The US Department of Justice has released nearly 30,000 additional pages of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein, prompting calls for further disclosure. In a rare statement defending President Donald Trump, the department said some of the material contains “untrue and sensationalist claims” submitted to the FBI shortly before the 2020 US election, including allegations made against Trump.
The files include a claim that Trump was on a flight with Epstein and a 20-year-old woman in the 1990s, though there is no indication that the woman was a victim of any crime. Also contained in the trove are emails between Ghislaine Maxwell and an individual using the alias “The Invisible Man”, widely believed to be Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. In one exchange, the individual wrote of being “up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family”, while other emails discuss arranging “girls” and “two-legged sight seeing”.
Further documents reveal that former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley and ex-US Treasury secretary Larry Summers were appointed as executors of Epstein’s estate. The batch also includes a now-deleted fake video appearing to depict Epstein attempting to end his life, photos of a fake Austrian passport uncovered during a 2019 FBI raid of his Manhattan home, and a 2021 subpoena to the Mar-a-Lago Club. The FBI also sought to question Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor about his links to a second millionaire sex offender, Peter Nygard.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called on the justice department to release details on “at least ten potential Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirators” it was examining and to explain why they were not prosecuted. Meanwhile, Maria Farmer, who reported abuse by Epstein and Maxwell to law enforcement in 1996, has released a statement following Congressman Robert Garcia’s request for an independent investigation into the FBI’s failure to properly investigate her reports of child pornography and abuse.
