyes was transferred awa...

In September 2020, The Daily Beast published a revealing piece detailing a discreet post‑gala dinner in Los Angeles in 2014, attended by Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell at Crossroads Kitchen, a trendy vegan hotspot. The gathering included a small circle of insiders—Clinton aides, Democratic donor Steve Bing, tech executive Scott Borgerson (linked romantically to Maxwell), among others—prompting...

Allegations have circulated that Jeffrey Epstein financially supported the education of children connected to Cecile de Jongh, including claims that he covered tuition costs. These claims generally stem from broader scrutiny of Epstein’s financial relationships in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he maintained significant business and personal ties. As part of that scrutiny, questions have been rais...

In the early hours of August 10, 2019, an anonymous user on the 4chan message board (specifically the /pol/ board) posted that Epstein had died by hanging and cardiac arrest—writing, “Don’t ask me how I know, but Epstein died an hour ago…” The post appeared at 8:16 a.m. ET, approximately 38–40 minutes before ABC News correspondent Aaron Katersky tweeted the news at around 8:54 a.m. ET, followed by...

Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who became notorious for his involvement in a high-profile sex trafficking ring. Born on January 20, 1953, Epstein worked as a financier and was well-connected with various influential individuals, including politicians, business tycoons, and celebrities. Epstein's activities came to light in the early 2000s when he was investiga...

Sarah Kellen told Congress that she was not a willing architect of Jeffrey Epstein’s operation but one of his victims, claiming Epstein groomed, abused, isolated, and controlled her for years. She described herself as trapped inside his world through sexual, psychological, and emotional coercion, and said Epstein continued to exert power over her even while he was incarcerated. That testimony matt...

The Justice Department’s explanation for Jeffrey Epstein’s death rests on the claim that a sweeping systemic breakdown occurred inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center: guards failed to conduct required rounds, records were falsified, Epstein was left without a cellmate, staffing was inadequate, supervision failed, and surveillance systems were defective. Yet if those failures were truly broad...

The Justice Department’s explanation for Jeffrey Epstein’s death rests on the claim that a sweeping systemic breakdown occurred inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center: guards failed to conduct required rounds, records were falsified, Epstein was left without a cellmate, staffing was inadequate, supervision failed, and surveillance systems were defective. Yet if those failures were truly broad...

New reporting presents Nicholas Tartaglione’s account as evidence that Jeffrey Epstein had repeatedly attempted to take his own life before his death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Tartaglione claims Epstein asked how to make a noose, tried to fasten a bedsheet to a window grate, concealed another noose beneath his mattress and left behind a handwritten message referring to choosing the...

After Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 on five federal counts tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual-abuse operation, attention immediately shifted to sentencing, the survivors, and the unanswered question of who else had participated in or enabled the scheme. In June 2022, Judge Alison Nathan sentenced Maxwell to 20 years in federal prison, describing her conduct as calculated and empha...

Prince Andrew’s enthusiasm for massages bore an unmistakable resemblance to the routine Jeffrey Epstein built around himself. Juan Alessi, the manager of Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, testified under oath that Andrew sometimes remained at the property for weeks and received massages on a daily basis. That detail matters because massages were not incidental within Epstein’s household; they were the...

The Justice Department’s pursuit of Prince Andrew over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein became a prolonged game of cat and mouse in which demands for cooperation were followed by denials, competing public statements and virtually no visible resolution. After Andrew declared in his disastrous 2019 BBC interview that he was willing to assist law enforcement, federal prosecutors said they repeat...

Ehud Barak’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has long raised red flags because it went well beyond casual association and involved repeated, documented contact over several years. Barak, a former Israeli prime minister and defense minister, was photographed entering and leaving Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse multiple times after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, and flight logs and visitor records show...

In the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Judge Robert W. Sweet presided over Maxwell's motion for summary judgment, which sought to dismiss Giuffre's claims without proceeding to trial. In his opinion and order, Judge Sweet denied Maxwell's motion, determining that genuine disputes over material facts existed, particularly concerning the truthfulness of the st...

In the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Judge Robert W. Sweet presided over Maxwell's motion for summary judgment, which sought to dismiss Giuffre's claims without proceeding to trial. In his opinion and order, Judge Sweet denied Maxwell's motion, determining that genuine disputes over material facts existed, particularly concerning the truthfulness of the st...

In the defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Judge Robert W. Sweet presided over Maxwell's motion for summary judgment, which sought to dismiss Giuffre's claims without proceeding to trial. In his opinion and order, Judge Sweet denied Maxwell's motion, determining that genuine disputes over material facts existed, particularly concerning the truthfulness of the st...

Sarah Kellen told Congress that she was not a willing architect of Jeffrey Epstein’s operation but one of his victims, claiming Epstein groomed, abused, isolated, and controlled her for years. She described herself as trapped inside his world through sexual, psychological, and emotional coercion, and said Epstein continued to exert power over her even while he was incarcerated. That testimony matt...

A group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors and relatives of the late Virginia Giuffre met privately with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and urged him to pursue allegations contained in the Justice Department’s own Epstein files. The group challenged acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s position that investigators had exhausted all meaningful leads, presenting Comer with specific docume...

Sarah Kellen’s congressional testimony that Jeffrey Epstein allegedly paid a Palm Beach County jail guard for special favors may describe only one incident, but it fits the larger pattern of how Epstein operated. He treated institutions not as fixed systems of rules, but as collections of people, pressure points, and discretionary decisions that could be influenced through money, access, prestige,...