The Vault: The Epstein Files

Mark Middleton was a former special assistant to President Bill Clinton and a longtime Arkansas businessman whose name resurfaced repeatedly in connection with Jeffrey Epstein because of his role in helping facilitate access between Epstein and powerful political circles during the 1990s. Middleton worked in the Clinton White House during the administration’s early years and later became the subje...

The DOJ’s Epstein failures compounded because each bad decision created the conditions for the next one. The original Florida investigation had the ingredients for a sweeping federal trafficking case: multiple victims, recruiters, properties, travel records, money trails, and a network of people who helped keep Epstein’s operation functioning. Instead, the case was narrowed, softened, and pushed i...

During the Office of Inspector General investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019, correctional officer Tova Noel gave an interview describing how the morning unfolded when Epstein was discovered in his cell. According to her account, she and fellow officer Michael Thomas were assigned to monitor the Special Housing Unit overnight. Noel t...

During the Office of Inspector General investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019, correctional officer Tova Noel gave an interview describing how the morning unfolded when Epstein was discovered in his cell. According to her account, she and fellow officer Michael Thomas were assigned to monitor the Special Housing Unit overnight. Noel t...

Prince Andrew has finally been stripped of every last royal title and honor he once clung to like a lifeline. King Charles III, evidently tired of cleaning up his brother’s messes, used his royal prerogative to remove Andrew’s styles, ranks, and knighthoods—everything from “His Royal Highness” to the Duke of York and beyond. The disgraced royal, now simply Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has also been...

Prince Andrew has finally been stripped of every last royal title and honor he once clung to like a lifeline. King Charles III, evidently tired of cleaning up his brother’s messes, used his royal prerogative to remove Andrew’s styles, ranks, and knighthoods—everything from “His Royal Highness” to the Duke of York and beyond. The disgraced royal, now simply Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has also been...

Prince Andrew has finally been stripped of every last royal title and honor he once clung to like a lifeline. King Charles III, evidently tired of cleaning up his brother’s messes, used his royal prerogative to remove Andrew’s styles, ranks, and knighthoods—everything from “His Royal Highness” to the Duke of York and beyond. The disgraced royal, now simply Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has also been...

In a letter dated July 11, 2019, defense attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Judge Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to formally request pretrial release for Epstein. They referenced the criminal case United States v. Jeffrey Epstein, No. 19-490, and sought to justify bail by presenting a proposed package of conditions they argued would mitigate...

In a letter dated July 11, 2019, defense attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Judge Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to formally request pretrial release for Epstein. They referenced the criminal case United States v. Jeffrey Epstein, No. 19-490, and sought to justify bail by presenting a proposed package of conditions they argued would mitigate...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is now facing a broadened police inquiry in Britain that goes beyond the original misconduct-in-public-office allegation tied to his former role as a UK trade envoy. Thames Valley Police are reportedly examining possible sexual misconduct, corruption, fraud, dishonesty, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty as part of a widening investigation connected to his long rela...

Sarah Kellen’s closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee is being described by Chairman James Comer as the most substantive and productive testimony the committee has received so far in its Epstein probe. Kellen, one of the four women named as a potential co-conspirator in Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement, reportedly gave lawmakers three new names of people she said were inv...

The British government says it has found no evidence that formal security vetting or due diligence was carried out before Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was appointed as the UK’s special representative for international trade and investment in 2001. Newly released historical documents show that Queen Elizabeth II was “very keen” for Andrew to have a prominent role promoting Britain’s interests, and of...

Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly targeted Brazil as a recruitment ground for young women and underage girls, using modeling opportunities, travel, luxury gifts, salon appointments, and the promise of access to fashion-world connections as bait. The Miami Herald’s review of newly released DOJ Epstein files describes a pipeline involving model scouts, including Epstein’s longtime associate Jean-Luc Brunel...

During the Office of Inspector General investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019, correctional officer Tova Noel gave an interview describing how the morning unfolded when Epstein was discovered in his cell. According to her account, she and fellow officer Michael Thomas were assigned to monitor the Special Housing Unit overnight. Noel t...

During the Office of Inspector General investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019, correctional officer Tova Noel gave an interview describing how the morning unfolded when Epstein was discovered in his cell. According to her account, she and fellow officer Michael Thomas were assigned to monitor the Special Housing Unit overnight. Noel t...

During the Office of Inspector General investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019, correctional officer Tova Noel gave an interview describing how the morning unfolded when Epstein was discovered in his cell. According to her account, she and fellow officer Michael Thomas were assigned to monitor the Special Housing Unit overnight. Noel t...

In July 2019, following his arrest on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, Jeffrey Epstein was formally ordered remanded to custody after a detention hearing before Judge Richard Berman. Prosecutors argued that Epstein’s extraordinary wealth, private planes, offshore residences, and history of evading consequences made him an overwhelming flight risk. They also stressed that his release...

In July 2019, following his arrest on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, Jeffrey Epstein was formally ordered remanded to custody after a detention hearing before Judge Richard Berman. Prosecutors argued that Epstein’s extraordinary wealth, private planes, offshore residences, and history of evading consequences made him an overwhelming flight risk. They also stressed that his release...

Originally known as the Herbert N. Straus House, this imposing Upper East Side mansion was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer and completed in 1932. Although commissioned for Herbert Straus—the son of Macy’s co-owners—he never lived in it. In 1944, Straus’s heirs, facing prohibitive property costs, donated the unfinished building to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, which initially u...

Five former Ohio State wrestlers—who say they were victims of the late Dr. Richard Strauss—authored a letter in early February 2020, urging Ohio’s Inspector General to investigate Les and Abigail Wexner. In their five-page appeal, they request two investigations: first, into Abigail Wexner’s alleged role in Jeffrey Epstein’s assault of Maria Farmer at the Wexners’ New Albany estate; and second, in...

Surrey Police have opened a criminal investigation into two separate allegations of non-recent child sexual abuse linked to Jeffrey Epstein after women came forward following the release of Epstein-related files by the U.S. Department of Justice in December 2025. The claims date back to the mid-to-late 1980s and from the mid-1990s to 2000, with alleged locations including west Surrey and Berkshire...

New Mexico’s Epstein Truth Commission is set to hold its first public meeting on June 1 as it begins investigating allegations tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, the sprawling New Mexico property that has remained one of the most under-examined parts of the Epstein story. The bipartisan commission includes four lawmakers and a legal team with subpoena power, and its mandate is to determine whe...

Sarah Kellen, one of the four women named as a “potential co-conspirator” in Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement, is now trying to reframe her place in the Epstein story before she appears before Congress. In an interview with MS NOW, Kellen says she was also abused by Epstein and should be understood as a victim as well as someone who later became part of his orbit. Tha...

The newly released Epstein material adds serious weight to long-running suspicions that Zorro Ranch was not simply a remote New Mexico hideaway, but a heavily protected operational site built for secrecy, control, and secure communication. According to the analysis, Epstein’s 2016 email exchange about internet service at the ranch shows him choosing the most expensive and difficult communications...

During the Office of Inspector General investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019, correctional officer Tova Noel gave an interview describing how the morning unfolded when Epstein was discovered in his cell. According to her account, she and fellow officer Michael Thomas were assigned to monitor the Special Housing Unit overnight. Noel t...