Jeffrey Epstein Timeline

At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public. The missing files, which were available Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

That document is an FBI report from Maria Farmer, a painter who worked for Epstein around 1996. Farmer, whose sister Annie Farmer was abused by Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at age 16, told authorities in 1996 that the late financier “stole” nude images of her siblings. Farmer reported Epstein’s behavior with these photographs, but the FBI has never openly recognized that she made such a report, according to the New York Times. The newspaper also noted how an internal investigation into the justice department’s handling of Epstein’s case did not mention this report.

The Department of Justice will not meet a Friday deadline to provide Congress with the full investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday.

A court filing from her lawyers argues releasing the documents would "prejudice" her chances of a "fair retrial" should her request for one succeed.

Facing a 30-day deadline to release the Epstein files, the Department of Justice has asked two judges in the Southern District of New York to authorize the release of grand jury transcripts and exhibits from the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton -- whom Attorney General Pam Bondi tapped to lead an investigation into prominent Democrats associated with Epstein -- signed a motion asking the judges who oversaw the Epstein and Maxwell cases to approve the release of the grand jury materials, subject to the necessary redactions.

The prominent linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky called it a “most valuable experience” to have maintained “regular contact” with Jeffrey Epstein, who by then had long been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, according to emails released earlier in November by US lawmakers. Such comments from Chomsky, or attributed to him, suggest his association with Epstein – who officials concluded killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges – went deeper than the occasional political and academic discussions the former had previously claimed to have with the latter. Chomsky, 96, had also reportedly acknowledged receiving about $270,000 from an account linked to Epstein while sorting the disbursement of common funds relating to the first of his two marriages, though the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has insisted not “one penny” came directly from the infamous financier.

40 victims gave sworn testimonies that they’d been raped & trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein...

The legislation requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all unclassified records related to Epstein within 30 days.

“After the election—you know I used to speak to Jeffrey regularly—and one of the calls we spoke, Jeffrey told me that Trump, it was after the election that Trump called him,” Epstein’s brother Mark told CNN Wednesday.

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee issued a report on Thursday calling for an investigation into whether JPMorgan Chase deliberately underreported more than $1 billion in suspicious transactions by Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. The report, based on recently unsealed court records that shed more light on JPMorgan’s financial dealings with Mr. Epstein, focuses on suspicious activity reports, or SARs, which banks are required to file with the Treasury Department when they suspect a financial transaction may be involved in an illicit activity such as money laundering, terrorism or sex trafficking.

Rogan's conspiracy-minded audience blame mods of covering up for Rogan's guests, including Trump, who are named in the Epstein files.

The Senate late Tuesday afternoon agreed to unanimously approve the House bill that calls for the Justice Department to release its Jeffrey Epstein files bill. When the bill arrives from the House, it will be deemed immediately passed by the Senate and sent to President Donald Trump's desk. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer came to the floor at 5:18 p.m., just hours after the House resoundingly passed the bill, and asked for it to be deemed passed by the Senate as soon as it was processed by the House.

A provision in the bill requiring the Justice Department to release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has come under scrutiny over concerns it could allow Attorney General Pam Bondi to redact certain details.

The former treasury secretary announced earlier that he would step down from the board of directors at OpenAI.

"Jeffrey definitely had dirt on Trump," Mark alleged in an interview with NewsNation

When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'

Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.“It’s a call to action,” one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday.

Representative Jamie Raskin claimed Maxwell was being waited on ‘hand and foot’ by prison staff

Since Ghislaine Maxwell’s controversial transfer to a low-security prison camp this summer, her time at Texas’s FPC Bryan has prompted uproar over alleged favorable treatment – including claims this week that she was provided custom-made meals, access to a puppy and as much toilet paper as she wants.

House lawmakers recently released a large group of documents from Epstein's estate, in which Trump was named several times

A series of exchanges between child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Summers, the former US treasury secretary, showing a relationship as confidants emerged among the emails released by Republican legislators this week in the continuing political turmoil over Epstein’s connections to Donald Trump. The exchanges, from 2013 to early 2019, showed the two men sharing personal – and sometimes unseemly – views about politics and relationships.

For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was involved with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad. However, the Epstein/Mossad ties were often labeled by US corporate media as “unfounded” (New York Times, 8/24/25), dismissed as a “conspiracy theory” (New York Times, 7/16/25), or said to have been “largely manufactured by paranoiacs and attention seekers and credulous believers” (New York Times, 9/9/25). Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has claimed that “Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel.” It’s true that far-right antisemites like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have promoted a conspiratorial version of the Epstein/Israel connection as part of their bigoted, attention-seeking narratives. But recent investigations by Drop Site News—the nonprofit investigative outlet founded in July 2024—into a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Epstein did play a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence. Despite the hack’s significant revelations, US corporate media coverage remains scant.

“The Democrats are doing everything in their withering power to push the Epstein Hoax again, despite the DOJ releasing 50,000 pages of documents, in order to deflect from all of their bad policies and losses, especially the SHUTDOWN EMBARRASSMENT, where their party is in total disarray, and has no idea what to do,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.

Some of the documents mentioned Trump, including one from Epstein's brother, Mark, which references photos of Trump "blowing Bubba." "Bubba" is a nickname for former President Bill Clinton, but Mark Epstein told Newsweek the individual was not Clinton. He did not provide any additional details about the identity of "Bubba" and said the emails were meant as "a humorous private exchange."

In one email, Epstein writes: "would you like photso [sic] of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen." Thomas replied, "Yes!!" It's unclear whether Epstein possessed such photos or if he ever sent the reporter any photos.

Reacting to reports that members of Donald Trump’s administration set everything aside on Wednesday to lobby the renegade Republican House members who have signed on to release the notorious Jeffrey Epstein files, MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire claimed the White House is in a frenzy based on calls he has received.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., signed a discharge petition Wednesday to eventually trigger a vote to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, giving it the needed 218 signatures.

Deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein said he “gave” his ex-girlfriend to Donald Trump after he’d been with her for two years in a newly-revealed email.

Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by suicide has spawned intense scrutiny of the high-profile people he knew, mentioned Donald Trump by name multiple times in private correspondence that began almost 15 years ago with an associate and an author in Trump’s orbit, according to newly released emails from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

The late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Donald Trump knew about the girls he was trafficking, according to new emails from Epstein’s estate released by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday morning.

The emails released by the Democrats show Epstein calling Trump the “dog that hasn’t barked” and discussing how an alleged victim “spent hours at my house with him.” The emails released by the Republicans are also not flattering for Trump, with an exchange including Epstein writing, “you see , i know how dirty donald is.” The email dated August 23, 2018, appears to show Epstein and former Obama White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler discussing Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, flipping on him.

Members of the House Oversight Committee wrote to Andrew in a letter addressed to Royal Lodge, the Windsor mansion from which he was ordered to move when he was stripped of his title as a prince on 30 October.

Mountbatten Windsor is no longer entitled to use the terms and has been erased from roll of peerage

According to veteran journalist David Shuster, who has worked with MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, several House Republicans have heard directly from Department of Justice contacts that the Epstein documents are “especially compromising” for the president. “A few GOP house members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Trump with half naked teenage girls,” Shuster wrote.

The release of the correspondence comes as Virginia Giuffre's family is calling for an "investigation" into Andrew.

Over 4,700 transactions, including wire transfers to Russian banks raised red flags in 2019

After Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death, the bank reported more than $1 billion in potentially suspicious transactions

Prince Andrew hosted Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein at Royal Lodge, the prince's private home in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The trio visited the Windsor mansion as part of his daughter Beatrice's masked ball 18th birthday celebrations in 2006, two months after a US arrest warrant had been issued for Epstein for the sexual assault of a minor.

Giuffre simply referred to the deranged man as the “Prime Minister,” saying she was afraid the brute would “seek to hurt” her if she printed his name. In the past, however, she pointed to Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Barak in court filings as one of the many elites who had raped her, a claim he has repeatedly denied.

A woman who says she was abused by the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sued Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon Wednesday, alleging the banks knowingly provided financial services that enabled his sex trafficking operation for years. “We don’t think the suit has any merit, and we’re going to contest it vigorously,” BNY CEO Robin Vince said Thursday, in a CNBC interview on “Squawk on the Street.” Bank of America declined to comment. The woman, referred to in court papers as Jane Doe, is seeking an unspecified amount of damages from both banks. She is represented by law firms Boies Schiller and Edwards Henderson, who previously secured settlements of $75 million and $290 million with Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, respectively, over their alleged financial ties to Epstein.

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men – and how everyone knew what was going on

Sir Tony Blair met with Jeffrey Epstein in Downing Street while still prime minister, following lobbying by Lord Peter Mandelson, the BBC has confirmed. A memo written by senior civil servant Matthew Rycroft, dated 14 May 2002, briefs Sir Tony about "super-rich" financial adviser Epstein ahead of a meeting scheduled at 17.00 GMT that day. The meeting was six years before Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in June 2008.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, appearing before a Senate panel on Tuesday, criticized Democratic lawmakers in personal terms as she faced pushback over the Justice Department's enforcement efforts in Democratic-led cities and investigations of President Donald Trump's critics. Bondi, appearing before the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, said the department under T rump was "returning to our core mission of fighting real crime," citing the surge in federal law enforcement activity in Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tennessee.

Lawyers for Maxwell, a British socialite, argued that she never should have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, a New York financier. She is serving a 20-year prison term, though she was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after she was interviewed in July by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has yet to set a date for Grijalva’s swearing-in ceremony, and the delay is raising eyebrows. Grijalva has indicated she will sign a discharge petition that would force a floor vote to release government documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case as soon as she’s sworn in. Her signature would put the petition over the 218-vote threshold needed to override Republican leadership’s attempts to kill any vote to release the Epstein files. To delay her swearing in would further delay the advancement of the petition, and give Republican leadership addition time to apply pressure to the Republican representatives — Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Lauren Boebert (R-Co.), and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) — who support it.

As the president has tried to distance himself from his former friend Jeffrey Epstein, a new statue in the heart of Washington, DC puts their former bond on full display

A spokesperson for Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, said the email was sent to counter a threat Epstein had made to sue her for defamation.

Peter Mandelson was fired as Britain’s ambassador to the United States on Thursday after his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became another unwelcome problem for the embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Mandelson had been under mounting pressure over his relationship with Epstein after US lawmakers on Monday released a “birthday book,” compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, in which the veteran Labour party politician had penned a handwritten note describing Epstein as “my best pal.”

Republicans in the House of Representatives would rather not talk about the “bawdy” birthday note that President Donald Trump supposedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday party. The House Oversight Committee had released many of the documents related to the late convicted sex offender regarding his trafficking of girls and young women. But some of the members of the committee don’t want to talk about the card that Trump is alleged to have signed and sent. “I am so goddamn sick of being asked about a f*****g birthday card,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) told The Independent on Tuesday.

The complaint asserts that Director Kash Patel indicated directly to one of the ousted agents, Brian Driscoll, that he knew the firings were "likely illegal" but was powerless to stop them.

US Democrats have made public a 238-page scrapbook given to Jeffrey Epstein as a present on his 50th birthday. The letters repeatedly reference the sex offender’s lecherous reputation

The Justice Department request came after NBC News asked a federal judge to unseal the names of two people Epstein paid and helped protect from prosecution.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday cast the Jeffrey Epstein controversy as "irrelevant" amid an effort on Capitol Hill to force a vote to release all files related to the deceased sex offender. "This is a Democrat hoax that never ends," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the push for more transparency in the Epstein matter.

