The Vault: The Epstein Files

Sarah Kellen’s new narrative is that she was not one of Jeffrey Epstein’s enablers, but one of his victims: groomed, abused, controlled, threatened, and psychologically trapped inside his world. In her 2026 House Oversight testimony and related reporting, she described Epstein as someone who sexually and psychologically abused her, manipulated her, and used his power to make her believe disobedien...

Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein were not just casual acquaintances or two wealthy men who occasionally crossed paths. The relationship was far closer, more sustained, and more financially entangled than Black first publicly suggested. Black paid Epstein enormous sums for tax, estate, and philanthropic advice, with Apollo’s own commissioned review saying Black paid Epstein roughly $158 million, whil...

Justice Department records reveal that UBS facilitated a series of financial transactions that enabled Ghislaine Maxwell to purchase a secluded New Hampshire property where she later hid before her arrest in 2020. Even after receiving a grand jury subpoena tied to a federal sex trafficking investigation, the bank processed a transfer of nearly $8 million from a trust connected to Maxwell. That mon...

Jena Lisa Jones says she was just 14 years old when she was first abused by Jeffrey Epstein, describing how she was recruited with the promise of money and brought into his orbit while still a minor. She explains that what initially seemed like a simple opportunity quickly turned into sexual exploitation, and that she was too young to fully understand or resist what was happening at the time. Her...

The communications in question center on a modeling agent who maintained a long-running relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, during which he repeatedly attempted to introduce young women to him under the guise of modeling opportunities. The exchanges span years and show the agent pitching women based on their looks, age, and financial vulnerability, often framing the introductions as mutually benefi...

The letter urges immediate judicial intervention by Judges Berman and Engelmayer after what the authors describe as a serious failure by the Department of Justice in releasing Epstein-related records. According to the letter, on January 30, 2026, the DOJ released more than 3.5 million documents while failing to properly redact victims’ names and other personally identifying information in thousand...

Maxwell and her team mounted a broad PR offensive to humanize her and create a sympathetic narrative ahead of her $28.5 million bail proposal. Her court filings included letters from her undisclosed husband and more than a dozen friends and family members describing her as a “wonderful and loving person” and insisting she posed no flight risk. Her husband’s letter acknowledged her relationship wit...

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...

Pizza Express carried out an internal inquiry into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s infamous claim that he was at its Woking branch on March 10, 2001 — the same date Virginia Giuffre alleged she was sexually abused by him after being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew used the Woking visit during his 2019 BBC Newsnight interview as part of his denial, saying he had taken Princess Beatrice to a chil...

The Miami Herald reports that Jeffrey Epstein’s obscure U.S. Virgin Islands offshore bank, Southern Country International, suddenly became active in 2019 after years of dormancy, moving tens of millions of dollars shortly before and after his arrest and death. The bank reportedly had no employees, held under $500,000 for years, and then processed more than $20 million between April and early July...

Epstein survivors and their attorneys have alleged that Jeffrey Epstein did not operate in the U.S. Virgin Islands as a lone predator hiding from the system, but as a wealthy, connected trafficker whose presence was tolerated, facilitated, and protected by people with power. In litigation and public filings, survivors have described Little St. James and Great St. James as isolated sites where youn...

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...