Latest batch of Epstein files includes some survivors’ names, despite DOJ assurances, lawyers say
(WASHINGTON) -- Three million pages from the Justice Department's files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being made public today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a press briefing Friday.
Blanche said the tranche, which follows the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), will include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images related to the Epstein case.
Blanche said in total there were 6 million documents in the file, but due to the presence of child sexual abuse material and victim rights obligations, not all documents are being made public in the current release.
Under the EFTA, all of the Epstein files in the government's possession were required to be released with some exceptions.
Blanche said several categories of pages were withheld from the release due to their sensitive nature. These items include personally identifying information of the victims, victims' medical files, images depicting child pornography, information related to ongoing cases, and any images depicting death or abuse.
Attorneys for hundreds of Epstein survivors tell ABC News that names and identifying information of numerous victims appear unredacted in this latest disclosure, including several women whose names have never before been publicly associated with the case.
"We are getting constant calls for victims because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public, have all just been released for public consumption," attorney Brad Edwards, who has represented Epstein victims for more than 20 years, said in a telephone interview with ABC News. "It's literally thousands of mistakes."
ABC News has independently confirmed numerous instances of victims' names appearing in documents included in the latest release.
Shortly after the new material appeared on Friday morning, Edwards said he and his law partner, Brittany Henderson, began receiving calls from clients.
"We contacted DOJ immediately, who has asked us to flag each of the documents where victim names appear unredacted, and they will pull them down," Edwards said. "It's an impossible job. The easy job would be for the DOJ to type in all the victims' names, hit redact like they promised to do, then release them. "
"They're trying to fix it, but I said, 'The solution is take the thing down for now,'" Edwards said. "There's no other remedy to this. It just runs the risk of causing so much more harm unless they take it down first, then fix the problem and put it back up.
ABC News reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
DOJ 'didn't protect' Trump
Blanche pushed back on the notion that the Justice Department might have protected President Donald Trump from his name appearing in the files.
"We comply with the act, and there is no 'protect President Trump.' We didn't protect or not protect anybody," Blanche told ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. "I mean, I think that there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents. And there's nothing I can do about that."
Blanche said there was "no oversight" by the White House about what the material showed.
He added that if there was evidence in the files that others had abused victims, the DOJ would pursue charges against them.
Newly released documents
One document in Friday's release is a chart showing connections between Epstein and various employees and associates. Many are redacted -- but the faces of several remain visible, including Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's associate Jean Luc Brunel, and Epstein's lawyer, accountant, and assistant. The chart is followed by a list of individuals broken into three categories: Day of Arrest, Week of Arrest, and Weeks following arrest.
This ties in with internal DOJ communications released earlier that showed a plan to contact potential witnesses following Epstein's arrest. There are eight persons who are listed in the accompanying spreadsheet as "suspected co-conspirators," including Maxwell, Brunel, and Epstein's assistant Leslie Groff. Two of those designated as "suspected co-conspirators" are also identified also as victims.
Groff has never been charged with a crime and said in a statement to ABC News in 2020 that she "never knowingly booked travel for anyone under the age of 18, and had no knowledge of the alleged illegal activity whatsoever."
An internal FBI document produced created in August 2019, five days after Epstein's death, shows nine persons listed as family and associates of Epstein, including eight labeled as "co-conspirators," most with their names and faces redacted with the exception of Maxwell and Brunel. This points to potential continued interest in pursuing further charges after the death of Epstein. In his statement announcing Epstein's death, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said "our investigation of the conduct charged in the Indictment -- which included a conspiracy count -- remains ongoing" Maxwell is the only other person to be charged related to Epstein's crimes.
Among the other new documents released is what appears to be part of the original indictment against Epstein in his 2005 criminal case in Florida. The 100-page charging document contains information on 58 out the 60 charges against Epstein for his behavior towards six alleged victims. This document had never been made public.
Epstein ending up being offered a plea to reduced charges and was offered a non-prosecution agreement, in a deal that was highly controversial.
Epstein's trust agreement
Epstein's trust agreement, which has never before been public, details how more than a quarter-billion dollars plus his sundry properties across the globe would be doled out to at least 44 beneficiaries when he died.
