Epstein files

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The **Epstein files** are a set of documents that record information about Jeffrey Epstein, his crimes, and his relationships with other people. It contains many parts, including a list of activities he has done for and against people, and efforts for him to improve his public image. These documents were released to the public on November 2025, as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (which the U.S. Senate unanimously approved). This includes over 300 gigabytes of data, plus other media, which is stored in the FBI's own fully digital case management system.

The Trump administration’s United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo on July 7, 2025. The memo said that the list did not exist and that they found no evidence that Epstein blackmailed people. The memo was not believed by political commentators on both sides of the political spectrum, including Alex Jones and John Oliver.

In November 2025, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a set of emails involving Epstein. One email said that Trump had "spent hours" with one of Epstein's victims.

On January 30, 2026, an additional 3million pages were released, including 2,000videos and 180,000images. The Department of Justice stated that there are a total of 6million pages might qualify as files required to be released to the public. However, they stated that the January30 release would be the final public release of the Epstein files, because the amount of files already released have now met the legal obligations. The released files contain a lot of famous people.

## Background 
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In 1996, Maria Farmer reported to the police that Epstein had stolen naked photos of her underage siblings. However, no investigation was done on Epstein. 

After an investigation, Epstein was formally charged for his crimes in 2008, after committing multiple. Epstein accepted a plea deal in 2008. 

In 2019, he had again been charged for his crimes. However, he died in prison.

Epstein interacted with many public figures, some of which included politicians and celebrities. This had caused a spread of conspiracy theories that Epstein kept a list of clients of whom he provided trafficked young girls; the theories claim he would then blackmail those clients, and resultingly he was killed by them. These theories spread quickly and widely after his death in 2019; In 2025, these theories became widespread again.

## Contents
The Epstein files recorded activity that Jeffery Epstein (and connected people) had done prior to his imprisonment in 2019. For example, his contact book, the flight logs of his planes, and court documents involving him are all now publicly available in the Epstein files as part of the release.  Many of the records and files relating to Epstein belong to his estate (currently run by lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn).

### The first documentation of Epstein (2007)
The FBI began investigating Epstein in 2006. This happened after there were reports that Epstein was paying underage girls for sex in his Florida home. In 2007, federal prosecutors prepared a draft that collected information about Epstein's crimes. 

U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta signed off a deal with Epstein, preventing Epstein from getting federal prosecution. This draft described many crimes that were ultimately not prosecuted against Epstein. Ghislaine Maxwell and 9 other people who were suspected of being associated with Epstein included Lesley Groff, Darren Indyke, Richard Kahn (Epstein's accountant), Jean-Luc Brunel, and Les Wexner.

### Notable people
The files that were released on January 2026 contain many individuals in the public eye. , aside from Epstein himself and Ghislaine Maxwell, a former associate of his, no individual has been charged with a crime connected to Epstein or the information released in the files.

Ghislaine Maxwell is a British former socialite. Files related to her were released, revealing a list of crimes she helped for him, as well as a list of testimonies from accusers and civil claims against her.

Virginia Giuffre was one of the leading advocates against Epstein.

A notable person in this list is Donald Trump, because Donald Trump told the public during his 2024 presidential campaign that he would release the Epstein files if he was elected. Trump and Epstein were best friends from the late 1980s through the mid-2000s. In a 2002 interview with *New York* magazine, Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side". In the early 2000s, their relationships were reduced, most likely due to disputes over employees and Trump winning a bid against Epstein for an oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida in 2004. In 2003, Trump helped write a letter to an album of birthday greetings that he gave to Epstein for Epstein's 50th birthday, though Trump denies writing anything suggestive to him. In October 2007, Trump has denied Epstein access to Mar-a-Lago.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had interacted with Jeffrey Epstein during the 2010s. He had emails with Epstein in 2010 to meet a 26-year-old Russian woman. He also had photos with other women, and was accused of sexual assault. On 16 November 2019, Mountbatten-Windsor was interviewed for the BBC television programme *Newsnight*. The interviewer talked about Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who he had met through Ghislaine Maxwell. The interview was very bad for the British royal family, because many people who saw the interview thought Mountbatten-Windsor was unsympathetic to Epstein's victims. He lost the title "Prince Andrew, Duke of York" and access to the Royal Family because of his associations with Jeffrey Epstein.

Stephen Hawking was also mentioned in the Epstein files. In these files, it is revealed that Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell in a 2015 email to convince Virginia Giuffre's friends that Giurffre's claims against Epstein are false.

Other notable people include Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Woody Allen, Vladimir Putin, and Mark Zuckerberg.

### Epstein's death
The released Epstein files also included emails between investigators regarding Epstein's death. This includes an investigator's observation that his final note did not appear to be a note for suicide. Multiple investigations have confirmed that Epstein's death was a suicide. The documents further proved that he remained a popular person to famous people, even though he was convicted as a sex offender in 2008. This resulted in contradicting or stopping years of his former associates trying to prove that he's a bad person. In one email sent to Epstein from a redacted address in August 2009, it appeared to reveal Prime Minister Gordon Brown's pseudonym (fake name), "John Pond", along with Brown's secure email address.

The Epstein files also reveal that Epstein signed a 32-page trust, which he signed two days before his death.

## Possibly unreleased files
### Epstein list
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Before being revealed in November 2025, people believed that there were documents that recorded a list of famous clients that he trafficked young girls to, which was named the **Epstein list**. It is said to be part of the bigger set of documents of the Epstein files. Epstein made a group of public figures that included politicians and celebrities. This caused conspiracy theories which suggest that he made a list of names to blackmail these people. The theory also says that his 2019 death was not a suicide, as the government said it was, but a murder to protect his clients.

Claims about the existence of the list first appeared after Epstein's death. They became the most  in 2025 because of a now-deleted tweet from Elon Musk. During Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, he said he would release the Epstein files. After he was elected, he instead said that they were a hoax made by the Democratic Party.

### "Epstein's black book"
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