Three million pages from the Justice Division’s recordsdata on the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein are being made public immediately, Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche stated at a press briefing Friday.
Blanche stated the tranche, which follows the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), will embody 2,000 movies and 180,000 photos associated to the Epstein case.
Blanche stated in complete there have been 6 million paperwork within the file, however because of the presence of kid sexual abuse materials and sufferer rights obligations, not all paperwork are being made public within the present launch.
Beneath the EFTA, all the Epstein recordsdata within the authorities’s possession had been required to be launched with some exceptions.
Blanche stated a number of classes of pages had been withheld from the discharge as a consequence of their delicate nature. These things embody personally figuring out info of the victims, victims’ medical recordsdata, photos depicting youngster pornography, info associated to ongoing instances, and any photos depicting demise or abuse.
Attorneys for a whole lot of Epstein survivors inform ABC Information that names and figuring out info of quite a few victims seem unredacted on this newest disclosure, together with a number of girls whose names have by no means earlier than been publicly related to the case.
“We’re getting fixed requires victims as a result of their names, regardless of them by no means coming ahead, being utterly unknown to the general public, have all simply been launched for public consumption,” lawyer Brad Edwards, who has represented Epstein victims for greater than 20 years, stated in a phone interview with ABC Information. “It is actually 1000’s of errors.”
ABC Information has independently confirmed quite a few cases of victims’ names showing in paperwork included within the newest launch.
Shortly after the brand new materials appeared on Friday morning, Edwards stated he and his regulation associate, Brittany Henderson, started receiving calls from shoppers.
“We contacted DOJ instantly, who has requested us to flag every of the paperwork the place sufferer names seem unredacted, and they’re going to pull them down,” Edwards stated. “It is an unattainable job. The straightforward job can be for the DOJ to sort in all of the victims’ names, hit redact like they promised to do, then launch them. “
“They’re making an attempt to repair it, however I stated, ‘The answer is take the factor down for now,'” Edwards stated. “There is no different treatment to this. It simply runs the chance of inflicting a lot extra hurt except they take it down first, then repair the issue and put it again up.
ABC Information reached out to the Justice Division for remark.
DOJ ‘did not shield’ Trump
Blanche pushed again on the notion that the Justice Division may need protected President Donald Trump from his title showing within the recordsdata.
Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche speaks throughout a press convention on the US Division of justice, January 30, 2026 in Washington.
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“We adjust to the act, and there’s no ‘shield President Trump.’ We did not shield or not shield anyone,” Blanche informed ABC Information Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. “I imply, I feel that there is a starvation or a thirst for info that I don’t assume can be glad by the evaluation of those paperwork. And there is nothing I can do about that.”
Blanche stated there was “no oversight” by the White Home about what the fabric confirmed.
He added that if there was proof within the recordsdata that others had abused victims, the DOJ would pursue costs towards them.
FBI interview information
Friday’s launch incorporates contains quite a few FBI interview information, generally known as 302s, from alleged victims of Epstein, which embody some detailed statements offered by witnesses to authorities relating to their time with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell from 2013 to 2021.
Whereas the overall nature of the allegations has been beforehand identified, the FBI information the main points that alleged victims offered in regards to the organized operation that used personal planes and varied residences to facilitate the sexual exploitation of minors and younger girls.
Within the statements, the alleged victims informed authorities that Ghislaine Maxwell served as a main recruiter who introduced girls into Epstein’s circle underneath the guise {of professional} massages or dance classes. Based on a few of the paperwork, witnesses described a system the place Maxwell and Epstein organized home and worldwide journey, offered logistical help for passports, and used modeling fronts to recruit international nationals. The information additionally include statements that Epstein maintained in depth surveillance techniques and used presents, cash, and drug entry to keep up a managed atmosphere for himself and his associates.
A number of the FBI paperwork point out ex-Prince Andrew. One witness, whose account seems to be that of Virginia Giuffre, informed investigators in 2013 that Maxwell and Epstein organized for her to journey to London, the place Maxwell took her searching for a costume for a gathering with the prince. She said she danced with Prince Andrew at a nightclub and alleged she later engaged in sexual exercise with him at Maxwell’s residence. She additionally reported encountering the prince at Epstein’s Manhattan house and on his personal island. The previous prince has at all times denied wrongdoing.
