Justice Department releases largest batch yet of Epstein documents, says it totals 3 million pages

NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department connected Friday released galore much records from its investigative files connected Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures nether a instrumentality intended to uncover what the authorities knew astir the millionaire financier's intersexual maltreatment of young girls and his interactions with affluent and almighty radical specified arsenic Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the section would beryllium releasing much than 3 cardinal pages of documents arsenic good arsenic much than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The files, posted to the department’s website, see immoderate of the respective cardinal pages of records that officials said were withheld from an archetypal merchandise successful December.

Included were documents concerning immoderate of Epstein's celebrated associates, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known arsenic Britain’s Prince Andrew, and email correspondence betwixt Epstein and Elon Musk and different salient contacts from crossed the governmental spectrum.

The documents were disclosed nether the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the instrumentality enacted aft months of nationalist and governmental unit that requires the authorities to unfastened its files connected the precocious financier and his confidant and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. Lawmakers complained erstwhile the Justice Department made lone a constricted merchandise past month, but officials said much clip was needed to reappraisal an further trove of documents that was discovered and to scour the records to guarantee nary delicate accusation astir victims was inadvertently released.

Friday's disclosure represents the largest papers dump to day astir a saga the Trump medication has struggled for months to shingle due to the fact that of the president's erstwhile relation with Epstein. State and national investigations into the financier person agelong animated online sleuths, conspiracy theorists and others who person suspected authorities cover-ups and clamored for a afloat accounting, demands that adjacent Blanche acknowledged mightiness not beryllium satisfied by the latest release.

“There’s a hunger, oregon a thirst, for accusation that I don’t deliberation volition beryllium satisfied by the reappraisal of these documents," helium said astatine a quality conference.

After missing a Dec. 19 deadline acceptable by Congress to merchandise each the files, the Justice Department said it tasked hundreds of lawyers with reviewing the records to find what needed to beryllium redacted, oregon blacked out. But it denied immoderate effort to shield Trump, who says helium chopped ties with Epstein years agone aft an earlier friendship, from imaginable embarrassment.

Epstein's celebrated friends

The latest batch of documents includes correspondence either with oregon astir immoderate of Epstein's friends.

The records person thousands of references to Trump, including emails successful which Epstein and others shared quality articles astir him, commented connected his policies oregon politics, oregon gossiped astir him and his family. Also included was a spreadsheet created past August summarizing calls to the FBI’s National Threat Operation Center oregon to a hotline established by prosecutors from radical claiming without corroboration to person immoderate cognition of wrongdoing by Trump.

Mountbatten-Windsor's sanction appears astatine slightest respective 100 times successful the documents, sometimes successful quality clippings, sometimes successful Epstein’s backstage email correspondence and successful impermanent lists for dinners organized by Epstein. Some of the records besides papers an effort by prosecutors successful New York to get the erstwhile prince to hold to beryllium interviewed arsenic portion of their Epstein enactment trafficking probe.

The records besides amusement Musk, the billionaire Tesla founder, reached retired to Epstein connected astatine slightest 2 abstracted occasions to program visits to the Caribbean land wherever galore of the allegations of intersexual maltreatment purportedly occurred.

In a 2012 exchange, Epstein asked however galore radical Musk would similar flown by chopper to the land helium owned.

“Probably conscionable Talulah and me,” Musk responded, referencing his then-partner, histrion Talulah Riley. “What day/night volition beryllium the wildest enactment connected our island?”

Musk messaged Epstein again up of a planned Caribbean travel successful 2013. “Will beryllium successful the BVI/St Bart’s country implicit the holidays,” helium wrote. “Is determination a bully clip to visit?” Epstein extended an invitation for sometime aft the New Year holiday.

It’s not instantly wide if the land visits took place. Spokespeople for Musk’s companies, Tesla and X, didn’t instantly respond to emails seeking comment.

Musk has maintained that helium repeatedly turned down the disgraced financier’s overtures.

“Epstein tried to get maine to spell to his land and I REFUSED,” helium posted connected X successful 2025 past twelvemonth erstwhile House Democrats released an Epstein calendar with an introduction mentioning a imaginable Musk sojourn to the island.

