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Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking crimes and the investigations surrounding them
The newly released Justice Department trove contains numerous references to Donald J. Trump — flight logs showing him as a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, photographs that place him social...
Three well-known public figures—Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and R. Kelly—have been credibly implicated in trafficking-related investigations that resulted in prosecutions or convictions, and m...
Since 2019 major news organizations have moved between investigative deep-dives and cautious, source‑driven reporting when covering allegations that tie high‑profile figures to trafficking networks, o...
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein maintained a social and business-adjacent relationship from the late 1980s through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, appearing together at parties and in photographs...
The public record contains contemporaneous documents and later-released materials that place socially and logistically in Epstein’s orbit — photographs, flight logs or references to flights, and a cou...
A discrete, high‑profile federal prosecution in Minnesota produced local reporting that labeled defendant Michael Lazzaro “Minnesota’s Jeffrey Epstein” after his conviction on sex‑trafficking and rela...
No reporting in the provided documents shows a new victims’ civil suit filed since 2019 that directly produced a criminal referral or a criminal plea deal tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s network; instead th...
The public record establishes a documented social and professional association between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein beginning in the late 1980s and continuing into the early 2000s, but it does not...