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The “first phase” of Jeffrey Epstein files were dropped on the Justice Department website. Among the documents include Epstein’s private flight logs, contacts, and a list of evidence seized from his home in New York and the Virgin Islands.
The Department of Justice released files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein Thursday evening.(Friday, 28 February 2025)
The material released contained previously published pilot logs from the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell. The records include redactions performed by prosecutors on the case to protect the identities of potential victims. Also published is Epstein’s so-called “black book” that has previously been made public.
One document never before seen is what the Justice Department is calling “Evidence List,” a three-page catalog of material apparently obtained through searches of Epstein’s properties in New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Among the items investigators obtained, according to the document, is “one CD labelled ‘girl pics nude book 4′” and a folder titled “LSJ logbook,” which appears to be a reference to Epstein’s private island, Little St. James.
Investigators also recovered a bag “containing one yellow envelope marked ‘SK’ dated 08/27/08 containing multiple smaller envelopes containing $17,115” in U.S. currency.
The date is notable because it coincides with the time Epstein was in jail in Palm Beach, Florida. SK could be a reference to one of Epstein’s former associates.
The evidence list also contained dozens of recording devices, computers, hard drives and memory sticks.
The list also included several massage tables – one of which was wheeled into court during Maxwell’s trial – numerous photo albums and pictures, including one that said “photo album of girl and Epstein” and a bag containing “1 set of copper handcuffs and whip.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi had instructed FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate what she describes as an apparent withholding of investigative files related to Epstein.
In her letter to Patel, Bondi said prior to his confirmation she had requested all files related to Epstein — but late Wednesday evening was informed by “a source” that the FBI field office in New York was in possession of “thousands of pages of documents” that had not been handed over.
In recent media appearances on Fox News, Bondi has teased out the pending release of documents in the Justice Department’s holdings related to its investigation of Epstein, who died by suicide in August 2019 while awaiting trial.
The release of jeffrey epstein files
to be clear this is potentially only a fraction of what could come out
and a little fair warning , it doesn”t appear from our initial review that there’s anything you know,bombshell or revolutionary…
here’s the epstein list of everybody who was involved in this potential wrongdoing.
i want want to be clear about that but there’s a reason for that because it was expected after litigation and foyer requests and trial of Ghislaine Maxwell jeffrey epstein’s accomplice who was convicted of federal sex crimes charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison .
a lot of this material has already come out , flight logs, manifests, adress book however,it is fascinating to see what was released here and of course jeffrey epstein was the disgraced financier convicted sex offender who ended up dying in prison while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges
but the first thing we got to talk about is the statement that was released by the departement of justice when they released all this files and it reads ;
Today , attorney Genereal pamela Bondi , in conjunction with federal bureau of investigation (FBI) , declassified and publicly released files frelated to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein and his sexual exploitation of over 250 underage girls at his homes in new york and florida , among other locations .
The first phase of declassified files largely contains documents that have been previously leaked but never released in a formal capacity by the U.S Government.
quote,this departement of justice is following through on president trump’s commitment to transparency and lifting the veil on disgusting actions of jeffrey epstein and his co- conspirators said attorney General Pamela Bondi .
the first phase of files released today sheds light on epstein’s extensive network and begins to provide the public with long overdue accountability
The FBI is entering a new area – one that will be defined by integrity , accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice said FBI director Kash Patel . there will be no cover ups , no missing documents ,and no stone left unturned- and anyone from the prior or curent bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pusued .
If there are gaps , we will find them . if records have ben hidden ,we vill uncover them and we will bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the american people as it should be .the oath we take is to the constitution and under my leadership that promise will be upheld without compromise.
It goes on to say
attorney General bondi requested the full and complete files related to jeffrey epstein .
in response the departement received approcimeately 200 pages of documents,however the attorney General was later informed of thousands of documents related to the investigation and indictment of epstein that werer not previously disclosed
The attorney General has requested the FBI deliver the remaining documents to the department by 8: am on february 28th and has tasked FBI director kash patel with investigating why the request for all documents was not followed.
The department remains committed to transparency and intends to release the remaining documents upon review and redaction to protect the identities of epstein’s victims.
by the vay , a separate letter from pamela bondi to cash patel she said she expects a report from him in basically two weeks about why the files weren’t turned over.
But the idea that the FBI is not complying with a request from the attorney General pam bondi who oversees the DOJ and the FBI, very concerning .
but we don’t know for sure who attoney General pam bondi’s sources is, whether that person is credible, what exactly happened here if there was maybe a miscommunication or maybe even a deliberate attempt to not turn over the materials.
