The Epstein Chronicles

In late 2019, Prince Andrew publicly stated that he was “willing to help any appropriate law-enforcement agency” in relation to Epstein’s criminal activities. However, on 27 January 2020 the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that the prince had provided “zero cooperation” to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) despite repeated requests to interview him as part of the investigation.

Since then, although at times Prince Andrew has asserted he remains open to cooperating, U.S. investigators maintain he has not voluntarily submitted to interview or question-and-answer sessions regarding the Epstein network.



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In a fact-finding report released by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January 2020, conducted by the law firm Goodwin Procter LLP, it was found that Epstein donated a total of about $850,000 to MIT between 2002 and 2017, with approximately $225,000 going directly to Lloyd. The report concluded that Lloyd “purposefully failed to inform MIT” that Epstein—a convicted sex offender—was the source of certain donations in 2012 and that Lloyd allowed the gifts to be processed through administrators without formal discussion or full vetting. The report also stated that Lloyd accepted a personal gift of around $60,000 from Epstein in 2005 or 2006, deposited to his personal...

In earlier reporting, much of the media framed the Jeffrey Epstein case largely as fuel for conspiracy theorists. The narrative around his death, the secretive networks, and the alleged “client list” often got labeled as fringe speculation, with the focus on odd memes and internet chatter rather than systemic investigation. The lack of transparency — the sealed records, the unanswered questions about his connections and how he died — created an environment where speculation thrived, and the mainstream coverage treated it as detached from serious journalism.


More recently though, the tone has shifted. The piece acknowledges that what was once mos...

In her deposition on March 15, 2010, Ross was questioned extensively about her relationship with Epstein and individuals in his orbit, including the role of recruiting young women for massages and possible sexual contact. She was asked whether she ever used the term “massage” as a euphemism, whether she personally arranged for young women (including minors) to meet Epstein, and whether she benefited financially or materially from such arrangements. Ross repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked substantive questions about her own conduct in connection with Epstein’s sexual-abuse network, declining to answer many questions about the details of her in...

In a move widely criticized as politically motivated and structurally compromised, former SEC chairman Jay Clayton—who previously worked closely with Apollo Global Management, the private-equity firm led for decades by Jeffrey Epstein associate Leon Black—was appointed to oversee an investigation into Epstein’s alleged ties to Donald Trump’s political adversaries. Critics argue that placing someone so closely connected to a firm entangled in Epstein’s financial orbit fundamentally undermines the credibility of the inquiry. While the announcement was framed as a push for transparency, the decision raised immediate concerns about conflicts of interest and selective scrutiny. Observers note that...

In the aftermath of another chaotic political week, the illusion of control around the Epstein scandal is collapsing. The same figures who once strutted with confidence now look frantic, sweating through their defenses as newly exposed emails and shifting alliances expose cracks in the narrative. What was once spun as strategy has curdled into panic—raw, unfiltered fear from people who know the truth is getting too close. Their sudden demand for a new “investigation” isn’t a pursuit of justice; it’s an act of self-preservation, a last-ditch effort to stall the release of the files and prevent the flood from...

Here's what I predicted would happen back in Feb. 2025:

The latest hype surrounding the supposed "Jeffrey Epstein client list" is yet another round of recycled speculation with little substantive backing. While reports claim that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is reviewing documents that may include names of high-profile individuals, the idea of a singular, definitive "client list" has always been more of a conspiracy-fueled fantasy than a verified reality. Past unsealed documents have revealed connections between Epstein and well-known figures, but nothing has  ever  been  done. The notion that some secret ledger exists, ready to blow open a v...

In late July of 2019, Epstein was found injured and semiconscious inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), with marks around his neck. At the time, the jail and federal authorities reported that surveillance video showing the outside of his cell, during the incident, was missing. Prosecutors initially claimed the footage “no longer exists,” citing a clerical error or administrative mistake as the deletion reason.  The disappearance of those camera files raised immediate red flags because standard procedure for such a high-profile inmate would have required preservation of all surveillance around the time of a suspected self-harm event. Instead the f...

