The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released on Jan. 30 more than three million pages of documents, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images tied to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

According to the department, the material draws from multiple investigations, including Epstein's Florida and New York criminal cases, the prosecution of his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, probes into Epstein’s 2019 death in federal custody, and various FBI inquiries. The latest disclosure came weeks after the DOJ missed a statutory Dec. 19, 2025, deadline. 

Speaking to reporters ahead of the release, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the production “marks the end of a very comprehensive documentation” effort required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bipartisan measure passed by Congress in November. President Donald Trump, who has previously taken varying public positions on the release of Epstein-related files, signed the legislation into law on Nov. 29.

“The department has engaged in an unprecedented and extensive effort” to collect the documentation, “after submitting the final report to Congress, as required under the Act, and publishing the written justifications for redactions in the Federal Register, the department’s obligations under the act will be completed,” Blanche said.

What’s included in the latest release? 

Email correspondence shows Epstein communicating with a range of high-profile figures, including Steve Tisch, a co-owner of the New York Giants, whom Epstein appeared to contact about introductions to women. In a statement issued Jan. 30, Tisch said that he and Epstein had a “brief association” which he “deeply” regrets. Tisch also said he never took Epstein up “on any of his invitations” or visited his island.

One email includes a message forwarded to Epstein in 2010 that features a list titled “St. Barth’s Christmas 2010.” The list names several prominent individuals without explanation. Other emails contain notes Epstein drafted in 2013 to and about Bill Gates that suggest the Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist had engaged in extramarital sexual conduct. A spokesperson for Gates called the allegations “absolutely absurd and completely false,” according to The New York Times. 

In other emails, Epstein appeared to offer an invitation to meet Elon Musk in Florida or the Caribbean. Musk insisted on X that he has never gone to “any Epstein parties ever.” One document also references Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick planning a trip to Epstein’s island in 2012, though it is unclear whether the visit occurred.

In one message, Epstein criticized Catholicism, writing that the idea that “every life is equal” is “Catholicism at its worst.” 

One internal federal document shows a diagram mapping Epstein’s inner circle, listing Maxwell, attorney Darren Indyke, and accountant Richard Kahn. 

A separate 2020 FBI memorandum outlines unverified claims from a confidential source alleging Epstein was a “co-opted Mossad agent” who worked with Israeli intelligence and was close to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The same memo accuses Epstein’s former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, of being “co-opted by Mossad” and aligned with its mission. 

The release further contains an FBI-compiled list of more than a dozen unverified tips involving Trump and Epstein. The list does not specify when or from whom the tips were received. Trump said in a Feb. 1 Truth Social post that he has “never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close.”

In a statement accompanying the release, the DOJ cautioned that the files may include “fake or falsely submitted” materials because “everything that was sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production that is responsive to the Act.”

“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the agency said. “To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”

Redactions and public criticism 

The files were heavily redacted, prompting criticism from survivors and several lawmakers, who argued the disclosure concealed key details. At the same time, the files inappropriately exposed victim information, critics complained. In a Jan. 30 statement, a group of Epstein survivors said their names and other identifying information had been exposed “while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous.”

Blanche defended the redactions in a Feb. 1 interview with ABC News’ “This Week,” saying they were necessary to protect victims and stressing that the White House “had nothing to do with” vetting the documents. He also claimed that redaction errors only affected roughly 0.001% of the materials.

He said the department withheld several categories of material due to their sensitive nature, including personally identifying information of victims, victims’ medical records, images depicting child sexual abuse, information related to ongoing investigations, and any images involving death or violence. The department plans to submit a report to Congress within 15 days detailing the redactions, as required by law.

In a letter to Blanche, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., formally requested a meeting to review the unredacted files, citing concerns about the scope and consistency of redactions. 

“Congress cannot properly assess the Department’s handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases without access to the complete record,” the lawmakers wrote, according to the Times. 

In a Feb. 1 post on X, Massie quoted an earlier House floor speech in which he had said, “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”

Before the Jan. 30 release, the DOJ had posted roughly 12,000 Epstein-related documents, totaling about 125,000 pages, to its online archive. As Zeale News previously reported, former President Bill Clinton appears in some of the images, as well as Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew. 

Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have agreed to testify before the Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel’s probe into Epstein, according to a Feb. 2 statement from their spokesperson, Angel Ureña. In August 2025, the committee issued deposition subpoenas to the Clintons and several other individuals. 

Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act after months of backlash following a July 2025 Justice Department announcement that no additional Epstein records would be released, despite prior public statements from senior officials — including FBI Director Kash Patel and former Deputy Director Dan Bongino — accusing the government of shielding information related to the case before they themselves took on leadership roles in U.S. intelligence.