By ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL R. SISAK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
The Justice Department says it's releasing 3 million pages of documents in the latest Jeffrey Epstein disclosure, along with 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The documents were disclosed Friday under a law intended to reveal what the government knew about the millionaire financier's sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with the rich and powerful. The files include some of the several million pages of records officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December. Hundreds of department attorneys have been reviewing files to black out material that could reveal the identities of victims. Epstein killed himself in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press
The U.S. Justice Department has released tens of thousands more documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, a tranche that included multiple mentions of President Donald Trump but added little new revelatory information to the long-anticipated public file on the disgraced late financier. The documents also contain apparent correspondence between an Epstein co-conspirator and the U.K.'s former Prince Andrew. Many of the mentions of Trump come from news clippings. There is also an email from a prosecutor pointing out flights Trump took on Epstein's private jet. The Justice Department said one of the letters in the file was fake, but had been included for reasons of transparency.
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
The Justice Department has started releasing its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender known for his connections to powerful figures, including Donald Trump. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche tells Fox News Channel he expects the department to release "several hundred thousand" records Friday and then several hundred thousand more in the coming weeks. Trump had long opposed the files' release but did a U-turn after political pressure from fellow Republicans. Epstein was a well-connected financier who killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial. Trump has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, who had many other prominent acquaintances.
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
President Donald Trump says Democrats who released Jeffrey Epstein emails mentioning him are trying to bring up his ties to the late sex offender again because "they'll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they've done" on the government shutdown and other issues. The emails were made public Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The White House accuses Democrats of selectively leaking the emails to smear the Republican president. Epstein wrote in a 2011 email Trump had "spent hours" at Epstein's house with a sex trafficking victim and said in a separate message years later Trump "knew about the girls." Trump denies any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
What is next for the commoner once known as Prince Andrew probably involves moving trucks as he packs up the trappings of his once royal life to move to an isolated private home owned by his brother, King Charles III. The commoner now known as 65-year-old Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was stripped by his brother of his titles and will be forced to vacate his rent-free Royal Lodge mansion near Windsor Castle because of his association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew's new home will be on the king's estate at Sandringham on wind-swept east coast. Despite his downfall, Andrew remains eighth in line to the throne.