From the moment Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in July 2020, she launched an aggressive series of bail attempts, all of which were rejected by federal judges who consistently found her to be an extreme flight risk. In her first effort, she requested release to home confinement with electronic monitoring, but prosecutors and the court highlighted her dual citizenships, extensive international ties, history of global travel, and large undisclosed financial resources. The court determined that no conditions—no matter how strict—could reasonably ensure that she would appear for trial. In December 2020, Maxwell’s legal team escalated their offer with a proposed $28.5 millio...

In the majority ruling, the Eleventh Circuit denied Wild’s petition for a writ of mandamus, holding that the Crime Victims’ Rights Act of 2004 (“CVRA”) does not permit a crime-victim to initiate a freestanding civil lawsuit seeking judicial enforcement of her CVRA rights when no criminal prosecution has been formally commenced against the defendant. The court reasoned that the statute’s wording in § 3771(b)(1) ties a court’s obligation to “ensure” victims’ rights to “any court proceeding involving an offense against a crime victim,” and thus the rights trigger only once a “preexisting proceeding” exists. Because in this matter the federal government never fi...

In this appeal from a now-settled defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, the Second Circuit held that many of the documents under seal were properly treated as “judicial documents” to which a strong presumption of public access attached. The court reaffirmed that the status of a document as a judicial document is “fixed at filing” — meaning that if the filing was relevant to the court’s exercise of its Article III functions when filed, later events (e.g., the case being settled or the motion becoming moot) do not nullify the presumption of access. The court also clarified th...

Brad Edwards, the attorney who represented many of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, has often spoken of Courtney Wild as one of the most courageous survivors he’s ever known. He called her “an extraordinary person” who refused to be silenced, even when the entire system seemed designed to bury her voice. Wild was one of Epstein’s earliest known victims, first identified by law enforcement back in 2005 when she was just a teenager living in Palm Beach. Despite that, she was never informed or consulted about the secret non-prosecution agreement that federal prosecutors granted Epstein in 2008—a deal that not only spared...

In 2015 the Met began what was known as an evidentiary review into claims that Prince Andrew had sexual contact with Virginia Giuffre when she was 17, while she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The review concluded in 2021 with the Met announcing it would take no further action.

In October 2025 new allegations emerged that Andrew may have sought to use a Met-assigned bodyguard (a close protection officer) to dig up information on Giuffre—including her date of birth and U.S. Social Security number—to find a supposed criminal record. The Met stated it was “aware...

In the report dated January 22, 2021, Dechert reviewed over 60,000 documents and interviewed more than 20 witnesses to examine Black’s social and business ties to Epstein, including payments, introductions, and services rendered. It concluded that there was no evidence that Black or his affiliates were involved in Epstein’s criminal activities, or that Epstein introduced Black to any under-age woman. The document confirmed that Black engaged Epstein for tax, estate-planning, philanthropic and family-office advice between about 2012 and 2017 — with total payments around $158 million — and that their social relationship dated to the mid-1990s. It found that Black believed Epstein had served his sentence in 2008...

The Jeffrey Epstein non-prosecution agreement (NPA) of 2007-08, reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), detailed how federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida negotiated a deal that effectively ended an active federal investigation into Epstein’s alleged trafficking and abuse of underage girls. The agreement granted broad immunity to Epstein and unnamed “potential co-conspirators,” allowed him to plead guilty to state charges instead of facing major federal sex-trafficking counts, and did so without informing or consulting the victims before the deal was executed. The OPR found...

President Trump’s recent call for an investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — even though driven by his desire to target political enemies — has unexpectedly opened the door to the one thing victims, journalists, and the public have demanded for decades: a full, unfiltered, scorched-earth investigation into the entire Epstein network. Regardless of Trump’s motives, the demand for a comprehensive inquiry is long overdue. The evidence already available is more than sufficient to launch a massive multi-pronged federal RICO case involving human trafficking, financial crimes, money laundering, international transport of minors, conspiracy, bribery, foreign intelligence ties, prosecutorial misconduct, and systemic...

If you’re looking for a hoax, here it is — the real magic trick wasn’t some mythical Epstein “client list,” it was the quiet transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell into a glorified country-club prison where she’s living more comfortably than most law-abiding Americans. The system that pretends to deliver justice for trafficked children somehow decided that a convicted sex-trafficker who helped run one of the most depraved exploitation networks in modern history deserved soft-serve punishment at Club Fed Bryan — a minimum-security campus usually reserved for accountants who cooked the books, not predators who helped destroy hundreds of lives. Instead of razor wire...