President Trump’s team warned House Republicans that pressing for more Jeffrey Epstein files would be seen as an act of war against the administration today.

A so-called “missing minute” of CCTV footage, a key ingredient of conspiracy theories surrounding the prison death of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been found, contradicting the assertion of Pam Bondi, the attorney general, that it was recorded over. The video was in a cache of material, including 33,000 pages of records relating to the disgraced financier and former Donald Trump associate, released late on Tuesday by the US House oversight committee. The panel has been looking into Epstein’s August 2019 death at Manhattan’s Metropolitan correctional center.

After his first arrest for sex crimes, Jeffrey Epstein tried to get into a new line of work: surveillance. In 2015, he partnered with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to invest in a security tech startup called Reporty Homeland Security, now known as Carbyne. Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin's circle. After he was first caught sexually exploiting teenage girls, Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution in 2008; he served a little over a year in detention. Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and "efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you," according to The New York Times. The leaked emails show that Epstein was also interested in more mundane means of spying on and manipulating people, which overlapped with the technologies governments often pursue. This interest crossed borders. Barak's email inbox was quietly posted by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a website widely considered to be a successor to WikiLeaks, on a file-sharing platform for verified journalists and researchers in May 2025.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Monday issued a new subpoena to the estate of Jeffrey Epstein for "documents and communications in its possession, custody, or control in unredacted form," which includes a copy of the alleged "birthday book" compiled for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday. "It is our understanding that the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein is in custody and control of documents that may further the Committee's investigation and legislative goals. Further, it is our understanding the Estate is ready and willing to provide these documents to the Committee pursuant to a subpoena," Comer said in a statement on Monday.

DOJ’s ‘limited disclosures’ from Maxwell interview raise more questions than answers, lawmakers say

The woman thought to have the most direct knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's decades-long sex-trafficking operation claims there was no client list, no blackmail scheme and -- to her knowledge -- no high-profile Epstein associates who committed illicit acts in connection with the notorious sex-offender's crimes.

The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, a key House lawmaker said Monday in announcing a move that appears to avert, at least temporarily, a potential separation of powers clash. The records are to be turned over starting Friday to the House Oversight Committee, which earlier this month issued a broad subpoena to the Justice Department about a criminal case that has long captivated public attention, recently roiled the top rungs of President Donald Trump’s administration and been a consistent magnet for conspiracy theories.

A federal judge in New York has denied the Trump administration's motion to unseal grand jury testimony from the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Valdson Vieira Cotrin with Jeffrey Epstein on his private jet in 2019. This photo, given exclusively to The Telegraph, may be one of the last taken of the financier and shows him wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred from a Florida prison to a lower-security facility in Texas to continue serving her 20-year sentence for helping the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said on Friday.

The FBI redacted Donald Trump's name, along with the names of other prominent public figures, from references in the Jeffrey Epstein files, three people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg's Jason Leopold. Internal directives instructed about 1,000 FBI agents to flag any mention of Trump during a March review of roughly 100,000 pages of records, people familiar with the process told Bloomberg. The Justice Department said the review turned up no "client list" or evidence linking Trump to criminal activity, despite his name appearing in Epstein's contact book and flight logs.

President tells reporters he cut off contact with Epstein because he was poaching employees from his club before amplifying that they were ‘young women’

Lawmakers have denied Ghislaine Maxwell's request for congressional immunity in exchange for her testimony

A child sex abuse survivor from Palm Beach County who testified at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in 2021 said she had met Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s when she was 14 and was once a contestant in Trump's Miss Teen USA beauty pageant.

In a filing Monday, Maxwell’s attorneys said the federal government violated its own agreement not to prosecute Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators.

‘In one of my very good moments, I turned it down. I didn't want to go to his island,’ Trump said

Trump was asked in Turnberry, Scotland, "You had said you had not been briefed that your name was in the Epstein files, doesn't the AG have to tell you?" The president responded, in part, "Well, I haven't been overly interested in it. It's a hoax that's been built up by those, way beyond proportion. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by Garland, they were run by Biden. Those files were run for four years by those people."

The president is attempting to keep calm in front of the cameras, but behind the scenes he’s fuming.

The convicted child sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate met with the deputy AG for two days of questioning.

President Donald Trump on Friday angrily demanded that news outlets turn their attention to allegations about one of his predecessors rather than continue covering his alleged connections to dead pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Jeffrey Epstein pleads the 5th when asked if he was with Trump around underage girls in resurfaced deposition clip.

The president filed a lawsuit claiming his reported birthday note to Epstein is “fake and nonexistent.” Now he says someone else might have signed it

Robert Kennedy Jr. is facing fresh questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein after a photograph emerged of the Health Secretary partying with the now-deceased child sex trafficker in Manhattan.

The GOP chair was caught off guard and scrambled—first delaying the vote, then trying to sabotage it by adding amendments to include Biden administration communications. Democrats called their bluff and agreed. Then the GOP chair, Rep. Higgins, lied, claiming the motion FAILED until Rep. Robert Garcia forced a full roll call vote. Ultimately, the vote passed 8-2 after 3 Republicans DEFIED their leadership and joined all 5 Democrats to pass the motion.

Roy Black, the prominent defense attorney who helped secure Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 plea deal, has died, according to his law partner. Black died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables at the age of 80 after an illness, his law partner Howard Srebnick said. "For more than 30 years, Roy was my teacher, mentor and friend," Srebnick told The Associated Press. "The loss(es) I feel personally and professionally are immeasurable." Black's death marks the end of a career in defense law spanning over five decades.

Wall Street Journal report says president’s name appears ‘multiples times’ as Congress subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell

During what sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal describe as a “routine briefing that covered a number of topics” in May, President Trump was informed that his name appeared multiple times in the documents that the Justice Department reviewed on the Jeffrey Epstein case.

