The Vault: The Epstein Files

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

Larry Visoski was far more than Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime pilot. For nearly three decades, he occupied a critical logistical position inside Epstein’s world, flying him between New York, Palm Beach, New Mexico, the Virgin Islands and other destinations while gaining firsthand familiarity with Epstein’s properties, travel patterns, employees and associates. Visoski’s importance was underscored by...

Larry Visoski was far more than Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime pilot. For nearly three decades, he occupied a critical logistical position inside Epstein’s world, flying him between New York, Palm Beach, New Mexico, the Virgin Islands and other destinations while gaining firsthand familiarity with Epstein’s properties, travel patterns, employees and associates. Visoski’s importance was underscored by...

Day four of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held July 9, centered on some of the prosecution’s most consequential evidence yet, including a recorded interview with Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. In the interview, Twiggs described Robinson’s behavior after Charlie Kirk was killed and authenticated text exchanges in which Robinson allegedly admitted responsibili...

The filing was the Justice Department’s October 12, 2026 memorandum asking the federal court to dismiss New Mexico’s lawsuit over access to unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or, alternatively, grant summary judgment in DOJ’s favor. The department acknowledged that New Mexico had begun investigating possible crimes at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in 2019, had turned its investigative material over to fed...

The filing was the Justice Department’s October 12, 2026 memorandum asking the federal court to dismiss New Mexico’s lawsuit over access to unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or, alternatively, grant summary judgment in DOJ’s favor. The department acknowledged that New Mexico had begun investigating possible crimes at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in 2019, had turned its investigative material over to fed...

The filing was the Justice Department’s October 12, 2026 memorandum asking the federal court to dismiss New Mexico’s lawsuit over access to unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or, alternatively, grant summary judgment in DOJ’s favor. The department acknowledged that New Mexico had begun investigating possible crimes at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in 2019, had turned its investigative material over to fed...

The filing was the Justice Department’s October 12, 2026 memorandum asking the federal court to dismiss New Mexico’s lawsuit over access to unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or, alternatively, grant summary judgment in DOJ’s favor. The department acknowledged that New Mexico had begun investigating possible crimes at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in 2019, had turned its investigative material over to fed...

One of the strangest unresolved episodes surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death involved an anonymous 4chan user who appeared to announce his death before the news became public. Epstein was officially pronounced dead at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital at approximately 7:36 a.m. on August 10, 2019, but at 8:16 a.m.—roughly 38 minutes before ABC News reporter Aaron Katersky first reporte...

This is a Bureau of Prisons psychological reconstruction of Jeffrey Epstein’s death at MCC New York, prepared after his August 10, 2019 death. It lays out Epstein’s background, legal history, institutional history, medical and mental-health contacts, and the circumstances leading up to his death. The reconstruction notes that its own review was badly limited from the start: formal interviews were...

Before the Epstein grand jury materials were ultimately made public, the Justice Department had already acknowledged that they were unlikely to contain major revelations. In the summer of 2025, amid mounting pressure over its handling of the Epstein files, DOJ asked federal judges to unseal grand jury materials from the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases. But in an August 5 filing, prosecutors su...

In the 2017 video deposition of Courtney E. Wild, taken as part of the civil case Epstein v. Rothstein in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Wild testified under oath about her personal background, criminal history, and relevant circumstances before the court began substantive questions. The early portion of the deposition focuses on Wild’s identity and personal history, including he...

In the 2017 video deposition of Courtney E. Wild, taken as part of the civil case Epstein v. Rothstein in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Wild testified under oath about her personal background, criminal history, and relevant circumstances before the court began substantive questions. The early portion of the deposition focuses on Wild’s identity and personal history, including he...

FirstBank Puerto Rico has asked a federal judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the bank of participating in and profiting from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The anonymous plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, alleged that FirstBank provided Epstein and his associates with banking services for more than two decades, gaining access to financial information that should have exp...

Western Australian police have agreed to review how officers handled their interactions with Virginia Giuffre before her death by suicide in April 2025. Giuffre’s brother, Sky Roberts, and sister-in-law, Amanda Roberts, wrote to both police and the state coroner asking for scrutiny of the response to a domestic violence dispute involving Giuffre and a former partner. Police commissioner Col Blanch...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued the U.S. Department of Justice on August 5, 2026, accusing the federal government of obstructing the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged abuse, trafficking and other crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The lawsuit seeks access to unredacted federal investigative files that New Mexico says are necessary to identify victims,...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued the U.S. Department of Justice on August 5, 2026, accusing the federal government of obstructing the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged abuse, trafficking and other crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The lawsuit seeks access to unredacted federal investigative files that New Mexico says are necessary to identify victims,...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued the U.S. Department of Justice on August 5, 2026, accusing the federal government of obstructing the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged abuse, trafficking and other crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The lawsuit seeks access to unredacted federal investigative files that New Mexico says are necessary to identify victims,...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued the U.S. Department of Justice on August 5, 2026, accusing the federal government of obstructing the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged abuse, trafficking and other crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The lawsuit seeks access to unredacted federal investigative files that New Mexico says are necessary to identify victims,...

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most well-known accusers, filed a motion in her defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell requesting permission to exceed the standard limit of ten depositions allowed under federal rules. Giuffre’s attorneys argued that the extraordinary scope and complexity of the case, involving a vast network of high-profile individuals and years of alleged...

Skepticism surrounding the Bureau of Prisons’ account of Jeffrey Epstein’s death grew largely because accepting the official conclusion required accepting an extraordinary concentration of institutional failures at precisely the moment one of the most consequential federal detainees in the country was left alone. Epstein had previously been found with a cloth around his neck, had spent time on sui...

Skepticism surrounding the Bureau of Prisons’ account of Jeffrey Epstein’s death grew largely because accepting the official conclusion required accepting an extraordinary concentration of institutional failures at precisely the moment one of the most consequential federal detainees in the country was left alone. Epstein had previously been found with a cloth around his neck, had spent time on sui...

Jane Doe #2’s 2007 statement to Marie Villafaña and federal investigators described a pattern of recruitment, abuse, and normalization inside Jeffrey Epstein’s operation, beginning when she was a minor. She said she was introduced to Epstein under the guise of paid “massage” work and quickly realized the encounters involved sexual acts, including being directed to perform sexual contact on Epstein...

The affidavit submitted by attorney Bradley J. Edwards in the Southern District of Florida lays out a detailed argument for why the U.S. government should be compelled to produce documents related to the federal handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Edwards, representing Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2, explains that the requested records are essential to proving that federal prosecutors violate...

The affidavit submitted by attorney Bradley J. Edwards in the Southern District of Florida lays out a detailed argument for why the U.S. government should be compelled to produce documents related to the federal handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Edwards, representing Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2, explains that the requested records are essential to proving that federal prosecutors violate...