In recent commentary that sparked widespread backlash, Megyn Kelly questioned whether Jeffrey Epstein should be labeled a pedophile, suggesting that because he allegedly preferred girls around the ages of 15 or 16 rather than much younger children, the term might not technically apply. Her remarks attempted to draw a distinction between categories of sexual exploitation, focusing on definitional nuance rather than the underlying criminal reality that Epstein was convicted of sexually abusing minors and running an international trafficking operation that recruited vulnerable underage girls. Critics argue that this framing risks minimizing the gravity of Epstein’s conduct and diverting attention from the ex...

In an explosive disclosure this week, newly released documents reveal that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein maintained a remarkably active role as political and media strategist, notably guiding Steve Bannon—former chief strategist to Donald Trump—on messaging, media appearances and international political optics. The records show that even as Epstein’s reputation crumbled, he was advising Bannon on how to “play” Europe, seize one-on-one meetings with world leaders and shape narrative around Trump and his team. Epstein wrote: “If you are going to play here, you’ll have to spend time, Europe by remote doesn’t work…. there are many leaders of co...

The so-called phase one release of the Epstein files was nothing more than a pathetic PR puppet show dressed up as transparency. Instead of inviting the only people who actually deserved to be in that room—the survivors—the organizers hand-selected a cast of online clowns and grifters who have about as much understanding of the Epstein case as a houseplant. They paraded around the White House like they won a radio contest, smiling for cameras, posting selfies, and pushing prewritten talking points as if they were uncovering Watergate. It was state-sponsored propaganda masquerading as accountability, an insult delivered with a sm...

Bill Richardson’s political career in New Mexico has long been shadowed by persistent allegations of corruption that never fully disappeared, even after federal prosecutors declined to bring charges. The most serious accusations centered on a suspected “pay-to-play” network in which state investment contracts and pension-fund deals allegedly flowed to major campaign donors during his tenure as governor. Multiple reports detailed how financial firms that contributed heavily to Richardson’s political committees later secured lucrative placement fees or state investment mandates, raising questions about whether public funds were being used to reward political loyalty rather than financial merit. Additional claims — including...

Steve Mnuchin’s ties to Jean-Luc Brunel surfaced when public corporate records showed Mnuchin listed as the official “state point of contact” for Next Management Corporation, the U.S. entity founded by Brunel and his brother in 1988. The designation placed Mnuchin on paperwork connected to Brunel’s modeling empire — the same empire later accused of funneling underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein. Mnuchin’s office publicly distanced him from the connection, claiming he had no memory of meeting Brunel, no involvement with the company, and no explanation for why his name appeared on the documents. But the linkage remains one of the many odd...

Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with transhumanism was never some passing curiosity—it was one of the central obsessions that animated the final decade of his life. He fancied himself a benefactor of “the future of humanity,” throwing money and influence at scientists who were willing to indulge his fantasies about genetic engineering, human enhancement, brain-mapping, and even selective breeding. Epstein hosted salons with top-tier researchers, funded fringe-adjacent longevity experiments, and pushed for projects that blurred the line between visionary science and eugenic delusion. Behind the PR gloss of “advancing human potential,” there was always the darker subtext: Epstein wanted to shape evolut...

After Jeffrey Epstein’s death in 2019, Ghislaine Maxwell filed a lawsuit against his estate claiming that she was owed reimbursement for legal fees, security costs, and personal protection expenses she allegedly incurred as a result of her long association with him. Filed in the Virgin Islands, the suit portrayed Maxwell as a scapegoat left to fend for herself financially and legally after Epstein’s demise, asserting that he had promised to cover her defense and related expenses stemming from their partnership. Her attorneys argued that Epstein had verbally guaranteed her financial protection for the “years of work” she performed for him and...