Further information element interactions with Trump. A person recognized as “III” informed the FBI in 2021 that Maxwell offered a sufferer to Trump at a celebration in New York, offering a abstract of her accolades like knowledgeable CV. Based on the FBI doc, the sufferer was later given a tour of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property by Trump with Epstein and Maxwell current, although the witness clarified that nothing occurred between the sufferer and Trump.
In a single 302, an alleged sufferer informed authorities in 2021 she was approached exterior a New York dance studio at age 17. She said that after being invited to offer dance-based health classes, the encounters transitioned into massages after which sexual encounters that continued for a number of years.
She said that Epstein paid her and tried to direct her profession whereas encouraging her to introduce her associates to him.
Different FBI 302s determine Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent and shut affiliate of Epstein who died in 2022, as an middleman who allegedly recruited younger ladies by modeling fronts for Epstein and his associates.
The paperwork embody descriptions of the worry and intimidation alleged victims felt after leaving their involvement with Epstein and Maxwell. One FBI report particulars how Maxwell was described by a witness as a harmful determine who directed victims’ clothes and social interactions to swimsuit high-profile males. After leaving, some survivors informed investigators they had been contacted by people claiming to symbolize Epstein’s pursuits who pressured them to not cooperate with the federal investigation.
Inner FBI paperwork
One doc in Friday’s launch is a chart displaying connections between Epstein and varied workers and associates. Many are redacted — however the faces of a number of stay seen, together with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s affiliate Jean Luc Brunel, and Epstein’s lawyer, accountant, and assistant. The chart is adopted by an inventory of people damaged into three classes: Day of Arrest, Week of Arrest, and Weeks following arrest.
This ties in with inner DOJ communications launched earlier that confirmed a plan to contact potential witnesses following Epstein’s arrest. There are eight individuals who’re listed within the accompanying spreadsheet as “suspected co-conspirators,” together with Maxwell, Brunel, and Epstein’s assistant Leslie Groff. Two of these designated as “suspected co-conspirators” are additionally recognized additionally as victims.
Groff has by no means been charged with against the law and stated in an announcement to ABC Information in 2020 that she “by no means knowingly booked journey for anybody underneath the age of 18, and had no data of the alleged criminal activity in anyway.”
An inner FBI doc produced created in August 2019, 5 days after Epstein’s demise, reveals 9 individuals listed as household and associates of Epstein, together with eight labeled as “co-conspirators,” most with their names and faces redacted apart from Maxwell and Brunel. This factors to potential continued curiosity in pursuing additional costs after the demise of Epstein. In his assertion saying Epstein’s demise, Manhattan U.S. Lawyer Geoffrey Berman stated “our investigation of the conduct charged within the Indictment — which included a conspiracy depend — stays ongoing” Maxwell is the one different particular person to be charged associated to Epstein’s crimes.
Among the many different new paperwork launched is what seems to be a part of the unique indictment towards Epstein in his 2005 legal case in Florida. The 100-page charging doc incorporates info on 58 out the 60 costs towards Epstein for his habits in the direction of six alleged victims. This doc had by no means been made public.
Epstein ending up being provided a plea to decreased costs and was provided a non-prosecution agreement, in a deal that was extremely controversial.
Epstein’s belief settlement
Epstein’s belief settlement, which has by no means earlier than been public, particulars how greater than a quarter-billion {dollars} plus his sundry properties throughout the globe can be doled out to at the least 44 beneficiaries when he died.
Epstein executed and signed the need on Aug. 8, 2019 — two days earlier than he was discovered dead by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell.
The doc was later signed by his longtime lawyer Darren Indyke, eight days after his demise, on Aug. 18. His accountant, Richard Kahn, signed it on Aug. 20.
To his final identified girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, Epstein bequeathed $50 million. He additionally deliberate to present her his sprawling Zorro ranch in New Mexico; his island property on Little Saint James, in addition to his property on Nice Saint James. He additionally gave her his residence in certainly one of Paris’ most unique areas close to the Arc de Triomphe, in addition to his Palm Seaside property and his townhouse on Manhattan’s posh Higher East Facet.
