
Julie K. Brown, whose reporting forced federal authorities to unravel the Epstein-Maxwell prosecution, has now found herself inside the Epstein files. Quite literally. And there’s no explanation why.
In the DoJ’s December 2025 document dump, journalist Julie K. Brown discovered detailed American Airlines booking records tied to her name from July 2019. This was weeks before Epstein’s arrest. For the journalist who cracked the Epstein story wide open, this wasn’t very pleasant. Her response on X was blunt: