The Department of Justice has dumped more than 3 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein files into the public domain, and if you thought the rich and the powerful couldn’t possibly get any creepier, we’ve got around 3 million reasons to tell you to sit down.
The unprescedented rise of America’s billionaire oligarchy thanks to Donald Trump’s reelection to the office of the president has led to the slow-motion collapse of anything resembling accountability for the elite, but the stuff that’s coming out of the newly released Epstein files — despite all the redactions — might just be enough to finally snap people out of the stupor long enough to ask some uncomfortable questions.
People are still sifting through the enormous mountain of information, but what’s surfaced so far is enough to make your skin crawl. Here we’ve listed some of the most significant revelations
1. Trump was on Epstein’s plane way more than anyone realized
Let’s address the elephant in the room right away. Despite Trump’s insistence that he had nothing to do with Epstein and the sex offender’s inner circle only comprised of Nasty Democrats is blatantly false. A January 2020 internal DOJ email sent between prosecutors drops quite a bombshell: Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet far more than previously reported.
The email, sent by an assistant U.S. attorney, noted (per PBS News) that flight records showed Trump as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996. On at least four of those flights, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was also onboard. During a 1993 flight, Trump and Epstein were the only two passengers. On another, the only three passengers listed were Trump, Epstein, and a redacted individual who was 20 years old at the time.
2. Epstein actually bragged that Trump “knew about the girls”
So, when the devil himself calls your business dealings “dirty,” what does that make you? Because that’s exactly what Jeffrey Epstein did to Trump in one of his emails. He also wrote that the POTUS “knew about the girls” (via IBTimes) without specifying exactly what that means. (Though, the collective willful ignorance required to read that sentence and try to whitewash it by saying “it could mean anything” should honestly be own kind of crime.)
In a separate 2019 message, Epstein noted that one of his victims had worked at Mar-a-Lago, adding that Trump had asked Maxwell to stop recruiting there. Meanwhile, audio tapes recorded by author Michael Wolff captured Epstein boasting that he was “Donald Trump’s closest friend for 10 years,” and alleging various salacious personal details about the former president, including that Trump first slept with his future wife Melania aboard Epstein’s plane.
The DOJ is categorizing some of these claims as sensationalist, but the sheer volume (over 38,000 references to Trump, Melania, or Mar-a-Lago) makes for uncomfortable reading.
3. Elon Musk practically begged to attend Epstein’s “wildest party” on the island
Elon Musk wishes to paint himself as the guy who refused Jeffrey Epstein’s advances for years, and the one person who is championing full transparency in the current climate. He’s even claimed on his X account that “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED” but the emails are telling a different story.
In November 2012, when Epstein asked Musk how many people he’d be bringing for the helicopter to the island, Musk replied: “Probably just Talulah and me. What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” A month later, on Christmas Day, he wrote again: “Do you have any parties planned? I really want to hit the party scene in St Barts or elsewhere and let loose. A peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I’m looking for.”
Epstein responded by saying that “the ratio on my island might make Talilah [sic] uncomfortable” to which Elon replied: “Ratio is not a problem for Talulah.” A 2014 calendar entry from Epstein’s assistant even noted “Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)”
Elon says that “nobody has fought harder” for the release of the Epstein files than him. We’re inclined to file that under things that sound a lot less heroic when you’re the one asking about the wildest party on a pedophile’s island.
4. Trump’s Commerce Secretary brought his family yacht to Epstein’s island for lunch
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who in October 2025 called Epstein “gross” and claimed he severed ties with the sex offender back in 2005 after seeing a massage table (of all things!) in the middle of his mansion, appears to have confused the chronology of his lies.
Emails from December 2012 (per ABC News) show Lutnick reaching out to Epstein while vacationing in the Caribbean with his wife, four kids, and another family. Lutnick wrote to Epstein asking for exact coordinates for his boat captain so they could swing by for dinner. Epstein’s assistant invited them for lunch at his private island. Lutnick’s wife Allison even followed up, asking “Where should we anchor exactly?”
On December 24, the day after the scheduled lunch, Epstein’s assistant emailed Lutnick a message from her boss: “Nice seeing you.” So much for cutting ties in 2005. When confronted with the emails, Lutnick told The New York Times “I spent zero time with him” and hung up.
So much for cutting ties in 2005. When the whole administration is unashamedly lying to everyone about the true extent of their connection to Epstein, who’s to believe anything that comes out of their mouths at this point?
5. Epstein had at least 10 co-conspirators the FBI refused to prosecute
The day after Epstein was arrested in July 2019, someone at the FBI’s New York office emailed (per Time) asking for an update on “the status of the 10 co-conspirators.” The reply detailed that three had been located in Florida and served grand jury subpoenas, one each in Boston, NYC, and Connecticut had been served, and four were still outstanding.
One was described as a “wealthy businessman in Ohio,” which lines up with Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s longtime financial associate, who is explicitly named elsewhere in the same email chain alongside “Brunel” (Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modeling scout who later died in custody) and “Maxwell.”
