More than three million Jeffrey Epstein files released

Millions of investigative files relating to Jeffrey Epstein are being released by the US Justice Department.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department was releasing more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos and some 180,000 images.

The files, posted to the department’s website, were the largest trove of Epstein files released to date by the Justice Department

The White House had ‘nothing to do’ with the review, including ‘what to redact or not redact’, Blanche said.

Anything that could identify the victims or depict child sexual abuse has been removed.

They were disclosed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

When accessing the new dataset, users are asked to confirm they are 18 or over.

Many of the files concern Epstein’s confidant and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Among the files is a PDF copy of her registration to a database of alleged offenders, the Joint Automated Booking System.

The 2020 document lists her alias as ‘Max G’ and includes a photograph of her in what appears to be an orange prison jumpsuit.

Another file is of Maxwell’s US naturalisation certificate, which lists Epstein as her ‘manager’ and her home address as his island, Little St James.

She also owned two helicopters, nicknamed ‘Air Ghislaine 1’ and ‘Air Ghislaine 2’, according to an email exchange with an FBI agent.

One file notes an anonymous Instagram account under Maxwell’s name, which has just 21 followers.

Other documents include FBI tips, call logs, wire transfer confirmations, private jet itineraries and paperwork about children’s school enrolment.

After missing a December 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. This is to protect the identities of victims of sexual abuse.

The number of documents subject to review has ballooned to 5.2 million, including duplicates, the department said.

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. Both have said they had no knowledge that he was abusing underage girls.

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

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

In 2008 and 2009, he 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 US 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 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.

US prosecutors never charged anyone else in connection with Epstein’s abuse of girls.

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