“POTUS is clearly furious,” said a person close to the White House, who, like others in this story, was granted anonymity to discuss the mood inside the West Wing. “It’s the first time I’ve seen them sort of paralyzed.”

House Republicans brought legislative business to a halt on Monday, abruptly shutting down the House floor to block a planned vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. It comes after Democrats said they planned to stage a vote on bringing legislation to the floor that would compel the release of the Epstein files.

US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has announced an early adjournment of the chamber, stalling efforts to force the release of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The move delays a politically fraught vote on the matter until September amid growing bipartisan pressure for transparency. It followed a key committee vote to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate, to testify before Congress.

Maria Farmer accused Epstein and Maxwell of sexual crimes in 1996, and identified Trump as worthy of attention

HOWARD STERN: Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds? FUTURE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh, absolutely! I have no trouble. HOWARD STERN: Would you do it? FUTURE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I have no problem. ROBIN QUIVERS: Yeah, do you have an age limit or would you– FUTURE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If I- No, no, I have no age–. I mean, I have an age li–. ROBIN QUIVERS: The upper bracket–. FUTURE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.

In an article titled "Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein," Alan Feuer and Matthew Goldstein write that, "For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest."

FBI agents assigned to review files in the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein were instructed to “flag” any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump, Sen. Richard Durbin said Durbin asked the Justice Department and FBI to explain what his office called “apparent discrepancies” regarding handling of the Epstein files and findings from a Justice Department memo. Trump has called on supporters to drop their pursuit of the release of the files, saying the controversy of their withholding by Attorney General Pam Bondi is a “hoax.”

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin exposed what appears to be a coordinated cover-up effort. The Justice Department pulled agents from their regular duties — many without relevant training in child exploitation cases or document review — and rushed them through Epstein's files. The goal wasn't to investigate crimes or help victims, but to flag any documents mentioning Trump, the whistleblower alleges. The timeline suggests a pattern of deception. Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed in February she had Epstein's "client list" on her desk. By July, the FBI reversed course, stating no such list existed. Now the whistleblower reveals the real focus was protecting political interests, not pursuing justice. "I am deeply concerned that the Department's approach to reviewing and releasing Epstein-related records may have prioritized political considerations over victims' interests and public transparency," Durbin wrote to Bondi. The Attorney General has 30 days to explain why the FBI deployed such massive resources to flag Trump-related documents. So far, she's remained silent on these specific allegations, while the Justice Department maintains it has released everything legally permissible.

The former Atlantic City Trump Casino executive said at one point Epstein was the president’s “best friend”

Analysis of the metadata of the video by Wired has revealed that the 'full raw footage' of the evening was edited and saved repeatedly on May 23, 2025. The video, which is almost 11 hours long, has a gap in the footage between 11:58:58pm and 12:00:00am that Attorney General Pam Bondi has attributed to a nightly system reset.

President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters, accusing them of being duped by Democrats, as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s handling of much-hyped records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a “Hoax.”

US House speaker Mike Johnson calls for release of Epstein files amid backlash Trump has faced growing resentment over the decision of his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to withhold information Mike Johnson, speaker of the House, called for the justice department to make public documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, breaking with Donald Trump over an issue that has roiled the president’s rightwing base. It was a rare moment of friction between Trump and the speaker, a top ally on Capitol Hill, and came as the president faces growing backlash from conservatives who had expected him to make public everything known about Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while in federal custody as he faced sex-trafficking charges.

In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump called supporters "weaklings" for pushing the Justice Department to release more files related to Epstein.

Seven House Republicans (listed below) voted against a motion on Monday that would have allowed a congressional vote regarding the release of files in Jeffrey Epstein's case. Representative Ro Khanna, the Democrat from California, tabled an amendement for a House vote requiring Attorney General Pam Bondi to "preserve and release any records related to Jeffrey Epstein." The motion was defeated 5 to 7. One Republican member, Ralph Norman, voted yes alongside Democrats. Republican Representative Chip Roy, who missed the vote. Roy has been contacted via email for comment.

House Republicans on Tuesday blocked a Democratic attempt to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, with zero Republicans supporting the measure. The final vote was 211 to 210. One Republican with a spine would have tipped the scale and given the American people greater transparency on the Epstein saga.

Donald Trump received a particularly blunt question about what he knows about the Epstein files.

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

Continuing in the video, Kirk said: "But let me just say this again—everyone knows my opinion about the Epstein thing, the messaging fumble. I would love to see the DOJ move to unseal the grand jury testimony. I think that would be a big win. I would love to see that. And I'm gonna trust my friends Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, my friend Pam Bondi. All these guys. I'm gonna—Todd Blanche—I'm gonna trust them to solve it. Ball's in their court. I think that there was plenty of, let's say, speeches that were directed towards this topic this last weekend. So, we don't need to spend our valuable time on this program relitigating it."

A US Department of Justice and the FBI memo concluded that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a client list involving high-profile associates. It frustrated Trump's supporters who criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi.

"Ok, but why aren't they investigating further to confirm whether or not these people were involved?" asked one social media user

Reached for comment, Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, said, “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of shit and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

After leaving DOGE, Musk has claimed that Trump is named in Epstein files that remain sealed.

Jeffrey Epstein, the registered sex offender, met with many powerful people in finance and business during his career, but the financier invested with only a few of them. One of those people was Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire. In 2015 and 2016, Mr. Epstein put $40 million into two funds managed by Valar Ventures, a New York firm that was co-founded by Mr. Thiel. Today that investment is worth nearly $170 million, according to a confidential financial analysis of the late Mr. Epstein’s estate reviewed by The New York Times and a statement provided by a Valar spokesman. The investment in Valar, which specializes in providing start-up capital to financial services tech companies, is the largest asset still held by Mr. Epstein’s estate, some six years after he died by suicide in federal custody while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino promised to release a surveillance video showing no one entered the convicted sex offender’s jail cell before he was found dead in 2019.

Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, has died by suicide, her family said Friday. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living for several years. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein and his enablers. Other Epstein abuse survivors later credited her with giving them the courage to speak out. She also provided critical information to law enforcement that contributed to the investigation into and later the conviction of Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as other investigations by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Tape of Royal Family Advisor Exposes Prince Andrew’s Sexual Relations with Minors and Deep Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

The former chief executive of Barclays, Jes Staley, has admitted to having sex with a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s staff in an apartment owned by the child sex offender’s brother in New York, a court has heard. Staley made the admission at the end of a testy day of cross-examination at the upper tribunal, but maintained that his friendship with Epstein was not personal and had always been based on business.

The House Judiciary GOP account falsely claimed to share the Epstein files but linked to a "Rickroll" prank.

Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump’s “closest friend” and claimed intimate knowledge of his proclivity for sex, including cuckolding his best friends, according to recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast.

"And the young girls are topless, and in some of the pictures, they're sitting on his lap," author Michael Wolff said.

The women say the FBI's failure to investigate Jeffrey Epstein despite receiving countless tips amounts to negligence that allowed them to continue to be abused.

On a recent episode of his Triggered podcast, Donald Trump Jr. referenced the failed assassination attempt on his father and praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for not turning the suspect over to federal authorities. His reasoning was that, if the suspect ended up in federal custody, he might "disappear like Epstein," implying that the government would silence him in a manner similar to Epstein's death. However, this claim creates an awkward contradiction-Epstein died in federal custody while Trump's administration was in charge, with Trump's appointee, Bill Barr, overseeing the Department of Justice.

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Donald Trump spent the weekend on a plane previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein. The serial number on the Gulfstream G550 jet match Epstein and the Trump campaign, records show. The jet is owned by a Republican donor who allows it to be chartered.

Business Insider revealed Wednesday that Bannon has hours of footage of Epstein from the financier’s homes in Manhattan and Paris before Epstein died in jail in 2019, supposedly as part of a documentary to be called The Monsters: Epstein’s Life Among the Global Elite. More than five years later, a small teaser trailer of the film from 2021, showing Bannon arguing with Epstein over his treatment of women, is the only part of it that has been released. It makes little sense, considering that Epstein is vilified in Bannon’s target right-wing audience and that having exclusive footage of the deceased billionaire would likely bring in viewers far beyond that group.

Court officials in Florida have finally released long-secret grand jury documents from the 2006 investigation into notorious sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, a probe that ended with an infamous sweetheart plea deal and immunity for alleged co-conspirators.

A judge in Florida has ordered the surprise release of graphic transcripts from the state's 2006 prosecution of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein - a probe that ended with the millionaire financier receiving a legal slap on the wrist. Epstein cut a deal in 2008 to avoid charges of sex trafficking and rape. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to 13 months in prison. The nearly 200 pages of documents contain details of Epstein's crimes, including first-hand accounts from victims and specifics about payoffs to underage victims.

Florida prosecutors knew the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient and a missed opportunity to imprison him a decade earlier, according to transcripts released Monday.

The psychiatrist, former commodities trader and entrepreneur Henry Jarecki said he had a “consensual, non-secretive and mutually respectful relationship” with a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. The woman is now suing Jarecki in New York federal court for allegedly raping and sex trafficking her. The lawsuit accuses Jarecki of “coercing her into being his modern-day sex slave” after Epstein sent her to him to treat her for depression she said was the result of Epstein’s sexual abuse.

A dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the FBI of covering up its failure to investigate the late financier, enabling his sex trafficking to continue for more than 20 years. The victims, using Jane Doe pseudonyms, said the FBI received credible tips as early as 1996 that Epstein trafficked young women and girls, yet failed to interview victims or share what it knew with federal and local law enforcement.

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Guiffre said she was trafficked to Les Wexner for sex on multiple occasions and that the billionaire also had sex with minors, according to a newly unsealed deposition. Guiffre made the allegations in a January 16, 2016, deposition that was recently unsealed among a trove of court records related to the dead pedophile and his sex-trafficking partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Guiffre, who has said Epstein and Maxwell abused her and trafficked her to others, including Prince Andrew, said "yes" when asked in the deposition if Les Wexner was one of the powerful business executives she was trafficked to. When asked how many times she had sex with Wexner, Guiffre replied "multiple." The interviewer asked her if it had been more than five times and Guiffree responded "possibly." Guiffre also said that Wexner had "participated in sex with minors," adding: "I wanted to see him come forward. I wanted justice to happen." A spokesperson for Wexner shared a statement with Business Insider that said, "Mr. Wexner was unaware of, and was never a participant in, any of the abhorrent behavior engaged in by Epstein against Epstein's victims, that Mr. Wexner had never met Ms. Guiffre, and that any claims to the contrary were not true." The spokesperson added that in 2020, representatives for Wexner denied that he was privy to or involved in Epstein's sex-trafficking activities.

A federal judge unsealed the names of nearly 200 "Does" affiliated with Jeffrey Epstein. A Business Insider analysis of court records found Donald Trump is Doe 174. Trump may have fought to keep his name redacted in the documents before the judge unsealed it.

A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of Jeffrey Epstein's associates. The documents are part of a settled civil lawsuit alleging Epstein's one-time paramour Ghislaine Maxwell facilitated the sexual abuse of Virginia Giuffre. Terms of the 2017 settlement were not disclosed.

