Here’s an overview of community efforts to make The Files more accessible. I’ve written a small description and possible warnings alongside them.

Epstein Research GitHub Mirror

• A mirror for all the files
• ⚠️ Microsoft owns Github
• https://github.com/rhowardstone/Epstein-research

Epstein Files Research Database

• Search the complete DOJ production: ~1.4 million documents, ~2.8 million pages across 12 datasets — including transcribed audio & video, spreadsheets, and photographs, fully indexed
• https://epstein-data.com/

DOJ Tracker

• Project that tracks and documents every time the DOJ changes the files. Automated posts on Twitter when files change here.
• https://justice.geeken.dev/
• Google sheet: here

Jmail

• Access Jeffrey Epstein’s emails through a gmail interface and star important ones.
• https://jmail.world/

Jmail wiki

• Access the files through a WikiPedia-like interface.
• https://jmail.world/wiki/

Epstein Gate

• Using AI to rank, sort and map the files and create timelines from documents scattered across datasets.
• https://epsteingate.org/
• Source code: https://github.com/latent-variable/epstein-ranker

Epstein Exposed

• The most comprehensive searchable database of every person, document, flight, and connection in the Epstein files.
• https://epsteinexposed.com/

Track The Files

• A sourced, transparent investigation into the public figures named in the Epstein files — and the tax dollars that flow to them.
• ⚠️ Made with LLMs
• https://trackthefiles.org/

Epstein Document Network Explorer

• This is a network analysis tool for exploring relationships between people, places, and events captured in the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee.
• https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/

EpsteIn

• See which of your LinkedIn connections appear in the Epstein files.
• https://github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn

3D Network Cloud

• Another visualisation tool
• https://epstein.dugganusa.com/

Epstein Archive

• ⚠️ Made with LLMs, seems stale*
• https://epstein-docs.github.io/

Please add more sources as comments, or let us know if one of them has gone dark or appears to be dodgy.

The former BBC presenter will host A Very British Epstein for UK audio company Global. It will trace Epstein’s ties to the UK through exclusive interviews with survivors and those who knew the billionaire.

Maitlis’ Newsnight interview with Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) — which inspired Netflix movie Scoop and Amazon Prime Video series A Very Royal Scandal — resulted in fresh scrutiny of Epstein following his death in prison in August 2019.

Substack, but a very good introduction to the puppet masters behind Epstein, the Epstein Class and the current escalations in the Middle East.

Excerpt:

Most Americans have never heard of the Mega Group. And that’s exactly what the members of the Mega Group want.

In 1991 — the same year Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Israeli asset Robert Maxwell, fell from his yacht into the Atlantic and was buried in Jerusalem with six heads of Israeli intelligence in attendance — two North American billionaires quietly founded what they called the Study Group. These men were Leslie Wexner, […]

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/45253388

A traveling exhibit featuring the so-called Epstein Files is in Dallas, where President Donald Trump and other Republicans will gather for the party’s midterm convention.

Sky Roberts and Amanda Roberts, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, told Scripps News the exhibit is also intended to keep the experiences of survivors at the center of the discussion.

“I think it's important for Americans to walk into this room and understand that every single page is a story of a survivor whose life was damaged or taken away from them,” Amanda Roberts said.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/66535848

Corrupt officials are still covering up for Epstein's abuse by refusing to release 2.5 million additional files. Our attorney general here in Texas has the power to get justice for these survivors, and he's refusing to do so.

Ken Paxton has a history of covering up abuse, a history of protecting pedophiles. He has an opportunity to use his power, his authority. To get justice, and we are demanding that he do so. I am tired of seeing powerful people cover up abuse. I think we're all tired of it, Democrats, independents, and Republicans alike.

Ken Paxton has two choices. He can stand with these survivors and get justice, or he can continue to cover up Jeffrey Epstein's abuse. The choice is entirely his, and I hope that this exhibit is a reminder to all of us that the fight for justice continues.

“Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA,” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker said in a statement. “We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount – a Skydance Capitulation.” The show’s parent company, Paramount Skydance, owned by Trump ally David Ellison, is poised to become one of the biggest media conglomerates in the US

Not everyone’s cup of tea, but the Epstein Files are the central theme of this series, and the creators have nothing left to lose, so expect more fireworks that will draw the ire of the Pedo President.

Full release schedule here

Outside the US, available on the high seas as the creators have already been paid.

Black was issued subpoenas by the House Oversight Committee after he abruptly left a voluntary interview in June. During that hearing, he declined to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements he signed with women. The committee suspects that the agreements may be tied to his relationship with Epstein.

