Who is Lisa Noelle Voldeng and what is the documented provenance of the Sasha Riley audio recordings?
Executive summary
Lisa Noelle Voldeng is the Substack author behind the newsletter “Outlaws of Chivalry” who published six audio files she says are phone interviews with a man identified as Sascha (or Sasha) Riley; those files were posted on her Substack and circulated widely online beginning in late 2025 [1] [2]. Voldeng presents herself as the person who conducted the interviews (which she says took place July 19–24, 2025), claims to hold the original unedited audio and says she has shared copies with police and “trusted contacts,” but independent verification of the recordings and the allegations they contain has not been established in mainstream court records or investigative reporting [3] [4].
1. Who Lisa Noelle Voldeng is, as reported
Public reporting identifies Lisa Noelle Voldeng as a Canadian Substack creator based on Vancouver Island who runs the newsletter Outlaws of Chivalry and whose About page frames her work in broad cultural terms; she emerged into wider attention because she posted the Riley audio on her Substack account [4] [5] [1]. Multiple outlets note that she personally claims to have interviewed the man in the recordings and that she published the material “in the interest of the public,” which has driven social-media amplification of the files [1] [6].
2. Voldeng’s account of how the Sasha/Sascha Riley files originated
Voldeng has publicly stated that she conducted a series of phone interviews with the man identified as Sascha Barrows Riley over a roughly one-week span—she gave dates of July 19 to July 24, 2025—and that the audio she posted on November 23, 2025, were the original, unedited recordings of those calls [3] [2]. Reports cite her claim that after the interviews Riley was contacted by the FBI in summer 2025 and moved “to safety,” and that she shared the recordings with law enforcement and select allies, though those law‑enforcement contacts and their responses have not been independently corroborated in the reporting provided [1] [5].
3. What the published recordings purport to show and the immediate response
The audio files, as presented by Voldeng, feature a man who identifies himself as an Iraq War veteran and who alleges severe childhood abuse and trafficking connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s network, naming several public figures in the recordings; those allegations were unverified at the time of reporting and have not been tied to indictments or court filings cited in mainstream outlets [7] [3] [8]. The material went viral on platforms like Substack and Threads and provoked intense online discussion, prompting journalists and commentators to stress that the recordings remain unvetted and that the claims inside have not been authenticated [7] [8].
4. Credibility questions, skepticism and the limits of available reporting
Critical voices in the media and on Substack have questioned both Riley’s story and Voldeng’s presentation of it, with at least one detailed commentary arguing the public material contains inconsistencies and that Voldeng’s supplemental evidence is thin; that piece explicitly declined to assert lying but concluded the presented information appeared incorrect [2]. Reporting repeatedly emphasizes that the audio is “unverified,” and while Voldeng declares possession of original files and contact with authorities, independent confirmation of chain‑of‑custody, forensic authentication, or corroborating documents is not present in the sources provided [1] [3].
5. Motives, agendas, and how the story has been framed
Voldeng publishes opinionated cultural work and a newsletter with a pronounced editorial voice, which observers note may shape how she framed the release and the public narrative—supporters frame the release as making suppressed testimony public, while skeptics warn of amplification of grave but unproven allegations and of potential reputational damage to named individuals absent verified evidence [5] [2]. News coverage stresses the viral, unilateral publication route (Substack) and the broader phenomenon of powerful allegations circulating ahead of legal verification, leaving readers and investigators to reconcile competing claims [7] [6].
6. Bottom line and what remains unproven
Factually, Lisa Noelle Voldeng is the Substack account holder who published the Sasha/Sascha Riley interview audio and claims to have conducted the July 2025 phone interviews and to possess the original recordings and some contacts with authorities [4] [3] [1]. What is not established in the reporting available here is independent verification of the speaker’s identity or claims, forensic authentication or a public law‑enforcement confirmation linking the audio to any judicial proceeding; those are material gaps that leave the recordings documented as published and claimed by Voldeng but not independently authenticated [3] [1] [2].