JPMorgan Chase agreed Tuesday to pay $75 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands to settle claims that the bank enabled the sex trafficking acts committed by financier Jeffrey Epstein. JPMorgan said that $55 million of the settlement will go toward local charities that provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and trafficking and other crimes, as well as to enhance the capabilities of local law enforcement. Of that amount, $10 million will be used to create a fund to provide mental health services for Epstein’s survivors, according the Virgin Islands Department of Justice.

JPMorgan Chase said it has reached a settlement regarding victims of late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. The bank’s litigation with the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Epstein matter remains, however. Its claims against former executive Jes Staley, who was friends with Epstein, are also active. Last week, lawyers for a Epstein victim, called Jane Doe 1 in documents, asked the court to reopen JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s deposition.

JP Morgan has claimed the government of the US Virgin Islands is “complicit in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein”, saying the convicted sex trafficker maintained a “quid pro quo relationship” with some of the territory’s highest officials over two decades. The claim, contained in a legal filing on Tuesday, comes as part of a legal tussle that began with the US Virgin Islands alleging in a New York court that JP Morgan “facilitated and concealed wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of – and were in fact part of – a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude of dozens of women and girls”. JP Morgan denies the claims.

Jeffrey Epstein discovered that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player and later appeared to use his knowledge to threaten one of the world’s richest men, according to people familiar with the matter.

Jeffrey Epstein paid $150,000 to Leon Botstein and transferred $270,000 between accounts for Noam Chomsky, the two academics have confirmed, giving another glimpse into how the late disgraced financier provided favors for those who associated with him. Botstein and Chomsky met multiple times with Epstein after he was a registered sex offender, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. Chomsky, a political activist and professor, told the Journal that they met occasionally to discuss political and academic topics. Botstein, the longtime leader of Bard College in New York, said he met with Epstein in an attempt to raise funds for the school.

The U.S. Virgin Islands issued a subpoena to Tesla CEO Elon Musk seeking documents for that government’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase over sex trafficking by the bank’s late longtime customer Jeffrey Epstein, a court filing revealed Monday. That filing said the Virgin Islands has tried unsuccessfully to serve Musk with the subpoena, which was issued on April 28, because of suspicion that Epstein “may have referred or attempted to refer” Musk as a client to JPMorgan. The U.S. territory asked Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff in the filing to allow it to serve Musk with the subpoena with Tesla’s registered agent. That subpoena demands Musk turn over any documents showing communication involving him, JPMorgan and Epstein, as well as “all Documents reflecting or regarding Epstein’s involvement in human trafficking and/or his procurement of girls or women for consensual sex.” The Virgin Islands is suing JPMorgan for allegedly enabling and benefiting from Epstein’s trafficking of young women to his private island in the territory to be abused by him and others.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon must undergo up to two days of questioning by lawyers handling lawsuits over whether the bank can be held liable in financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of teenage girls and women

Billionaire investor Leon Black has been sued by a woman alleging he “brutal[ly]” raped her at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in spring 2002. Cheri Pierson names both Black — the co-founder and former CEO of private equity behemoth Apollo Global Management — and the estate of the late Epstein as defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed in New York court on Monday. Pierson alleges Epstein arranged for her to give Black a massage on the third floor of Epstein’s New York City mansion, which she agreed to in exchange for money that she “desperately needed” to care for her young daughter. Instead, she alleges, Black raped her in a “brutal attack” that left her “swollen, torn, and bleeding.” “By the time Ms. Pierson exited the massage suite and rode down the elevator with Black, she could barely walk out of the house onto the sidewalk, as she was in excruciating pain and still in shock,” said the complaint filed by law firm Wigdor LLP.

Lamine N’Diaye was named warden at FCI Fort Dix in February 2021 despite an ongoing federal investigation into lapses that led to Epstein’s death and in contradiction of its pronouncement that the agency would delay any move until the inquiry was finished; he retired 12 months later

The American billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein donated large amounts of money to the Stockholm School of Economics’ scholarship for women. As his conviction was made public the school downplayed his involvement and continued receiving money. Barbro Ehnbom, the founder of the scholarship, rallied young Swedish women to Epstein's luxury home in New York. Dress code? Bare legs. Today's ETC can reveal new information regarding the decisions made by the School of Economics and confirm that Epstein approached several of these Swedish women - urging them to find new potential victims.

Brunel went to ground after Epstein's death, but in October 2019 he, and Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, were traced to the Brazilian Riviera - and he was arrested the following year in Paris.

The longtime house manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, read aloud from an instruction booklet Ghislaine Maxwell gave him in 2001 or 2002 that instructed staff in minute detail how to handle Epstein’s homes. “I’m sorry to say that it was very degrading to me. Most of the pages they were just unbelievable to me,” Juan Alessi, the manager, testified in federal court Thursday. The manual contained instructions for staff to maintain extreme discretion for Epstein, Maxwell and their guests. “Remember that you see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing except to answer a question directed at you. Respect their privacy,” Alessi read from the manual. He took the rule as a warning to keep quiet about anything he saw. “It means a kind of warning that I was supposed to be blind, deaf and dumb, to say nothing of their lives,” he said.

The American chief executive of Barclays (BCS), Jes Staley, is stepping down with immediate effect following an investigation by British regulators into his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the bank said on Monday. The investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) was disclosed by Barclays in early 2020 and focused on how Staley had characterized the relationship to his employer. Barclays and Staley were made aware on Friday evening by the FCA and the PRA of the preliminary conclusions of their investigation.

An independent compensation program for victims of late serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is winding down its operations after paying out more than $121 million to survivors of Epstein's sexual abuse. The Epstein Victims' Compensation Program, since launching last year, received approximately 225 applications from alleged victims from the United States and abroad. That astounding number was more than double the initial expectations of the fund's administrator and advocates for the victims.

The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will skirt any time behind bars under a deal with federal prosecutors, authorities said Friday. The prison workers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were accused of sleeping and browsing the internet instead of monitoring Epstein the night he took his own life in August 2019. They were charged with lying on prison records to make it seem as though they had made required checks on Epstein before he was found in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan on Aug. 10. New York City's medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.