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This is not new news. But if/when Alan Dershowitz ever makes it to appearing before the House Oversight Committee, I want you to know what the news will never print. It is freely available in various depositions, but the media only ever takes a tiny snippet of what's there, usually the most prurient or titillating mosel, and leaves the rest, not least because they don't want to get sued by someone like Dershowitz.

It is my full expectation that whatever happens in that committee room, if it ever does, will be underreported at best, and so I offer you an original source of what you should know about this guy, straight from one of the victims.

As many of you already know, in 2014 Virgina Giuffre joined the Palm Beach survivors in their earlier legal action against the government because Jeffrey Epstein had been given a sweetheart deal in 2007 that appeared to violate federal law -- the Crime Victims Rights Act, or CVRA -- and in the course of joining that CVRA suit she gave her personal evidence of having been trafficked. She had done so before 2014, but had largely avoided naming names. Yet this time, in 2014, Virginia Giuffre named some names. Big ones.

When she did so, some of those involved decided that their best response would be to slander and defame her. When they did, Giuffre sued back, and was then countersued and slandered more, and in the end even the lawyers were suing the other lawyers, in endless cases, some of which are still being litigated today, over ten years later.

At the very core of this overwhelming blizzard of legal activity is Alan Dershowitz.

The post link, above, is to one of the full copies of her depositions, this particular one from 2016 given in the case of Bradley J. Edwards and Paul G. Cassell v Alan M. Dershowitz, one of the secondary lawsuits that arose from the original CVRA suit against the government: Brad Edwards was Virginia Giuffre's attorney when she joined the CVRA suit on behalf of the Palm Beach survivors, and Paul Cassell is a professor of law specializing in victims' rights who assisted Edwards in bringing the suit.

Edwards and Cassell brought the original CVRA suit against the government, and together they later sued Dershowitz for defamation.

Virginia Giuffre was brought into the defamation suit and forced to undergo deposition again with Alan Dershowitz sitting in the same room, watching and listening to her reply as she was grilled about how Dershowitz had used her body at Epstein's direction and command, in Epstein's own bedroom, and about whatever other sexual assaults and experiences his legal team thought would humiliate her. (This is the reason for the trigger warning: the deposition pulls no punches.)

You do not have to be a lawyer to read these things: skip the citations, skim over the legal business, attend the text. But what you will be is shocked. Not just at what Virginia Giuffre had to say about Alan Dershowitz, which never changed throughout all these depositions and who was in the room with her throughout this deposition, (see page 3, "Also Present") but at how poorly she was treated throughout, how even her own personal safety was repeatedly ignored as the opposition lawyers repeatedly tried to bully her into giving names she had already decided were not safe for her to name, and how they repeated question after question that, in my opinion, were crafted more for their potential to humiliate and embarrass as opposed to their use in uncovering relevant truth.

The psychological pressure they put on her was immense. She never buckled.

But this was just one time out of many where she had to undergo the same thing: someone has weaponized the law to sue someone else, and as retaliation a survivor, or many survivors, are brought in once again to relive their hell while one or more of those actually responsible -- or even a direct participant, as in this case -- sits in the room to watch it happen.

ALL the victim depositions I have read have been like this, and worse. That is not to say all of them are this bad, but if any are lighter or more gentle somehow, I have yet to come across them.

And they seem to be most especially prevalent wherever Dershowitz is involved in any way.

I don't think we normies really have any idea what it means for a victim to come forward and name even a single name, and how that can disrupt entire lives for years, even decades to come, and how after so much of this turmoil, not just within the legal system but outside of it from the perpetrators, and years of fighting for the truth to come out, some of them are no longer with us. This deposition is just a fraction of what they had to bear not just once but many, many times.

As you read, take note of who is asking what and why -- I kept one copy open to the introduction (Page 2) while I read a second copy so I could keep the participants straight -- and know that if Dershowitz ever makes it in front of the House committee, it will be only a fraction of what he and his attorneys put each of the victims who spoke up through, usually multiple times.

Also note some of the bizarre redactions. For example, a special master was appointed to ensure that legal confidentialities remained legal even as lawyers were suing other lawyers: when he appears, they have redacted the word Master from his title, so you'll see a lot of Special _______ in the text. They have also bizarrely redacted the names "Bradley" and "Edwards" from this publicly filed suit.

An outgoing Republican congressman accused billionaire Leon Black and David Copperfield, the illusionist, of being co-conspirators of the accused late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and repeated a call for the Department of Justice to launch an immediate investigation into the men, among others.

Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who recently lost his primary to a challenger backed by Donald Trump, named several friends and associates of Epstein on the floor of the House in his bid to “shame” the Department of Justice to investigate a group of men and one woman who Massie called “perpetrators” of Epstein’s crimes. He also noted that, nearly one year after Trump signed the Epstein Transparency Act, which led to the release of millions of so-called “Epstein files”, millions more have yet to be publicly disclosed.