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime attorney and financial fixer, Darren Indyke, has been repeatedly linked to the intricate structuring of Epstein’s vast financial network — a labyrinth of trusts, shell companies, and opaque entities that concealed the flow of money used to fund his operations and, allegedly, pay off victims and accomplices. “Structuring,” in financial terms, refers to deliberately breaking up large transactions to avoid federal reporting requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act. Investigators have long suspected that Epstein and Indyke employed similar tactics to mask the source and movement of Epstein’s wealth, from offshore accounts to foundations like Gratitude America Ltd...

While serving her sentence at FCI Tallahassee, Ghislaine Maxwell was quietly transferred from a higher-security setting to the prison’s general population — a move that raised eyebrows among both observers and victims. Initially, she had been placed under heightened supervision following her transfer from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where she had complained of harsh conditions and constant monitoring. Once in Tallahassee, however, Maxwell’s status changed, granting her access to privileges afforded to the general inmate population, including recreation areas, social interaction, and communal dining. The Bureau of Prisons justified the move as routine, citing her good behavior and th...

Jeffrey Epstein’s finances were a labyrinth deliberately designed to defy transparency. Despite presenting himself as a billionaire money manager, there was never any verifiable evidence of major clients, traditional investment portfolios, or legitimate business operations. His primary company, Financial Trust Co., was registered in the Virgin Islands — a jurisdiction notorious for secrecy — and functioned more as a private shell than a real investment firm. Epstein’s wealth seemed to appear out of thin air: properties worth hundreds of millions, private jets, an island compound, and a Manhattan mansion allegedly “gifted” to him under murky circumstances. Forensic accountants and federal investigator...

The question surrounding Michael Wolff and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has taken on a much darker shade with the release of the new emails. For years, Wolff positioned himself publicly as a critic, an insider-journalist who supposedly dissected the powerful rather than served them. But the emails paint a very different picture—one where he wasn’t just observing Epstein from afar; he was advising him, strategizing with him, and offering counsel on how to navigate his public-relations disasters. That alone is damning, but it becomes even more grotesque when contrasted with Wolff’s public persona as a crusader agains...

Jeffrey Epstein’s entire operation, once you strip away the tabloid sleaze and the lurid headlines, always comes back to one thing: he was a broker. A fixer. A middleman who existed in the gray zones where powerful people needed plausible deniability and off-the-books problem solving. Whether it was moving money, introducing the right players, arranging meetings far from prying eyes, or engineering situations that created leverage, Epstein’s real utility was never the public façade of “financier” or “philanthropist.” His value came from being the guy who could get things done when official channels were too slow, too risky, or too...

The newly surfaced emails between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein make one thing brutally clear: whatever polite public distance people pretended existed between them after Epstein’s 2008 arrest simply didn’t exist behind the scenes. The tone of the correspondence isn’t stiff, cautious, or arm’s-length; it’s friendly, familiar, and deeply transactional. Summers wasn’t treating Epstein like a radioactive embarrassment—he was treating him like a wealthy fixer whose money, network, and influence still had value. Even after Epstein became a convicted sex offender, the emails show Summers casually asking for financial introductions, discussing fundraising, and maintaining the same easy...

Jeffrey Epstein’s own words have now obliterated the last surviving excuse of the people who spent years swearing the photo of Prince Andrew with Virginia Roberts was fake. In his newly revealed emails, Epstein makes it clear—flat-out, unequivocally—that the photo is real. No hedging, no “maybe,” no conspiratorial tap-dancing. The man at the center of the entire operation confirmed its authenticity himself. And with that single admission, he torpedoed every hack, every opportunist, every palace-adjacent clown who built their entire reputations around insisting that the image was doctored, fabricated, or some kind of elaborate smear.

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The newly released congressional Epstein emails expose what many long suspected — that Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein ran far deeper than either man ever admitted. Epstein claimed Trump spent hours with a trafficked girl at his home, while also mocking Trump’s story about having kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago, saying he was never even a member. The emails also reveal journalist Michael Wolff advising Epstein to “let him hang himself” for PR leverage — a grotesque example of media cynicism turning child trafficking into strategy. Together, the correspondence paints a picture of a tight circle of elites swapping favors and s...

