Justice Department Unveils 3 Million Pages of Jeffrey Epstein Case Files

WASHINGTON — On Friday, the Justice Department made public a substantial number of records from its investigative files concerning Jeffrey Epstein. This release marks a continuation of efforts under legislation designed to uncover the government’s knowledge of the financier’s abuse of young girls and his connections with influential figures.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed that over 3 million pages of documents were included in this latest disclosure. These files, now available on the department’s website, comprise a significant portion of the records that were withheld during an initial release in December.

“There is a strong desire for information that I believe won’t be fully satisfied by these documents,” Blanche noted on Friday. “However, I have no control over that aspect.”

These documents were released in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. This law was passed following consistent public and political demands for the government to make its files available regarding the late financier and his associate and former partner, Ghislaine Maxwell.

At the press conference, Blanche highlighted documents the Justice Department had chosen to redact as part of the release. He said documents containing the identities of victims, child sexual abuse material and images of physical abuse or death were redacted. 

Blanche also claimed that out of an abundance of caution, the face of every woman in every photo or video released by the DOJ had been blacked out. No men were redacted unless it was required to redact a woman’s face in a photo, he said. 

After missing a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress to release all of the files, the Justice Department said it tasked hundreds of lawyers with reviewing the records to determine what needs to be redacted, or blacked out, to protect the identities of victims of sexual abuse.

The number of documents subject to review has ballooned to more than six million, including materials from multiple investigations into Epstein and Maxwell, the department said.

The Justice Department released tens of thousands of pages of documents just before Christmas, including photographs, interview transcripts, call logs and court records. Many of them were either already public or heavily blacked out.

Those records included previously released flight logs showing that Donald Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet in the 1990s, before they had a falling out, and several photographs of former President Bill Clinton. Neither Trump, a Republican, nor Clinton, a Democrat, has been publicly accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and both have said they had no knowledge he was abusing underage girls.

Also released last month were transcripts of grand jury testimony from FBI agents who described interviews they had with several girls and young women who said they were paid to perform sex acts for Epstein.

Epstein killed himself in a New York jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.

In 2008 and 2009, Epstein served jail time in Florida after pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. At the time, investigators had gathered evidence that Epstein had sexually abused underage girls at his home in Palm Beach, but the U.S. attorney’s office agreed not to prosecute him in exchange for his guilty plea to lesser state charges.

In 2021, a federal jury in New York convicted Maxwell, a British socialite, of sex trafficking for helping recruit some of his underage victims. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence at a prison camp in Texas, after being moved there from a federal prison in Florida. She denies any wrongdoing.

U.S. prosecutors never charged anyone else in connection with Epstein’s abuse of girls, but one of his victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, accused him in lawsuits of having arranged for her to have sexual encounters at age 17 and 18 with numerous politicians, business titans, noted academics and others, all of whom denied her allegations.

Among the people she accused was Britain’s Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after the scandal led to him being stripped of his royal titles. Andrew denied having sex with Giuffre but settled her lawsuit for an undisclosed sum.

Giuffre died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia last year at age 41.

Tucker and Richer reported from Washington.

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