“The government continues to withhold over three million files” Massie said on Monday. “That’s why we’ve introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, to bring the fight to the state courts, accountability to the Department of Justice and closure for survivors.”

“We want perpetrators of these crimes to be investigated and prosecuted” he added. Massie called the individuals “co-conspirators” on his Instagram account.

Black, the New York private equity investor who paid Epstein tens of millions of dollars in fees, is separately facing a threat of being held in contempt of Congress because of an ongoing standoff over demands that he appear to testify before the House oversight committee later this week, on 3 September.

Black has not yet confirmed his appearance before the committee, according to a person familiar with the matter. Black’s spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the scheduled hearing or Massie’s comments.

Black has described his work for Epstein as tax and estate-planning services. In a previous statement before the oversight committee in June, Black wrote of his relationship with Epstein: “I did not know about this nefarious activity until Epstein was charged with trafficking in July 2019.” But Black acknowledged that he did know about Epstein pleading guilty in “2008 to state charges relating to prostitution involving a minor”.

The chairman of the House oversight committee, the Republican James Comer, has previously said he would hold Black in contempt if he did not fully cooperate with his panel’s ongoing investigation into Epstein, including by handing over subpoenaed documents.

Susan Estrich, Black’s lawyer, has rejected Comer’s assertions that Black has not been cooperative and has said that Black was being targeted in a “political witch hunt”.

Epstein’s former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, has also not yet confirmed his appearance before the oversight committee, according to a person familiar with the matter. Dershowitz’s appearance was scheduled to take place on Wednesday. Dershowitz told the Guardian on Tuesday that he was “working on a date”.

FBI agents investigating Copperfield in 2007 said that “a clear connection” existed between the famous illusionist and Epstein, according to documents released by the Department of Justice earlier this year. Copperfield’s lawyers have previously denied he was friends with Epstein. Lawyers for the illusionist did not respond to a request for comment on Massie’s comments, accusing Copperfield of being an Epstein co-conspirator.

In a post on X on Tuesday morning, Massie said that he, along with Representatives Ro Khanna and Teresa Leger Fernández had launched a “discharge petition to collect 218 signatures” to force a vote on the new Act.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ghislaine Maxwell seems to be all but guaranteed to have run out of legal avenues to challenge her conviction for her involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of girls and young women with perhaps her lingering hopes of freedom resting on a pardon from the Trump administration.

Paul Engelmayer, a Manhattan federal court judge, last week rejected Maxwell’s contention that her constitutional rights were violated at trial and sentencing for her crimes. “Maxwell’s claims are all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous,” Engelmayer wrote in his ruling on the former British socialite’s legal gambit.

Engelmayer also rejected Maxwell’s claim that new evidence, which she said came to light during Epstein Files Transparency Act disclosures, did not support her allegations of constitutional violations. “On the contrary, to the extent it is relevant, far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings,” he ruled.

Maxwell’s family said in a statement that Engelmayer’s ruling was “marked by a tone of sarcasm and disdain that, in our view, undermines the appearance of impartiality and invites scrutiny of the judge’s conduct”. They also said Maxwell “will continue to pursue every available legal avenue” for relief.

Legal veterans said, however, that Maxwell had virtually exhausted all her court-based routes. With Maxwell apparently running out of legal pathways, many have wondered whether Donald Trump will at some point deliver a Hail Mary – a presidential pardon.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51267613

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74648355

For her safety, Doe has opted to receive alerts from the US Department of Justice Victim Notification System any time she may be a victim in a new criminal investigation. Although she has received countless alerts, she was shocked when the CCCP notified her that it had identified AI-generated CSAM on xAI that depicted her. This re-traumatized Doe, whose complaint alleged that messages were found on online forums “between offenders chatting about creating AI generated CSAM of Plaintiff and other similarly situated known, legacy, victims of CSAM.”

Now, Doe fears that xAI has not only made it easier to make more violative images of the most distressing time in her life, but also that xAI allegedly has stored the images that Grok generates and uses those outputs to further train Grok. Because of this, she believes that Grok has been trained on both the initial set of images that have haunted her for more than 20 years and the more recent AI-generated ones.

This is the first case to accuse xAI of training on CSAM, and the complaint does not go into great detail on that claim. Previously, Ars reported on a controversial dataset that was later scrubbed after researchers found CSAM in the training data, but there’s no indication xAI trained on that data. In a press release from lawyers representing Doe, it explained that Doe’s images were included in a CSAM Hash List maintained by NCMEC, and “that same material” allegedly “was part of the dataset xAI used to build Grok’s image and video generating capabilities.” The complaint similarly only alleged that “CSAM depicting Plaintiff with its longstanding well-known hash values has been used as a part of the dataset used by xAI.”

