Three million pages from the Justice Division’s recordsdata on the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein are being launched to the general public right now, Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche stated at a press briefing Friday.
Blanche stated the discharge, which follows the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, will embrace 2,000 movies and 180,000 photographs associated to the Epstein case.
Blanche stated in whole there have been 6 million paperwork, however because of the presence of kid sexual abuse materials and sufferer rights obligations, not all paperwork are being made public within the present launch.
Blanche pushed again on the notion that the Justice Division might need protected President Donald Trump from his title showing within the recordsdata.
“We adjust to the act, and there’s no ‘defend President Trump.’ We did not defend or not defend anyone,” Blanche instructed ABC Information Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. “I imply, I feel that there is a starvation or a thirst for info that I don’t assume will likely be happy by the evaluate of those paperwork. And there is nothing I can do about that.”
Blanche stated there was “no oversight” by the White Home about what the fabric confirmed.
He added that if there was proof within the recordsdata that others had abused victims, the DOJ would pursue prices in opposition to them.
One doc in Friday’s launch is a chart displaying connections between Epstein and varied staff and associates. Many are redacted — however the faces of a number of stay seen, together with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s affiliate Jean Luc Brunel, and Epstein’s lawyer, accountant, and assistant. The chart is adopted by a listing of people damaged into three classes: Day of Arrest, Week of Arrest, and Weeks following arrest.
Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche speaks throughout a press convention on the US Division of justice, January 30, 2026 in Washington.
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This ties in with inside DOJ communications launched earlier that confirmed a plan to contact potential witnesses following Epstein’s arrest. There are eight individuals who’re listed within the accompanying spreadsheet as “suspected co-conspirators,” together with Maxwell, Brunel, and Epstein’s assistant Leslie Groff. Two of these designated as “suspected co-conspirators” are additionally recognized additionally as victims.
Groff has by no means been charged with a criminal offense and stated in a press release to ABC Information in 2020 that she “by no means knowingly booked journey for anybody below the age of 18, and had no information of the alleged criminality in any way.”
As of Friday afternoon, the DOJ had uploaded three “information units” to its public web site. Simply a type of units consists of, by ABC Information’ depend, over 300,000 objects.
A group of 500 attorneys from the Justice Division labored across the clock to evaluate and redact materials, Blanche stated at his press briefing.
He stated a number of classes of pages had been withheld from the discharge attributable to their delicate nature. These things embrace personally figuring out info of the victims, victims’ medical recordsdata, photographs depicting youngster pornography, info associated to ongoing instances, and any photographs depicting loss of life or abuse.
“If any member of Congress needs to evaluate any parts of the response of manufacturing in any unredacted kind, they’re welcome to make preparations with the division to take action, and we’re completely happy to try this,” stated Blanche.
Friday’s tranche is the newest in a sequence of Epstein file releases that started final month in response to the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act, which handed Congress overwhelmingly and was signed into regulation by Trump on Nov. 19. The act gave the Justice Division 30 days to make publicly accessible all unclassified data pertaining to investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
The invoice comprises a number of exceptions that permit for withholding or redacting data, notably to guard the privateness of Epstein’s victims.
Previous to Friday’s launch, the DOJ had posted to its on-line Epstein library roughly 12,000 paperwork totaling about 125,000 pages — only a small fraction of the tens of millions of data the division has been reviewing.
These supplies included a document of a grievance to the FBI filed in 1996, years earlier than the disgraced financier was first investigated for youngster intercourse abuse. The paperwork additionally included new particulars about the federal government’s investigation into potential accomplices in addition to hundreds of pictures of Epstein’s New York and U.S. Virgin Islands properties that had been searched by the FBI after Epstein’s arrest in 2019.
The initial release of the files additionally contained quite a few outdated photographs of Epstein touring with former President Invoice Clinton, together with photos of Clinton lounging in a jacuzzi and one in every of him swimming with Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence after her 2021 conviction for intercourse trafficking of minors and different offenses.
The pictures, which had been launched with none context or background info, contained little info associated to Trump, main a spokesperson for Clinton to accuse the DOJ of selectively disclosing the images to suggest wrongdoing on the a part of Clinton the place he stated there’s none.
“The White Home hasn’t been hiding these recordsdata for months solely to dump them late on a Friday to guard Invoice Clinton,” Angel Urena stated. “That is about shielding themselves from what comes subsequent, or from what they will attempt to cover without end. To allow them to launch as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photographs as they need, however this is not about Invoice Clinton. By no means has, by no means will likely be.”
In an interview with ABC Information on the day of the preliminary launch, Blanche stated that each doc that mentions Trump will eventually be released, “assuming it is per the regulation.”
“There is no effort to carry something again as a result of there’s the title Donald J. Trump or anyone else’s title,” Blanche stated.
Each Trump and Clinton have denied all wrongdoing and have denied having any information of Epstein’s crimes.
An undated picture from the property of Jeffrey Epstein is a part of a group of photographs launched Dec. 18, 2025, by Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee.
Home Oversight Committee Democrats
Federal prosecutors have indicated in current courtroom filings that a whole lot of presidency attorneys have spent weeks reviewing “several millions of pages” of supplies — together with paperwork, audio and video recordsdata — in preparation for disclosure to the general public.
The Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act got here after the Trump administration confronted months of blowback from its announcement final July that they’d be releasing no extra Epstein recordsdata, after a number of high officers — together with FBI Director Kash Patel and former Deputy Director Dan Bongino — had, previous to becoming a member of the administration, accused the federal government of defending info concerning the Epstein case.
The recordsdata launched to date have but to present proof of wrongdoing on the a part of well-known, highly effective males, in opposition to the expectations of lots of those that pushed for the recordsdata’ launch.
Epstein owned two personal islands within the Virgin Islands and enormous properties in New York Metropolis, New Mexico and Palm Seaside, Florida, the place he got here below investigation for allegedly luring minor ladies to his seaside dwelling for massages that turned sexual. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for intercourse crimes prices after reaching a controversial non-prosecution settlement with the U.S. lawyer’s workplace in Miami.
In 2019, prosecutors with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York indicted Epstein on prices that he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor ladies at his properties in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Seaside, Florida, amongst different areas,” utilizing money funds to recruit a “huge community of underage victims,” a few of whom had been as younger as 14 years outdated.
Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 whereas awaiting trial.
