The Vault: The Epstein Files

In his October 2009 deposition, taken during the Jeffrey Epstein v. Bradley Edwards defamation lawsuit, longtime Epstein pilot Larry Visoski described his decades of employment under Epstein and the routine nature of his work. Questioned by victims’ attorney Bradley Edwards, Visoski confirmed that he had flown Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and numerous guests—some of them prominent figures—across Ep...

Mary Doe, a pseudonym used to protect her identity, filed a lawsuit against the Jeffrey Epstein estate alleging she was a victim of sexual abuse orchestrated by Epstein and his associates. According to the lawsuit, she was recruited as a minor under false pretenses of financial assistance and education opportunities. Instead, she was subjected to a cycle of grooming, manipulation, and exploitation...

Mary Doe, a pseudonym used to protect her identity, filed a lawsuit against the Jeffrey Epstein estate alleging she was a victim of sexual abuse orchestrated by Epstein and his associates. According to the lawsuit, she was recruited as a minor under false pretenses of financial assistance and education opportunities. Instead, she was subjected to a cycle of grooming, manipulation, and exploitation...

Jane Doe 1001, a plaintiff in the civil suits against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, alleges that she was lured into his orbit in 2019 under the guise of giving him a massage—and instead was subjected to sustained sexual abuse. According to her complaint, Epstein groomed and trafficked her across multiple locations over approximately a year and a half, using coercion, emotional manipulation, and abuse...

Jane Doe 1001, a plaintiff in the civil suits against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, alleges that she was lured into his orbit in 2019 under the guise of giving him a massage—and instead was subjected to sustained sexual abuse. According to her complaint, Epstein groomed and trafficked her across multiple locations over approximately a year and a half, using coercion, emotional manipulation, and abuse...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is reportedly facing another layer of police scrutiny, this time over an alleged incident involving a woman at Royal Ascot in 2002. Thames Valley Police are said to be examining that episode as part of a broader look at possible misconduct involving Andrew, including potential sexual misconduct, corruption, and fraud. The alleged incident took place during the high-profi...

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...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent opened a Senate Finance Committee hearing by going directly after Sen. Ron Wyden, accusing him of attacking the Treasury Department over Epstein-related financial records while ignoring his own son’s past contact with Jeffrey Epstein. Bessent pointed to Adam Wyden’s 2016 meeting at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, where Wyden reportedly sought backing for his hedge fun...

New Mexico’s Epstein Truth Commission has approved subpoenas for 14 entities as it digs into alleged sex trafficking, abuse, and institutional failures connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch outside Santa Fe. The entities reportedly include the FBI, the DOJ, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the New Mexico Department of Justice, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche B...

Jes Staley’s admission that he had what he described as consensual sexual relations with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistants seriously undermines the narrative that Epstein’s trafficking operation had no outside beneficiaries. The issue is not simply whether Staley used the word “consensual,” but whether that woman was operating inside Epstein’s larger ecosystem of coercion, dependency, employment...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The document is a sworn OIG interview transcript from June 15, 2021, involving the Bureau of Prisons captain who oversaw security operations at MCC New York during the period surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death. The captain described the command structure inside the jail, including his role supervising lieutenants and reporting up to associate wardens or the warden, while investigators walked him...

Jes Staley, the former Barclays chief executive and former JPMorgan Chase executive, has agreed to sit for a voluntary, transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on July 23 about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The interview was requested by Oversight Chairman James Comer as part of the committee’s broader probe into how Epstein was able to maintain acce...

More than 1,500 pages of documents tied to Peter Mandelson’s controversial appointment as Britain’s ambassador to the United States were released, but the release immediately triggered more questions than answers. The files reportedly showed Mandelson aggressively lobbying for the Washington post, promising ministers they would “never regret” appointing him, while also revealing internal Labour me...

Donald Trump has refiled his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on an alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that was said to have appeared in a 2003 birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump denies writing the letter and his amended complaint continues to argue that no authentic letter or drawing exists, even though the House Oversight...

Fidelity opened a brokerage account for a Jeffrey Epstein-owned company in mid-April 2019, just months before Epstein’s July 2019 arrest and at a time when public outrage over his earlier sweetheart deal was already intensifying. The account was opened for Southern Trust Company, Epstein’s Virgin Islands-based entity, and it received more than $5 million before Fidelity apparently moved to restric...

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 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...