Epstein executed and signed the will on Aug. 8, 2019 -- two days before he was found dead by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell.
The document was later signed by his longtime lawyer Darren Indyke, eight days after his death, on Aug. 18. His accountant, Richard Kahn, signed it on Aug. 20.
To his last known girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, Epstein bequeathed $50 million. He also planned to give her his sprawling Zorro ranch in New Mexico; his island property on Little Saint James, as well as his property on Great Saint James. He also gave her his apartment in one of Paris' most exclusive areas near the Arc de Triomphe, as well as his Palm Beach property and his townhouse on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side.
Shuliak would also get a heap of Epstein's diamonds, including a meticulously described near-33 carat diamond ring, which -- in blue handwritten notes in the margins of the document -- Epstein said he had given her "in contemplation of marriage." It was "set with a rectangular-cut diamond, weighing approximately 32.73 carats, flanked by baguette-cut diamonds mounted in platinum." She would also get "all of my loose diamonds," Epstein intended -- itemizing 48 of them.
To his longtime lawyer Indyke and his accountant Kahn, who were also the coexecutors of Epstein's will, he planned to give $50 million and $25 million, respectively.
Ghislaine Maxwell was to receive $10 million. His brother, Mark Epstein, was also to receive $10 million, as was Epstein's longtime pilot, Larry Visoski.
Some of the other beneficiary names are redacted but referred to as "she's" and allotted several million dollars each. Several million dollars would also be distributed to various employees, respectively.
Though the trust detailed that $288 million, as well as a collection of international properties, was to be parceled out, what now remains of Epstein's estate is far from enough to fulfill that plan; according to the estate's latest publicly available accounting, filed in the U.S. Virgin Island probate courts, there was $127 million left. And that total remains tied up in the USVI courts.
Three data sets
As of Friday afternoon, the DOJ had uploaded three "data sets" to its public website. Just one of those sets includes, by ABC News' count, over 300,000 items.
A team of 500 attorneys from the Justice Department worked around the clock to review and redact material, Blanche said at his press briefing.
Friday's tranche is the latest in a series of Epstein file releases that began last month in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed Congress overwhelmingly and was signed into law by Trump on Nov. 19. The act gave the Justice Department 30 days to make publicly available all unclassified records pertaining to investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
The bill contains several exceptions that allow for withholding or redacting records, notably to protect the privacy of Epstein's victims.
Prior to Friday's release, the DOJ had posted to its online Epstein library roughly 12,000 documents totaling about 125,000 pages -- just a small fraction of the millions of records the department has been reviewing.
Those materials included a record of a complaint to the FBI filed in 1996, years before the disgraced financier was first investigated for child sex abuse. The documents also included new details about the government's investigation into potential accomplices as well as thousands of photographs of Epstein's New York and U.S. Virgin Islands properties that were searched by the FBI after Epstein's arrest in 2019.
The initial release of the files also contained numerous old photos of Epstein traveling with former President Bill Clinton, including pictures of Clinton lounging in a jacuzzi and one of him swimming with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after her 2021 conviction for sex trafficking of minors and other offenses.
The images, which were released without any context or background information, contained little information related to Trump, leading a spokesperson for Clinton to accuse the DOJ of selectively disclosing the pictures to imply wrongdoing on the part of Clinton where he said there is none.
"The White House hasn't been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton," Angel Urena said. "This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they'll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn't about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be."
Latest batch of Epstein files includes some survivors' names, despite DOJ assurances, lawyers say
The DOJ is releasing 3 million pages of Epstein files, the deputy AG said.
ByJames Hill, Luke Barr, Tia Humphries, Sasha Pezenik, and Diana Paulsen
January 30, 2026, 3:10 PM
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DOJ releasing more pages of Epstein filesAdditional material from the Justice Department's files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is being released to the public on Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says.
House Oversight Committee Democrats
Three million pages from the Justice Department's files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being made public today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a press briefing Friday.
Blanche said the tranche, which follows the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), will include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images related to the Epstein case.