Shuliak would additionally get a heap of Epstein’s diamonds, together with a meticulously described near-33 carat diamond ring, which — in blue handwritten notes within the margins of the doc — Epstein stated he had given her “in contemplation of marriage.” It was “set with a rectangular-cut diamond, weighing roughly 32.73 carats, flanked by baguette-cut diamonds mounted in platinum.” She would additionally get “all of my free diamonds,” Epstein meant — itemizing 48 of them.
An undated picture from the property of Jeffrey Epstein is a part of a set of photos launched Dec. 18, 2025, by Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee.
Home Oversight Committee Democrats
To his longtime lawyer Indyke and his accountant Kahn, who had been additionally the coexecutors of Epstein’s will, he deliberate to present $50 million and $25 million, respectively.
Ghislaine Maxwell was to obtain $10 million. His brother, Mark Epstein, was additionally to obtain $10 million, as was Epstein’s longtime pilot, Larry Visoski.
A number of the different beneficiary names are redacted however known as “she’s” and allotted a number of million {dollars} every. A number of million {dollars} would even be distributed to varied workers, respectively.
Although the belief detailed that $288 million, in addition to a set of worldwide properties, was to be parceled out, what now stays of Epstein’s property is much from sufficient to satisfy that plan; in keeping with the property’s newest publicly out there accounting, filed within the U.S. Virgin Island probate courts, there was $127 million left. And that complete stays tied up within the USVI courts.
Three information units
As of Friday afternoon, the DOJ had uploaded three “information units” to its public web site. Simply a kind of units contains, by ABC Information’ depend, over 300,000 objects.
A crew of 500 attorneys from the Justice Division labored across the clock to evaluation and redact materials, Blanche stated at his press briefing.
Friday’s tranche is the most recent in a sequence of Epstein file releases that started final month in response to the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act, which handed Congress overwhelmingly and was signed into regulation by Trump on Nov. 19. The act gave the Justice Division 30 days to make publicly out there all unclassified information pertaining to investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
The invoice incorporates a number of exceptions that enable for withholding or redacting information, notably to guard the privateness of Epstein’s victims.
Previous to Friday’s launch, the DOJ had posted to its on-line Epstein library roughly 12,000 paperwork totaling about 125,000 pages — only a small fraction of the thousands and thousands of information the division has been reviewing.
These supplies included a report of a criticism to the FBI filed in 1996, years earlier than the disgraced financier was first investigated for youngster intercourse abuse. The paperwork additionally included new particulars about the federal government’s investigation into potential accomplices in addition to 1000’s of pictures of Epstein’s New York and U.S. Virgin Islands properties that had been searched by the FBI after Epstein’s arrest in 2019.
The initial release of the files additionally contained quite a few previous pictures of Epstein touring with former President Invoice Clinton, together with footage of Clinton lounging in a jacuzzi and certainly one of him swimming with Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence after her 2021 conviction for intercourse trafficking of minors and different offenses.
The photographs, which had been launched with none context or background info, contained little info associated to Trump, main a spokesperson for Clinton to accuse the DOJ of selectively disclosing the photographs to indicate wrongdoing on the a part of Clinton the place he stated there’s none.
“The White Home hasn’t been hiding these recordsdata for months solely to dump them late on a Friday to guard Invoice Clinton,” Angel Urena stated. “That is about shielding themselves from what comes subsequent, or from what they’re going to try to disguise endlessly. To allow them to launch as many grainy 20-plus-year-old pictures as they need, however this is not about Invoice Clinton. By no means has, by no means can be.”
The Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act got here after the Trump administration confronted months of blowback from its announcement final July that they’d be releasing no extra Epstein recordsdata, after a number of prime officers — together with FBI Director Kash Patel and former Deputy Director Dan Bongino — had, previous to becoming a member of the administration, accused the federal government of protecting info relating to the Epstein case.
Epstein owned two personal islands within the Virgin Islands and huge properties in New York Metropolis, New Mexico and Palm Seaside, Florida, the place he got here underneath investigation for allegedly luring minor ladies to his seaside house for massages that turned sexual. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for intercourse crimes costs after reaching a controversial non-prosecution settlement with the U.S. lawyer’s workplace in Miami.
In 2019, prosecutors with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York indicted Epstein on costs that he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor ladies at his houses in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Seaside, Florida, amongst different places,” utilizing money funds to recruit a “huge community of underage victims,” a few of whom had been as younger as 14 years previous.