The documents besides incorporate affable substance messages betwixt Epstein and Steve Bannon.

Bannon, a blimpish activistic who served arsenic Trump’s White House strategist earlier successful the president’s archetypal term, bantered implicit authorities with the financier, discussed get-togethers with him implicit breakfast, luncheon oregon meal and, connected March 29, 2019, asked Epstein if helium could proviso his level to prime him up successful Rome: “Is it imaginable to get your level present to cod me?”

Epstein told him his aviator and unit “are doing their best” to put that formation but if Bannon could find a charter formation instead, “I’m blessed to pay.” Apparently successful France astatine the time, Epstein sent a substance connection saying: “My guys tin prime you up. Come for dinner.” The speech did not amusement however that played out.

On 1 juncture successful December 2012, Epstein invited Howard Lutnick, present Trump's commerce secretary, to his backstage land for lunch, the records show. Lutnick’s wife, Allison Lutnick, accepted the invitation and said they would get connected a yacht with their children. On different juncture successful 2011, the 2 men had drinks, according to a docket shared with Epstein.

Lutnick has tried to region himself from Epstein, saying successful a 2025 interrogation that helium chopped ties decades ago. A Commerce Department spokesperson said Lutnick had “limited interactions with Mr. Epstein successful the beingness of his woman and has ne'er been accused of wrongdoing.”

Another Epstein interaction surfacing successful the records is erstwhile Obama White House wide counsel Kathy Ruemmler. In 1 of respective exchanges, Epstein emailed Ruemmler to pass that Democrats should halt demonizing Trump arsenic a Mafia-type fig adjacent arsenic helium derided the president arsenic a “maniac.”

A spokesperson for Goldman Sachs, wherever Ruemmler is wide counsel and main ineligible officer, said successful a connection that Ruemmler “had a nonrecreational relation with Jeffrey Epstein erstwhile she was a lawyer successful backstage practice” and "regrets ever knowing him.”

Building connected the earlier release

The tens of thousands of pages of documents released past period consisted of photographs, interrogation transcripts, telephone logs and tribunal records.

They included antecedently released formation logs showing Trump flew connected Epstein’s backstage pitchy successful the 1990s, earlier their falling-out, and respective photographs of Clinton. None of Epstein’s victims who person gone nationalist with their stories person publically accused Trump, a Republican, nor Clinton, a Democrat, of wrongdoing. Both person said they had nary cognition helium was abusing underage girls.

Epstein killed himself successful a New York jailhouse compartment successful August 2019, a period aft being indicted connected national enactment trafficking charges.

In 2008 and 2009, Epstein served jailhouse clip successful Florida aft pleading blameworthy to soliciting prostitution from idiosyncratic nether the property of 18. At the time, investigators had gathered grounds that Epstein had sexually abused underage girls astatine his Palm Beach home. The U.S. attorney's bureau agreed not to prosecute him successful speech for his blameworthy plea to lesser authorities charges.

A draught indictment from that play released Friday shows prosecutors contemplated national charges against not conscionable Epstein but 3 others who worked for him arsenic idiosyncratic assistants. The draught indictment said those people, whose names were blacked out, were portion of a conspiracy to enlistee underage girls to execute lewd acts with Epstein.

In 2021, a national assemblage successful New York convicted Maxwell, a British socialite, of enactment trafficking for helping enlistee immoderate of his underage victims. She is serving a 20-year situation sentence.

U.S. prosecutors ne'er charged anyone other successful transportation with Epstein's maltreatment of girls, but 1 of his victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, accused him successful lawsuits of having arranged for her to person intersexual encounters astatine property 17 and 18 with galore politicians, concern titans, noted academics and others. They each denied her allegations.

Among those she accused was Britain's Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his royal titles amid the scandal. Andrew denied having enactment with Giuffre but settled her suit for an undisclosed sum.

Giuffre died by termination past twelvemonth astatine property 41.

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Tucker and Richer reported from Washington. Associated Press journalists from astir the state contributed to this report.

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