Today I was reading about the judicial progress against another unchecked billionaire rapist and it mentioned some statements Lord Peter Mandelson made to Jeffrey Epstein upon the occasion of Epstein's conviction in 2008.

I didn't recall that exact wording, so I went to the linked article that focused entirely on the emails between Epstein and Mandelson. As I often do, I wanted to see if the quoted section was all there is or just a truncated version of a much longer exchange, so I went to find the EFTA version.

Only thing is, when I went to the DoJ site, these particular career-ending emails are gone, or are at least not found when searching by text, which is what I was doing. They're still readily found in Jmail, of course, though even the Jmail versions no longer have a link to the actual EFTA files on the DoJ site.

Here's the first email mentioned in the above-linked Guardian article, and here's the second. But nothing left on the DoJ site, even though almost 6,000 other records of Epstein's communications with Mandelson remain.

Just to see if this is going to be a thing, I went to another linked article in The Guardian that lists ten points of evidence in the Epstein -- Mendelson correspondence that suggest a close friendship, and looked up each of the quotes on both the DoJ site and in Jmail.

Many were there and findable on a text search just as they should be, but sure enough two are missing from both the DoJ site and strangely also from the Jmail archive: #3: “Peter will be staying at 71st over weekend” from Epstein to Jes Staley, June 2009; and #5: “Petie’s quitting” from Epstein to Jes Staley, May 2010.

Am I missing something? Or are the orange lackeys just back to quietly removing the rich and powerful from the EFTA releases hoping nobody notices.

A federal judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal effort to throw out her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking charges and 20-year prison sentence, calling her claims “demonstrably meritless, and generally based on speculation, distortions, and/or outright falsehoods”.

In a 67-page decision filed on Tuesday, the US district judge Paul Engelmayer for New York’s southern district denied the former British socialite’s petition for relief, finding that Maxwell had failed to make a substantial showing that her constitutional rights were denied when she was convicted for her role in crimes linked to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell, who is serving out her punishment at a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas, had petitioned the court to vacate her conviction on grounds that there were issues at her trial, including a juror who later revealed he was a sexual abuse victim and evidence she alleged was not made available to her defense team.

Her petition, which came before the massive Epstein-related document dump by the federal government, also raised the 2007 non-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein, which she claimed protected her from prosecution. Maxwell was not named in that agreement.

In the decision denying the petition, Engelmayer wrote that the “vast majority” of grounds on which Maxwell made her appeal “are procedurally barred – either because Maxwell made and lost the same arguments on direct appeal, or because she could have made such arguments on appeal but elected not to do so”.

The judge also rejected that new evidence had come through the Trump administration-led US justice department’s multimillion-page release of documents. Those, Engelmayer said, “incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges”.

Daniel Siad, whose name appears in the Epstein files thousands of times, denied knowledge of the threat Jeffrey Epstein posed.

The Republican chairman of the House oversight committee has threatened to hold the private equity investor Leon Black in contempt if he does not fully cooperate with the panel’s ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, amid accusations that the billionaire is purposely delaying and disrupting the panel’s inquiry.

A letter released by Representative James Comer’s office on Tuesday, which was addressed to Black’s lawyer, revealed new details about the high-stakes clash between the powerful Kentucky congressman and Black, the co-founder of Apollo Asset Management who was Epstein’s friend and former client and paid Epstein tens of millions of dollars in fees.

“If Mr Black refuses to provide the Committee with responsive documents or refuses to appear for his scheduled deposition on September 3, 2026, the Committee will use all tools at its disposal, including contempt,” Comer said.

Susan Estrich, Black’s lawyer, rejected Comer’s assertions in a statement released on Tuesday night, saying the letter was misrepresenting the facts, and that Black was being targeted in a “political witch hunt”.

Black voluntarily agreed to be questioned by the House panel in June as part of the committee’s broad investigation into Epstein, which the panel has said includes an examination of the alleged mismanagement of the federal government’s investigation into the late sexual predator; the operation of sex-trafficking rings; and the ways in which Epstein and his companion Ghislaine Maxwell “sought to curry favor” to protect their “illegal activities”.

But Black’s appearance ended abruptly – after just one hour of questioning – after members of both parties said Black was refusing to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Comer, in his capacity as committee chairman, issued two subpoenas on that day in response to Black’s alleged lack of cooperation: one demanding that Black produce “all non-disclosure agreements to which he is a party” and another demanding he appear before the committee for a deposition.