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🗂️ Epstein files
Information about the Epstein files (documents, images and videos detailing the criminal activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein).
The Epstein files are "are over 6 million pages of documents, images and videos detailing the criminal activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his social circle of public figures that included politicians and celebrities."
Britannica has a nice timeline related to the Epstein files. And here are a few additional important events/links (as of February 2, 2026):
November 19, 2025: the Epstein Files Transparency Act was passed into law, requiring the US attorney general to "make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format." Since then, the Department of Justice has shared batches of highly-redacted emails and photos that do not comply with the provisions of the transparency act, despite their claims.
December 19, 2025: the DOJ released hundreds of thousands of documents. According to the Britannica article, "Those files included some never-before-seen photographs of former U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton and other celebrities, but otherwise were heavily redacted, drawing criticism from Democratic and some Republican lawmakers as well as Epstein survivors. A subsequent release of some 30,000 pages of documents included mentions of Trump flying on Epstein’s plane in the 1990s."
January 31, 2026: three million more documents were released, many of which break the law, as the files mention survivor names that are not redacted. The release also contains many reports by survivors of abuse suffered at the hands of Epstein and his network. It is unclear whether these reports were investigated by the FBI or other agencies.
February 2, 2026: Aaron Parnas shared that the recently released files contain child sexual abuse material, including nude images of children (some of which were taken down when Aaron pestered them to do so). Yet the files seem to do a pretty accurate job of redacting images of the abusers, such as Donald Trump, who is named in the files many times.
Wikipedia has a frequently updated list here.
Is Trump listed?
Trump is listed. It has been a journey to figure out how many times Trump is listed. In September of 2025, United States representative Eric Swalwell asked FBI Director Kash Patel about how many times Trump's name appeared in the list. This was their exchange:
Salwell: "You said you don't know the number of times Trump's name appears in the files, so it could at least be a thousand times, is that right?"
Patel: "The number is a total misleading factor."
Salwell: "It sounds like if you don't know the number, it could at least be a thousand times..."
Patel: "It's not."
Salwell: "Is it at least 500 times?"
Patel: "No."
Salwell: "Is it at least 100 times?"
Patel: "No."
Salwell: "Then what's the number?"
Patel: "I don't know the number, but it's not that."
In an Instagram post Salwell shared that apparently when he suggested the number of times Trump appears in the files, he didn't start high enough.
As of February 11, 2026, Aaron Parnas reports that Donald Trump's name appears in the Epstein Files more than 1 million times.
Also worth noting - Instagram user deliciousalex shared a list of people who are not in the files:
- Drag queens/kings
- Trans athletes
- Librarians
- Black journalists
- "Radical left scum"
- Striking workers
- People on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- The cast of Sesame Street
- Undocumented immigrants
Warning: extremely graphic written/visual content.
- DOJ's Epstein Library - official site (note that this content is heavily redacted, many files have been taken offline after posting, and in general the information here should be taken here with many grains of salt)
- epsteinoverview.com - Instagram user _dbrogle has put together a site that makes AI-generated (keep that part in mind) summaries of key people and topics from publicly available court documents.
- JMail - read and search through Epstein's email via a Gmail-like interface (consider that JMail is one degree removed from the DOJ's Epstein archive, so it would be very difficult to discern what files and information are missing, added or edited)
- The Free Press published an article about their review of approximately 2,000 videos from the Epstein archive. They made the archive available here.
- Alleged victim Sasha Riley went viral in January 2026 for a series of audio recordings (we attributed Sasha as an "alleged victim" here only because several online articles say these recordings lack court or media confirmation).
- Anouska De Georgiou has detailed her experience with Epstein and his conspirators via her Instagram account. She recently shared how the DOJ's botched Epstein Files release has re-traumatized survivors.
Kamala Harris offered this explanation during a Jimmy Kimmel interview:
"We...strongly and rightly believed that there should be an absolute separation between what we wanted as an administration and what the Department of Justice did. And it was right to do that. The justice department would make its decisions independent of any political or personal vendetta or concern that we may have."