Prince Andrew’s entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein reached a point where there was no off-ramp, no graceful escape route left for him to take. From the moment photos surfaced of him walking with Epstein in Central Park after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, his public credibility began to erode. Every attempt to distance himself only made things worse—his disastrous 2019 BBC interview cemented his reputation as arrogant, evasive, and tone-deaf. Instead of expressing remorse or empathy for Epstein’s victims, he portrayed himself as the victim, insisting he’d done nothing wrong while offering implausible excuses about medical conditions and faulty memories. The public...

The court’s apology to the Jeffrey Epstein survivors came as a long-overdue acknowledgment of how profoundly the justice system had failed them. In open court, federal judges conceded that the victims had been deliberately misled during the original 2008 non-prosecution deal—kept in the dark while prosecutors secretly negotiated Epstein’s immunity and that of his co-conspirators. The apology recognized that these survivors were denied their rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act and that the system’s betrayal compounded their trauma, allowing Epstein years of freedom to continue abusing others. While symbolic, the apology served as a public admission that the g...

In the months leading up to her trial, Ghislaine Maxwell and her defense team attempted a calculated smear campaign against her accusers, portraying them as opportunists motivated by money, fame, and distorted memories. They tried to cast doubt on the credibility of the women who came forward, suggesting that their stories were inconsistent and influenced by the substantial compensation fund set up by the Epstein estate. Maxwell’s attorneys argued that she was being scapegoated for Epstein’s crimes after his death, positioning her as a victim of the public’s need for retribution. But the strategy backfired badly. Jurors were t...

In the years following Jeffrey Epstein’s death in 2019, Ghislaine Maxwell embarked on a series of increasingly desperate maneuvers to stay ahead of law enforcement and public outrage. She sold off properties, switched residences across continents, and relied on trusted intermediaries to handle her affairs while keeping her own movements concealed. After Epstein’s arrest, Maxwell vanished from her usual social circuits — abandoning her Manhattan townhouse and retreating to secluded locations, including the New Hampshire estate where she was eventually captured. She operated through shell companies, transferred assets, and even obtained new phone numbers and email accounts under aliases to evade...

After the mysterious death of her father, media tycoon Robert Maxwell, in 1991, Ghislaine Maxwell’s world collapsed overnight. Her father’s empire — once a global powerhouse of publishing and influence — was exposed as a house of fraud built on embezzled pension funds and deceit. Ghislaine, once the glamorous socialite daughter of a media baron, suddenly found herself disgraced, adrift, and exiled from the circles that once adored her. Her family name was radioactive in Britain, her inheritance vanished, and she carried the emotional and financial fallout of her father’s scandal. Desperate to reinvent herself and escape the wreckage, she relocated...

Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to the world of science were not accidental — they were strategic. He courted some of the most brilliant minds at Harvard, MIT, and other elite institutions, presenting himself as a patron of innovation and philanthropy. Epstein used his fortune to endow programs, fund research, and host lavish dinners that mixed Nobel laureates with billionaires. Many of these “men with the pocket protectors” — physicists, geneticists, and computer scientists — were enticed by his charm and his promise of funding. They justified their proximity to him as a necessary evil for the sake of their research, conveniently ignoring the whispers abo...

The mainstream media — the so-called “legacy press” — has largely allowed the Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton orbit around the Jeffrey Epstein scandal with minimal sustained scrutiny. While Epstein’s connections to many high-profile individuals were widely reported, coverage of the Clintons’ historical ties has often been muted or treated as a peripheral footnote rather than a subject of rigorous investigative follow-up. Critics argue that the media has repeatedly accepted the Clintons’ declarations of limited knowledge or involvement without pushing deeply into overlapping timelines, travel logs, or guest lists of Epstein’s circle — even though flight logs and other documents show Clinton Sr.’s trav...

The newly released congressional emails between Jeffrey Epstein and his circle put both Epstein and Donald Trump in a deeply compromising light. In one 2011 message, Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours” with a trafficked girl at his home — a statement that, if true, torpedoes Trump’s long-maintained claim that his ties to Epstein were minimal. Even worse, Epstein’s casual tone about the incident suggests he saw Trump as part of the same culture of impunity that protected him for years. The emails offer a rare glimpse into Epstein’s mindset — calculating, manipulative, and self-assured that men like Trump wou...