The damning part is this: a separate November 2020 document laid out “Charges and Investigative Steps” but the entire section is blacked out. Prosecutors had drafted a seven-page “memo on co-conspirators we could potentially charge” and an 86-page “co-conspirator update memo” but Maxwell was ultimately the only person to get charged.
The DOJ said in July 2025 there were no credible allegations that would lead to charges against others, and Todd Blanche confirmed in February 2026 that no additional prosecutions are coming.
6. Bill Gates’ relationship with Epstein was apparently even more gross than we thought
Bill Gates may consider his association with Epstein a lapse in judgement, but the files have made the situation worse for the billionaire founder of Microsoft. In a series of 2013 emails (per NBC News) that Epstein sent to himself—essentially drafts and notes—he described himself as Gates’ “right hand” and claimed to have participated in things that were “ethically unsound.” (Coming from Epstein, what the hell could that even mean?!!)
In one typo-riddled message, Epstein wrote that he’d been asked on multiple occasions to do things that were morally dubious. In another email, Epstein details how Gates, “with tears in your eyes,” begged him to provide antibiotics for his STD so that he can give it to Melinda, his wife.
“From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts with married women, to being asked to provide Adderall from bridge tournaments,” Epstein wrote in another draft email to himself, describing the arrangements he’d made for Gates.
Gates has denied the allegations, but Melinda’s reaction is more telling. When NPR asked her about the STD and the secret antibiotics, she said: “Sad. Just unbelievable sadness.” She also confirmed the Epstein ties contributed to their divorce and said her ex-husband “needs to answer to those things, not me.”
7. The Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson situation just got even worse
As if the infamous photograph of Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell wasn’t enough, the latest batch of files included new undated photos of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling on all fours over an unidentified woman lying on the floor.
Both were clothed, but one image appeared to show the former duke touching her abdomen. Other emails show close ties between Andrew, Epstein, and Ghislaine.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has since publicly suggested that Andrew should cooperate with U.S. investigators. He even fired Peter Mandelson as the U.K. Ambassador to Washington back in September 2025 over the deepening Epstein scandal. After the January 30 file dump revealed Mandelson leaked government secrets to Epstein, Starmer stood up in Parliament and said: “Mandelson betrayed our country, our parliament, and my party.”
8. Richard Branson told Epstein to bring his “harem” after his sex crime conviction
Virgin Group founder Richard Brandon is another major British figure who had close ties to Epstein, and the new files implicate him as having been aware of his crimes. In a 2013 email, Branson told Epstein (via CNN) that he’d be happy to meet anytime they were in the same area, “as long as you bring your harem!” Mind you, this was after Epstein had pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving a minor in the late 2000s.
Brandon also reportedly counseled Epstein to get Bill Gates to vouch for him in an effort to rehabilitate his image. Meanwhile, other emails show Google co-founder Sergey Brin exchanging messages with Ghislaine Maxwell, with Maxwell assuring him that “dinners at Jeffrey’s are always happily casual and relaxed.” Knowing what we know now, that reads less like a casual dinner party invitation and more like a twisted joke that nobody was in on except the elite.
9. Brett Ratner, director of the Melania documentary, appears in the files too
Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) was recently handpicked by Trump and his wife Melania to direct the now infamous and critically panned Melania documentary. Now, the Epstein files are showing that he and the deceased sex offender used to party together. Specifically, there are photos showing them relaxing on a couch, with two unknown girls in their arms whose faces have been redacted.
Ratner has publicly denied knowing Epstein personally (per Los Angeles Times), asserting that one of the women he’s shown embracing was his then-fiancée at an event she invited him to nearly two decades ago, and that he had no further contact with Epstein beyond those moments captured in the files. Do we believe him? Unfortunately, almost everyone who had deep ties with Epstein regurgitates those same words that their connection went “no further” than the surfaced evidence. The only catch is, that’s only true up to the moment when even more evidence piles up. Which brings us to the last, most important development.
10. The DOJ probably won’t prosecute anyone, and half the files may never see the light of day
Perhaps the most sickening prospect out of all these revelations is the fact that at least half the files may never be released.
After all of this — the flight logs, the emails, the island visits, the photos, the text messages — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (who, it should be noted, used to be Trump’s personal lawyer) went on CNN and announced that there would be no additional prosecutions. “We need to separate those two ideas,” Blanche said, “the fact that there’s the Epstein files and whether there’s anybody there that we can go after.”
Sure, especially when the person you need to be going after happens to be your former client and current boss.
Meanwhile, Congressman Ro Khanna, one of the co-authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, has pointed out that the DOJ identified over 6 million pages but released only about half. Over 200,000 pages were redacted or withheld outright, and an additional 2.5 million pages may never be made public.
Khanna summed up the collective disgust on NBC’s Meet the Press: “There are rich and powerful people who may not have committed a crime, but who are emailing Jeffrey Epstein well after he’s a pedophile talking about going to his island, talking about wanting to participate in wild parties. The American people are asking, ‘How are our rich and powerful people living in this country?’”
It’s a good question. And based on these files, the answer is: however they damn well please.
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