The Vault: The Epstein Files

Alan Dershowitz said he was still “anxious” to testify before the House Oversight Committee about Jeffrey Epstein, but his eagerness looked considerably less convincing after his scheduled appearance abruptly collapsed. Dershowitz had publicly volunteered for months to testify under oath and on video, portraying himself as someone ready to confront the record and explain what he knew about Epstein...

Prince Andrew became embroiled in another controversy after it emerged that he had received £750,000 from Selman Turk, a Turkish businessman who was later accused of fraud. The money was transferred in 2019 after Turk became involved with Nebahat Isbilen, a wealthy Turkish woman who had entrusted him with handling her financial affairs after her husband was imprisoned in Turkey. According to court...

Sarah Ransome described surviving Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s trafficking operation as only the beginning of another ordeal, arguing that adult survivors were routinely disbelieved, blamed and dismissed precisely because they were not children when they were exploited. Ransome said she was 22 when she was drawn into Epstein and Maxwell’s world and described the operation as calculated...

In early 2016, Virginia Giuffre, through her counsel, filed a motion seeking to compel Ghislaine Maxwell to produce documents that had been withheld based on objections and privilege claims deemed improper by the plaintiff. Giuffre’s motion challenged Maxwell’s broad assertions of attorney‑client privilege, work‑product doctrine, vagueness, overbreadth, and undue burden. The motion was accompanied...

In a dramatic pretrial maneuver, Bryan Kohberger's defense team has introduced an "alternate perpetrator" theory in the 2022 University of Idaho student murders case. During a recent court hearing, Judge Steven Hippler acknowledged the defense's proposal but emphasized the need for concrete evidence to support such a claim. The defense has been given until May 23 to present admissible evidence ide...

Jeffrey Epstein’s obscure U.S. Virgin Islands bank, Southern Country International, came under scrutiny after millions of dollars flowed into it from his estate following his August 2019 death. Epstein had obtained a specialized Virgin Islands banking license for Southern Country in 2014, allowing it to conduct business with offshore clients, yet the bank appeared to have conducted little or no me...

The affidavit supporting a search warrant in the case against Tyler Robinson laid out investigators’ developing theory that Robinson was the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk during the September 10, 2025 event at Utah Valley University. Investigators described surveillance footage tracking a suspect before and after the shooting, the recovery of a rifle believed to have been used in the att...

Taylor Maichak, a forensic scientist with Idaho State Police Forensic Services, was expected to testify about DNA testing she performed on evidence gathered during the investigation, including a group of everyday items seized from the Kohberger family home in Pennsylvania. Those items included a Band-Aid, drinking straws, earplugs, lollipop sticks, nail clippers, a flosser, a Q-tip-style swab, cof...

Jeffrey Epstein’s life makes little sense when viewed through the lens of a rogue financier or even a Mossad agent, but it becomes coherent when understood as the creation of the CIA. From his early placement at the Dalton School by Donald Barr, to his sudden leap into finance at Bear Stearns, to his inexplicable relationship with Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s career looks less like chance and more lik...

Jeffrey Epstein’s life makes little sense when viewed through the lens of a rogue financier or even a Mossad agent, but it becomes coherent when understood as the creation of the CIA. From his early placement at the Dalton School by Donald Barr, to his sudden leap into finance at Bear Stearns, to his inexplicable relationship with Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s career looks less like chance and more lik...

Jeffrey Epstein’s life makes little sense when viewed through the lens of a rogue financier or even a Mossad agent, but it becomes coherent when understood as the creation of the CIA. From his early placement at the Dalton School by Donald Barr, to his sudden leap into finance at Bear Stearns, to his inexplicable relationship with Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s career looks less like chance and more lik...

Six women who said they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein filed a new lawsuit in New York against his estate and its co-executors, longtime attorney Darren Indyke and longtime accountant Richard Kahn. The women alleged they were between 16 and 24 years old when Epstein began abusing them between 2001 and 2005, and brought their claims under New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Act. The...

Investors sued Barclays and its former chief executive, Jes Staley, alleging that the bank misled shareholders about the true nature of Staley’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and concealed risks that eventually damaged the company and its investors. The securities class action, led by pension funds, alleged that Barclays repeatedly presented Staley’s connection to Epstein as essentially profes...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Loretta Preska’s decision to unseal significant portions of the record from Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, rejecting Maxwell’s attempt to keep the material hidden from public view. The dispute centered particularly on Maxwell’s April 2016 deposition and related court filings, which had been produced during the civil...

The New York Times’ history with Jeffrey Epstein was uneven in a way that became increasingly difficult to ignore as the full scale of the scandal emerged. For years, Epstein moved comfortably through the worlds the Times covered most aggressively: Wall Street, philanthropy, academia, science, politics and New York high society. Yet the newspaper was not the institution that originally broke open...

The investigations into Jeffrey Epstein have repeatedly followed the same frustrating pattern: explosive revelations, promises of transparency, new subpoenas, newly unsealed records, and then another institutional dead end. Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement shut down what could have become a much broader federal conspiracy case, while his 2019 arrest briefly reopened the possibility that pr...

After Bryan Kohberger was arrested, commentators and true-crime observers drew comparisons between the Moscow killings and several notorious attacks on young women in shared residences, including the 1992 murders near the University at Buffalo and some of Ted Bundy’s crimes. The similarities being discussed were largely circumstantial and behavioral rather than proof of any direct connection: a ma...

Utah prosecutors pushed back aggressively against Tyler Robinson’s attempt to weaken the capital case against him, arguing that the evidence presented at his preliminary hearing was more than enough to send him to trial on every charge. Robinson’s attorneys had asked Judge Tony Graf to eliminate the aggravating circumstance that could make him eligible for the death penalty, contending that prosec...

Utah prosecutors pushed back aggressively against Tyler Robinson’s attempt to weaken the capital case against him, arguing that the evidence presented at his preliminary hearing was more than enough to send him to trial on every charge. Robinson’s attorneys had asked Judge Tony Graf to eliminate the aggravating circumstance that could make him eligible for the death penalty, contending that prosec...

Utah prosecutors pushed back aggressively against Tyler Robinson’s attempt to weaken the capital case against him, arguing that the evidence presented at his preliminary hearing was more than enough to send him to trial on every charge. Robinson’s attorneys had asked Judge Tony Graf to eliminate the aggravating circumstance that could make him eligible for the death penalty, contending that prosec...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Finance Committee investigation concluded that major Wall Street institutions repeatedly failed to detect, scrutinize, and promptly report financial activity that helped sustain Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The report focused primarily on JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America, alleging significant failures under federal anti-money-laundering...

A federal magistrate judge recommended allowing a lawsuit brought by more than 30 Jeffrey Epstein survivors against the FBI to move forward, at least for now, rejecting the government’s attempt to immediately throw the case out on statute-of-limitations and jurisdictional grounds. The women alleged that FBI agents in New York, Florida and elsewhere repeatedly received credible information about Ep...

A new round of records from Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell was set to become public after Judge Loretta Preska rejected Maxwell’s latest attempt to keep the material sealed. Giuffre had sued Maxwell after Maxwell publicly accused her of lying about being sexually trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and others, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The case eventuall...