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As the nationalist begins to benignant done the deluge of files related to Jeffrey Epstein released by the Department of Justice on Friday, immoderate of the worldly mightiness look familiar.
That's due to the fact that there's been a dependable watercourse of worldly made nationalist from assorted investigations into the deceased enactment offender during the past year, immoderate of which undoubtedly overlaps with the voluminous Justice Department merchandise mandated by federal legislation passed successful November.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act gave Attorney General Pam Bondi until Dec. 19 to marque nationalist each unclassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials successful possession of the Justice Department, the FBI and U.S. attorneys' offices (with immoderate idiosyncratic accusation redacted to support victims).
Some of that worldly — tens of thousands of pages — has already been released by a House committee that subpoenaed the Justice Department and Epstein's estate. Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee person indicated they're inactive expecting adjacent much documents to beryllium produced by Epstein's property successful the future, arsenic good arsenic worldly from banking institutions helium did concern with. They've pledged to merchandise much documents arsenic they travel in.
Among different things, the documents released truthful acold see emails and substance messages showing that Epstein continued to court the affluent and famous close up until his 2019 arrest.
Here is an overview of documents already disclosed to the public:
Dec. 18, 2025: Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos from a trove of astir 95,000 the committee obtained from Epstein's estate. Among them were photos of passages from "Lolita" written connected a woman's body; a representation of a Ukrainian passport, with details blacked out; and substance messages astir 18-year-old from Russia.
Dec. 12, 2025: Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee released different enactment of photos from Epstein's estate.The photos see snapshots of salient figures similar President Trump, erstwhile President Bill Clinton, erstwhile Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, filmmaker Woody Allen and erstwhile Trump advisor Steve Bannon. The photos bash not implicate immoderate of those pictured successful Epstein's crimes.
Dec. 4, 2025: Democrats connected the Oversight Committee released 73 photos and 4 videos of Epstein's property connected the 72-acre island known arsenic Little St. James that helium owned successful the U.S. Virgin Islands. Epstein allegedly exploited underage girls for enactment astatine the island, and helium had stakes successful businesses successful the U.S. territory.
Nov. 12, 2025: The House Oversight Committee released 20,000 records from Epstein's estate, including scores of emails. The disgraced financier often referenced Mr. Trump, penning of the president astatine 1 point: "Of people helium knew astir the girls arsenic helium asked ghislaine to stop." Other messages showed him bantering with influential Harvard prof and erstwhile Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and attempting to reconnect with Bill Gates. None of those men person been accused of wrongdoing.
Oct. 30, 2025: Buckingham Palace announced that it was stripping the king's younger member of his titles, relegating Prince Andrew to his civilian name, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The announcement came weeks aft quality outlets successful the United Kingdom revealed a 2011 email successful which Andrew told Epstein, "we are successful this together." The erstwhile prince has been accused of sexually assaulting a young Virginia Giuffre, who said she was trafficked by Epstein; Andrew settled Giuffre's lawsuit but denied wrongdoing.
Sept. 8, 2025: House Oversight released a tranche from Epstein's estate, including a 2003 day enactment to Epstein that appeared to beryllium signed by Mr. Trump. The letter, written wrong a drafting of what appears to beryllium the signifier of a woman, ends with, "A pal is simply a fantastic thing. Happy Birthday — and whitethorn each time beryllium different fantastic secret. Donald J. Trump."
The president denied penning the message, and Republicans accused Democrats of cherry-picking documents.
Sept. 2, 2025: The sheet released much than 33,000 pages of files from the Justice Department, including tribunal documents, formation records, and a video of Epstein's compartment artifact from earlier his decease that includes a minute missing from earlier videos. Many of the documents were already successful the nationalist domain. Democratic lawmakers said conscionable 3% of the pages were new. Those disclosures included logs of flights connected Epstein's level from 2000 to 2014 that were kept by Customs and Border Protection, according to Democrats.
Aug. 22, 2025: The Justice Department released a transcript and audio signaling of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's interrogation with convicted Epstein subordinate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for involvement successful trafficking. Maxwell said Mr. Trump "was ever precise cordial and precise benignant to me." She said Mr. Trump and Epstein "seemed friendly," but she "only ever saw them successful societal settings." She said she "never witnessed the President successful immoderate inappropriate mounting successful immoderate way."
Feb. 27, 2025: The White House gave a radical of 15 blimpish influencers binders labeled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1." Several influencers said the binders contained small caller info.
Prior to 2025: Other documents, including contacts, schedules, formation logs and depositions, were made nationalist previously, often arsenic portion of Epstein and Maxwell's transgression cases and successful transportation with civilian lawsuits filed by survivors.
Melissa Quinn, Caitlin Yilek, Kathryn Watson and Kaia Hubbard contributed to this report.
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