The Vault: The Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein has become a major factor in the closing stretch of the 2026 midterm elections, with his name appearing in campaign ads, debates, donor attacks, and arguments over congressional transparency in races across the country. Senate contests in Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, and Georgia, along with key House races in Colorado and Pennsylvania, have all seen candidates use Epstein-r...

Jeffrey Epstein has become a major factor in the closing stretch of the 2026 midterm elections, with his name appearing in campaign ads, debates, donor attacks, and arguments over congressional transparency in races across the country. Senate contests in Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, and Georgia, along with key House races in Colorado and Pennsylvania, have all seen candidates use Epstein-r...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could face a fresh demand to testify before the U.S. House Oversight Committee if Democrats take control of the House in the upcoming midterm elections. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the committee, said Democrats intended to continue investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s network and would use congressional subpoena power to compel testimony from Andrew and others who had...

Tova Noel was one of the two correctional officers assigned to the Special Housing Unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the overnight shift when Jeffrey Epstein died on August 10, 2019. According to the Justice Department inspector general, Noel and fellow officer Michael Thomas failed to perform required inmate rounds for hours and later signed records falsely indicating that the check...

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...

Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal enterprise did not survive for decades because he acted alone or possessed some supernatural ability to evade scrutiny. It survived because major financial institutions continued to provide the banking services, cash access, wire transfers, private banking relationships, and institutional legitimacy that allowed his operation to function. JPMorgan maintained Epstein as a...

Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal enterprise did not survive for decades because he acted alone or possessed some supernatural ability to evade scrutiny. It survived because major financial institutions continued to provide the banking services, cash access, wire transfers, private banking relationships, and institutional legitimacy that allowed his operation to function. JPMorgan maintained Epstein as a...

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...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was transferred from FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey to FCI Allenwood Low in Pennsylvania on October 16, 2026, with federal prison officials declining to publicly explain why he was moved. Both facilities are low-security federal prisons, but Allenwood is smaller and houses fewer inmates, making the transfer notable after months of problems surrounding Combs’ incarceration at Fort Di...

The Justice Department’s October 13 filing in Phang v. Blanche was a reply defending its request to postpone the deadline for producing the administrative record in Katie Phang’s lawsuit over the Epstein files. DOJ argued that there was no procedural violation in asking for the delay because it had simultaneously filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings that, if successful, could resolve the c...

The Justice Department’s October 13 filing in Phang v. Blanche was a reply defending its request to postpone the deadline for producing the administrative record in Katie Phang’s lawsuit over the Epstein files. DOJ argued that there was no procedural violation in asking for the delay because it had simultaneously filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings that, if successful, could resolve the c...

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman contributed $500,000 on September 24, 2026, to Kentuckians Not Corruption, a super PAC supporting Democratic congressional nominee Zach Dembo in Kentucky’s 6th District. Hoffman’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein immediately became a campaign issue, with Republican nominee Ralph Alvarado attacking the contribution as “dirty Epstein-class money” and calling on...

A federal judge dismissed with prejudice the civil lawsuit brought against Leon Black by an anonymous woman who had accused him of raping her after she was allegedly “handed off” to him by Jeffrey Epstein. The woman, identified as Jane Doe, said she had been a teenager when the alleged assault occurred in 2002. She asked the court to end the case because she was “medically incapable of continuing,...

Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Justice Department turned over handwritten FBI notes connected to three interviews with a woman who alleged that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump when she was approximately 13 years old and that Trump subsequently sexually assaulted her. The allegation remains an allegation and has not been established in court. The notes became a major point of conten...

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...

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...

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...