The Epstein Files

Epstein's defense team offered $500 million in assets as bail collateral, proposing house arrest in his Manhattan mansion. Prosecutors argued he was an extreme flight risk with passports, private jets...

The Southern District of New York filed federal sex trafficking charges that carried up to 45 years in prison. Within weeks, new victims began coming forward. The scope of the investigation expanded r...

On July 23, 2019, Epstein was found injured in his cell with marks on his neck. His cellmate was a former police officer facing quadruple murder charges. Epstein was placed on suicide watch but remove...

In the early morning hours of August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Both guards assigned to watch him had fallen asleep and falsified the...

The medical examiner ruled Epstein's death a suicide by hanging, but forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, hired by the family, found evidence more consistent with homicidal strangulation. The hyoid...

Guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were charged with falsifying records and conspiracy for sleeping through their shifts the night Epstein died. They eventually accepted plea deals that required no j...

Nearly a year after Epstein's death, the FBI tracked Ghislaine Maxwell to a remote property in New Hampshire where she had been hiding under an alias. Federal agents arrested her in July 2020 on charg...

Four women took the stand and told the world what Ghislaine Maxwell did to them when they were children. The prosecution built its case on victim testimony, flight logs, property records, and photogra...

Maxwell's defense argued she was a scapegoat for a dead man's crimes. The jury disagreed. After five days of deliberation, they convicted her on five of six counts including sex trafficking of a minor...

The Epstein Victims' Compensation Fund distributed over $125 million to survivors, but the process was far from simple. Claimants had to waive their right to sue, some received far less than others, a...