Live Updates: Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released

 

Live Updates: Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released

The release of files, videos and photographs from the federal inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein is the largest to date, and the final one planned by the Justice Department. Times reporters are sifting through the material.

 

Updated

Jan. 30, 2026, 3:53 p.m. ET41 minutes ago

Devlin Barrett Michael Gold and Alan Feuer

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/30/us/epstein-files-release

 

Here’s the latest.

The Justice Department on Friday released three million more pages of documents from its Jeffrey Epstein files, and thousands of videos and images, as the Trump administration sought to bring an end to the accusations and speculation swirling around the case.

 

New York Times reporters are sifting through the material and providing updates and analysis of the records. The files include a significant number of uncorroborated tips to law enforcement, and also references to President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the billionaire Bill Gates and other prominent people known to have associated with Mr. Epstein.

 

The documents posted online are the largest batch of Epstein files released by the department to date, and arrived weeks after a Dec. 19 deadline imposed by Congress. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the release also included 2,000 videos and some 180,000 images.

 

At a news conference, Mr. Blanche signaled the documents would be the last major release of government files about Mr. Epstein, but he acknowledged that even that many documents were unlikely to satisfy the public demand for information about Mr. Epstein.

 

The Justice Department will send a report to Congress on why redactions were made, Mr. Blanche said. He also rattled off a number of reasons the department withheld documents, saying that the department was permitted to do so under the law ordering their release. The reasons included files with personal identifying information or medical information of Mr. Epstein’s victims, material depicting child sexual abuse and material that depicted death or violence.

 

Here’s what we’re covering:

 

White House: In releasing the documents, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that the White House “had nothing to do” with vetting them. “They had no oversight and they did not tell this department how to do our review and what to look for and what to redact or not redact,” he said.

 

Howard Lutnick: President Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, planned a visit to Mr. Epstein’s island in 2012, though Mr. Lutnick said last year that he had cut ties with Mr. Epstein around 2005. The documents suggest the visit occurred. Read more ›

 

Bill Gates: Jeffrey Epstein drafted notes to and about Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, in 2013 suggesting that he engaged in extramarital sex. It is not clear if Mr. Epstein ever sent the emails to Mr. Gates, whose foundation labeled the accusations “absolutely absurd and completely false.” Read more ›

 

Inner circle: One document diagrams Mr. Epstein’s inner circle, including key employees, assistants and several girlfriends. Only one person in the chart, Ghislaine Maxwell, was charged with helping Mr. Epstein in sex trafficking underage girls