THE DOCUMENTS
first up , the flight log, released as a part of phase one has a not at the top ad it says, it was a government exhibit publicly released in US v maxwell.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case and to kind of give you an idea of just how much time epstein and others spent on his jet ,it’s been referred to what is the Lolita Express.
the flight log is 118 pages long and only covers april 1991 to january 2006
parts of this flight log are very difficult to read so whether through the handwriting or the age of the photo copies but at times whoever is filling out the the sheet also uses initials or just writes down one male or two female so it’s kind of difficylt to know a times who was on the plane.
sometimes the descript on the flight log included notes , for example in june 1991 an entry appears to say herb show plane to reba mcIntyre plus husband
that’s a big name right there. another entry from january the next year that indicated that epstein and maxwell flew into burbank to attend the Academy Awards.
but look it’s safe to say that a lot of people flew on the so- called Lolita express.
the two on at the most were jeffrey epstein of course and Ghislaine Maxwell but there were other famous names as well .
president donald trump’s name appears several times in the early 90s
in may 1994 log entry says jeffrey flew with trump , trunmp’s then wife Melania Knauss their daughter tiffany and tiffany’s nanny
another time in 1995 ,eric trump was listed as a passenger.
prince andrew’s name appears in an entry from february 1999
the prince has got in a lot of hot water over his connection ,his friendship with jeffrey epstein which continued even after epstein was convicted of sex crimes that always seemed to be the allegation.
former president Bill clinton , also makes several appearances in the early 2000s on the flight log, he flew multiple times in 2002 accomanied multiple secret service agents each time .
you have an entry from august 2002 that lists Virginia roberts now called virginia Giuffre- victim of epstein and maxwell who pushed forward with a lawsuit against the apparent madam .
Leading to by the way all these documents or a lot of these documents being released during maxwell’s eventual criminal trial .
but another exhibit included in phase one of the document release may not look like much at first glance , it’s fully redacted but this list is entitled masseuses.
and with a note saying” redacted to protect potential victim information”
it has 254 line items.
so it’s unclear whether any of the names might be repeated it is a staggering number of women and girls who may have been subjected to sexual assault , because we all remember what the allegations were
that jeffrey epstein through Ghislaine Maxwell would bring young girls over and under the guise of massage would sexually assault them and abuse them.
THE CONTACT BOOK
it is basically a bunch of names with their personal information either blacked out or redacated, maybe their phone numbers or adresses, assuming that’s what it is but some boxes are bigger than others so maybe there were more information about certain people rather than others.
however there are a list of names tha are quite notable on this list…….
a bunch of them , remember , just because they are presumably in jeffrey epstein’s contact book doesn’t mean they ‘re complicit in any of his alleged wrongdoing, Epstein was a very well-known and well- connecte financier hwo knew a lot of people- got to make that clear.
so even though i’m about to list a lot of people is not the epstein list of everybody who was involved in alleged wrongdoing or legal activity .
to give you a sense of who he seemingly knew…..
Alec Baldwin
Ralph Fiennes
michael jackson
Dr henry A kissinger and mick jagger
david koch and chris tucker
richard branson, barbara walters , mike wallace ,steve win , donald trump avanka trump, avana trump , lez wexner,courtney love, rupert murdoch dutchess of york,joan rivers, chris turlington ,
maria shriver ron silverjanice dickinson,mini driver, david blaine,phil collins,George hamilton,lis hurley,ted kennedy Jr, doug lyman ron burkel christopher lambert and ghislaine maxwell
aside from these apparent actors and musicians and magicians and journalists and politicians and wealthy individuals and business leaders
there are also a plethora of other names byt you kind of get a sense of some of the more well -known people that he apparently had their contact information .
and there are also contacts for properties like
various Ritz carlton,the Aspen clubbel air hotel ,beverly wilshire, the plaza
the pierre. .. we talking luxury places here.
and the last page of this document is titled important email adresses .
not sure if this was actaully crafted by a prosecutor in this case or jeffrey epstein or somebody connected to him ,but it is interesting because one is for jeffrey epstein , and nex to it is redacted but in parenthesis it appears there are initials for locations
like PB seemingly for palm beach and NY for new york and so forth .
Ghislaine maxwell is listed there too, there’s also one for capitalist joe pagano barack former prime minister of Israel, jean luke brunell,david copperfield next to christopher it seems to say french driver, it says next to this person important witness-again we don’t know hwo wrote that but , important.
what is interesting about some of these names and to kind of give you some more context.
Is last year when a judge released jeffrey epstein materials more specifically grand jury materials pursuant to be a bill signed by florida Governor Ronda santis these material centered around when the palm beach policedpartement opened up an investigation into jefrrey epstein back in 2005 and was presented to grand jury in 2006. so that was then the parents of 14 year old girl came forward accusing jeffrey epstein of paying her to give him a massage
police apparently found out that epstein had allegedely set up a system to recruit girls to provide him massages to sometimes engage in sexual activitiy the case was brought to the state of attorney’s office, a grand jury was impanel where the jurors heard all sorts of testimony from detectives two of two of the alleged victims and grand jury ended up indicting epstein in 2006 onfelony solicitation of a prostitute . and that was it.
