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Jeffrey Epstein

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Also known as: Jeffrey Edward Epstein, Jeff Epstein
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Note: Inclusion in the Epstein files or this database does not imply guilt or wrongdoing. All data is sourced from publicly released government records, court filings, and verified reporting. This page is for public interest and accountability purposes only.
Background

American financier and convicted sex offender. Born January 20, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. Hired in 1973 to teach math and physics at the elite Dalton School despite lacking a college degree - the headmaster who hired him was Donald Barr, father of future Attorney General William Barr.

Joined Bear Stearns in 1976, made limited partner by 1980, left in 1981. Founded J. Epstein & Co. in 1982, claiming to manage money exclusively for billionaires.

His most significant known client was Leslie Wexner (L Brands/Victoria's Secret), who granted Epstein sweeping power of attorney in 1991 and transferred his Manhattan townhouse at 9 East 71st Street (valued ~$77M) to Epstein for $0. Epstein amassed properties including a Palm Beach mansion (358 El Brillo Way), Zorro Ranch (~10,000 acres, New Mexico), Little St. James (71.5-acre private island, USVI, purchased 1998), Great St.

James (165-acre island, purchased 2016), and a Paris apartment on Avenue Foch. In 2005, Palm Beach police identified 36+ underage victims; the FBI expanded the investigation. In 2008, U.S.

Attorney Alexander Acosta negotiated a non-prosecution agreement shielding Epstein and unnamed co-conspirators from federal charges. Epstein pleaded guilty to two state prostitution charges, served approximately 13 months with 6-day/week work release. The NPA was later ruled to have violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

Key named associates included Ghislaine Maxwell (primary recruiter), Sarah Kellen (scheduling), Nadia Marcinkova (brought from Yugoslavia as a teenager), Lesley Groff (executive assistant), and Jean-Luc Brunel (modeling agent, found dead in Paris jail February 2022). Epstein's black book contained approximately 1,500+ names including heads of state, billionaires, and celebrities. His Boeing 727 ('Lolita Express'), Gulfstream II, and helicopter flew hundreds of documented passengers between 1995-2013.

Arrested July 6, 2019, at Teterboro Airport on federal sex trafficking charges (SDNY). Bail denied.

