Epstein files: Justice Department releases millions of files including e-mails and photos
FILE - Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. Epstein is connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Epstein was convicted of having sex with an underaged woman. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis
The Justice Department on Friday released 3.5 million pages of documents in the latest Jeffrey Epstein disclosure, along with 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
The DOJ released the documents, videos, and images online.
"During the course of our investigation, we seized years and years' worth of Epstein’s personal emails," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Blanche told Fox News Digital. "These are communications with hundreds and hundreds of individuals discussing intimate details of Epstein’s and others' lives."
US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference at the US Department of justice on January 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. The US Justice Department is releasing more than three million pages from the Epstein files on Friday alon
The files include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December.
The DOJ says more than 500 attorneys and reviewers from the Department worked on the files that were released Friday. The files were collected from five primary sources including the Florida and New York cases against Epstein, the New York case against Epstein's partner Ghislaine Maxwell, the New York cases investigating Epstein’s death, the Florida case investigating a former butler of Epstein, multiple FBI investigations, and the Office of Inspector General investigation into Epstein’s death.
The documents, videos, and pictures were disclosed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted after months of public and political pressure that requires the government to open its files on the late financier and his confidant and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The backstory:
Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted sex offender, died in a New York jail cell in 2019. Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a lengthy prison sentence for her role in luring young girls to Epstein’s home.
The Epstein case has attracted attention because of Epstein and Maxwell’s links to famous people, including royals, presidents and billionaires. It also led to some of the biggest conspiracy theories animating Trump’s base.
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