Blanche said in total there were 6 million documents in the file, but due to the presence of child sexual abuse material and victim rights obligations, not all documents are being made public in the current release.
Epstein files: 2 million records in various stages of review, DOJ says
Under the EFTA, all of the Epstein files in the government's possession were required to be released with some exceptions.
Blanche said several categories of pages were withheld from the release due to their sensitive nature. These items include personally identifying information of the victims, victims' medical files, images depicting child pornography, information related to ongoing cases, and any images depicting death or abuse.
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Attorneys for hundreds of Epstein survivors tell ABC News that names and identifying information of numerous victims appear unredacted in this latest disclosure, including several women whose names have never before been publicly associated with the case.
"We are getting constant calls for victims because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public, have all just been released for public consumption," attorney Brad Edwards, who has represented Epstein victims for more than 20 years, said in a telephone interview with ABC News. "It's literally thousands of mistakes."
ABC News has independently confirmed numerous instances of victims' names appearing in documents included in the latest release.
Shortly after the new material appeared on Friday morning, Edwards said he and his law partner, Brittany Henderson, began receiving calls from clients.
"We contacted DOJ immediately, who has asked us to flag each of the documents where victim names appear unredacted, and they will pull them down," Edwards said. "It's an impossible job. The easy job would be for the DOJ to type in all the victims' names, hit redact like they promised to do, then release them. "
"They're trying to fix it, but I said, 'The solution is take the thing down for now,'" Edwards said. "There's no other remedy to this. It just runs the risk of causing so much more harm unless they take it down first, then fix the problem and put it back up.
ABC News reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
DOJ 'didn't protect' Trump
Blanche pushed back on the notion that the Justice Department might have protected President Donald Trump from his name appearing in the files.
"We comply with the act, and there is no 'protect President Trump.' We didn't protect or not protect anybody," Blanche told ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. "I mean, I think that there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents. And there's nothing I can do about that."
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference at the US Department of justice, January 30, 2026 in Washington.
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Blanche said there was "no oversight" by the White House about what the material showed.
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He added that if there was evidence in the files that others had abused victims, the DOJ would pursue charges against them.
Newly released documents
One document in Friday's release is a chart showing connections between Epstein and various employees and associates. Many are redacted -- but the faces of several remain visible, including Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's associate Jean Luc Brunel, and Epstein's lawyer, accountant, and assistant. The chart is followed by a list of individuals broken into three categories: Day of Arrest, Week of Arrest, and Weeks following arrest.
This ties in with internal DOJ communications released earlier that showed a plan to contact potential witnesses following Epstein's arrest. There are eight persons who are listed in the accompanying spreadsheet as "suspected co-conspirators," including Maxwell, Brunel, and Epstein's assistant Leslie Groff. Two of those designated as "suspected co-conspirators" are also identified also as victims.
Groff has never been charged with a crime and said in a statement to ABC News in 2020 that she "never knowingly booked travel for anyone under the age of 18, and had no knowledge of the alleged illegal activity whatsoever."
An internal FBI document produced created in August 2019, five days after Epstein's death, shows nine persons listed as family and associates of Epstein, including eight labeled as "co-conspirators," most with their names and faces redacted with the exception of Maxwell and Brunel. This points to potential continued interest in pursuing further charges after the death of Epstein. In his statement announcing Epstein's death, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said "our investigation of the conduct charged in the Indictment -- which included a conspiracy count -- remains ongoing" Maxwell is the only other person to be charged related to Epstein's crimes.
Among the other new documents released is what appears to be part of the original indictment against Epstein in his 2005 criminal case in Florida. The 100-page charging document contains information on 58 out the 60 charges against Epstein for his behavior towards six alleged victims. This document had never been made public.
Epstein ending up being offered a plea to reduced charges and was offered a non-prosecution agreement, in a deal that was highly controversial.
Epstein's trust agreement
Epstein's trust agreement, which has never before been public, details how more than a quarter-billion dollars plus his sundry properties across the globe would be doled out to at least 44 beneficiaries when he died.
Epstein executed and signed the will on Aug. 8, 2019 -- two days before he was found dead by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell.
