The Justice Department released a massive trove of records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, totaling more than 3 million pages, alongside 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The release, mandated under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, includes documents from federal investigations, court records, FBI files, internal DOJ correspondence, and evidence collected during the probe into Epstein and his convicted associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The latest tranche, labeled Data Sets 9–12, includes over 150 newly released documents, most of them emails and internal communications. According to the DOJ, the materials were reviewed by more than 500 personnel, working nights, weekends, and holidays, to ensure proper redactions protecting survivors’ privacy. All images of women except Maxwell were removed, as well as videos depicting exploited minors.
The Justice Department emphasized that some of the documents contain unverified or sensational claims about prominent individuals, including former President Donald Trump and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, which are not indicative of criminal wrongdoing. The DOJ said some submissions included false images, emails, and videos sent by the public that were incorporated into the files.
