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Original investigations into the Epstein network. Every claim cites specific documents from our database of court filings, depositions, and government records.
In 2018, 33 firearms were stolen from Epstein's Zorro Ranch. His staff documented every serial number. His attorney made sure police never got them.
In February 2023, a foreign hacker accessed the FBI Child Exploitation Forensic Lab server containing Epstein investigation evidence. The FBI discovered the breach the next day but did not disclose it publicly until Reuters reported it in March 2026.
Svetlana Pozhidaeva spent years hiding her identity after escaping Epstein. A DOJ redaction failure in the January 2026 file release exposed her name, forcing her to tell her own story before someone else did.
ITV News uncovered the first photograph of Prince Andrew, Peter Mandelson, and Jeffrey Epstein together, sitting in bathrobes at Martha’s Vineyard around 1999. Both Andrew and Mandelson now face criminal charges.
In five days, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed AG Pam Bondi, secured testimony from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and called prison guard Tova Noel to explain what happened the night Jeffrey Epstein died.
Bank of America reached a settlement in principle with Jeffrey Epstein survivors on March 16, ending the class-action lawsuit and cancelling Leon Black’s scheduled deposition about $170 million he transferred to Epstein through BofA accounts.
In August 1994, Epstein and Maxwell stayed at a lodge they funded at Interlochen. During that stay, they approached a student between classes. She was 13 or 14. She later testified at the Maxwell trial.
Jeffrey Epstein created the Butterfly Trust one week after the FBI began interviewing witnesses. The co-trustees later added themselves as beneficiaries and moved $13 million into the trust nine months after his death.
A Deutsche Bank exhibit delivered to federal prosecutors in 2019 lists more than 30 schools across 10 countries that received payments from Jeffrey Epstein's financial network. The payments ran through shell LLCs and the Butterfly Trust, whose co-trustees later paid their own children's tuition from the same accounts and restructured the trust after Epstein's death to shield assets from victim claims.
After Jeffrey Epstein walked out of a Palm Beach jail in 2009, he needed someone who could restore his access to the world's most famous people. The Department of Justice's Epstein files show he found that person in Peggy Siegal, the Hollywood publicist whose 5,000-plus emails with Epstein document a decade of guest lists, paid services, image management, and social rehabilitation.
From Le Bourget to Sofia to Madrid, thousands of documents reveal how Jeffrey Epstein built recruitment pipelines, cultivated political allies, and moved money across three European countries.
The Epstein files identify at least six Russian-speaking women who functioned as recruiters within Epstein's operation. The documents show a pattern: modeling agencies in Moscow and Novosibirsk served as recruitment fronts, ages of recruits trended downward over time, and one woman brought her 18-year-old sister to Epstein one week before his arrest.