The document was later signed by his longtime lawyer Darren Indyke, eight days after his death, on Aug. 18. His accountant, Richard Kahn, signed it on Aug. 20.
To his last known girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, Epstein bequeathed $50 million. He also planned to give her his sprawling Zorro ranch in New Mexico; his island property on Little Saint James, as well as his property on Great Saint James. He also gave her his apartment in one of Paris' most exclusive areas near the Arc de Triomphe, as well as his Palm Beach property and his townhouse on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side.
Shuliak would also get a heap of Epstein's diamonds, including a meticulously described near-33 carat diamond ring, which -- in blue handwritten notes in the margins of the document -- Epstein said he had given her "in contemplation of marriage." It was "set with a rectangular-cut diamond, weighing approximately 32.73 carats, flanked by baguette-cut diamonds mounted in platinum." She would also get "all of my loose diamonds," Epstein intended -- itemizing 48 of them.
An undated photo from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein is part of a collection of images released Dec. 18, 2025, by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
House Oversight Committee Democrats
To his longtime lawyer Indyke and his accountant Kahn, who were also the coexecutors of Epstein's will, he planned to give $50 million and $25 million, respectively.
Ghislaine Maxwell was to receive $10 million. His brother, Mark Epstein, was also to receive $10 million, as was Epstein's longtime pilot, Larry Visoski.
Some of the other beneficiary names are redacted but referred to as "she's" and allotted several million dollars each. Several million dollars would also be distributed to various employees, respectively.
Though the trust detailed that $288 million, as well as a collection of international properties, was to be parceled out, what now remains of Epstein's estate is far from enough to fulfill that plan; according to the estate's latest publicly available accounting, filed in the U.S. Virgin Island probate courts, there was $127 million left. And that total remains tied up in the USVI courts.
Three data sets
As of Friday afternoon, the DOJ had uploaded three "data sets" to its public website. Just one of those sets includes, by ABC News' count, over 300,000 items.
A team of 500 attorneys from the Justice Department worked around the clock to review and redact material, Blanche said at his press briefing.
Friday's tranche is the latest in a series of Epstein file releases that began last month in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed Congress overwhelmingly and was signed into law by Trump on Nov. 19. The act gave the Justice Department 30 days to make publicly available all unclassified records pertaining to investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
The bill contains several exceptions that allow for withholding or redacting records, notably to protect the privacy of Epstein's victims.
Prior to Friday's release, the DOJ had posted to its online Epstein library roughly 12,000 documents totaling about 125,000 pages -- just a small fraction of the millions of records the department has been reviewing.
Those materials included a record of a complaint to the FBI filed in 1996, years before the disgraced financier was first investigated for child sex abuse. The documents also included new details about the government's investigation into potential accomplices as well as thousands of photographs of Epstein's New York and U.S. Virgin Islands properties that were searched by the FBI after Epstein's arrest in 2019.
The initial release of the files also contained numerous old photos of Epstein traveling with former President Bill Clinton, including pictures of Clinton lounging in a jacuzzi and one of him swimming with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after her 2021 conviction for sex trafficking of minors and other offenses.
The images, which were released without any context or background information, contained little information related to Trump, leading a spokesperson for Clinton to accuse the DOJ of selectively disclosing the pictures to imply wrongdoing on the part of Clinton where he said there is none.
"The White House hasn't been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton," Angel Urena said. "This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they'll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn't about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be."
The Epstein Files Transparency Act came after the Trump administration faced months of blowback from its announcement last July that they would be releasing no additional Epstein files, after several top officials -- including FBI Director Kash Patel and former Deputy Director Dan Bongino -- had, prior to joining the administration, accused the government of shielding information regarding the Epstein case.
Epstein owned two private islands in the Virgin Islands and large properties in New York City, New Mexico and Palm Beach, Florida, where he came under investigation for allegedly luring minor girls to his seaside home for massages that turned sexual. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for sex crimes charges after reaching a controversial non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney's office in Miami.
In 2019, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York indicted Epstein on charges that he "sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations," using cash payments to recruit a "vast network of underage victims," some of whom were as young as 14 years old.
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