Flight Log Appearances
Date From To Aircraft Passengers
2014-03-26 Albuquerque International Sunport, NM Teterboro Airport, NJ N212JE (Gulfstream G-IV)
2014-03-23 OAK Airport Albuquerque International Sunport, NM N212JE (Gulfstream G-IV)
2014-01-01 Palm Beach International, FL Teterboro Airport, NJ N212JE (Gulfstream G-IV)
2013-12-27 LGB Airport Palm Beach International, FL N908JE (Boeing 727)
2013-03-31 Le Bourget, Paris, France Bangor International, ME N909JE (Gulfstream G-II)
2013-03-21 Teterboro Airport, NJ Le Bourget, Paris, France N909JE (Gulfstream G-II)
2013-02-18 Palm Beach International, FL Teterboro Airport, NJ N909JE (Gulfstream G-II)
2013-02-16 Teterboro Airport, NJ Palm Beach International, FL N909JE (Gulfstream G-II)
Related Documents
New Mexico Survivors' Truth Commission: Interim Report on Epstein at Zorro Ranch
2026-08-05 · Government · Report
On 5 August 2026 the New Mexico Survivors' Truth Commission, a special committee of the New Mexico House of Representatives created by House Resolution 1 (approved 62-0 on 16 February 2026), submitted this 119-page interim report on Jeffrey Epstein's activities at Zorro Ranch near Stanley, New Mexico. Special counsel Fadduol, Cluff, Hardy & Conaway P.C. wrote it under a $750,000 contract. It draws on Epstein Files Transparency Act records and the Commission's subpoenas: of 20 issued in June 2026, 10 drew full compliance, 2 partial and 8 refusals or silence, returning over 100,000 records. It covers the March 1993 purchase from sitting Governor Bruce King and his brothers through the Zorro Trust, 7,621.74 acres with state and federal grazing leases, roughly 50,000 square feet including a 28,636 square-foot main residence, the entities that ran the property, ranch staff named in Epstein's 2009-2019 email archive, 227 flights to or from Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and firearms kept there after his 2008 Florida felony conviction. Its longest section concerns institutional failure. A September 2019 SDNY email reproduced in the report states that New Mexico's Attorney General agreed in July 2019 to cease its sex-trafficking investigation; the Commission adds that the state office either did not retain a copy of what it sent or has misplaced it. No property search occurred until state investigators searched on 9 and 10 March 2026; cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar had found no human remains by 24 March. The Commission makes no findings and states that no person named is accused of wrongdoing unless it says so expressly and that every individual is presumed innocent. A final report is due 31 December 2026, subject to extension.
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New Mexico v. DOJ: APA Complaint Over the Denied Touhy Request for Epstein Files
2026-08-05 · State-ag · Legal-filing
New Mexico filed this 40-page civil complaint on 5 August 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, docketed 1:26-cv-02762, against the U.S. Department of Justice and Todd Blanche in his official capacity as Acting Attorney General. Brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, it pleads two Administrative Procedure Act counts and asks the court to set aside DOJ's refusal of a Touhy request under 28 C.F.R. sections 16.21 to 16.29 for unredacted federal investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, sought for the state's reopened criminal investigation into conduct at Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County. The central allegation is a broken bargain. New Mexico says USDOJ asked it to stand down its own 2019 trafficking investigation and promised in exchange to pass back evidence of state crimes, that the state handed over its entire investigative file that September, and that nothing came back. The narrative traces a 23 July 2019 telephone call, a 13 February 2026 letter to then-Deputy Attorney General Blanche, a 13 March 2026 letter to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi naming five Epstein Files records by Bates number, the certified Touhy request of 3 May 2026 identifying nine more, the District of New Mexico's 30 June reply enclosing 31 pages, and SDNY's refusal by telephone on 14 July 2026. The state says it repeatedly offered to review the material in person at Main Justice under DOJ's own security conditions. Count I pleads arbitrary and capricious final agency action under 5 U.S.C. 706(2)(A); Count II pleads, alternatively, action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed under 706(1). Twenty-five exhibits are cited, including DOJ letters to Congress and the Epstein and Maxwell protective orders.
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House Oversight Transcribed Interview of Kathryn Ruemmler on Jeffrey Epstein
2026-07-15 · House-oversight · Testimony
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform took a voluntary transcribed interview from Kathryn H. Ruemmler on 15 July 2026 in Room 2247, Rayburn House Office Building, from 10:08 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. over three majority and three minority rounds. Sixteen members are listed as present; Chairman James Comer requested the interview and Billy Grant led the majority questioning. Her counsel were from Arnold & Porter and Liu Shur Kravis. She was White House Counsel to President Obama from 2011 to 2014, global chair of Latham & Watkins' White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice from July 2014 to April 2020, and Goldman Sachs' general counsel from March 2021 until she stepped down at the end of June 2026, testifying she is now in an advisory role there. Ruemmler testified that Epstein cold-called Latham & Watkins in July 2014, days before she formally started, pitching a donor-advised fund he said he was building with Bill Gates, and that weeks later he referred the Edmond de Rothschild Bank to her and remained its primary advisor until she left private practice. She testified he was never her client, never retained or paid her, and that she saw no evidence of ongoing criminal conduct while she dealt with him. Twenty-two exhibits were marked, eighteen minority and four majority; seventeen carry EFTA Bates numbers read into the record. Most are her emails with Epstein; exhibit R is the minority's Interim Staff Analysis. They cover an itemised accounting of gifts, her lawyer referrals, a White House tour, a December 2018 draft media statement she edited, emails around the Maxwell defamation litigation, and her Goldman Sachs disclosures. She said repeatedly that she regrets dealing with him.
