Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are seen on this picture launched by the Division of Justice in Washington on Dec. 19, 2025, as a part of a brand new trove of paperwork from its investigations into the late financier and convicted intercourse offender. Date and context is unclear.
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The Division of Justice on Friday is releasing greater than 3 million extra pages of paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein, together with greater than 2,000 movies and 180,000 photos, Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche stated.
The massive launch comes after weeks of criticism that the DOJ was not complying with the requirement underneath federal regulation handed in November that each one recordsdata associated to the infamous intercourse offender Epstein be publicly launched by Dec. 19.
Blanche stated Friday the DOJ was not releasing the remainder of what are greater than 6 million complete pages recognized as probably attentive to the Epstein Transparency Act.
A gaggle of victims of Epstein in an announcement blasted the DOJ for what it referred to as the “incomplete” launch of the recordsdata.
“This newest launch of Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata is being offered as transparency, however what it truly does is expose survivors,” stated the group in an announcement obtained by MS Now.
“As soon as once more, survivors are having their names and figuring out info uncovered, whereas the boys who abused us stay hidden and guarded. That’s outrageous. As survivors, we must always by no means be those named, scrutinized, and retraumatized whereas Epstein’s enablers proceed to profit from secrecy. This can be a betrayal of the very folks this course of is meant to serve,” the assertion stated.
“The Justice Division can not declare it’s completed releasing recordsdata till each legally required doc is launched and each abuser and enabler is totally uncovered,” the victims stated. “We have to hear straight from Lawyer Common Pam Bondi when she seems earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee on February 11. Survivors deserve solutions, and the general public deserves the reality.
“This isn’t over,” the ladies stated. “We is not going to cease till the reality is totally revealed and each perpetrator is lastly held accountable. As we’ve at all times stated, this isn’t about politics. We hope Democrats and Republicans will stand with survivors in persevering with to demand the total launch of the Epstein recordsdata.”
Talking at a press convention at DOJ headquarters in Washington, Blanche stated that greater than 500 DOJ attorneys and different personnel had spent the previous 75 days reviewing potential materials associated to Epstein and figuring out what wanted to be launched underneath the regulation.
Deputy U.S. Lawyer Common Todd Blanche speaks throughout a press convention on the Justice Division in Washington, Jan. 30, 2026.
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“We’re releasing greater than 3 million pages immediately, and never the 6 million pages that we collected,” Blanche stated. “That signifies that the division produced roughly 3½ million pages in compliance with the act.”
He stated that no extra paperwork can be launched. The massive launch on Friday comes weeks after DOJ launched a much-smaller tranche of Epstein-related paperwork on Dec. 19.
“In the present day’s launch marks the top of a really complete documentation, doc identification and evaluation course of to make sure transparency to the American folks and compliance with the act,” Blanche stated.
Among the materials launched pertains to Epstein’s convicted confederate, Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year federal jail sentence for crimes associated to procuring underage women for him to abuse. Epstein killed himself in a federal jail in New York in August 2019, weeks after being arrested on little one intercourse trafficking costs.
The DOJ stated that any materials not being launched fell inside one in all 4 classes: duplicate paperwork between investigations by federal prosecutors in New York and Florida; paperwork coated by attorney-client privilege and different privileges; depictions of violence and recordsdata that comprise personally identifiable details about victims; and gadgets that weren’t a part of the case recordsdata associated to Epstein and Maxwell.
“We complied with the statute,” Blanche stated Friday. “We complied with the act. We didn’t defend President Trump … or anyone.”
President Donald Trump had been buddies with Epstein for years earlier than the 2 males had a falling out within the mid-2000s.
“There’s not some tranche of super-secret paperwork about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding,” Blanche stated.
