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The Division of Justice started releasing remaining paperwork associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein Friday, with an enormous trove of paperwork that predominantly exhibits images and closely redacted supplies categorized into 4 completely different sections.
The DOJ on Friday afternoon launched 4 completely different information units of hundreds of images, New York grand jury materials and proof associated to investigations of Epstein. The paperwork and images have been launched on the DOJ’s web site.
Epstein was a well-connected financier who rubbed elbows with these on the highest echelons of presidency and personal business. He was convicted of intercourse trafficking minors in 2008 and served simply a couple of yr of incarceration, which additionally included a controversial work-release association underneath a plea settlement.
He was arrested once more in 2019 on expenses of intercourse trafficking earlier than he was discovered useless in his Manhattan jail cell from suicide that very same yr, officers reported.
DOJ PUBLISHES TROVE OF EPSTEIN FILES, SAYS MORE TO COME AFTER FRIDAY DEADLINE
The Division of Justice launched a trove of Epstein paperwork Dec. 19, 2025, after President Donald Trump’s signed the Epstein Information Transparency Act in November. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan through Getty Photos)
DATA SET ONE:
The primary information set exhibits hundreds of images of the interiors and exteriors of Epstein’s properties, together with in New York and on his non-public island, Little St. James.
DATA SET TWO:
The second information set launched exhibits Epstein in private images with high-profile people, together with former President Invoice Clinton. The images within the second information set present Epstein shirtless whereas sitting on a settee, standing close to a helicopter and lots of images of him on boats.
A photograph within the set included Clinton shirtless in a sizzling tub.
When requested concerning the photograph, Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña directed Fox Digital to an announcement he posted to X in response to the Epstein drop.
“The White Home hasn’t been hiding these information for months solely to dump them late on a Friday to guard Invoice Clinton,” he wrote. “That is about shielding themselves from what comes subsequent, or from what they’ll attempt to cover eternally. To allow them to launch as many grainy 20-plus-year-old images as they need, however this isn’t about Invoice Clinton. By no means has, by no means will likely be. Even Susie Wiles mentioned Donald Trump was fallacious about Invoice Clinton.”
Ureña mentioned there are “two kinds of individuals” concerned within the Epstein scandal: those that didn’t know of Epstein’s crimes and minimize him out of their lives upon his conviction and a second group of people that “continued relationships with him after” his crimes got here to gentle.
“We’re within the first. No quantity of stalling by individuals within the second group will change that,” the Clinton spokesman continued. “Everybody, particularly MAGA, expects solutions, not scapegoats.”
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DATA SET THREE:
The third information set launched by the Division of Justice included closely redacted images of potential victims, paperwork from Epstein’s 2019 grand jury data that have been additionally closely redacted and potential sufferer reveals.
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Paperwork from the Epstein drop’s third information set present closely redacted images, together with blacking out potential victims. (Division of Justice )
DATA SET FOUR:
The fourth information set within the doc drop largely confirmed proof and reveals from the investigations into Epstein, together with paperwork from 2005 and 2006, when Palm Seaside, Florida, police and the FBI started investigating Epstein for potential intercourse trafficking.
President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan regulation in November that required the Division of Justice to launch all “unclassified data, paperwork, communications and investigative supplies” inside 30 days of Trump’s signature.
Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche mentioned Friday morning throughout an look on Fox Information that the Division was set to “launch a number of hundred thousand paperwork at the moment,” including that the DOJ anticipates releasing “extra paperwork over the subsequent couple of weeks.”
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The Epstein Information Transparency Act particularly directs the Justice Division to launch all unclassified data and investigative supplies associated to Epstein and longtime companion Ghislaine Maxwell and information associated to people who have been referenced in Epstein’s earlier authorized circumstances, particulars surrounding trafficking allegations, inner DOJ communications as they relate to Epstein and any particulars surrounding the investigation into his demise.
