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The viral audio attributed to Sasha (also spelled Sascha) Riley makes grave allegations tied to the Jeffrey Epstein era but, as of the available reporting, those claims remain unverified and not corro...
Available reporting shows no credible evidence that Barack Obama “is in” the Epstein files as a conspirator or that he “made up” investigative files; multiple outlets report that claims tying Obama to...
Available reporting shows no evidence that Presidents Barack Obama or Joe Biden “created” or were responsible for the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein; the two main federal investigations occurr...
Two related civil actions alleging that Jeffrey Epstein and Donald J. Trump sexually abused a minor were filed in 2016 under the names “Katie Johnson” and later “Jane Doe,” producing multiple complain...
Available reporting shows the Department of Justice (DOJ) did hold substantial Epstein-related material during the Biden administration — reports cite more than 100,000 pages of evidence in government...
President Biden did not have a blanket legal bar preventing release of Epstein/Maxwell materials during his administration; reporting and legal filings show the files were subject to ongoing investiga...
Reporting and newly released documents show extensive allegations that Jeffrey Epstein ran a sex‑trafficking operation that involved recruiting and abusing underage girls and that he supplied some vic...
Ken (Kenneth) Starr was a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s defense team in the mid‑2000s and is documented as having advised and advocated for Epstein during the negotiations that produced the 2008 Florida...
The claim that Ghislaine Maxwell personally introduced Jeffrey Epstein to her father Robert Maxwell’s Israeli connections is widely circulated but ; available reporting documents contacts and overlaps...
Court documents and related “Epstein files” have been unsealed and released in multiple waves across 2019–2025, with notable early unsealing tied to civil litigation and later mass releases by congres...
Public reporting says the Epstein files were not broadly released during Joe Biden’s presidency largely because the Justice Department treated parts of the material as linked to “ongoing criminal inve...
The Epstein investigations were active and evolving across multiple administrations; reporting and prosecutors said the Maxwell/ Epst‑ein criminal files remained part of an open federal investigation ...
Available reporting shows President Joe Biden’s Justice Department did not unilaterally publish a comprehensive “Epstein client list” while it was conducting active investigations, and that in Novembe...
Victims and journalists have won partial victories in pressing courts to unseal Epstein-related materials, but success has been mixed and often depended on the forum, the specific records sought, and ...
Documents released by House Oversight Committee Democrats show Peter Thiel’s name appears in Jeffrey Epstein’s calendared schedules and email troves — including a noted lunch in November 2017 and shor...
Public reporting indicates that audio recordings attributed to someone named Sasha or Sascha Riley have circulated widely and that a Substack publisher, Lisa Noelle Voldeng, says she possesses the ori...
Reporting shows that allegations against Jeffrey Epstein first entered public view in 2005 after Palm Beach police opened an investigation into a report that a 14‑year‑old had been paid for sex at Eps...
Flight logs, visitor logs and phone records tied to Little Saint James have long been part of the public record and rolling releases: declassified flight logs and parts of Epstein’s contact books were...
Virginia Giuffre’s allegations have intersected with Israeli politics primarily through past reporting and memoir claims that link a “well‑known prime minister” to abuse allegations and through long‑r...
The Biden White House publicly explained its refusal to order a wholesale release of Jeffrey Epstein–related files by pointing to legal and privacy constraints — principally grand‑jury secrecy, protec...