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February 02, 2026
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a massive trove of 3 million pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein Friday, fulfilling its legal obligation under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in November 2025.

This release, follows earlier releases and brings the total publicly available files to around 3.5 million, representing the largest and final batch of files from a collection of over 6 million potentially responsive pages identified during a review by more than 500 DOJ lawyers.

Approximately 200,000 pages were redacted due to legal privileges, including attorney-client privilege, work-product doctrine, and concerns over ongoing investigations.

The DOJ emphasized that no evidence of criminal conduct by President Donald Trump was found in the files, despite years of political speculation. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated: “In none of these communications did Epstein suggest President Trump had done anything criminal.”

In a testy news conference, Blanche said that the release would include more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, which will have “extensive redactions”. He added that the Trump administration had produced roughly 3.5m pages in an effort to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. He said that they include large quantities of commercial pornography and images “that were seized from Epstein’s devices”.

“The department’s collection effort resulted in more than 6m pages being identified as potentially responsive, including Department and FBI emails, interview summaries, images, videos and various other materials collected and generated during the various investigations and prosecutions that the act covered,” Blanche said.

letter from the Department of Justice to Congress on Friday explained that the documents were drawn from primary sources spanning 20 years, including the Florida and New York cases against Epstein, the Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution, investigations into Epstein’s death and multiple FBI investigations. The department has also filed court motions to release additional materials currently covered by protective orders from a civil lawsuit and grand jury materials from a case against corrections officers who worked where Epstein died.

Blanche said that what was withheld were personal and medical files, documents depicting death, physical abuse and injury, as well as any depiction of child sexual abuse “that would jeopardize an active federal investigation.” He shared that the department will submit to the House and Senate judiciary committees a report listing “all categories of records released and withheld.”

Just before the files being released to the public, Blanche told Fox News Digital that “in none of these communications, even when doing his best to disparage President Trump, did Epstein suggest President Trump had done anything criminal or had any inappropriate contact with any of his victims”. Later in his press conference, the deputy attorney general said he wanted to dispel rumors about Trump and the justice department working hand-in-hand on Epstein.

“What we told our reviewers, is that that was the goal … there’s this mantra out there that, oh, you know, the Department of Justice is supposed to protect Donald J Trump, and that’s what we were telling that’s not true,” Blanche told reporters. “That was never the case. We are always concerned about the victims.”

In a statement, victims’ advocates criticized the release for exposing survivors’ identities while redacting names of powerful men accused of abuse, calling it “outrageous.”

“This latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files is being sold as transparency, but what it actually does is expose survivors,” the statement reads. “Once again survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous.”

The files are now available on a restricted-access DOJ website that requires users to confirm they are over 18 due to explicit content.

The documents reveal Epstein's extensive network across finance, politics, tech, and royalty, with patterns of influence-peddling, financial opacity, and enablers in banking and elite circles, mixed in with satanic rituals, torture and murders. One of his bank accounts is named Baal.

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The files provide more proof of Epstein's network included Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, former Mossad asset and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, politicians (e.g., former U.S. President Bill Clinton, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak), scientists (e.g., Marvin Minsky), Microsoft founder Bill Gates and celebrities, often linked to his private island or New York mansion where pedopohile, sexual, and violent abuse allegedly occurred.

An FBI memo in the files cites a confidential source alleging Epstein was a "co-opted Mossad agent," trained under Barak, with ties to foreign intelligence. The source claimed Epstein's network was used to compromise figures like Trump via Israel, and linked him to Chabad-Lubavitch for influence during Trump's first term.

Prior reports (pre-2026) have also suggest Epstein brokered deals for Israeli intelligence. Emails reveal Barak and his wife stayed multiple times at Epstein's New York apartment, including post-2008 Epstein conviction visits. They maintained regular contact, discussing stays, meetings, and calls.

Barak has acknowledged visits and flights on Epstein's plane but denied witnessing misconduct. Pre-2026 leaks show business ventures like drone companies and oil deals. The files tie him to Mossad-related claims about Epstein's spying network.

Some emails also show that ISIS and Al-Qaeda are deeply infiltrated and influenced by Israeli intelligence, leading many online to point out that the terrorist groups does not attack Israel and reportedly apol;ogized the one time they did.

President Vladimir Putin is mentioned over 1,000 times, with Moscow referenced nearly 10,000 times in the latest docucments. Files allege Epstein ran a Kremlin-linked "honeytrap" operation using Russian women to collect kompromat on Western elites, funneling it to Russian intelligence.

Emails discuss potential 2011 and 2014 Epstein meetings with Putin, coordinated via aides. A 2012 document speculates on replacing Putin with Ilya Ponomarev. Ties may stem from Ghislaine Maxwell's father.

JPMorgan Chase is mentioned in 62,756 documents, including handling Epstein's accounts post-2008 conviction and wire transfers to recruiters. CEO Jamie Dimon appears in 276 files, including 2013 emails contradicting his testimony of no knowledge of Epstein.

Other elites like Leslie Wexner (granted Epstein power of attorney) and Leon Black ($158M payments) are detailed.

