The Vault: The Epstein Files

After Jeffrey Epstein’s first reported suicide attempt at MCC New York in July 2019, one of the most important pieces of evidence should have been surveillance footage from outside the cell area where he was being held with former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione. That video mattered because Epstein reportedly told lawyers that Tartaglione had attacked him, while other accounts suggested Epstei...

Prince Andrew has said he met Jeffrey Epstein in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, whom Andrew had known for years; other reporting has suggested questions about whether the relationship may have started earlier, but the basic public version is that Maxwell acted as the bridge between the royal world and Epstein’s world. From there, Epstein was not kept at arm’s length. He was brought into royal spa...

Newly released DOJ documents reveal a 2009 email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime associate, psychiatrist Dr. Henry Jarecki, outlining a detailed plan for avoiding law enforcement if he were ever caught. The message, framed as notes for a potential book, laid out a multi-step strategy that included avoiding traceable financial activity, strengthening computer security, going into...

What’s unfolding around Les Wexner’s name on college campuses isn’t just a debate—it’s a long-overdue reckoning with how wealth has been used to buy prestige, silence, and institutional protection. Universities didn’t just accept donations, they traded credibility for them, elevating donors into untouchable figures while avoiding scrutiny of their backgrounds and associations. The Epstein scandal...

The Justice Department disclosed in court filings that investigators uncovered emails they believed suggested Ghislaine Maxwell was actively involved in arranging young women for sexual encounters, including for Prince Andrew. According to the documents cited in a search warrant application ahead of Maxwell’s 2020 arrest, the FBI identified multiple email exchanges in which Maxwell appeared to coo...

UK police have begun reviewing material tied to Jeffrey Epstein that references Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson, with investigators examining whether any criminal conduct linked to those associations occurred within the United Kingdom. The effort involves multiple law enforcement bodies working in coordination, supported by prosecutors who are providing early legal guidance as authorities sift t...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

The DOJ, under Todd Blanche and Donald Trump, is once again accused of treating an Epstein-related court order as optional, this time in connection with Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order in Katie Phang’s lawsuit seeking Epstein-related documents from the government. Sullivan made clear that DOJ needed to produce less-redacted material or justify the continued withholding, but instead of straightforward...

The DOJ, under Todd Blanche and Donald Trump, is once again accused of treating an Epstein-related court order as optional, this time in connection with Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order in Katie Phang’s lawsuit seeking Epstein-related documents from the government. Sullivan made clear that DOJ needed to produce less-redacted material or justify the continued withholding, but instead of straightforward...

A Manhattan federal judge warned Melania Trump’s lawyers to be careful as they pursue sanctions against journalist and Trump biographer Michael Wolff, even after the court had already dismissed Wolff’s anti-SLAPP lawsuit against her. Wolff had filed the case after Melania Trump threatened a $1 billion defamation suit over comments he made linking her to Jeffrey Epstein, allegations her side has re...

Barry Levine, the investigative journalist and author of The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, has described Epstein and Maxwell not as two separate scandals, but as partners inside a long-running criminal ecosystem. Levine’s reporting frames Epstein as a wealthy predator who built a world of access, intimidation, money, sex trafficking, elite protection, an...

For decades, much of the legacy media treated Jeffrey Epstein’s world with a caution that often functioned like protection for the powerful people around him. The allegations against Epstein were not new, and neither were the questions about the wealthy, political, academic, royal, and corporate figures who orbited him. But instead of sustained, aggressive scrutiny, the story was often handled as...

Julie K. Brown has said that Jeffrey Epstein’s possible ties to intelligence should not be dismissed as some lunatic fringe theory, but should be investigated with the same seriousness as the rest of his network. Her point has not been that there is a proven public record showing Epstein was formally working for Mossad, the CIA, or any other intelligence service. Her point is that the circumstance...

The Department of Justice’s explanation that the exposure of Epstein survivors’ identities was merely an oversight collapses under scrutiny when weighed against the scale, resources, and sensitivity of the operation. This was not a rushed or underfunded review, but a deliberate, well-resourced effort specifically designed to protect victims while releasing information. Yet the failures were not ra...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on Jeffrey Epstein's death in federal custody revealed severe lapses in protocol, negligence, and misconduct by Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staff at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, died of apparent suicide on August 10, 2019. The report found that staff failed to condu...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on Jeffrey Epstein's death in federal custody revealed severe lapses in protocol, negligence, and misconduct by Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staff at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, died of apparent suicide on August 10, 2019. The report found that staff failed to condu...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on Jeffrey Epstein's death in federal custody revealed severe lapses in protocol, negligence, and misconduct by Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staff at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, died of apparent suicide on August 10, 2019. The report found that staff failed to condu...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, an...

The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report into Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) presents a disturbing portrait of federal cowardice, systemic failures, and deliberate abdication of prosecutorial duty. Instead of zealously pursuing justice against a serial predator with dozens of underage victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District...

The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report into Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) presents a disturbing portrait of federal cowardice, systemic failures, and deliberate abdication of prosecutorial duty. Instead of zealously pursuing justice against a serial predator with dozens of underage victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District...

The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report into Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) presents a disturbing portrait of federal cowardice, systemic failures, and deliberate abdication of prosecutorial duty. Instead of zealously pursuing justice against a serial predator with dozens of underage victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District...

The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report into Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) presents a disturbing portrait of federal cowardice, systemic failures, and deliberate abdication of prosecutorial duty. Instead of zealously pursuing justice against a serial predator with dozens of underage victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District...