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New Mexico AG Torrez Letter to DOJ Requesting Unredacted Zorro Ranch Records, June 30, 2026
2026-06-30 · State-ag · Correspondence
On June 30, 2026, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez wrote to Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and Associate Deputy Attorney General Diego Pestana seeking unredacted Epstein records held by the U.S. Department of Justice. The four-page letter, copied to New Mexico DOJ Special Counsel Sean Sullivan, is captioned an urgent law enforcement request. Torrez writes that heavily redacted open-source records already establish that multiple survivors were brought to Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County on numerous occasions, and that under the redactions sit "the names of survivors, witnesses, co-conspirators, and other individuals" the state needs. The letter chronicles six approaches to DOJ since February 13, 2026, ending with a May 3 Touhy letter to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Ellison and FBI Albuquerque Special Agent in Charge Justin Garris and unanswered June 4-5 meeting requests. Despite verbal assurances of cooperation, he writes, no substantive response has been provided and more than 130 days have elapsed. He recounts that New Mexico's 2019 Zorro Ranch investigation was halted at the express request of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and that on September 17, 2019 then-Chief Deputy Attorney General Clara Moran gave the state's entire file to AUSA Maurene Comey; the notification of further New Mexico survivors she requested, he writes, never came. Three later approaches, he says, met "acknowledgment and nothing more." Torrez argues the delay causes real and escalating harm as witnesses relocate, memories fade and evidence degrades, raising statute-of-limitations, due-process and pre-indictment-delay concerns, while DOJ's burden is not significant because it could grant database access. He sets a July 31, 2026 deadline, after which the request will be considered denied.
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Transcribed Interview of Bill Gates, House Oversight Committee, June 10, 2026
2026-06-10 · House-oversight · Testimony
A 138-page transcribed interview of William H. Gates, III by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building on June 10, 2026 and running from 10:00 a.m. to 3:43 p.m. Gates appeared voluntarily with counsel John Moran of McGuireWoods and Tom Clare of Clare Locke LLP. Peter Spectre, director of oversight for Chairman James Comer, stated on the record that the interview was requested under House Rule X as part of the Committee's investigation into the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the operation of sex trafficking rings, "the ways in which Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell sought to curry favor and exercise influence to protect their illegal activities," and potential ethics violations by elected officials. Questioning alternated in hour-long majority and minority rounds. In an opening statement Gates said he was introduced to Epstein in 2011 by people he trusted, that Epstein claimed he could raise billions for global health from people he advised on taxes and estates, that no giving vehicle was created and no funds were raised, and that meeting Epstein was "a grave error in judgment." Majority counsel worked through three Epstein emails released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the economics of science adviser Boris Nikolic's exit, an August 2013 Seattle meeting and the thank-you note that followed, three extramarital affairs, a $2 million MIT donation, a Southern Trust Company contract naming Gates, law-enforcement contacts and a roll call of names. Minority counsel moved chronologically through Epstein's calendars and estate photographs. Members questioned Gates about Melanie Walker, the September 2014 donor meetings, and whether women he saw around Epstein were victims.
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Lesley Groff, Epstein's Executive Secretary: House Oversight Interview, June 2026
2026-06-09 · House-oversight · Testimony
Lesley Groff was Jeffrey Epstein's executive secretary in New York from February 2001 until she resigned in July 2019, the week after his July 6 arrest. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform interviewed her on June 9, 2026 in Room 2247 of the Rayburn House Office Building: the record opened at 10:00 a.m., questioning began at 10:20, and closed at 5:57 p.m. This is the 230-page transcript. Groff appeared voluntarily with counsel Michael Bachner and Jonathan P. Whitcomb. In an opening statement she said she worked "for Dr. Jekyll, but was never permitted to see the true Mr. Hyde," and that being labeled a potential conspirator in the 2008 non-prosecution agreement "remains my scarlet letter." Over alternating majority and minority rounds she testified she booked Epstein's near-daily massages from names and numbers he supplied, never met a masseuse, and saw nothing improper in 18 years. Asked by Rep. Melanie Stansbury about the Justice Department's investigation of her, she testified there is no plea deal, that she sat with prosecutors voluntarily, and that they "deemed me not guilty of being a coconspirator." Counsel and members tested that account against ten majority and ten minority exhibits from the Epstein estate and DOJ's EFTA production: phone-directory massage lists; 2012 emails in which a correspondent sent her photographs of women; a January 14, 2016 "decoy flight" request; 2011 scheduling and payment chains post-dating the incarceration she said ended her booking; a plea proffer alleging Epstein obstructed her 2007 subpoena, which she testified is wrong; and a 2005 New York Times profile quoting Epstein calling his assistants "an extension of my brain." She confirmed $410,000 in Southern Financial loans forgiven at his death.
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