Thousands of "highly confidential" photos entered as evidence into the Ghislaine Maxwell court case may temporarily stall the hearings, as her lawyers have requested time to pore over the new trove of information.

The woman, who is going by “Jane Doe,” alleges that for five months Epstein raped and abused her and trafficked her to other men, including a local judge, the lawsuit states.

A Harvard University professor who had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein and is accused of giving the disgraced financier an office on campus will be barred from starting new research or advising students for at least two years, the school announced Thursday. Martin Nowak will be allowed to continue teaching during that period, but other contact with students will be limited and his research center is being shut down, according to a memo from Claudine Gay, dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Nowak, a math professor, was placed on paid leave after a May 2020 review found that he violated school security rules by giving Epstein “unrestricted” access to campus. The review found that Nowak gave Epstein an office in Nowak’s campus research center, along with a building key card, and allowed Epstein to visit even after the financier’s 2008 sex crimes conviction.

The $22 million Palm Beach mansion owned by financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be demolished to make way for an even more expensive home, according to the developer who is buying it.

Queen Elizabeth has officially shelved all Prince Andrew related merchandise from her official gift shop

Since Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest on charges of helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls, rumors have swirled about her ties to famous figures including Democratic power couple Bill and Hillary Clinton.

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s first known victims is the last holdout against his estate. Last January, a California woman identified as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate and British heiress Ghislaine

Maxwell, a friend of the late Jeffrey Epstein, has been charged with recruiting girls into a circle of sexual abuse.

A federal judge denied bail for Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite accused of facilitating the sexual abuse of young girls by her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, the now-dead investor.

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Maxwell is Alleged to Have Facilitated, Participated in Acts of Abuse

Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, has accused former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak of sexual assault, according to court documents revealed Tuesday. Giuffre’s accusation, details of which had been sealed by a court, became known this week after attorney Alan Dershowitz issued a new filing refuting her claims. Dershowitz sued Giuffre for defamation after she claimed that she had been forced to have sex with him and other high-profile figures, including Barak and Prince Andrew of England. Dershowitz’s filing was first revealed publicly by reporter Julie Brown of the Miami Herald. Dershowitz’s document states that Giuffre alleges that she was forced to have sex with Barak. Dershowitz went on to argue that Giuffre “has offered no proof other than her own uncorroborated word, which has been thoroughly discredited by her proven lies.”

Federal investigators found a loaded gun Thursday that had been smuggled into the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last summer, following a weeklong lockdown that turned up other contraband and led to a criminal probe into guard misconduct, the federal Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press.

US lawyer Gloria Allred arranged for bus to be driven past Buckingham Palace with message for prince

Officials at the federal jail housing Epstein preserved video from the wrong floor because of a clerical error, prosecutors said.

The judge denies bail saying "no conditions of release can reasonably assure the defendant's appearance at future proceedings".

Video surveillance footage of the jailhouse area outside of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s cell from the time of his first suicide effort in July is missing.

The two jail staff members were charged with falsifying records and conspiring to defraud the United States.

Maria Farmer, who is suing the estate of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, says that his New York City home was under constant TV surveillance. In her first TV interview, she tells "CBS This Morning" co-host Anthony Mason that she was shown the "media room."

Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life are expected to face criminal charges this week for falsifying prison records.

ABC News anchor Amy Robach was caught on a hot mic claiming higher-ups at her network killed a story that would have exposed the now-deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein three years ago, but the Disney-owned news organization says it wasn't up to their standards. “I’ve had the story for three years… we would not put it on the air,” Robach said on the hot mic. “It was unbelievable what we had, Clinton, we had everything.”

The body of disgraced money man and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan federal prison cell in August, bore telltale signs of homicide despite an official ruling that he killed himself, a pioneering forensic pathologist revealed

Jeffrey Epstein’s biggest client had deserted him, his money management firm had lost more than $150 million during the financial crisis, and he was a registered sex offender. But after he started a new company with a wildly speculative business plan in 2012, Mr. Epstein had no problem pulling in cash.

The Duke of York has repeatedly insisted Virginia Roberts Giuffre's accusations are "false and without any foundation".

The woman, identified as L.M. in court papers obtained by the British tabloid, claimed she brought at least 70 girls to the pedophile’s home in exchange for baby shower gifts.

Harvard University received almost $9 million in gifts from Jeffrey Epstein, but none after he pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in 2008 in Florida, the school’s president said. Epstein gave gifts between 1998 and 2007, but the university rejected a donation from Epstein after his 2008 guilty plea, President Lawrence Bacow said in a message to the Harvard community Thursday. One endowment and one fund had an unspent balance of $186,000 from Epstein’s gifts, a review found, and that will be donated to organizations that support human trafficking and sexual abuse victims, Bacow said. The largest gift was $6.5 million to support the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics in 2003, Bacow noted, but the university also received other gifts totaling approximately $2.4 million. “Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes were repulsive and reprehensible,” Bacow wrote. “I profoundly regret Harvard’s past association with him.”

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is admitting that not only did the school hide donations from Jeffrey Epstein—he wrote the accused sex trafficker a thank-you letter. “It is now clear that senior members of the administration were aware of gifts the Media Lab received between 2013 and 2017...

An air traffic controller told the U.S. Marshals Service she saw Jeffrey Epstein get off his plane with girls as young as 11 on two occasions in 2018.