there have been longstanding arguments about this why didn’t prosecutors pursue more aggressive charges, why was this the only one and of course we know what happened right ?the palm beach police departement chief and lead detective ,they were partially troubled, they were particularly troubled by this prosecution so they refered the matter to the FBI who then brought it to the assistant US attorney so now we talking about the feds
but in the end in 2008 epstein and prosecutors they worked out a deal where he pled guilty yo state charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurememt of minors he was sentenced to just 18 months in prison ,only serve 15 and spends most of time in work release program he can leave jail to work at his office. then go back to jail at night.
and he avoids federal charges he had to register as a sex offender too but this is the whole sweetheart deal that you hear a lot about in this case and the argument is ,if he were hit with more severe charges back in the day he could have been stopped from as the allegations have explained continuing to hurt people .
we learned more information about some of the names, for example magician david cooperfield ,so apparently victims who have filed lawsuit against epstein and maxwell, they named david copperfield as being present at get togethers at jeffrey epstein”s residences. and copperfield also allegedly asked one of the alleged victims if she knew about getting money for bringing epstein new girls .
and he also allegedly performed magic for epstein’s guests , there was a message with a notetaker wrote ” magic david” called.
there were others with more direct connections to epstein’s supposed worldwide sex trafficking ring also they show up multiple times in epstein’s call logs from that release .jean luk brunell
in his contat book french model scout jean luke brunell he was accused of acting as a pimp for jeffrey epstein procuring young girls for him to sexually assault. in a phone message brunell apparently said ;
” i need a big favor i hope you will do it”
brunell was kicked out of a modeling agency in 1999 and followed a report of a decades long abuse against young women and girls and epstein and brunell they started a new agency when epstein died in 2019 by the way french authorities they opened up an investigation against brunell
he tried to flee to senagal ,he was arrested at the airport, he too was found dead at a prison in paris on february 19th 2022 as he was being investigated for rape and trafficking of minors but knowing that he had messages in the florida release that when you look back it seemed much more sinister for example there was a note that read
he just did a good one 18 years she spoke to me and said i love jeffrey”
again ,just talking about bernell cuz as i mentioned he was in the contact book
also talking about who was in the contact book Alan Dershowitz who was a lawyer hwo helped epstein secure that sweehaert deal
i mentioned mentioned Lex wexner the longtime friend and fellow millionaire the owner of Victoria’s secret ,now he has been called out in trvrny years for his connection to jeffrey epstein who apparently he gave control of basically a lot of his fortune a lot of his money and Wexner has said that he knew nothing of epstein’s alleged indiscretions and says that he himself was taken advantage of by the financier.
” evidence collected”
assume that this is evidence that was collected from one or more of epstein’s propertie . and i say assume but according to the NewYork Times
this is a list of the items that were seized bty the feds when they searched epstein’s in New York and the US Virgin islands after he was arrested in 2019
prosecutors in the southern district of New York building a sex trafficking case against him for allegedly sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of minor girls in manhattan , palm beach florida and other locations, look at what they could potentially use at a trial , look at what they potentially found
CDs labeled” girls picks nude book four”
four massage tables
one red containing letter ,photo album of girls
photo of island .
heat seat sealed bag full of cash labeled ” SK” with 17 k plus
heat sealed bag containing on small white envelope with writing “2000 SK” with $ 4,400 .
austrian passport with epstein photograph
lots of electronics like ,computers, iPads,recorders ,hard drives
binder full of 68 discs
box containing one stuff dog
box containing two white and color busts of female torsos
box containing one brown sculpture offemale breasts
bundled photos and CDs from women old photos
one red rope containing containing two photos of female buttocks
five costumes and one wig
four framed photos of naked females
one set of collor handcuffs and whip
that is kind of a summary of what was released in this potential first batch
it was revealed during maxwell’s trial that FBI agents, that they raided epstein’s townhouse in new york and evidence went missing, there were CDs, hard drivers,money , jewelry , passports that the agends photographed and then they didn”t have the legal authority to seize it at that point ,
they ended coming pavk to obtain it. and when they did a few dats later it was apparently all gone
last year, eight alleged victims of jeffrey epstein sued the FBI over what they claim was a failure on their part to do a proper investigation into epstein back in the 90s
so it’s an important time for the FBI with essentially the country watsching and you have to imagine there’s more information rather than just 200 pages …..
exempel ,back in 2019, the FBI seizes computers from his home in the Virgin islands ,where is all that digital evidence?
no matter what comes out i can’t definitively say that there’s going to be some sort of repercussions for this or criminal charges , aside from the statute of limitations issues that you might run into , you wounder what federal charges could be, obviously you think about this ,what we’ve seen in these kinds of cases
conspiracy , sex trafficking , transporting minors or enticing minors for the purposes of legal sex acts, this are things you could look out for but can’t definitively say based on anything that comes out that anyone would be criminally charged.
but in the interest of transparency and getting more information definitely useful definitely interesting .