Elon Musk is peripherally mentioned in social contexts in the documents in a request to visit Epstein Island, which he did not ultimately do.

Jewish U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the documents reveal, planned a lunch visit to Epstein’s island in December 2012 with his family—contradicting his past claim that he was “revolted” by Epstein and would never be in the same room with him.

Israeli-American professor Dan Ariely also had a documented six-year correspondence with Epstein from 2010 to 2016.

Emails reference Jewish co-founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman Hoffman visiting Epstein's island, New Mexico ranch, and NY townhouse for dinners and stays. A 2014 memo notes a weekend at the ranch with Joi Ito; another mentions a 2015 island visit. The ties prompted Trump to order a DOJ probe into Hoffman (along with Clinton and former TYreasury Secretary Larry Summers).

Among the newly released documents is a 2009 email from Epstein to Roger Schank, a Jewish-American academic and AI researcher known for his work in cognitive science and education technology.

The email, dated October 23, 2009 (sent from Epstein's "[email protected]" address), boasts about profiting from short-selling shipping futures while mocking non-Jews (referred to derogatorily as "goyim," a Hebrew/Yiddish term for Gentiles, often used pejoratively in this context). Here's the full text of the email body:

"This is the way the jew make money.. and made a fortune in the past ten years,, selling short the shipping futures,, let the goyim deal in the real world------from Shipping news -the most dramatic growth has been in shipping futures, which allow shipping companies to lay off risks. The most popular futures are forward freight agreements (FFAs) to deliver goods on a particular route at some point in the future. They have grown, in the past year, to be roughly the size of the physical market, according to Bill Lines of the Baltic Exchange, a shipping bazaar in London that sells FFAs. Many in the industry have been suspicious of such futures, because they have been averse to hedging their bets—risk-taking is, after all, part of the game—and averse to complicated financial instruments that they do not really understand.--"

Epstein appears to be quoting or paraphrasing an article from "Shipping News" to illustrate his point, framing financial speculation (short-selling futures) as a savvy "Jewish" strategy, while dismissing non-Jews as stuck in the "real world" of tangible risks. This reflects a supremacist tone, aligning with other reports of Epstein's communications where he referenced Jewish identity in financial contexts.

The email was sent about a year after Epstein's 2008 Florida conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution, during which he served 13 months (much of it on work release). Despite his legal troubles, he continued engaging in finance and corresponding with intellectuals like Schank.

Multiple emails in tue files reveal Prince Andrew (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), interactions with Epstein, including a notable August 2010 exchange where Epstein offered him a dinner date with a “friend” (a 26-year-old Russian woman).

Photos show the prince crouched over a woman on the floor (context unknown). Files include hundreds of mentions, depositions of his presence at Epstein properties, and emails with Sarah Ferguson ("Fergie"). He settled a civil suit with accuser Virginia Giuffre; there are currently no new charges.

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The former prince, known as the Duke of York, has not responded to a House Oversight Committee request for a transcribed interview. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged him to cooperate with U.S. investigators.

Emails also show Epstein transferred thousands of pounds to the former British ambassador Peter Mandelson’s husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, beginning in September 2009, just two months after Epstein’s release from prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor. The payments included £10,000 for osteopathy school fees and anatomical models, followed by monthly transfers of $2,000, with Mandelson himself instructing Epstein in one email to structure the arrangement as a loan “to avoid a gift-tax filing”.

Other emails reveal that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, more commonly known as ex-prince Andrew, attended an intimate dinner party at Epstein’s New York home in December 2010 – during the same visit the former prince claimed was meant to sever ties with the convicted sex offender – with Peggy Siegal, a publicist, assembling a guest list including Woody Allen and George Stephanopoulos.

One of the emails in the released documents mentioned Jewish TMZ founder as a "good friend" who could help run a global PR effort to defend Epstein and smear his victims.

Documents released in prior batches under the act have detailed systemic failures by law enforcement officials to stop Epstein’s abuse and included graphic testimony about the recruitment methods used to ensnare victims.

Earlier disclosures under the Epstein Files Transparency act included grand jury testimony describing how Maxwell allegedly asked one victim to recruit other girls, telling her “they have to look young at least,” though the victim refused, saying she “didn’t want anyone else to go through that.”

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UPDATE | Artemis II Crew's Orion Capsule Completes Translunar Injection Burn On Path To The Moon

The translunar injection (TLI) burn for the Artemis II mission was successfully completed on Thursday, (April 2), at 2349 p.m. UTC, sending the crew and the Orion spacecraft, Integrity on a path toward the Moon for the first time since 1972. The engine fired for about five minutes and 50 seconds (some reports cite 5:49 to 5:55), adding 867 mph to Integrity's velocity and accelerating it to 24,500 mph to escape Earth's gravitational clasp

This critical maneuver placed Integrity into a free-return trajectory that will carry the four astronauts around the far side of the Moon and back toward Earth without requiring further major engine firings. The burn utilized the Orbital Maneuvering System engine on the European Service Module, generating up to 6,000 pounds of thrust, and was preceded by a "Go" poll from NASA's Mission Management Team after confirming the spacecraft's systems were healthy.

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