Swenson said Cohen told her that the media lab’s director, Joi Ito, had a relationship with Epstein, that Epstein would be donating money to the lab, and that part of her job would involve assisting with those donations. Swenson said she told Cohen at the time that she knew Epstein was a “disqualified prospect” as a donor to MIT because of his state prostitution charges in Florida, but that Cohen did not seem to be surprised by the information [that Epstein was convicted on state prostitution charges]. Swenson said she ultimately took the job with the lab because it was a “dream job” for her. “I wanted to get closer to the amazing things coming out of the media lab and generally, MIT,” Swenson said. Once she was working with the lab, Swenson recalls that the lab’s leadership made it clear that Epstein’s donations were to be kept under wraps.

A federal judge on Thursday formally dismissed the criminal sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein, a move that was expected following the financier's death in jail earlier this month.

One of the women accusing Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, Chauntae Davies, is vowing to continue her fight for justice after his death. In an exclusive interview with "CBS This Morning," Davies shared her story and told Gayle King she's suspicious of the way Epstein died.

A defense lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday expressed deep skepticism that the wealthy financier died by hanging himself in a Manhattan federal jail while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges, as a medical examiner has ruled.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been plunged further into crisis as a letter from its president revealed the scale of financial donations it received from the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. One of its top scientists and recipients of Epstein donations, Seth Lloyd, also penned a public apology for accepting the funds, saying: “I helped Mr Epstein protect his reputation, and I disempowered his victims. I should have focused on them instead of him.”

Considering the macabre details of Jeffrey Epstein’s home life and his total lack of remorse over his predation, it shouldn’t be surprising that his efforts to intimidate journalists investigating his dealings went beyond the usual playbook of harassment and bury-’em-in-paper lawsuits. According to a report by NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Epstein gruesomely threatened Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter into pulling journalist Vicky Ward off the trail of Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors after she wrote a profile on him in 2003.

An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein suffered multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.

The guards did not check on him for three hours, officials said. The disclosures came as the guards and the warden at the jail were removed.

"We were just trying to look at pretty fish ... and here we are in the middle of an FBI raid," said Kelly Quinn, the owner of Salty Dog Day Sails.

Epstein, 66, was set to stand trial next year for allegedly sexually abusing dozens of minor girls in New York and Florida.

He demanded sex three times a day. A parade of powerful figures visited his private estates, which were adorned with pictures of naked girls and stocked with sex toys. And the schedules of teenagers on call to give him massages at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion were documented in phone messages from his assistants.

Jeffrey Epstein, the financier under indictment for alleged child sex trafficking, misappropriated more than $46 million from Les Wexner and his family, the L Brands founder and chairman said Wednesday. In a letter to his charitable Wexner Foundation Community, he added: “I am embarrassed that, like so many others, I was deceived by Mr. Epstein.” “I know now that my trust in him was grossly misplaced and I deeply regret having ever crossed his path.” Epstein for years was known for managing Wexner’s personal finances before the first criminal probe into his penchant for getting massages from girls became public. Numerous stories about Epstein noted that Wexner was his only known client. Wexner, 81, said he learned that money was missing only after he decided in 2007 to sever his relationship with Epstein after Epstein was placed under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct with young girls in Florida. “We discovered that he had misappropriated vast sums of money from me and my family,” Wexner wrote in his letter. “This was, frankly, a tremendous shock, even though it clearly pales in comparison to the unthinkable allegations against him now,” wrote Wexner, whose L Brands owns Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works.

A day before Jeffrey Epstein, an accused child sex trafficker, was found mysteriously injured in his jail cell, he was served legal documents detailing a woman’s claims that he raped her in his New York City mansion when she was just 15 years old.

The Victoria's Secret billionaire Leslie Wexner handed Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney in 1991, giving him sweeping control over his financial affairs, The New York Times reported Thursday. Friends and associates of Wexner were mystified by the trust Wexner placed in Epstein, according to the report. A woman told The Times that Epstein once posed as a Victoria's Secret talent scout in 1997 and tried to "manhandle" her in a Santa Monica, California, hotel room. During the time he was close to Wexner, Epstein acquired two luxury properties and a private jet previously owned by Wexner or his companies. Epstein was arrested in July on federal charges of sex trafficking and sex-trafficking conspiracy, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

The questionable travel document was found inside a safe — along with $70,000 in cash and 48 loose diamonds — in the home of the accused child predator.

Barak was a close friend and business partner with Epstein for years. Now some of those business partnerships are being scrutinized amid questions about Barak’s own source of wealth. The Times reported Saturday that Barak is exploring whether to sever business ties with Epstein, 66, who was charged last week with sex trafficking underage girls.

Another woman who was a teenager when she met Jeffrey Epstein says she was sexually assaulted and raped by the notorious financier.

Lurid pictures found in the financier’s home could prompt a reckoning for the Justice Department, which has been accused of mishandling the case a decade ago.

Jeffrey Epstein is being held at the federal lockup in Manhattan, according to law enforcement sources.

The ruling comes less than a month after the Department of Justice announced their own investigation into the billionaire’s secret plea deal.

Court documents filed in a recently settled lawsuit against billionaire, Harvard donor, and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein allege Epstein directed a second woman to have sex with Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz. The new charge against Dershowitz came to light during a Nov. 7 hearing in a lawsuit filed by Sarah Ransome against Epstein, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and several others, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday. Ransome alleges Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her for sex in 2006 and 2007. Epstein — who holds strong ties to the University through multi-million dollar donations and close relationships with high-profile affiliates — was first charged with operating a sex ring of underage girls out of his Palm Beach, Fla. home in 2005. At the time, Dershowitz served on the seven-person legal team that struck a plea deal with prosecutors on Epstein’s behalf, the Herald reported in a three-part feature last month. During the Nov. 7 hearing, Maxwell’s lawyer, Laura Menninger, mentioned Dershowitz’s name as one of several “third party” persons Ransome alleges Epstein directed her to have sex with, the New York Daily News first reported. The transcript of that hearing, once publicly available, has since been sealed.

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

Video shot by NBC shows Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago with Jeffrey Epstein in 1992